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NASA unveils X-70 Fractal experimental aircraft for flight control research

NASA presented its newest crewed experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, on November 4, 2026, during the UP.Summit at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The agency designed the platform to accelerate aerospace innovation by flight-testing reconfigurable control systems and modular experimental hardware. Agency officials expect the aircraft to complete its first flight under the NASA banner within two years.

Chemistry

Experimental Alloys Resist Fracturing at -253 Degrees Celsius

Two experimental niobium-titanium alloys stay flexible and resist cracking at -253°C, according to research published on October 14 in Nature. An international research team led by the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Oxford discovered that the metals reorganise internally under mechanical stress. This metallurgical innovation alters how materials might be designed for extreme cold in energy systems and space exploration.

Letizia Giugliano

Physics

The first feasible warp drive model

Two astrophysicists have described the first feasible model of warp drive for spacecraft: in the future will we really be able to travel in space like Captain Kirk?

Giovanni Sapere

Eureka!

Goodbye Joystick: Now the drone will pilot you with the look

The new tool promises to help people with ALS To be able to effectively guide a drone with a glance, is no longer a utopia or a fantasy as teenagers, but rather a magic that becomes reality. That dreamed and imagined future has finally arrived, to be precise in the warm island of Sardinia where,

Ilaria Cuomo