DNA Storage Is Picking Up Pace, Why Has It Become So Sought After?
On December 2nd, we brought you the news that Microsoft Research developed a new method that allows it to read and write much faster in DNA format. In the last month or so, three other new developments have popped up in DNA storage.Scientists at the Center for...
The Milky Way Shouldn’t Exist, Here’s Why
If you were to take a drop of water in space and spin it on an axis, a perfectly round sphere of liquid would start to turn into an oblong ellipse. Spin it even faster, and soon, you’d have a flattened bar-shaped disk.Spin it even faster beyond that, and the...
NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Launch Delayed Due to Rocket Fuel Leak
In May of 2021, NASA announced a new system to stay on track with ever-increasing data being sent from space to Earth: laser communication systems. New technologies and instruments capable of gathering more data than ever before are increasingly being used for space...