Musk moved the destination from Mars to the moon hardware readiness will decide it
What will we have different when we stop Mars and switch to the moon: the engineering, the schedule discipline, or…
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Particle Accelerators Could Turn Nuclear Waste Into Power and Shrink Its Danger Window
In the case of the most recalcitrant by-product of the nuclear industry, physics has never been the bottleneck. It has…
Scientists found AI’s hidden weakness: “reasoning” models still miss obvious rules
When a system sold on the basis of having the ability to reason fails to do so with the reliability…
A four-door Mustang may finally make sense and it won’t be just gas
The next car push that Ford is doing as “affordable” is bumping up against one nameplate that does very little…
Barra’s blunt truth about plug-in hybrids exposes the policy math behind their “clean” label
A plug-in hybrid may appear to be an appearance of victory in the case of emissions on paper and an…
Rocket Lab’s Neutron tank test failure puts composite hardware back in the spotlight
“How much schedule risk can a new medium-lift rocket absorb before the factory rhythm, not the launch pad, becomes the…
A robot face practiced lip-sync in a mirror, and the hard part was “B”
A mouth which lacks a consonant at a few millimeters can do away with a whole humanoid contact. Columbia University…
Richtech and Microsoft put “agentic” AI where robots actually meet customers
In retail robotics, “smarter” only counts when it survives a lunch rush. The partnership between Richtech Robotics and Microsoft is…
Artemis II Quarantine Begins as Teams Rehearse Fueling and Ocean Recovery
A lot of practice led up to this week’s event, and seeing everything come together at sea gives me great…