Indian dance mudras yield advanced synergies for robotic hand control
Monday, 15 December 2025 11:01
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County extracted building blocks from precise hand gestures in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Their analysis revealed a richer set of movement patterns than those in natural grasps. The team published findings online Nov. 24 in Scientific Reports.
Ramana Vinjamuri leads the UMBC lab that studies brain control of complex ha
Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County extracted building blocks from precise hand gestures in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Their analysis revealed a richer set of movement patterns than those in natural grasps. The team published findings online Nov. 24 in Scientific Reports.
Ramana Vinjamuri leads the UMBC lab that studies brain control of complex ha Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks
Monday, 15 December 2025 08:00
Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowing warming in the short term. The same satellite technology that has transformed methane monitoring in the oil and gas sector is now being turned towards another major source – landfill sites.
Rocket Lab launches JAXA tech demo satellite
Sunday, 14 December 2025 12:34
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket successfully launched a technology demonstration satellite for JAXA Dec.
Bible 1.0: How Ancient Canon Became Our First Large Language Models
Sunday, 14 December 2025 12:13
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Modern large language models are treated as something radically new: vast statistical machines trained on almost everything humans have written, and able to regenerate knowledge on demand. Yet in structural terms, humanity has worked with something similar for millennia.
Modern large language models are treated as something radically new: vast statistical machines trained on almost everything humans have written, and able to regenerate knowledge on demand. Yet in structural terms, humanity has worked with something similar for millennia. Maven stays silent after routine pass behind Mars
Sunday, 14 December 2025 02:47
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
NASA engineers are continuing efforts to restore contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter after the spacecraft fell silent during a routine pass behind Mars on December 6 2025. Before the loss of signal, telemetry from MAVEN indicated that the spacecraft and its subsystems were operating within expected parameters as it approached occultation by the planet.
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NASA engineers are continuing efforts to restore contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter after the spacecraft fell silent during a routine pass behind Mars on December 6 2025. Before the loss of signal, telemetry from MAVEN indicated that the spacecraft and its subsystems were operating within expected parameters as it approached occultation by the planet.
A Sun boundary map tracks shifting Alfven surface over solar cycle
Sunday, 14 December 2025 02:47
Cambridge, MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers have assembled the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the Sun's atmosphere, tracing the boundary where the solar wind escapes the Sun's magnetic control. By combining these global maps with close-up measurements, researchers at the Center for Astrophysicshysics | Harvard and Smithsonian report that this boundary expands and becomes more irregular and spiky as
Astronomers have assembled the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the Sun's atmosphere, tracing the boundary where the solar wind escapes the Sun's magnetic control. By combining these global maps with close-up measurements, researchers at the Center for Astrophysicshysics | Harvard and Smithsonian report that this boundary expands and becomes more irregular and spiky as Mission Space to fly second space weather payload with Rogue Space
Sunday, 14 December 2025 02:47
Orlando, FL (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Mission Space will launch its second payload in orbit in partnership with Rogue Space, extending its commercial space weather measurement network. The companies announced the mission during the Spacepower Conference in Orlando.
The first Mission Space payload, ZOHAR-I, launched in March 2025 and recently received the 2025 Global Tech Award for advances in high-cadence radiation monitoring
Mission Space will launch its second payload in orbit in partnership with Rogue Space, extending its commercial space weather measurement network. The companies announced the mission during the Spacepower Conference in Orlando.
The first Mission Space payload, ZOHAR-I, launched in March 2025 and recently received the 2025 Global Tech Award for advances in high-cadence radiation monitoring NASA's Parker Solar Probe Spies Solar Wind 'U-Turn'
Sunday, 14 December 2025 02:47
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields responsible for space weather escape from the Sun - and how sometimes they don't.
Like a toddler, our Sun occasionally has disruptive outbursts. But instead of throwing a fit, the Sun spews magneti
Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields responsible for space weather escape from the Sun - and how sometimes they don't.
Like a toddler, our Sun occasionally has disruptive outbursts. But instead of throwing a fit, the Sun spews magneti Roman infrared survey to chart hidden structure of Milky Way
Sunday, 14 December 2025 02:47
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations spread across two years, the survey will unveil tens of billions of stars and explore previously uncharted structures.
"The Galactic Plane Survey will revolutionize our understanding of the Milky
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations spread across two years, the survey will unveil tens of billions of stars and explore previously uncharted structures.
"The Galactic Plane Survey will revolutionize our understanding of the Milky Micro X ray method reads ancient meteorite impact scars
Sunday, 14 December 2025 02:47
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Researchers from China, Canada, and Japan have established a quantitative method to read the impact histories recorded in enstatite chondrites using micro X ray diffraction measurements. Enstatite chondrites are rare meteorites that formed in highly reducing conditions close to the young Sun and are chemically similar to the material that built Earth, making them key samples for reconstructing e
Researchers from China, Canada, and Japan have established a quantitative method to read the impact histories recorded in enstatite chondrites using micro X ray diffraction measurements. Enstatite chondrites are rare meteorites that formed in highly reducing conditions close to the young Sun and are chemically similar to the material that built Earth, making them key samples for reconstructing e Ancient Martian brines left bromine rich fingerprints in jarosite minerals
Sunday, 14 December 2025 02:47
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Jarosite, a sulfate mineral widely detected on Mars, records interaction between acidic, oxidizing waters and the planet's surface rocks, but the halogen chemistry of those fluids has been difficult to reconstruct. New experimental work examines how bromine and chlorine enter jarosite under Mars-like conditions, using them as tracers of fluid evolution and environmental conditions.
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Jarosite, a sulfate mineral widely detected on Mars, records interaction between acidic, oxidizing waters and the planet's surface rocks, but the halogen chemistry of those fluids has been difficult to reconstruct. New experimental work examines how bromine and chlorine enter jarosite under Mars-like conditions, using them as tracers of fluid evolution and environmental conditions.
Researc K2 Space raises 250m to scale Mega class high power satellites
Sunday, 14 December 2025 02:47
Torrance, CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
K2 Space has closed a 250 million dollar Series C funding round that values the company at 3 billion dollars as it prepares to field a new generation of large high power satellites designed for the heavy lift launch era. The round follows 500 million dollars in signed contracts with commercial operators and U.S. government customers and is led by Redpoint, with participation from accounts advise
K2 Space has closed a 250 million dollar Series C funding round that values the company at 3 billion dollars as it prepares to field a new generation of large high power satellites designed for the heavy lift launch era. The round follows 500 million dollars in signed contracts with commercial operators and U.S. government customers and is led by Redpoint, with participation from accounts advise New MAGE model links solar storms to geospace response
Sunday, 14 December 2025 02:47
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
NASA's Center for Geospace Storms, or CGS, has released the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment model, or MAGE, a supercomputer-based system that uses NASA mission data to show how different regions of geospace react to solar disturbances.
The MAGE model links several existing predictive tools for Earth's magnetosphere, ring current, and upper atmosphere into a single framework, giv
NASA's Center for Geospace Storms, or CGS, has released the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment model, or MAGE, a supercomputer-based system that uses NASA mission data to show how different regions of geospace react to solar disturbances.
The MAGE model links several existing predictive tools for Earth's magnetosphere, ring current, and upper atmosphere into a single framework, giv Hidden circumbinary giant planet emerges from decade old Gemini data
Sunday, 14 December 2025 02:47
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers have directly imaged a giant exoplanet orbiting a pair of stars, in a configuration reminiscent of the fictional Tatooine system but with the closest-known directly imaged planet to its twin suns in a binary system. The planet orbits a spectroscopic binary in the Scorpius-Centaurus association and was found buried in data taken nearly a decade ago with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI)
Astronomers have directly imaged a giant exoplanet orbiting a pair of stars, in a configuration reminiscent of the fictional Tatooine system but with the closest-known directly imaged planet to its twin suns in a binary system. The planet orbits a spectroscopic binary in the Scorpius-Centaurus association and was found buried in data taken nearly a decade ago with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) Quasar X ray link to black hole environment found to evolve over cosmic time
Sunday, 14 December 2025 02:47
London, UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers using new X ray data have found evidence that the structure of matter around supermassive black holes has changed over billions of years, challenging a quasar relationship that has been treated as a fundamental law for nearly 50 years.
Quasars, identified in the 1960s, rank among the brightest known cosmic sources and are powered by supermassive black holes that draw in surroun
Astronomers using new X ray data have found evidence that the structure of matter around supermassive black holes has changed over billions of years, challenging a quasar relationship that has been treated as a fundamental law for nearly 50 years.
Quasars, identified in the 1960s, rank among the brightest known cosmic sources and are powered by supermassive black holes that draw in surroun