Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026

Across labs and observatories, a raft of recent results share a common theme: progress is being driven less by a single "big idea" and more by techniques that make stubborn phenomena measurable, comparable, and repeatable. For engineers, that shift matters. It changes what can be validated, what can be...

Only three interstellar objects have been confirmed as passing through the Solar System, and comet 3I/ATLAS is the first to arrive with the familiar toolkit of a comet: an icy nucleus, a living coma, and changing jets. A new set of eight spacecraft images turns that rarity into something interpretable....

The bottleneck was now moved off of money and on to paperwork as tax stamps on many NFA items are now a zero. Whether digital workflows, form amendments, and employment will be able to accommodate demand is the new practical question to manufacturers, dealers, and buyers, not the fee. Meanwhile,...