Space & Aerospace

Your EV's power electronics contain silicon carbide that passes every safety standard. The problem: those standards weren't written to detect how this material fails.

The investment numbers are real. But the actual hard problems in co-packaged optics — packaging costs that exceed the optical engines themselves, thermal coupling requirements, and yields estimated well below 70 percent by Mordor Intelligence — are identified, not solved. The transition from pres...

Nine months of orbital testing. 94 percent accuracy. Government data, not independently verified — but further along than anything the US has publicly demonstrated in orbit. The bigger problem: American AI refuses nearly all military queries.

Halide perovskites physically distort under light — real physics, no working devices. The 0.3% lattice change is the crux: interesting science or actuator-relevant? The paper doesnt answer that.

We ceded that ground decades ago — but Japan isn't giving up on chips. It's pivoting to the unglamorous work that keeps everything running.

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.

One rocket flew once. Its company claims it already matches Falcon 9 cost — without reuse. China’s real launch target isn’t a number. It’s a military communications grid with 28,000 satellites behind it.

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.

The EU wants to spend $150B on space over seven years — and the money comes with strings that could permanently reshape who controls European launch and navigation infrastructure.

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.