NASA funds 2025 ECF projects targeting entry sensing and onboard autonomy with machine learning
New Early Career Faculty awards back diagnostics and planning tools that help spacecraft survive atmospheric entry and fly themselves.

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New Early Career Faculty awards back diagnostics and planning tools that help spacecraft survive atmospheric entry and fly themselves.
NASA-backed citizen science just logged a new milestone, with 31 projects and 120M classifications since 2020.
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii shifts protein-coding activity at smaller temperature swings than many ecosystems expect.
Analysis of 142 skeletons from three cemeteries reveals co-burials of unrelated adults and children, reshaping how early Christianity buried the dead.
A new structure determination for a 3D COF gives scientists the missing link to tune battery and cleanup materials.
A Stockholm University study uses DNA to show that adult-child co-burials were not always what archaeologists assumed.
China’s Long March 10B just proved it can launch and recover its booster, changing how leaders think about cadence and capability.
A solo dev’s outrage turns into review bombing, but his core complaint is about bragging refunds after completion.
A warming ocean pattern could intensify multiple disasters at once, forcing governments, insurers, and supply chains to plan for compounding shocks.
The ISS gets a redesigned mini-fridge quantum lab that can probe ultracold atoms for measurements Earth cannot match.
A NASA flight photographer turns Fourth of July history into bird-eye evidence of missions spanning decades.
A disco ball in orbit helps physicists drag Einstein’s frame-dragging test to the tightest numbers yet.