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  1. Elon Musk Shifts SpaceX Focus to Moon for AI Data CentersSpace
  2. New Chinese design software identifies critical weaknesses in US B21 stealthSecurity and privacy
  3. DARPA seeks Algorithmic Theory of Mind AI model to deter cyber attacksSecurity and privacy
  4. Elon Musk wants to give Mars its own version of StarlinkSpace
  5. Digital twins are helping companies solve great challengesVirtual worlds
  6. A new propellantless thruster just made enough thrust to overcome Earths gravityEarth and energy
  7. DARPA’s revolutionary quantum laser is unlike anything anyone’s seen beforeEarth and energy
  8. NASA’s new deep space communications system is faster than your broadbandSpace
  9. Astronauts are soon going to be able to talk to their spacecraft via chatbotsAI and intelligence
  10. Lunar dust could be melted to make roads and launchpads on the MoonSpace
  11. Scientists discover a new synthetic molecule that reverses bone loss in astronautsBiotech and enhanced humans
  12. A new European project is trying to make a digital twin of your brainVirtual worlds
  13. The world’s first space factory was just deployed – in spaceIndustry and manufacturing
  14. NASA smashes speed records with new space to ground communications systemConnected society
  15. NASA’s hypersonic Rotating Detonation Engine passes first crucial testsTransport and mobility
  16. NASA explores brain training to help astronauts live on the MoonAI and intelligence
  17. China’s space agency tests a first of a kind Stirling EngineEarth and energy
  18. NASA successfully tests the world’s first inflatable heat shieldSpace
  19. NASA successfully tests the world’s first inflatable heat shieldSpace
  20. NASA trials 3D printing electronics in low gravity in nod to future space coloniesIndustry and manufacturing
  21. Researchers tap nanotubes and BNNT’s to create next gen hypersonic materialsIndustry and manufacturing
  22. Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef space station gets the green light from NASASpace
  23. NASA’s Martian autonomous cybersecurity defence test is a resounding successSecurity and privacy
  24. This new super alloy from NASA could revolutionise hypersonic flightIndustry and manufacturing
  25. NASA and partners team up to create robotic self-assembling space structuresIndustry and manufacturing
  26. NASA wants to be the first to launch a rocket from another planet by 2026Space
  27. Neumann Space successfully turns space junk into space fuel for satellitesEarth and energy
  28. Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos announce plans to create the first private space stationSpace
  29. Architects unveil plans for Dubai’s Mars Science City and colonies on MarsSpace
  30. These inflatable houses could be home to future MartiansSpace
  31. BIG and Icon 3D print Martian Vanacular habitat as NASA eyes Mars ambitionsIndustry and manufacturing
  32. USAF pumps $60m into Quarterhorse their future 4,000mph autonomous aircraftTransport and mobility
  33. Engineers finalise the design for a data center on the MoonSpace
  34. Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will travel to the ISS in DecemberSpace
  35. NASA experiments with self-healing robots made from ice for deep space explorationRobotics
  36. NASA’s Perseverance rover makes oxygen on Mars in historic firstEarth and energy
  37. NASA students show off the world’s first 3D printed rocket padIndustry and manufacturing
  38. Scientists created a mini Aladdins Flying Carpet using nothing but lightEarth and energy
  39. SpaceX’s latest Starship SN8 test was a huge explosive successSpace
  40. Hassell and NASA show off their fantastic Martian habitat conceptsSpace
  41. NASA and Nokia team up to build the Moon’s first 4G networkConnected society
  42. NASA partners with ICON to 3D print its future MoonbaseIndustry and manufacturing
  43. NASA trials beaming messages into space using lasersSpace
  44. SpaceX successfully launches first crew into orbit, ushers in new era of spaceflightSpace
  45. Commercial supersonic flights get nearer after NASA green lights X-59 buildTransport and mobility
  46. NASA unveils plans to grow homes on Mars and the Moon out of fungiIndustry and manufacturing
  47. IBM’s floating space robot just got an emotional upgradeRobotics
  48. NASA revives plans to build huge solar power plants in spaceEarth and energy
  49. US startup uses an old NASA recipe to create “meat” from thin airIndustry and manufacturing
  50. Skies beckon as NASA takes delivery of it’s first all electric X-PlaneTransport and mobility
  51. An inflatable humanoid robot destined for space secures NASA fundingRobotics
  52. NASA designs shape shifting robots to explore other planetsRobotics
  53. World first as astronauts 3D print beef in spaceIndustry and manufacturing
  54. Google’s quantum computer allegedly achieves quantum supremacy milestoneComputing
  55. NASA tests it’s newest artificial gravity system in an office on EarthSpace
  56. NASA steps into the unknown with project to 3D print spacecraft in orbitIndustry and manufacturing
  57. ESA’s first self-driving spacecraft heads to space for maiden testsSpace
  58. NASA’s green rocket fuel is less harmful to the environment, and can be FedEx’dEarth and energy
  59. NASA announces it’s opening the ISS up to space touristsSpace
  60. Jeff Bezos lays out his vision to take millions of people to the stars and beyondSpace
  61. NASA’s revolutionary metamaterial “morphing” wing mimics birds wingsTransport and mobility
  62. NASA to test revolutionary X-Ray communications system on the ISS soonSpace
  63. Elon Musk’s SpaceX capsule lands successfully in crucial step toward human spaceflightSpace
  64. NASA’s ISS robot companion CIMON gets caught copping an attitudeRobotics
  65. Here’s how NASA plans to build on Mars and the MoonSpace
  66. Virgin Galactic soars into space and the record books with succesful test flightTransport and mobility
  67. After four year wait Cape Canaveral gets its license to launch commercial space planesSpace
  68. Lockheed Martin goes full throttle to develop NASA’s quiet supersonic jetTransport and mobility
  69. Scientists jumped out of a plane to create a new wonder materialIndustry and manufacturing
  70. A creative AI designed NASA’s next spider-like interplanetary landerAI and intelligence
  71. NASA starts assembling the spacecraft that will save Earth from an asteroid strikeSpace
  72. Scientists produce smart windows that generate their own electricityEarth and energy
  73. Step inside the SpaceX capsule that will take astronauts to the ISSSpace
  74. Jeff Bezos wants to colonise the Moon and move heavy industry off EarthSpace
  75. 3D printed Graphene Aerogel, stronger than steel and 99.8% lighterIndustry and manufacturing
  76. IBM’s “flying brain” Watson heads into spaceAI and intelligence
  77. SpaceX launches the world’s most powerful rocket into spaceSpace
  78. NASA inspired tech designed for outer space triples crop yields on EarthIndustry and manufacturing
  79. NASA’s tests its new interplanetary space internet system, sends a selfie to the ISSSpace
  80. Revolutionary new single stage Aerospike rocket preps for take offSpace
  81. NASA’s new ion thruster smashes all the recordsSpace
  82. Lockheed show off their orbiting Mars station conceptSpace
  83. Inside NASA’s plan to stop the next Yellowstone supervolcano eruptionEarth and energy
  84. NASA 4D prints new materials and mulls printing self-assembling space stationsIndustry and manufacturing
  85. NASA gets ready to trial SEXTANT, its galactic navigation technologySpace
  86. Space adventurers could be the first true ‘Designer humans’Space
  87. Revolutionary new single stage Aerospike powered rocket set for 2018 launchSpace
  88. Explorers wanted: American government tells NASA to get humanity to MarsSpace
  89. NASA unveils plans to restore Mars’ atmosphere within three yearsSpace
  90. Jeff Bezos announces plans to create the world’s first Moon delivery serviceSpace
  91. Elon Musk announced SpaceX is sending two private citizens to the MoonSpace
  92. NASA’s possible-impossible plasma engine roars into lifeSpace
  93. NASA just discovered seven Earth like planetsSpace
  94. NASA wants to turn asteroids into spacecraftSpace
  95. Scientists in New York have created a working tractor beamEarth and energy
  96. NASA unveils its new Mars habitat conceptSpace
  97. Japan gets ready to test its space junk grabbing space whipSpace
  98. Self healing nano spaceships travelling at a fifth the speed of light help NASA explore the heavensSpace
  99. Mining the Moon, Moon Express sets 2017 launch dateSpace
  100. NASA is funding an artificial gravity programSpace
  101. Leaked NASA documents show impossible EmDrive might workSpace
  102. NASA’s new $8.7Bn space telescope can detect a bumble bee on the MoonSpace
  103. Ubers flying taxis will take passengers to the heavens and back by 2021Transport and mobility
  104. ISS SPHERE drones learn to see and fly around in space all by themselvesRobotics
  105. Take a glorious Hi Def tour of the International Space StationSpace
  106. The race is on as Boeing vows to beat SpaceX to MarsSpace
  107. NASA demos RASSOR their “Blue collar” robot that will mine Mars for rocket fuelSpace
  108. SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to get humans to Mars by 2022Space
  109. D-Wave readies a 2,000 qubit quantum computer for 2017 launchComputing
  110. NASA MinION ushers in a new era of space healthcareBiotech and enhanced humans
  111. Quantum computing Rose’s Law is Moore’s Law on steroidsComputing
  112. The solar system just got its own internetSpace
  113. Guardian angel AUDREY keeps firefighters safeAI and intelligence
  114. The first private moon landing gets the green lightSpace
  115. Scientists travel to the edge of space to 3D print a heartIndustry and manufacturing
  116. ESA lays out plans to build a village on the MoonSpace
  117. DARPA pushes autonomous Mach 20 drone program undergroundSecurity and privacy
  118. Inside SpaceX’s mission to MarsSpace
  119. Google’s new quantum computer is 100 million times faster than your PCComputing

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