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Trump is “desperate” to make a deal—China isn’t, analysts say
Donald Trump has started signaling that he's ready to slash tariffs on Chinese imports, but…
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Japanese railway shelter replaced in less than 6 hours by 3D-printed model
Hatsushima is not a particularly busy station, relative to Japanese rail commuting as a whole.…
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The early 2000s capacitor plague is probably not just a stolen recipe
It's a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in…
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Kaizen: A Factory Story makes a game of perfecting 1980s Japanese manufacturing
Zach Barth, the namesake of game studio Zachtronics, tends to make a certain kind of…
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Rocket Report: Rocket Lab’s news blitz; Starship mishap blamed on vibrations
Welcome to Edition 7.33 of the Rocket Report! Phew, what a week for Rocket Lab!…
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Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk
Astroscale's US subsidiary won a $25.5 million contract from the US Space Force in 2023…
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Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for…
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Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
Julianna Scheiman, director of NASA science missions for SpaceX, said it made sense to pair…