Credit: BandaiNamco / SFGElden Ring is getting a board game variant, thanks to a cooperation between Bandai Namco and Steamforged Games. Bandai Namco, the publisher of Elden Ring and board game designer Steamforged, already collaborated on a Dark Souls board game. Steamforged has additionally produced adaptations of Horizon, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, and much...
NASA is preparing for its next Moon landing, and it is ordering new spacesuits for the journey. It has granted Axiom Space a $228.5 million contract to make a "moonwalking system" for the agency's return to the lunar surface.Axiom was among two firms in the running to make spacesuits for NASA's Artemis program, which...
Credit: Unsplash / UmbertoComcast intends to bring multi-gig internet speeds to 34 cities throughout the United States by the end of the year and will afterward grow its reach to more than 50 million homes by the end of 2025. According to a press release, the internet provider has begun rolling out 2-gig speeds...
Credit: Thomas Pesquet / ESANASA has "holoported" somebody to the International Space Station for the first time, demonstrating a new method for astronauts and people on Earth to interact with one another.Holoportation 101Holoportation is the creation of Microsoft research. While the name is one portmanteau of "hologram" and "teleportation," that does not quite explain...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, after being rolled out to the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Joel KowskyAfter several setbacks, NASA is slowly scheduling its Artemis I mission's launch dates of September 23rd...
Abstract illustration of atoms passing through water and an electrified membrane under a shining sun. Credit: Meenesh SinghA group of scientists led by Meenesh Singh at the College of Illinois Chicago has discovered a way to convert 100% carbon dioxide from the industrial exhaust into ethylene, a fundamental building block for plastic products.Their findings...
Credit: Mercedes-Benz / RivianMercedes-Benz and Rivian have announced they are collaborating to develop "bespoke large" commercial electric vans.The firms signed a memorandum of understanding to begin a strategic collaboration that will invest in a new factory. The a target is to use an existing Mercedes-Benz site in Central or Eastern Europe. Marking Rivian's first...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe natural world has its own intrinsic electrical grid composed of a world web of tiny bacteria-generated nanowires in the soil and seas that "breathe" by exhaling excess electrons.In a new study, Yale College researchers found that light is an unexpected ally in fostering this electronic activity within biofilm bacteria. Revealing bacteria-produced...
Voyager’s high-gain antenna, seen at the center of this illustration of the NASA spacecraft, is one component controlled by the attitude articulation and control system (AACS). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.Engineers have repaired a concern affecting information from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. Back this year, the probe's attitude articulation and control system (AACS), that keeps Voyager 1's antenna...
Illustration by The Project TwinsWhen Yanina Bellini Saibene has started her career in information science at the National Institute of Agricultural Innovation in La Pampa, Argentina, she was not fluent in English. She had learned a little English at secondary school. However, her family could not afford the added courses she would have required...
