The 2026-2027 challenge theme is, “Fueling Flight Design Challenge: New Energy Systems.” As more and more aircraft are a part of the US’ National Airspace System (NAS), NASA and partners at the FAA, at universities, and in the aviation industry are searching for ways to increase safety, make flight more affordable, find new fuels for
NASA announced the winners of the Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table Thursday, with the top $300,000 prize being awarded to Chinyere Ukeje of Philadelphia, Pa. for the Adaptive Nourishment Infrastructure (ANI) food system concept. This competition challenged solvers to explore innovative solutions for integrated space food systems that would provide safe, nutritious meals
Financial firms have spent decades perfecting “know your customer” rules. Their next compliance challenge: “know your agent.” That was the warning from Zhuoqun Bian, president of Ant Digital Technologies, the enterprise arm of Ant Group, at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept. 8. “From the financial institutions’ perspective, when we initiate a transaction,
Chaotic vortices the wake of an aeroplane can contribute to aerodynamic drag.Credit: Photo12/UIG/Getty Last week, OpenAI stunned the world by claiming that its most advanced artificial-intelligence model had solved a Millennium Prize Problem: one of just a handful of notoriously tricky mathematical conundrums that each come with a US$1-million prize. The AI solution proved mathematically
Blood vessels (artificially coloured) snake through a a mouse’s brain.Credit: Simon Walker-Samuel, UCL CABI/Science Photo Library For decades, many scientists have thought that a single type of starter cell gives rise to the entire brain. But experiments now challenge that fundamental picture, providing evidence that it takes not one but two flavours of progenitor cell
Kev was ahead of his time with both his mindset and skills. The inventor of the switch hit, and the most ardent supporter of the IPL before it became mainstream. The flamingo flicks through mid-wicket in Test matches and hitting Glenn McGrath back over his head for six at Lord’s in 2005. None of which
