Psyche was barely 2,800 miles above Mars during its gravity assist flyby. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is currently en route to a small, metal-rich asteroid near Jupiter. However, the barely 3,600-pound probe recently requiredContinue Reading
The moon’s cratered surface. Could these shadows help with making lunar GPS? (Image credit: NASA) Placing ultrastable lasers inside some of the coldest, darkest lunar craters could help scientists establish a GPS-like navigation system on the moon, allowing future Artemis astronauts and spacecraft to navigate the lunar surface more easily. Researchers at the National InstituteContinue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ferries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay Tuesday as a whale surfaced nearby, its spout barely visible against the white caps. Until now, whales could easily go unnoticed by mariners, but an AI-powered detection network launched this week isContinue Reading
SpaceX said the money will help finance projects to put people on the moon and Mars., SpaceX said the money will help finance projects to put people on the moon and Mars., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Fedora’s Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) has voted to retire all Deepin-related packages from the distribution’s repositories. The vote passed with +7, 0, 0 at a May 19 meeting. On top of that, the release engineering team has been told not to reinstate any of these packages unless they go throughContinue Reading
Delta Air Lines is one of the largest US carriers, operating a mainline fleet of both Boeing and Airbus models. However, one plane cannot be found anymore among Delta’s fleet: the mighty Boeing 777. Delta’s decision to retire itsBoeing 777 fleet in 2020 may have seemed shocking to some, asContinue Reading
The Boeing 777 is the most successful widebody airliner of all time, with nearly 1,800 units having been delivered since the type’s introduction in 1995, and it’s received nearly 2,500 orders across three generations (including the still in-development 777X). Large, efficient, and capable, these planes pioneered the idea of usingContinue Reading
The manufacturing, testing and engineering equipment from FLO EV Charging’s Auburn Hills, Michigan operations is going to auction. CA Global Partners and BidItUp are running a timed online sale with lots beginning to close at 10:00 am ET on May 28. FLO, a Canadian-founded company that operates as a verticallyContinue Reading
Vishay Intertechnology has introduced two AEC-Q102-qualified optocouplers designed for galvanic isolation in high-voltage EV applications—on-board chargers, DC/DC converters, and battery management system isolation stages. The VOWA617A and VOWA618A come in a widebody SMD-8 package and are built around the combination of high creepage distance and a high comparative tracking indexContinue Reading
Canonical has released Ubuntu Core 26, a new long-term support (LTS) version of its immutable, snap-based OS. Among the changes Ubuntu Core 26 brings is smaller over-the-air updates, with download sizes reduced by up to 90% for most snaps thanks to a new snap-delta format. Updates to the Core baseContinue Reading
Plug N’ Drive hosting free test drives while visitors can learn a little something about the critical mineral sector…Continue Reading
Puerile, vindictive, and hateful is no way to run a government. That’s how The Traitor is running his, however. And that means his DOJ cannot possibly hope to stay on the good side of judges, not when it’s actively engaged in appeasing an autocratic megalomaniac and his enablers. The lawyersContinue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ferries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay Tuesday as a whale surfaced nearby, its spout barely visible against the white caps. Until now, whales could easily go unnoticed by mariners, but an AI-powered detection network launched this week isContinue Reading