ScienceDaily
MIT engineers turn bacteria into living transistors, building biological 'circuit boards' that compute at a snail's pace - but hey, they work on plants.
TechCrunch
Northrop Grumman's space robot mechanic is moving on up, leaving an Optus satellite to make way for a fancier robot with arms that will keep satellites alive longer. Because space junk is so last decade.
Ars Technica
From lightning-struck Chinese rockets to Starship engine swaps and oil platforms turned launch pads, the rocket industry keeps finding new ways to reach orbit - and new delays.
Ars Technica
Northrop Grumman's new robotic servicing satellite is basically a tow truck with two arms, headed to geosynchronous orbit to fix satellites that weren't designed to be fixed - because why launch a new one when you can just send a robot?
SpaceNews
DARPA asks industry how to rebuild space capabilities in hours to weeks, because enemy lasers don't wait for procurement cycles.
BBC Business
Microsoft says its new Majorana 2 chip keeps qubits alive for 20 seconds instead of milliseconds, promising a commercial quantum computer by 2029 - if the science holds up and the skeptics don't win.
ScienceDaily
Stanford physicists built a fingertip-sized optical amplifier that boosts light signals 100x while sipping power - because apparently light needed a performance-enhancing drug.
SpaceNews
DARPA recruits three space startups to hunt for Moon ice in very low orbits, because apparently, the lunar surface isn't crowded enough.
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