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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 11-Sep-2025 21:11 ET (12-Sep-2025 01:11 GMT/UTC)

11-Jun-2025

Rice students develop an award-winning adaptive exercise harness for astronauts to use in space

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables Workshop and University Challenge. Their design answered a challenge posed by the HumanWorks Lab and Life Science Labs at NASA and Johnson Space Center.

11-Jun-2025

USTC develops weakly space-confined all-inorganic perovskite light-emitting diodes

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Prof. XIAO Zhengguo's team from the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel strategy based on weakly space-confined, large-grain crystals of all-inorganic perovskite to prepare perovskite films with larger crystalline grains and higher temperature resistance.

Journal: Nature

11-Jun-2025

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles

European Space Agency
Reports and Proceedings

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar cycle and the workings of space weather.

11-Jun-2025

Accelerated molecular transportation in the brain extracellular space with 755-nm light attenuates post-stroke cognitive impairment in rats

Beijing Institute of Technology Press Co., Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research paper by scientists at Peking University Third Hospital proposed a parameter-adjustable photobiomodulation (PBM) therapy apparatus to screen for the optimal PBM parameters for treating ischemic stroke and preventing post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI).

The new research paper, published on May. 6 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, provide a PBM therapy apparatus with custom parameters. By evaluating the treatment effect, we identified that 755 nm was the optimal light wavelength for ischemic stroke in rats with transient middle cerebral artery occlusion/reperfusion.

Journal: Cyborg and Bionic Systems

11-Jun-2025

How scientists fixed orbit errors in China’s beidou satellites

Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two BeiDou-3 satellites, once plagued by puzzling orbit errors, are now operating with newfound precision thanks to a breakthrough modeling strategy.

Journal: Satellite Navigation

11-Jun-2025

Earth-based telescopes offer a fresh look at cosmic dawn

Johns Hopkins University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back in time over 13 billion years to get a clearer picture of one of the least understood epochs in the history of the universe, the Cosmic Dawn.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal
Funder: Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation

10-Jun-2025

The Solar Close Observations and Proximity Experiments (SCOPE) mission

Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co. Ltd.

In a paper published in Astronomical Techniques and Instruments, the Solar Close Observations and Proximity Experiments (SCOPE) mission will send a spacecraft into the solar atmosphere at a low altitude of just 5 R☉ from the solar center. It aims to elucidate the mechanisms behind solar eruptions and coronal heating, and to directly measure the coronal magnetic field.

Journal: Astronomical Techniques and Instrument