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A 1.1 kg sailboat drone auto-rotates into a soft water landing
Singapore engineers built ALBATROSS, a tiny drone that spins down like a maple seed, rights itself on the water and then sails on wind power.
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Gemini reveals Pa 30’s beadlike knots four light‑days wide
The sharpest image yet of the Pa 30 nebula shows its firework streaks are chains of gas knots, each big enough to hold our planets' orbits ten times over.
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30 Mac Minis recreated a Cray-1 and hit 1.3 teraflops
A small museum in rural Spain stacked 30 old Intel Mac minis inside a full-size Cray-1 shell. The cluster runs live math demos and is almost silent.
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597 hollow molds reveal Neanderthal wooden spears and tools
The wood rotted away tens of thousands of years ago, but limestone kept its shape. Thirteen of the imprints are objects Neanderthals made or used.
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NASA asks US firms to design and run commercial space stations
The ISS is due to retire in 2030. NASA now wants private companies to build its replacement, with bids due Dec. 8 and up to $34 billion on the table.
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800 GB of Artemis II images and notes land online for researchers
NASA opened its Artemis II archive to everyone: 11,000 images and videos, hours of crew audio and three reports, including five meteoroid flashes on the moon.
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This fast radio burst traces to 3 billion years after the Big Bang
Webb traced the record-breaking FRB 20240304B to a dwarf galaxy 1,000 times less massive than expected, a strong clue that a magnetar, not a collision, made it.