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NASA’s new sensor at 60,000 feet tracks critical minerals for phones, EVs, and clean energy

NASA has embarked on an exciting mission to locate critical minerals essential for modern technology and clean energy by ...

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Scientists just built programmable robots the size of bacteria that can operate alone for months

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...

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60,000 feet above Earth, NASA is hunting for the minerals that power phones, EVs and clean energy

AVIRIS-5 is one of the newest tools in a joint research project from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) called GEMx. The project is designed to search for surface traces of critical minerals, ...

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Elliptic Labs Signs Contract Expansion with Current Top-5 Global Smartphone Manufacturer

Elliptic Labs (OSE: ELABS) today announced it has signed a new license agreement with an existing Top-5 global smartphone customer, covering an expected 20 smartphone models or more scheduled to be ...

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New dataset outlines challenges of travel between Earth and the Moon

A new dataset from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory maps one million cis-lunar orbits, highlighting orbital stability challenges, space domain awareness needs, and planning requirements for Moon ...

The New Iron Dome: Why Billions Are Flowing Into Space & Counter-Drone Tech

The Space Development Agency awarded $3.5 billion in contracts this month for 72 missile tracking satellites designed to detect hypersonic threats from low Earth orbit, signaling the Pentagon's pivot ...

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NASA hunts critical tech minerals from 60,000 feet above Earth

NASA is using a high-altitude ER-2 aircraft and the AVIRIS-5 sensor to map critical minerals across the American West, supporting research on resources used in electronics, clean energy, and national ...