「歷史頻道」在最新一次下潛佛羅里達的海底，打算去尋找二戰飛機殘骸的時候，意外發現了 1986 年「挑戰者」太空梭爆炸後的碎片。
NASA confirms underwater debris is from the 1986 Challenger explosion
A documentary crew searching for World War II-era aircraft wreckage recently discovered historical artifacts of a more modern variety. After reviewing the footage, NASA has confirmed that underwater wreckage filmed off the Florida coast is from the dis…
Tiny robotic fingers let humans interact with insects
Human fingers are clearly too big to safely play with bugs, but technology might offer a far gentler option. Scientists at Ritsumeikan University have developed soft robotic “microfingers” that let people interact with insects. The tiny digits (just 0….
NASA delays Artemis 1 launch by two more days to November 16th
NASA has once again delayed the launch of Artemis 1 in the face of a potentially dangerous weather system. The agency had penciled in the launch for the early morning of November 14th, but it’s now retargeting liftoff for November 16th. The current two…
西班牙為了失控的中國火箭，短暫關閉了領空
中國天宮太空站的「夢天」實驗艙，最終火箭核心級還是在太平洋的中南部返回，並未造成任何的危害。
Spain temporarily closed its airspace due to an out-of-control Chinese rocket
For the second time this year, the uncontrolled remnants of a Chinese Long March 5B came crashing to Earth. On Friday morning, US Space Command confirmed pieces of the rocket that carried the third and final piece of China’s Tiangong space station to o…
Astronauts will 3D print part of a human knee in space
Bioprinted body parts could prove vital to future medical treatments, and scientists are going to great lengths to test it — in a very literal sense. NASA, Redwire and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Center for Biotechnology (4…
NASA’s first test of its next-generation heat shield is delayed until at least November 9th
Frictions exerted during atmospheric reentry are enough to rend spacecraft into comets of glowing slag if not properly mitigated — that’s a good thing, when intentional, but otherwise nearly always very bad. The Space Shuttle, when it was still in serv…
Meta’s newest AI determines proper protein folds 60 times faster
Life on Earth would not exist as we know it, if not for the protein molecules that enable critical processes from photosynthesis and enzymatic degradation to sight and our immune system. And like most facets of the natural world, humanity has only just…
SpaceX may send Starship on its first orbital flight in December
Starship’s first orbital test flight could finally take place next month. Mark Kirasich, a senior NASA official overseeing the development of the Artemis moon program, has revealed the information during a livestreamed NASA Advisory Council meeting. Ac…