More than 130 million pieces of space junk – from old rockets to exploded payloads – zoom around Earth at over 7 kilometers per second. A single paint chip coming from the other direction can punch a hole in a spacecraft’s hull or an astronaut’s suit. For decades, engineers have used the same old solution: … Read more
Inversion Space, a Long Beach, California-based startup, has recently unveiled its largest project to date. Founded in 2021 by a group of engineers who enjoy making orbital fantasies a reality, the company has been discreetly developing a machine dubbed Arc. This is a miniature spaceship capable of delivering products from the edge of space to … Read more
A thousand light-years away, in the constellation Perseus, a cosmic nursery is humming with life. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have imaged IC 348, a star-forming region in our Milky Way, and it’s a beautiful picture of galactic creation. IC 348 is a small star nursery nestled in our galaxy, about … Read more
This $1,499 MacBook Pro’s M4 chip feels like a cheat code. How so? The 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU devour video editing, coding and graphic design like it’s nothing. Apps launch instantly and heavy workloads like 4K video rendering run smoothly where older PCs would stutter or crash. Geekbench scores are 3,925 single-core and 22,669 … Read more