Hardware

A rubber vulcanization chemical helped perovskite-silicon tandem cells retain 91 percent efficiency after 1,700 hours of continuous operation — on industrial-grade TOPCon wafers, not bespoke lab cells. Whether it survives a summer on a rooftop in Arizona remains an open question.

The FCC manages radio spectrum. It has no mandate to protect the night sky — and that structural gap is why the most coordinated scientific objections in history will likely accomplish nothing.

Four astronauts fly to the Moon on April 1. Neither the rocket nor the capsule has ever carried humans. The lander they would need is years away, and NASA has no rescue plan if it fails.

Electron microscopes slice samples thin enough to destroy the defect. Neutrons dont need to. MIT and Oak Ridge built an AI that reads vibrational spectra from neutron scattering to identify six defect types simultaneously, at 0.2% concentration, without touching the sample.

The silicon underneath AI agents was not built for them — and that gap is about to force a rethinking of AI chip architecture.

He runs 80pct of his CEO workflows through AI agents. The kitchen that runs those agents looks nothing like a data center — and that changes everything about the silicon being built.

Russian forces are bolting factory-fitted Starlink terminals into drone airframes and using LEO signals 1,000x stronger than GPS as an anti-jam navigation channel — essentially immune to electronic warfare. When SpaceX activated a kill switch eleven days after a possibly Starlink-equipped drone s...

The fix didn't work. Two Starlink satellites have now suffered the same class of internal failure within three months, both generating trackable debris at roughly 560 km above Earth.

Falcon 9 booster B1067 has now flown 34 times. Each flight costs SpaceX under $1M to amortize. Customers pay $67M. The reuse record is real — the discount never showed up on the invoice.

NOAA issued a G2 storm watch for the day before launch. AR 4405 then erupted again — five minutes after the first CME. The 80 percent favorable forecast is a ground-weather number.

These graphene tattoos do not just measure a leaf. They compute on it — at 23 attojoules per update, powered by ambient light. A single solar panel could run millions of them, deployed across a forest doing wildfire prediction from the inside.