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At NASA Stennis, a crucial full-duration RS-25 hot fire engine test marks significant progress in the Artemis program, aiming for lunar and Martian exploration. Credit: NASA/Danny NowlinNASA’s recent full-duration RS-25 engine hot fire test at Stennis Space Center marks a significant step in certifying new engines for the SLS rocket, intended for future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond, showcasing the collaborative efforts between NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne, and Syncom Space Services.NASA conducted a full-duration…

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. Heidy Khlaaf is an engineering director at the cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits. She specializes in evaluating software and AI implementations…

Economists and policy analysts have expressed concern about the recent actions taken by the Central Bank of Nigeria concerning the benchmark interest rate and other monetary policy matters in the country. The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria increased the benchmark interest rate to 22.75 per cent on Tuesday, as part of the move to aggressively manage the country’s inflationary pressures. Olayemi Cardoso, the governor of the CBN, on Tuesday, disclosed that the MPC voted to keep the Cash…

In the search for extraterrestrial life, MIT scientists say a planet’s carbon-lite atmosphere, relative to its neighbors, could be a sure and detectable signal of habitability. Credit: SciTechDaily.comA low carbon abundance in planetary atmospheres, which the James Webb Space Telescope can detect, could be a signature of habitability.Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence, rather…

A small obsidian artifact found in the Texas Panhandle provides compelling evidence of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado’s expedition across the area over 470 years ago. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.comCould a family’s obsidian blade be a clue to the expedition’s trail?It’s a small piece of obsidian, just over 5 centimeters long, likely found on a hard-scrabble piece of ranchland in the Texas panhandle. But when SMU anthropologist Matthew Boulanger looks at it, he gets a mental image of Spanish explorer Francisco…

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Back in 2016, we featured a carbon-framed all-terrain commuter from M2S Bikes called the All-Go. Now the company's Eric Crews has launched a new brand called Forest, along with its first mid-drive fat-tire adventurers.Crews told us that the new Forest Summit Series ebikes have been in development for the last couple of years, and the new brand has now launched on Indiegogo to fund production and engage the riding community directly.The 6061 aluminum framed off-road ebike is being offered in hardtail, step-through and…

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew ship approaches the International Space Station on May 20, 2022, on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission before automatically docking to the Harmony module’s forward port. The orbiting lab was flying 268 miles above the south Pacific at the time of this photograph. Credit: NASASuccessful completion of a crew exercise simulation by NASA astronauts brings Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft closer to its first manned flight to the International Space Station.NASA astronauts Suni Williams and…

Euclid’s strength lies in its diversity: this small section of Euclid’s large image plane shows a detail of the Perseus galaxy cluster. Clearly recognizable are both the various types and shapes of galaxies as part of the cluster in the foreground at a distance of 240 million light years and a series of faint, diffuse spots in the background – galaxies whose light has been travelling for billions of years before Euclid imaged it. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, Image Processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi;…

NASA completed a full-duration, 500-second hot fire of an RS-25 certification engine on January 17, continuing a critical test series to support future SLS (Space Launch System) missions to the Moon and beyond as NASA explores the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all. Credit: NASA/Danny NowlinNASA advances Artemis missions with a successful RS-25 engine test, aiming to certify engines for the SLS rocket’s future lunar explorations, beginning with Artemis V.NASA continued a critical test series for future flights…