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Reusable rocket startup raises $510 million
Stoke, a rocket startup company, raised $510 million in Series D funding, the company announced last week. The new financing…
Solving the EV charger problem with streetlights
Electric vehicles have been rising in popularity in recent years, likely owing to lower fuel costs and emissions than gasoline…
CBO: FY2025 deficit $1.8T as shutdown idles much of federal science
Adobe Stock After months of agency layoffs and program cuts, Washington still ended FY2025 with a $1.8 trillion deficit, essentially…
AstraZeneca breaks ground on potentially $4.5B Virginia plant, adding ADC capacity as tariff fight simmers
AstraZeneca broke ground today on a massive manufacturing complex near Charlottesville, Virginia, which stands to be its largest facility worldwide…
Chemistry Nobel goes to ‘molecular architecture’ with spaces big enough to trap gases
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for the creation…
NSF turns 75 with its doors closed, facing a 60% budget cut in 2026
Visit nsf.gov this week and you’ll see a tan warning banner: ‘Due to a lapse in appropriations, NSF is closed.’…
DARPA Grand Challenge at 21: Two decades Ago, driverless vehicles made history in the Mojave Desert
Oshkosh Corporation’s TerraMax (#20) just before the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge. Image source: VisLab (via Wikimedia Commons). License: Attribution-only license…
Three scientists awarded Nobel Prize in physics for showing quantum properties could exist in large-scale systems
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in…
Claude Sonnet 4.5 pushes coding SOTA, but its physics intuition still lags
Upon launch, Anthropic hailed Claude Sonnet 4.5 as the best coding model in the world. The model launched on September…
R&D 100 Finalist: Sandia’s griDNA gives the grid a sixth sense at the edge
Edge deployment hardware for griDNA is compact. As distributed energy resources proliferate across the electric grid, the cyber-attack surface for…