"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don't have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds ...

Achieving practical interstellar travel requires overcoming the immense challenge of reaching extraordinary velocities. To send a spacecraft, weighing roughly 1,000 kilograms, to a neighboring star ...

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Scientists propose using relativistic electron beams to propel spacecraft, offering a new hope for interstellar travel within a human lifetime.

Delft, The Netherlands / Hsinchu, Taiwan -- Ocotober 13, 2008 -- MAPPER Lithography and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) signed an agreement, according to which MAPPER will ship its ...

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...

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This innovative CMOS-based sensor simultaneously measures lactate and proton dynamics, offering high sensitivity for real-time biochemical analysis.

A new technical paper titled “Sensitivity and contrast of indium nitrate hydrate resist evaluated by low-energy electron beam ...