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SpaceX Took a Big Step Toward Reusing Starship’s Super Heavy Booster
SpaceX is having trouble with Starship’s upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making remarkable progress with the rocket’s ...

It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission
Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System ...

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself
Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant ...
Texas Official Warns Against ‘Measles Parties’ Amid Growing Outbreak
A Texas health authority is warning against “measles parties” as the outbreak in West Texas grew to at least 146 ...

Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees
Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned ...

Starship’s Next Launch Could Be Just Two Weeks Away
Less than a month has passed since the historic fifth flight of SpaceX’s Starship, during which the company caught the ...

China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship
When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country’s first super heavy-lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked ...

OpenAI Threatens Bans as Users Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models
OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its ...

The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride
A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the night sky early ...

Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft
On Saturday NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft. “I’ve got ...