Briefing: A Most Unusual Lake
Strategic angle: Lake Unter-See in Antarctica, sealed beneath thick ice, contains unusually high levels of dissolved oxygen and cone-shaped microbial reefs resembling some of Earth’s oldest fossils.
Briefing: Anduril to acquire space-tracking firm ExoAnalytic Solutions
Strategic angle: Deal adds ground-based telescope network and space surveillance data to defense tech company’s expanding space business.
Briefing: About Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools Project
Strategic angle: NASA’s Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools (SVTT) project develops technologies for various aircraft speed regimes.
Briefing: Vegans develop complex skills to navigate an omnivorous society, new research shows
Strategic angle: Going vegan is a life-changing decision that requires navigating a society dominated by omnivorous choices.
Briefing: Scientists turn scrap car aluminum into high-performance metal for new vehicles
Strategic angle: Researchers develop RidgeAlloy, a new aluminum alloy that transforms contaminated car-body scrap into durable vehicle components.
Briefing: How jagged moon dust could support future astronauts
Strategic angle: Lunar dust can be a pain—but it's also literally the ground we will have to traverse if we are ever to have a permanent human settlement on the moon.
Briefing: Ultrafast computing: Light-driven logic tops 10 terahertz in WS₂
Strategic angle: The future for our computers will literally be at the speed of light, as new research reveals ultrafast logical operations using extremely short light pulses.
Briefing: Starlab Space Fully Books Commercial Payload Space on Planned Space Station
Strategic angle: The Starlab commercial space station has secured all available payload space as it prepares for the next phase of a NASA program.
Briefing: New African species confirms evolutionary origin of magic mushrooms
Strategic angle: A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world's most widely cultivated 'magic mushroom'—Psilocybe cubensis—may now have been settled by scientists from southern Africa and the United States.
Briefing: Thermal drones boost detection of entangled seals
Strategic angle: New research from Monash University and Phillip Island Nature Parks utilizes thermal and infrared drone technology to enhance the detection of marine debris entanglements in Australian fur seals.
Briefing: Scientists document Europe's first Jurassic lizard trackways in Asturias
Strategic angle: Research reveals two significant trackways from the Late Jurassic period, shedding light on ancient lizard behavior.
Briefing: Chemical shifts help track molecules breaking apart in real time
Strategic angle: An international team of scientists has tracked ultrafast changes in the small molecule fluoromethane as it breaks apart.
Briefing: Insights into Spallation Mechanisms of Thermal Protection System Materials
Strategic angle: A study investigates the internal pressure build-up mechanisms in thermal protection system materials using mass spectrometry and HyMETS testing.
Briefing: Scientists control 'free-flowing' electric currents with light
Strategic angle: A breakthrough in directing electric currents using light opens new possibilities in quantum materials.
Briefing: One gene makes the difference: Breeding winter-hardy faba beans
Strategic angle: An international research team has identified a crucial genetic factor that determines the winter hardiness of faba beans.
Briefing: Ancient parrot DNA reveals sophisticated, long-distance animal trade network pre-dating the Inca Empire
Strategic angle: New analysis of ancient parrot DNA highlights a complex trade network in pre-Inca times.
Briefing: Antibiotic resistance can vary depending on where the bacteria live
Strategic angle: New research reveals that antibiotic resistance measurements are influenced by environmental conditions.
Briefing: Impulse Space Expands Colorado Presence
Strategic angle: Space mobility company Impulse Space has opened a Colorado facility to support development of its spacecraft.
Briefing: Study shows spiral sound can shift sideways
Strategic angle: A new University of Mississippi study reveals that certain sound waves can move sideways, potentially enhancing acoustic technology.
Briefing: Heat does not reduce prosociality, study suggests
Strategic angle: A new study challenges the notion that high temperatures lead to decreased prosocial behavior.