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The Orion spacecraft was launched using the Space Launch System. The US government’s space program is entering a whole new era. On Wednesday, NASA launched its enormous next-generation rocket into space for the first time with a roar that illuminated the night sky. A brave new era for the US …

The Big Friendly Gun, or BFG for short, is a 22-meter (72-foot) steel prototype gun that shoots a bullet at astronomical speeds into a fuel pellet to produce nuclear fusion reactions. The original word for the BFG, however, was probably not “friendly.” The gun was developed by UK startup First …

We went to Amazon’s BOS27 robotics factory to talk about how package sorting and last-mile delivery are changing. A tranquil town of 22,000 people, Westborough, Massachusetts, is located 40 minutes by vehicle southeast of Boston. One of the town’s more recent residents is BOS27. A little more than a year …

All electrical applications, including inductors, systems for converting renewable energy sources, and energy storage, need the usage of power converters. The urgency of electrifying systems that formerly relied on burning fossil fuels has increased as global attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions pick up speed. As the globe evolves toward …

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To help customers achieve high-power DC charging tests up to 270 kilowatts (kW) in a small footprint, Keysight Technologies, a leading technology company delivering advanced design and validation solutions, has announced the enhancement of the Scienlab Regenerative DC Emulator (SL1800A Series). High-power DC test equipment are typically cumbersome and take …

Strategy Analytics predicts that cellular IoT will continue to expand until 2030, largely because of the advent of 5G standards optimized for IoT. In an interview with EE Times, Waseem Haider, principal analyst for IoT initiatives at Strategy Analytics, predicted that “automotive and industrial, together with healthcare,” would be the …

Every single week, it seems, engineers and scientists try to improve the robot claw machine. They have even experimented with employing dead spiders. Researchers from Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a new robot with tentacles as the latest innovation in the wacky …

The Tsar Bomba test, which involved the Soviet Union testing a hydrogen bomb that was the most potent nuclear weapon ever built and tested, was conducted in the early hours of October 30, 1961. Over 50 megatons, or the equivalent of 50 million tons of ordinary explosives, were put into …

A team of researchers have used the Hubble telescope to make another incredible discovery. The space telescope has spotted a “hot Jupiter” dubbed Wasp-12b, a planet so dark it absorbs almost all light. The planet goes by Wasp-12b. The dark planet is hot Jupiter. This is a huge planet that …