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Video: ‘Project Hail Mary’ fan builds alien Rocky robot that talks and gives fist bumps

A fan-favorite alien from Andy Weir’s sci-fi novel Project Hail Mary has come to ...

Planes and ships could run on kelp someday, but there are serious hurdles

Kelp, a kind of seaweed, can be used in biofuels that one day could power ships and aircraft. That would sharply reduce the use of gas and oil, which emit greenhouse gases that lead to global warming.
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SpaceX fires all 33 Raptor 3 engines on the first Starship V3 booster — the most powerful rocket ever ignited targets mid-May launch

BOCA CHICA, Texas — SpaceX shook the South Texas coastline in May 2026 when it lit all 33 Raptor 3 engines on the first ...
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NASA fires up a lithium-fed thruster at 120 kilowatts — the most powerful electric engine the agency has ever tested for Mars

On Feb. 24, 2026, inside a vacuum chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a prototype thruster ...