Aerospace & Spaceflight Will NASA and Boeing’s Starliner Fly Again in 2026? David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 “Starliner is working on its redemption arc.” That framing, however informal, captures where Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner now sits within NASA’s…
Aerospace & Spaceflight First 2026 Starlink Launch Puts a New Falcon 9 to Work David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 “Deployment of 29 Starlink satellites confirmed,” SpaceX tweeted on X after launching the first batch of 2026 Starlink spacecraft into…
Mechanical Design & Robotics Smaller Than a Grain of Salt: The Robot With a Brain Jonathan BarrettJanuary 2, 2026January 2, 20260 Seemingly insignificant to the human eye but able to sense, calculate and act independently, the smallest autonomous programmable robot in…
Mechanical Design & Robotics Neuromorphic E?Skin Brings Reflexive Pain Response to Humanoids Jonathan BarrettJanuary 1, 2026January 1, 20260 The following is a bold claim, but one that recent developments in China may justify: humanoid robots are now a…
Automotive Engineering Musk Faces Final Hours to Deliver Austin’s First Unsupervised Tesla Robotaxi Jonathan BarrettJanuary 1, 2026January 1, 20260 With Elon Musk’s self-imposed deadline running out, unsupervised Model Y robotaxi rides around Austin’s streets have become arguably the most…
Drones & Unmanned Systems Deep-Sea Drones Target Narrow Zone in Renewed MH370 Search David WhitakerJanuary 1, 2026January 1, 20260 Can the world’s most sophisticated underwater drones finally crack aviation’s most puzzling mystery? Nearly a decade since Malaysia Airlines flight…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Hubble Reveals Rare Interstellar Comet in Unprecedented Detail David WhitakerDecember 31, 2025December 31, 20250 Indeed, few objects in the cosmos enter our solar system and then, on a single visit, are never to reappear….
Mechanical Design & Robotics Elon Musk’s 2026 AI Deadline Pits Tesla Against Waymo’s Lead Jonathan BarrettDecember 31, 2025December 31, 20250 Elon Musk’s latest directive sets the stage for one of the most heated technology sprints in recent memory: by 2026,…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Ball Bearings in Microgravity Reveal Particle Behavior for Space and Earth David WhitakerDecember 31, 2025December 31, 20250 Gravity is a bully it pushes particles around so much on Earth that we rarely see their true nature. This…