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Intel, Gigabyte, and Corsair have once again broken the memory overclocking world record, pushing the limit to over 13.5 megatransfers per second (MT/s). Using a Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Tachyon Ice board and Corsair’s Vengeance memory, the overclockers pulled out all the stops to set this new record, wielding liquid nitrogen, …

Last spring, overclocker Seby took some G.Skill Triedent Z5 memory to new heights using extreme cooling and some skillful overclocking. Now, thanks to French overclocker Bl4ckdot, there’s a new record: DDR5-12872.“We are proud to see G.Skill Trident Z5 memory once again breaking the boundaries,” said Frank Hung, Marketing Manager of …

Engineering students at the University of Southern California (USC) have dramatically surpassed a 20-year-old world record for the highest altitude reached by an amateur rocket. Called Aftershock II, the suborbital spacecraft reached 470,000 feet in October, smashing the previous record by a whopping 90,000 feet.Aftershock II comes from the Rocket …

As the name implies, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was designed to spot exoplanets, but it’s flexible. A team of professional and amateur astronomers have used the planet hunter to identify an unusual triple star system known as TIC 290061484. The remarkably close orbit of these celestial objects produced …

NASA’s InSight lander may have ended its run on Mars, but the data it collected is still reverberating around the scientific community, not unlike the seismic waves it tracked within the red planet. After initially chalking a marsquake up to an asteroid impact, researchers now report that this massive quake …

Phone batteries may have peaked. We’ve been hovering around the 5,000mAh mark in Android phones for years, and there’s no magical technology on the horizon to increase that. High charging speeds are almost as good, and that’s increasing by leaps and bounds with devices like the new OnePlus 11. The …

Rolls-Royce, the company best known for its fancy cars, also has an electric airplane. Recently, it took the aircraft called the Spirit of Innovation for a spin, breaking a couple of world records in the process — and by a large margin. According to Rolls-Royce, Spirit of Innovation has set …

Astronomers announced earlier this year that an enormous 62-mile (100-kilometer) object was creeping inward from the fringes of the solar system. We didn’t know what this mysterious visitor was at the time, but a recent development has shed light on the subject. The object, now officially designated C/2014 UN271, began …

The outer solar system is littered with big chunks of rock and ice, but rarely do their orbits bring them close enough to Earth for us to get a good look. And then there’s 2014 UN271, an approaching object that astronomers believe to be a huge comet on a million-year …

Fusion reactors like China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) could be the solution to humanity’s energy woes. By harnessing the fusion power of the sun, scientists hope we can generate clean, abundant energy on Earth, but progress over the decades has been slow. Chinese state media has reported that EAST …