December 30, 2025 4 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Here’s What to Get Excited about in Space in 2026 From crewed lunar voyages to flight tests of fully reusable rockets and launches of new orbital telescopes studying the outer limits of the cosmos, 2026 should be a banner year for space scienceContinue Reading
An illustration of space debris in orbit. (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Earth is surrounded by human-made debris that orbits our planet. The problem is worsening every year, and 2025 was no different. Space debris experts say nearly 130 million pieces of orbital junk are zipping around our planet: high-speed leftovers from rocketContinue Reading
10,000th Maextro S800 ultra-luxury sedan rolls off the production line, less than 7 months after its market launch. Milestone Maextro S800 handed over to Chinese-born Singaporean martial artist and film actor, Jet Li. Maextro is an ultra-luxury electric vehicle (BEV) brand created by Chinese tech giant…Continue Reading
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On a typical day in January, Ryanair will operate 2,350 daily round-trip flights. For obvious reasons, that’s far fewer than during the summer, and Europe’s largest airline didn’t have any services on Christmas Day.Continue Reading
American Airlines faced a ground stop instructed by the FAA after there were alleged issues with a snow melter at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. This saw a temporary stop on all flights operated by American and its subsidiaries lasting for an estimated 86 minutes. This saw resulted in flights arrivingContinue Reading
As we look back on 2025 from a PC gamer’s perspective, the year has been bittersweet. Both AMD and Nvidia released next-generation RX 9000 and RTX 50 series GPUs, respectively, which was quite exciting. However, the excitement was quickly overshadowed by the bad stock situation that plagued the March 2025 launch of the RX 9070Continue Reading
This administration is in the midst of failing the American people in so many ways, of course, but if you need one stark example of that failure then you can find it in measles. When I wrote this post way back in March of this year, it was our firstContinue Reading
A new version of Shotcut video editor is out, rounding out what’s proven to be a bumper month for Linux video editing enthusiasts thanks to big updates to Flowblade, OpenShot and Kdenlive. The headline feature in Shotcut 25.12 is 10-bit video support in the CPU pipeline. Until now, editing 10-bit clipsContinue Reading
Microsoft continues to dominate consumer-grade and enterprise-level software solution ecosystems alike with Windows. Some of its components are notorious for being resource hogs compared to OS alternatives such as Linux, including its File Explorer, which is integrated into its core Windows experience. However, Microsoft has pledged to and continues toContinue Reading
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Chile’s state-owned Codelco, the world’s leading copper producer, and private miner SQM, which features Chinese capital, announced on Saturday the creation of a giant company to exploit lithium, a lightweight metal used in batteries for electric vehicles. The South American country is the world’s second-largest producer of lithium…Continue Reading