Mom couldn’t afford assisted living, moved her to tiny house next door
Lori Bufka, 64, cares for her mother with dementia. Assisted living became too expensive, so Bufka moved her…
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When Zhang Chenxing, who holds a PhD from MIT, co-founded Mega Engine Technology in Xi’an in early 2024, China’s high-pressure oxygen-rich staged-combustion know-how sat almost entirely inside state propulsion houses — and by May 2026 his startup had logged 1,000 seconds of accumulated test time on a closed-cycle kerolox engine
Roughly two years after it opened its doors, a Xi’an commercial startup called Mega Engine Technology has announced…
Construction Workers Dug Beneath a High School—and Stumbled Upon 200+ Ancient Species
A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried…
You’re an ‘Avatar in a VR Game,’ Scientist Claims—Meaning Reality Isn’t What It Seems
Donald Hoffman’s interface theory claims space-time may be more like a VR dashboard than reality itself—and some physics…
JWST finds a stellar bar in the early universe that breaks all rules
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy…
On its 40th anniversary, we reassess 1986’s SpaceCamp
Is it a hidden gem, a cult classic, or hopelessly dumb? Senior Space Editor Eric Berger and Senior…
