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NASA to Cover US Spacewalk 95, Host Preview News Conference

NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 30, to replace a wrist joint on the orbital complex’s Canadarm2 robotic arm. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 8:35 a.m. EDT.

Experts from NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) will preview the upcoming spacewalk during a news conference at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, on the agency’s YouTube channel. The briefing will take place at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starfall Demo

Starfall is SpaceX’s mass-produced reentry vehicle designed to autonomously transport valuable customer experiments and other payloads safely back from space to Earth, including for in-orbit manufacturing. Starfall is a cylindrical-shaped capsule approximately 0.75 meters tall with a diameter of 3.1 meters, weighing approximately 2,100 kilograms, and capable of carrying 1,000 kilograms of payload. It is designed to be carried on Starship flights.

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Jumping the clock: Engineering ageing in biomedicine

Engineering the age(ing) of tissues in vitro could lead to more representative and predictive models for the ageing population. This forum introduces methodological approaches for ‘age engineering’ (‘ageneering’) and further discusses future applications of age-matched cells, matrices, and microtissues in predictive disease modelling, biomarker discovery, and age-specific pharmacotoxicology.

The Neuroscience of Intelligence | MIT 2026

What neuroscience reveals about how intelligence actually works — and how those insights are informing the next generation of AI architectures.

Alexander Wissner-Gross, David Rock, Simran Chana, Manolis Kellis.

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Autonomous medical AI outperforms doctors in simulated EHR cases

MIRA, an autonomous AI agent tested in a sandboxed electronic health record, diagnosed 574 real emergency department cases with 88.9% accuracy and outperformed physicians in a matched 311-case comparison. The system ordered tests, generated medication plans, and made admission decisions in simulation, but the authors stress that prospective validation, governance, and physician oversight are still essential.

Light-controlled microgripper bridges the gap between precision and force

For some time, researchers have used optical tweezers to manipulate tiny objects with incredible precision, using carefully controlled beams of laser light. So far, however, this technique has always come with strict limits on how much force it can exert.

Through new research published in Nature, a team led by Dong Wu at Anhui University, China, has unveiled an improved design: a miniature mechanical gripper controlled by light signals through an optical fiber.

Combining the precision of light-based tools with the gripping strength of mechanical devices, the device could make it far easier for researchers to manipulate and assemble objects at the microscale.

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