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The future of satellite-connected wearables is closer to becoming an everyday reality thanks to the world’s first-ever two-way  S-band connectivity from a wearable antenna with a geostationary satellite. In autumn 2025, a team climbed mount Halti to test the antenna’s capabilities. Developed by Finnish company Stealthcase, with support from the European Space Agency (ESA) and in collaboration with Radientum, the innovative antenna was integrated into a jacket by outdoor clothing brand HALTI. The demonstration paves the way for reliable communication for

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2026
More than a century after Pavlov trained dogs to link a bell with food, neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco report that the brain may rely more on the timing of rewards than on sheer repetition when forming associative memories of cues and outcomes. Their work suggests that what matters for learning is how far apart cue-reward experiences are spaced in time, rather tha

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2026
Infleqtion, a provider of neutral atom based quantum computing and sensing systems, has completed its business combination with Churchill Capital Corp X and is now listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol INFQ. The company describes itself as well capitalized, reporting more than 550 million dollars in gross proceeds from the transaction, including nearly all of the cash hel

Singapore (SDX) Feb 25, 2026
Small satellites have become attractive for space missions because they offer low cost and flexibility, but their growth has been limited by the lack of compact, efficient propulsion systems that work well in the vacuum of space. In orbit, spacecraft can only change their motion through reaction force, and traditional chemical rockets produce thrust by burning fuel to generate high temperature g

New York (SDX) Feb 25, 2026
In Earth history, a few episodes stand out for their extreme cold, when geologic evidence indicates that ice covered the planet from pole to pole during so-called Snowball Earth events. These episodes represent some of the coldest conditions the planet has ever experienced, with the entire surface essentially below the freezing point of water. Scientists link the onset and end of these global gl

New York (SDX) Feb 23, 2026
AST SpaceMobile has secured a prime contract worth about 30 million dollars with the United States Space Development Agency for the Europa Track 2 Commercial Solutions program under the Hybrid Acquisition for proliferated Low Earth Orbit, or HALO, initiative. The agreement calls for AST SpaceMobile to use its BlueBird low Earth orbit satellite constellation to demonstrate resilient, low la

London (SDX) Feb 25, 2026
New observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, reveal that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth, suggesting that the physical processes that generate these lights may be universal across different types of celestial bodies. A team from the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Planetary Physics (LPAP) at the University of Liege has used NASA's Juno spacec

London (SDX) Feb 25, 2026
That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a century, but its exact rate of expansion remains one of cosmology's most hotly debated questions. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) and the Max Planck Institutes for Astrophysics (MPA) and for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has now imaged and modelled an exceptionally rare supernova