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MIT Technology Review · Science

The quest to keep organs alive outside the body

This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body. There’s a huge shortage of donor organs, and one of the main reasons is time—they survive only a matter of hours outside the body, even when they’re kept on ice. Doctors dream of organ banks—stores of human organs that ca...

Jessica Hamzelou 4 weeks ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

New Crew Members Welcomed to International Space Station

From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a July 18, 2026, photo while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International Space Station. The trio arrived at the space station on July 14, 2026, after laun...

HQ Web Team 4 weeks ago

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NASA Announces New Spacecraft Technology Demonstration Mission at Moon    

NASA is working with industry to advance the next phase of cislunar infrastructure for the agency’s Artemis program and Moon Base, including orbital assets and demonstrations. Under a contract awarded to Advanced Space, the agency’s CAPSTONE 02 mission will demonstrate rendezvous and proximity opera...

Loura Hall 4 weeks ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA to Support Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Testing, Advance Artemis

NASA and Blue Origin announced Friday they recently agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the company’s New Glenn rocket on the B-2 test stand at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The annex to a reimbursable Space Act Agreement signed earlier this month...

Lauren E. Low 4 weeks ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”  When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as...

Charlotte Jee 4 weeks ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral

This Hubble image features spiral galaxy NGC 4654, located 72 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden).

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NASA Breaking News · Science

A Million-Panel Project

Utah’s new solar power and battery storage facility is among the largest in the region.

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NASA Breaking News · Science

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4954–4960: Celebrating Our Rover Engineers Past and Present

Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, July 27, 2026 As an APXS uplink lead and strategic planner, I have the privilege of working with the rover engineers most days that I am on operations. The APXS instrument measures t...

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NASA Breaking News · Science

Look for NASA+ Now Streaming on Amazon Fire TV

Continuing agency efforts to bring space closer to home, NASA+ is heading to more streaming platforms. On Thursday, NASA announced its programming is on Fire TV Channels. Fire TV customers can easily access this content by asking Alexa+ on compatible devices. Future programming on Fire TV may includ...

Jessica Taveau 1 month ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”

When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from a donor’s body, it starts to deteriorate. Surgeons have a matter of hours to get it into a recipient. Leave it too long and the organ will become unusable. In most cases, organs will be kept&#823...

Jessica Hamzelou 1 month ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank

Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached test building on a separate portion of the 829-acre site on May 15, 2026. The liquid hydrogen tank will form...

HQ Web Team 1 month ago

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NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars

NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras. Results published Thursday in Nature Communications show the same mechanism that...

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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Closes Out Space Station Mission

After eight months aboard the International Space Station for his first mission, NASA astronaut Chris Williams is preparing to return to Earth. During his assignment, Williams contributed to research for new cancer treatments, advanced the production of materials to improve computers and electronics...

Christian M. Getteau 1 month ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags  During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imported enough electricity fr...

Charlotte Jee 1 month ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines

Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered pro...

MIT Technology Review Insights 1 month ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags

On July 3, as a heat wave swept the region, New York State’s grid imported 52 gigawatt-hours of electricity from Canada—enough to meet about 9% of its total electricity demand that day. Some of that power shuttled in on a 339-mile power line stretching from Quebec to Queens called the Champlain Huds...

Casey Crownhart 1 month ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

Olympic Mountain Glory

Snow-capped mountains carved by deep river valleys preside over northwestern Washington state.

1 month ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA to Showcase Agency’s Newest Wind Tunnel in Virginia

Media are invited to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, July 31, to attend a media tour and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, the agency’s first new wind tunnel in more than 40 years. The event will include a brief media availability with...

Jennifer M. Dooren 1 month ago

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Robotic Servicing Mission Launches with NASA Support

Following its liftoff from Cape Canaveral on July 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) hosting the NASA-supported Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload is now en route to geosynchronous Earth orbit, where it will use its advanced robotics to s...

Rob Garner 1 month ago

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NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Return

NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev are wrapping up their 241‑day mission aboard the International Space Station. The crew and its Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft will undock from the orbiting laboratory’s Rassvet module at 3:02 a.m. EDT Sunday, July...

Lauren E. Low 1 month ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

A New Look – and Sound – for Messier 94

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory unveiled this new look at the galaxy NGC 4736, also known as Messier 94, on June 30, 2026. Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where new stars are forming, perhaps fueled by gas driven in the unique oval-sh...

HQ Web Team 1 month ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

Mapping Io’s Hidden Heat With NASA’s Juno

Description This graphic illustrates the areas of Jupiter’s moon Io sampled by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during two close flybys. The black overlapping lines show the instrument’s footprints during Perijove 57 on Dec. 30, 2023, when the spacecraft primar...

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NASA’s Juno Peers Beneath Io’s Surface

Description This map represents data captured by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, indicating heat rising from just beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. While infrared instruments measure the temperature of the moon’s surface, the lowest frequency microwave channels...

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NASA’s Juno Takes Temperature of Jupiter’s Fiery Moon Io

 NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically active world in the solar system. Collected during two close flybys, the data also shows that...

Stephen Carney 1 month ago

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