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NASA Space Apps Challenge Opens Call in Costa Rica for Participants Without Prior Tech Experience ⋆ The Costa Rica News
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (258+ words) SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA — Is it possible to participate in a prestigious international challenge backed by NASA without being a programmer, engineer, or aerospace specialist? In Costa Rica, the answer is a resounding yes. The NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026 has…...
Discovering Business Ideas with Satellite Data... Recruiting Teams for 'Space Hackathon"
4+ hour, 28+ min ago (248+ words) Published 13 Sep.2026 12:00(KST) The '2026 Space Hackathon,' an event aimed at discovering new services and business models using satellite data, will be held. The hackathon is expanding its role as a platform that connects ideas in the space sector with actual…...
Orbital space-based AI data centres
7+ hour, 30+ min ago (732+ words) Gemini has already piloted a one-kilowatt (kW) satellite with five embedded GPUs. This early space platform carried data-centre-grade compute into orbit, enabling…...
Science Snapshots: September 13, 2026
4+ hour, 58+ min ago (46+ words) Human drug use began millennia earlier than believed AI turns Fermat’s Last Theorem proof to code in 11 days Even Teflon may not stop water if the liquid is charged Published - September 13, 2026 08:00 am IST Science Snapshots / research / neurology / physics / chemistry / Artificial…...
Open-Source Trifilar Pendulum Brings Low-Cost Inertia Testing to Small
3+ hour, 36+ min ago (691+ words) Every spacecraft that tumbles, spins, or reorients itself in orbit does so according to a property that engineers cannot afford to guess: the mass moment of inertia....
A Breakthrough Listen survey was thought to have covered about 288,000 stars catalogued by Gaia. But a new simulation of the Milky Way estimates that more than 6.18 million stars actually fell within its radio-telescope beams—millions of potential worlds too faint or distant for Gaia to catalogue reliably, yet still within range if they were transmitting strongly enough.
12+ hour, 58+ min ago (1228+ words) A Besançon Galaxy Model reanalysis expands Breakthrough Listen's stellar bycatch to 6,182,364 simulated objects, while strong transmitter limits remain conditional on distance, power and duty cycle....
There are more chemical compounds than molecules in the universe — and more pictures, too
8+ hour, 37+ min ago (34+ words) What you see on Instagram is only a minute sampling of what is possible to portray on camera It is …...
beyond the last observer
9+ hour, 42+ min ago (443+ words) Something can happen without anyone witnessing it.. A star can collapse in a distant galaxy with no observer present, Its light can travel across the universe for billions of …...
Brics backs peaceful use of space, wider AI access and cooperation on emerging technologies
23+ hour, 36+ min ago (860+ words) Leaders of Brics countries on Saturday reaffirmed their commitment to international cooperation for the peaceful exploration and use of outer space, including space systems, while backing greater collaboration across emerging technologies. In the New Delhi Declaration 2026, the leaders stressed the…...
Before MeerKAT, South Africa's Karoo telescope had its own ways of reading the stars
17+ hour, 21+ min ago (1012+ words) Around the SKA telescope, old star stories survive through practical knowledge, new meanings and changing community traditions. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Long before enormous radio dishes began rising from South Africa’s Karoo, people there were already watching the sky. They used celestial…...