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Growing Stem Cells in Space to Improve Cancer and Disease Treatments
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NASA Breaking News · Science

Growing Stem Cells in Space to Improve Cancer and Disease Treatments

Expedition 74 astronauts aboard the International Space Station are continuing research efforts to manufacture large quantities of stem cells for therapies on Earth. Previous studies have focused on fine-tuning hardware that allows scientists to produce greater quantities of high-quality stem cells....

Christian M. Getteau
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The Download: climate tech goes public and the AI Hype Index returns
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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: climate tech goes public and the AI Hype Index returns

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. Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next? Solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, hitting a $6 billion valuation. X...

Thomas Macaulay
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Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next?
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next?

This year, there’s been a wave of notable energy companies going public via IPO in the US. The solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, to the tune of $6 billion. X-energy, which is building small modular nuclear reactors, did the same in April, and its stocks surged on its fir...

Casey Crownhart
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The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season
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MIT Technology Review · Science

The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told University of Arizona graduates that their task is to help shape AI, he was met with a resounding chorus of boos. “I can…

Caiwei Chen
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NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety

With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers that will alert firefighters when heat from a nearby fire reaches a dangerous level. The sensors also provide researchers with important data on what ha...

Milan Loiacono
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Students Build Moon Robots for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge
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NASA Breaking News · Science

Students Build Moon Robots for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge

Katherine Rauscher of Michigan Technological University prepares her team’s prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge competition on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Forty-seven teams from around the U.S. d...

HQ Web Team
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NASA-European Sea Level Mission Homes in on El Niño
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA-European Sea Level Mission Homes in on El Niño

Sea level data from a satellite launched by NASA and European partners shows that a swell of warm water hundreds of miles wide has arrived in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, a sign that El Niño will likely emerge later in the year. Because water expands as it warms, a rise […...

Naomi Hartono
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NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form black holes, which can gobble up surrounding material and merge over time to form more massive entiti...

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National Institutes of Health Nutrition Education Challenge
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NASA Breaking News · Science

National Institutes of Health Nutrition Education Challenge

NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. The National Institutes of Heal...

Bailey G. Light
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NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics: Winning Student Teams Engineering Lunar Future
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics: Winning Student Teams Engineering Lunar Future

Resilient. Efficient. Autonomous. These are qualities NASA demands of its hardware, especially as the agency accelerates plans for a permanent Moon Base. NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge put those traits on full display, as college student engineers from across the country gathered at the Astronauts...

Jason Costa
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The Download: keeping up with AI, and the future of IVF
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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: keeping up with AI, and the future of IVF

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. Stay on top of what’s going on in AI this summer Here at MIT Technology Review, we understand exactly how relentless the pace of news from the world o...

Thomas Macaulay
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Hubble Spies Faint Irregular Galaxy
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NASA Breaking News · Science

Hubble Spies Faint Irregular Galaxy

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017, roughly 12,000 light-years in diameter and some 23 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The galaxy’s low surface brightness makes it appear as a faint, starry swarm behind brighter foregroun...

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NASA to Announce Artemis III Crew, Provide Mission Progress Update
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA to Announce Artemis III Crew, Provide Mission Progress Update

NASA will provide an update on the agency’s Artemis III mission and announce the astronauts assigned to the test flight during a live event at 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 9, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The event will stream on NASA+ and on the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn ho...

Jennifer M. Dooren
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NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York

Students in New York will hear from NASA astronaut Jessica Meir as she answers their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 11:05 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 28, and will stream liv...

Kaitlyn Adams
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NASA Provides Update on Moon Base Rovers, Landers, Missions
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA Provides Update on Moon Base Rovers, Landers, Missions

During a Moon Base event Tuesday at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, the agency announced new contracts for lunar rovers for crew to drive and uncrewed cargo landers bound for the Moon. NASA leaders also shared target launch timeframes and upcoming milestones for the first Moon Base infrastructure...

Elizabeth Shaw
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Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI

Amid rapidly growing adoption of enterprise-level AI agents, there’s a disconnect emerging between ambition and execution.  Although 85% of organizations say they want to be agentic within the next three years, 76% say their current operations and infrastructure can’t support that change. They...

MIT Technology Review Insights
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Chennai City Lights
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NASA Breaking News · Science

Chennai City Lights

Chennai, on India’s southern coast along the Bay of Bengal and with a metropolitan population of about 8.7 million, shines with white LED streetlights in this photograph taken at approximately 9:13 p.m. local time on May 2, 2026, from the International Space Station. Earth observations from th...

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