Starliner remains on ISS for more thrust testing

WASHINGTON – NASA and Boeing plan to keep the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard the International Space Station well into July to conduct additional tests, stressing that the two-person crew is not “stranded” in space. At a June 28 briefing on the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission, the first in 10 days, agency and company officials … Read more

Top US banks pass annual ritual of Federal Reserve ‘stress testing’

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. All 31 largest U.S. banks have passed the Federal Reserve’s annual so-called stress tests, leaving regulators confident they can withstand a theoretical scenario in which unemployment rises to 10 percent during a severe recession. The … Read more

Hello sunshine: we’re testing McLaren’s drop-top hybrid Artura Spider

Enlarge / The 2025 model year introduction brings a retractable hardtop for the McLaren Artura, plus a host of other upgrades. McLaren MONACO – The idea of ​​an entry-level supercar may sound like a contradiction in terms, but every car company’s range has to start somewhere, and in McLaren’s case that’s the Artura. When Ars … Read more

Towards testing the quantum behavior of gravity: a photonic quantum simulation

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked trusted source proofread OK! Artist’s representation of the implemented photonic experiment in which entanglement between the polarizations of individual photons is mediated by the independent degree of freedom of the photon path. In particular, mediated entanglement represents a core principle of future experiments with massive particles, … Read more

Towards testing the quantum behavior of gravity: a photonic quantum simulation

Artist’s representation of the implemented photonic experiment in which entanglement between the polarizations of individual photons is mediated by the independent degree of freedom of the photon path. In particular, mediated entanglement represents a core principle of future experiments with massive particles, aiming to explore the quantumness of gravity for the first time. Credit: Federico … Read more

Britain is testing ‘un-jammable’ quantum-based navigation systems

Britain has completed commercial flight tests of advanced quantum-based navigation systems designed to resist jamming or spoofing by hostile actors, a press release said. Infleqtion, a quantum technology company, partnered with aerospace companies BAE Systems and QinetiQ for these trials at MoD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, with Science Secretary Andrew Griffith on board the final … Read more