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A Supergiant Star Lights Up the Creepy Witch Head Nebula
If you glance up at the constellation Orion during winter, you cannot miss Rigel. It is a dazzling blue supergiant star shining with the brightness of tens of thousands of suns. But right near Rigel sits something much spookier and harder to spot with just…
3 min readHow Modern Hardcore Music Pushes Studio Hardware to the Limit
If you have ever listened to the Philly punk band Soul Glo, the first thing that hits you is raw, blistering speed. With their landmark album 'Diaspora Problems' and new tracks arriving ahead of their next release, the group has become famous for smashing t…
4 min readNASA Gears Up for a Permanent Moon Base with Nuclear Rovers and Cosmic Cargo
NASA is moving way past short weekend trips to the Moon. Through a fresh round of awards and industry partnerships, the space agency is putting serious funding into building permanent lunar infrastructure—the cosmic equivalent of cargo freighters, power sta…
3 min readLeveling Up to an Electric SUV: Inside the Tech of the Model Y
Electric vehicles have officially reached their second wave. Early EV adopters who picked up sedans five or six years ago are hitting their first upgrade cycle, and they are not heading back to gasoline. Instead, drivers are jumping into next-generation ele…
3 min readThe Power Line Dilemma: Speeding Up Clean Energy vs. Protecting Nature
Imagine our country's electric grid as a giant delivery network. Right now, giant wind turbines and sunny solar panels make tons of clean power out in open fields and breezy plains. The big trouble? We don’t have enough mega-cables-called transmission lines…
3 min readSpaceX Launches a Top-Secret Sunset Rocket for the Space Force!
Imagine watching the sun dip into the ocean, splashing the sky with pink and purple. Suddenly, whoosh! A giant rocket roars off the launchpad, carving a bright glowing trail straight through the twilight.
3 min readSmart Road App: Helping Builders Flatten the Path!
Imagine you need to build a brand new road, a helicopter landing pad, or an airplane runway right in the middle of a muddy field. Military engineers in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps do this all the time! Their work is called horizontal construction because…
3 min readChatGPT Maker OpenAI Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club!
OpenAI, the team behind the famous AI chatbot ChatGPT, just reached an eye-popping milestone. In a brand-new fundraising round, investors handed the company an extra 11 billion dollars. That pushed OpenAI's total estimated price tag to a dizzying 1.25 trill…
3 min readSpy Games in the Chip Lab: The Secret Hunt for AI Secrets!
You might think secret agents only chase after mysterious briefcases or hidden maps. But in the world of high-tech computing, the most valuable treasure on Earth right now is a tiny piece of silicon called an AI microchip! Companies like Nvidia build super-…
3 min readCell Towers in Space! SpaceX Wants to Power Your Phone
Have you ever taken a road trip and watched your phone signal drop to 'No Service'? That happens because traditional cell phone service relies on tall metal towers planted in the ground. If you wander too far from a tower, your phone can't send or receive c…
3 min readUber Gears Up: 700 Robotaxis Hitting the Streets by Year's End
Uber, the company that made ordering a car from your phone completely normal, is preparing for a massive shift in how we travel. By the end of this year, the company plans to assemble a fleet of 700 autonomous vehicles—widely known as robotaxis—with plans t…
3 min readGoodbye, Swift! A Giant Space Explosion Hunter Retires
Meet the Swift Observatory, a legendary NASA telescope launched to track down the fiercest fireworks in the cosmos! In deep space, dying stars and colliding black holes unleash mega-blasts called gamma-ray bursts. These flashes shine with mind-boggling powe…
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