The fusion energy industry’s funding euphoria is showing its first real fractures, with two marquee companies rushing toward public markets before clearing the scientific threshold that would prove their reactors can actually work. TAE Technologies and General Fusion have both announced mergers with publicly traded shells in recent months, moves that have split founders, investors, […]

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket’s third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an “off-nominal” orbit.

Israeli forces have reportedly killed 91 healthcare workers and wounded more than 200 others in Lebanon since the current war with Hezbollah began in early March, according to Lebanese health ministry figures, in a pattern of strikes that emergency responders now describe using a new term of art: the quadruple tap. The phrase emerged from […]

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Rhea Space Activity, a Washington-based startup, has closed a $6 million Series A round to commercialize an autonomous navigation system that lets spacecraft fix their position by photographing other objects in orbit rather than relying on GPS. The funding, reported by SpaceNews, lands at a moment when the Pentagon is actively shopping for alternatives to […]

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Cerebras Systems is heading to Wall Street with something no AI chip startup has brought to an IPO before: a contract with OpenAI reportedly valued at more than $10 billion. That single deal, covering inference workloads where speed matters more than raw training throughput, anchors the most credible challenge to Nvidia’s dominance that the semiconductor […]

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A small group of London underwriters quietly shape which space projects fly and which die in committee. The mechanism is rarely visible, but its consequences run through every commercial mission.

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NASA is preparing to deliberately ignite fires on the lunar surface. The Flammability of Materials on the Moon (FM2) experiment, developed by NASA Glenn Research Center, Johnson Space Center, and Case Western Reserve University, will send a self-contained combustion chamber to the Moon aboard a Commercial Lunar Payload Services flight. The reason is uncomfortable for […]

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Astronaut selection mythology focuses on courage and intelligence. The real screening is for five quieter traits — and commercial space operators are about to learn why they matter.

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Ambition compounds like debt, and somewhere in your late thirties the bill arrives addressed to a person you no longer quite recognize. What the burnout research actually says about why goals stop feeling like destinations.

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Morocco has become the reluctant terminus for Sudanese refugees fleeing a civil war now in its third year, yet the country’s refusal to implement a long-promised asylum law has left thousands in a legal vacuum with no right to work, no state housing, and the constant risk of being pushed back south. The pattern reveals […]

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