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TSMC's most advanced fab in Hsinchu prints transistors 25,000 times thinner than a human hair — using light that doesn't naturally exist on Earth
Inside a sealed room in Hsinchu, Taiwan, a machine the size of a city bus is firing droplets of molten tin into a vacuum at 70 metres per…
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SpaceX won a NASA contract worth up to $843 million to build a single machine whose only job is to drag the space station out of orbit and into the Pacific Ocean
SpaceX signed a contract with NASA in June 2024 worth up to $843 million to build one machine, the U.S.
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The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
The Roman Space Telescope has the same size mirror as Hubble, but it will survey the sky up to 1,000 times faster — not because it sees deeper, but because it sees wider: each Roman image captures a patch of sky at least 100 times larger, making Hubble’s method look like counting a crowd one face at a time.
When an iceberg roughly the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s George VI Ice Shelf in January 2025, researchers diverted their ship to the newly exposed seafloor — and found a hidden world of sponges, anemones, sea spiders and octopuses that may have been thriving in darkness for hundreds of years.
Scientists long thought life in the deepest ocean trenches depended mostly on scraps of sunlight-fed life drifting down from above — but at 9,500 metres beneath the Pacific, researchers found whole communities of tubeworms and clams powered instead by methane and hydrogen sulfide seeping from cracks in the seafloor.
Venus and Earth formed from similar raw material at roughly the same time and are almost identical in size — yet one became a living world of oceans and forests, while the other became a 465-degree wasteland hot enough to melt lead.
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Scientists long thought life in the deepest ocean trenches depended mostly on scraps of sunlight-fed life drifting down from above — but at 9,500 metres beneath the Pacific, researchers found whole communities of tubeworms and clams powered instead by methane and hydrogen sulfide seeping from cracks in the seafloor.
Venus and Earth formed from similar raw material at roughly the same time and are almost identical in size — yet one became a living world of oceans and forests, while the other became a 465-degree wasteland hot enough to melt lead.
For nearly forty years, scientists aimed lasers at the Moon and got nothing back from the Soviet rover Lunokhod 1 — then in 2010, a pulse bounced straight back from a reflector that had been sitting in the lunar dust the whole time
In July 2025, a planetary-defence telescope in Chile built to watch for dangerous asteroids accidentally became the instrument that discovered only the third interstellar object ever seen — a comet now thought to be older than the solar system, sweeping through on a path it will never repeat.
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