2025-06-28

The World Is Producing More Food than Ever—but Not for Long

Even America’s richest farmlands can’t outrun climate collapse. That’s everyone’s problem. [...]

2025-06-28

Robotic sucker can adapt to surroundings like an actual octopus

Gripping and releasing irregular surfaces is harder than it might seem. [...]

2025-06-27

Peter Thiel is utterly wrong about Alzheimer's

The New York Times ran a lengthy interview this morning between columnist Ross Douthat and venture capitalist and PayPal founder Peter Thiel. There's a reason it was published in the opinion sect [...]

2025-06-27

The Next Acetaminophen Tablet You Take Could Be Made From PET

This research could represent the first documented case of paracetamol production from plastic waste using E. coli bacteria. [...]

2025-06-27

Switzerland leads the world in deep tech investment, report finds

Switzerland pours more of its venture capital into deep tech than any other country, according to new data. The Swiss Deep Tech Report 2025 found that 60% of all Swiss venture funding between 2019 and [...]

2025-06-27

Rocket Report: SpaceX’s dustup on the border; Northrop has a nozzle problem

NASA has finally test-fired the first of its new $100 million SLS rocket engines. [...]

2025-06-27

Space Elevators Could Totally Work—If Earth Days Were Much Shorter

What would it take to run a cable from the ISS to Earth? Depends how fast you want the Earth to rotate. [...]

2025-06-27

Britain’s first ‘space factory’ blasts into orbit on test mission

A British-built manufacturing satellite successfully launched into orbit on its first test mission. Cardiff-based startup Space Forge launched the probe — called ForgeStar-1 — aboard SpaceX’s Tr [...]

2025-06-27

Look Up on Friday Night and You Just Might See the Bootids Meteor Shower

Some folks already caught a sci-fi-level glimpse of it on Thursday, when a blazing meteor put a hole in a Georgia house. [...]