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The Dolphin G DM-i is BYD’s first car specifically designed for Europe. With up to 65 miles of pure electric range and 646 miles combined, BYD said the plug-in hatch will redefine the segment as an affordable, efficient alternative. It’s now available to order, starting at about $32,000.

The ShinyHunters hacking gang claims to have compromised the Oracle PeopleSoft servers of more than 100 organizations, including many universities.

Un artista del suono ha calato un idrofono nelle radici di Pando, il pioppo tremulo clonale dello Utah che con i suoi 6.000 tonnellate e 47.000 tronchi identici è l'organismo vivente più grande del pianeta. Quello che ha registrato — un brontolio sotterraneo prodotto dal fremito di milioni di foglie che viaggia attraverso le radici — apre nuove possibilità per mappare e monitorare questo essere antico di 12.000 anni, oggi sempre più minacciato dalle attività umane.

A massive magnet that crossed the Atlantic Ocean has brought one of America’s most ambitious fusion projects a step closer to reality. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory recently received the central magnet bundle for its upgraded spherical tokamak, a compact fusion system designed to test technologies that could shape future power plants.

The delivery marks a critical milestone for the machine’s return to operation. Engineers now enter the final stages of assembly before experiments resume in 2027.

Manufactured by Spain-based Elytt Energy, the component traveled from Bilbao to New Jersey aboard a cargo aircraft before making its final trip by flatbed truck to Princeton. Weighing 23,000 pounds and stretching roughly 20 feet long, the bundle ranks among the most important pieces of the fusion device.

Dave Micheletti, associate laboratory director for engineering and project director, called the arrival “a truly momentous occasion.” He said the team will now focus on completing assembly and preparing the system for scientific use.

Magnetic core

The central bundle combines two critical magnet systems into a single structure. The toroidal field magnets generate the primary magnetic fields that confine the plasma. Meanwhile, the ohmic-heating system drives electrical current through the plasma to raise temperatures and support confinement.

Building the assembly required a complex manufacturing process. Technicians joined 36 copper conductors, each measuring 19 feet long, using fiberglass tape, resin, and vacuum-pressure impregnation techniques.

Engineers then wrapped additional copper coils around the structure to create the ohmic-heating system. They sealed the completed assembly with insulating resin to withstand demanding operating conditions.

Once installed, the magnets will create two magnetic field configurations inside the apple-shaped vacuum vessel. Together, they stabilize and heat the plasma needed for fusion experiments.

Testing future reactors

Researchers believe spherical tokamaks could offer advantages over conventional designs. Their compact shape may improve efficiency while reducing construction and replication costs. The upgraded system will help scientists evaluate whether the approach can support future commercial fusion plants.

The machine also supports broader national goals. Researchers plan to gather operational data that could train artificial intelligence tools capable of improving fusion performance and control strategies.

Jonathan Menard, the laboratory’s deputy director for research, said the facility will provide new opportunities for scientists and engineers entering the field. He encouraged researchers worldwide to use the platform to advance fusion science.

Final assembly begins

Engineers have already positioned the magnet bundle near the fusion device using heavy-duty cranes. Over the coming months, teams will rotate the structure upright and prepare it for installation. Workers will lower protective shielding around the assembly before placing it inside the machine’s interior.

Technicians must still connect dozens of flexbus components, cooling lines, and internal systems. They will also complete bakeout procedures and commissioning tests to verify that all systems operate together safely.

Steven Cowley, the laboratory’s director, said the upgraded machine possesses capabilities unavailable elsewhere. He noted that the project could play an important role in determining the future direction of commercial fusion research.

If the remaining work proceeds as planned, the upgraded facility could begin experiments in 2027, giving American researchers a powerful new platform to explore the promise of fusion energy.

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Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Earth planning day: Friday, June 5th, 2026

In a very broad sense, Curiosity has two modes of doing science – one centred around a defined science campaign (such as the recent boxwork campaign) and the other as we move between campaigns. During a science campaign, with a very defined start and end location, every image and every workspace is carefully choregraphed to make sure we hit all of our science goals for the campaign. This is a lot of pressure!

But in between campaigns, the emphasis moves to driving towards the next major campaign. Our next major stop is the yardang unit, a series of intriguing wind sculpted, pale coloured hills which you can just see in the distance in the cover image for this blog. The rover planners (RPs) sometimes make our drives as long as they can and we drive as far as we can go, other times we stop a little short to look at interesting looking workspaces as we go. As part of the APXS team, I loved being part of the boxwork campaign and getting all the information we needed there …  but as a geologist, there is something very special about this kind of exploring, the sense of being a planetary explorer, ambling along to see what the rocks will show us.

So we continue southwards, trundling over laminated bedrock which varies from predominantly pale coloured laminated bedrock to bands with abundant thin flaky, darker coloured, layers and patches. Some of the rocks stick out at strange angles, which make planning drives more challenging. This past week there has been abundant dark layers interbedded with the more dominant pale coloured rock, both in place and in fragments around the workspace. APXS and MAHLI characterized some of this darker material, for example at “Rio Bio Bio” and “Placilla de Caracoles” and some of the paler material at the brushed targets “La Primavera” and “Los Quemados.” ChemCam also analyzed both types of rocks along the way.

We are busily acquiring Mastcam and ChemCam LD-RMI (“Long Distance Remote Micro Imager”) images of everything even remotely interesting – and there are lots and lots of cool features around here. The wide open landscape here allows us to image features from several different angles and distances, such as “Mira Flores,” a small erosional outlier seen from a distance in this image and closer up here. Another great example is the “Kimsa Chata” trough which shows some amazing sedimentary structures, which may help us to determine if this was a desert or a lake or maybe something in between, such as a desert with some water moving through.

The Environmental Theme Group continues to populate each plan with environmental monitoring activities. Activities varied from dust devil monitoring in Gale crater to looking at levels of dust in the skies overhead. The weekend drive is planned to take us further into that drive distance shown in the cover image, to an area where the contrast between dark and light bedrock is more pronounced, and just beyond that, to an area which looks very smooth, with no jutting out blocks. From where we sit today, its impossible to say what it is but that is the fun of exploring – who knows what we will find? Stay tuned to find out over the coming weeks. 

The post Curiosity Blog: Sols 4913-4919: Planetary explorers, freewheeling to the Yardang unit! appeared first on NASA Science.

Faz pelo menos 5 milhões de anos que a mesma área das profundezas do oceano Índico tem funcionado como um imenso cemitério de baleias ?e, em vez de produzir cenas macabras, o processo levou ao surgimento de um ecossistema inteiro, com espécies únicas, em torno dos restos mortais dos mamíferos aquáticos. Leia mais (06/10/2026 - 18h15)

The southern lights, also known as the aurora australis, were captured by the NASA astronaut Jessica Meir from the International Space Station on Saturday.

Months after Australia banned social media for everyone under 16, the British government is considering new policies to keep children safe online.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may be close to solving the mystery of "little red dots" in the early universe.

Pando’s voice comes from the wind

The post Listen to the Sound of the Most Massive Organism on Earth appeared first on Nautilus.

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Physicists at the University of Oxford have engineered a new class of ‘cat states’ -- quantum superpositions constructed not from ordinary wave packets, but from deeply exotic, nonclassical components -- opening unexpected paths toward more resilient quantum computers.

The post Schrödinger’s Cat Gets Stranger: Physicists Demonstrate Quantum States No One Has Seen Before appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

SpaceX doit réaliser le 12 juin la plus importante introduction en Bourse jamais enregistrée, avec une valorisation annoncée de 1.765 milliards de dollars. Si l'engouement des investisseurs est exceptionnel, plusieurs analystes s'interrogent sur la rentabilité réelle du géant spatial d'Elon Musk.

A guideline treats heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes and obesity as connected conditions under one umbrella: CKM syndrome.

At Kurd Qaburstan, an ancient site in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, archaeologists have uncovered the first substantial group of cuneiform administrative tablets found in the Erbil region, along with evidence of large-scale destruction, mass graves and citywide fortifications. Together, the discoveries are providing one of the clearest archaeological records yet uncovered of siege warfare and urban life during the Middle Bronze Age.

Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction.

NASA has selected multiple small businesses for the Western Regional Multiple Award Construction Contract, which supports a broad range of facility enhancement, modernization, and sustainment work at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, and other federal agencies in the region.

The contract provides general construction, modification, maintenance and repair, and demolition services, as well as new construction of buildings and facilities that incorporate Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design practices and building information modeling to support efficient and sustainable project execution.

The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract is a follow-on to the agency’s previous regional construction contract and has a potential value of $450 million over a five‑year period.

Contract awardees are:

• Abide International Inc.
• Able Heating and Air Conditioning
• Anderson Burton Construction Inc.
• Anna Lisa Luna Construction
• Barkley Andross Corporation
• Bibro Construction Company Inc.
• CM Construction Services
• CMS Construction Inc.
• FASONE
• G‑1 Lead Builders JV LLC
• Gideon USA
• Good‑men Roofing & Construction Inc.
• Groundlevel Construction Inc.
• IPI Construction Inc.
• Innovative Project Solutions Inc.
• Ironwood Commercial Builders Inc.
• J.I. Garcia Construction Inc.
• JG Contracting
• Lead Builders Inc.
• Martinez Construction Services
• MX Construction Inc.
• OCS Construction Services Inc.
• Patricia I. Romero Inc., doing business as Pacific West Builders
• Gustav Keoni, doing business as Precision Construction
• Prime MIK JV LLC
• Spectrum Builders and Renovations Inc.
• Sea Pac Engineering Inc.
• Sergent Construction
• Souza Construction Inc.
• TLI Construction Inc.

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov

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Jennifer Dooren / Jessica Taveau
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
jennifer.m.dooren@nasa.gov / jessica.c.taveau@nasa.gov

Dede Dinius
Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.
661-276-5701
darin.l.dinius@nasa.gov

The post NASA Awards Contract for Construction Services in California appeared first on NASA Science.

NASA has selected multiple small businesses for the Western Regional Multiple Award Construction Contract, which supports a broad range of facility enhancement, modernization, and sustainment work at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, and other federal agencies in the region.

The contract provides general construction, modification, maintenance and repair, and demolition services, as well as new construction of buildings and facilities that incorporate Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design practices and building information modeling to support efficient and sustainable project execution.

The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract is a follow-on to the agency’s previous regional construction contract and has a potential value of $450 million over a five‑year period.

Contract awardees are:

• Abide International Inc.
• Able Heating and Air Conditioning
• Anderson Burton Construction Inc.
• Anna Lisa Luna Construction
• Barkley Andross Corporation
• Bibro Construction Company Inc.
• CM Construction Services
• CMS Construction Inc.
• FASONE
• G‑1 Lead Builders JV LLC
• Gideon USA
• Good‑men Roofing & Construction Inc.
• Groundlevel Construction Inc.
• IPI Construction Inc.
• Innovative Project Solutions Inc.
• Ironwood Commercial Builders Inc.
• J.I. Garcia Construction Inc.
• JG Contracting
• Lead Builders Inc.
• Martinez Construction Services
• MX Construction Inc.
• OCS Construction Services Inc.
• Patricia I. Romero Inc., doing business as Pacific West Builders
• Gustav Keoni, doing business as Precision Construction
• Prime MIK JV LLC
• Spectrum Builders and Renovations Inc.
• Sea Pac Engineering Inc.
• Sergent Construction
• Souza Construction Inc.
• TLI Construction Inc.

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov

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Jennifer Dooren / Jessica Taveau
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
jennifer.m.dooren@nasa.gov / jessica.c.taveau@nasa.gov

Dede Dinius
Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.
661-276-5701
darin.l.dinius@nasa.gov

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