Space & Aerospace

NASA spent decades building spacecraft that fly themselves. Then they told astronauts to turn off the autopilot and do it themselves.

AI accelerators are about to get 10x more memory bandwidth. The problem is finding enough power plugs.

TSMC is running its most advanced chipmaking node past 100 percent of design capacity. That is the physical ceiling the AI labs are bumping up against — and nobody is willing to step back first.

The companies making money selling SRAM chip designs — Synopsys, Cadence, Arm, Rambus — have not acknowledged the threat from GCRAM, a 3-transistor memory cell that fits standard CMOS. The SRAM IP market they depend on is worth $2.57 billion.

NOR flash keeps AI servers running. Now it costs more than DRAM per gigabyte, lead times stretch to nine months, and the customers getting squeezed hardest are not hyperscalers — they build cars.

A graphene/MoS2 chip digitizes liquids without a battery. The transistor switches in microseconds. The sensing layer takes seconds. The bottleneck is not the silicon — it is the chemistry of getting a liquid to talk to graphene.

The four astronauts now flying Artemis II are the first crew to test a NASA workaround for a cracked heat shield. The actual fix doesnt fly until Artemis III.

In the HR 8799 system, a planet seven times Jupiter's mass spins six times faster than a nearby brown dwarf. That contrast is now the clearest evidence yet that planets and brown dwarfs form differently — and spin is the diagnostic astronomers have been missing.

The paper demonstrates genuine quantum noise reduction in a levitated mechanical system. The acceleration sensing claim comes from a press release, not the data.

The 0.018 mm² graphene detector pushed multi-Gbps over three meters at room temperature with no applied voltage. Real physics. No industry partner. No 6G standard. Headlines are doing a lot of work here.

11 years. $23M. 45 pounds of 3D-printed titanium. And a blinking fault light on day 2 of the first Moon mission in 52 years.