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Gas jets make beautiful lens for light we can’t normally focus

I try not to write about optics too often because, well, I love optics, but no one else does. Unfortunately for you, I...

Entering a crowded market, Japan’s new rocket scores an early win

Japan's largest rocket company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), has received a vote of confidence as it seeks to compete for commercial launches in...

Rocket Report: Rokot ending, more spaceports, back-to-back Falcon Heavies

Welcome to Edition 1.30 of the Rocket Report. Thanks to everyone for your support this year! It's amazing how much we've grown, both...

Bipartisan carbon-tax bill introduced in the Senate offers glimpse at future

On Wednesday, Senators Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) introduced a senate bill to impose a carbon tax on major industrial carbon...

I’ll be drone for Christmas: London airport closed for day by drone harassment

In what appears to be the first intentional use of drones to disrupt civil aviation, continued sightings of two remotely piloted aircraft flying...

AT&T 5G goes live this week with ridiculously overpowered hotspot

The era of 5G mobile networks is quickly approaching, and while there isn't any smartphone out yet sporting the new network connectivity,...

Oh sorry, is eating meat bad for the planet? I didn’t know.

People want to be good. They want to save the Earth, or at least maybe just destroy it a little more slowly. The...

King Coal isn’t dead—he’s just been exiled from the US

In the US, coal is decidedly on the decline despite the current administration's attempts to save it. US coal plant retirements doubled in...

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