Rigetti’s Q3 Miss Reveals Quantum Funding and Timing Pressures Rigetti’s Q3 miss and DARPA setback raise concerns about funding and its slow path to quantum advantage versus better-capitalized competitors MarketBeat · Nov 14, 2025
US military wants to track 'potential threats' coming from the moon As the moon becomes the center of the new space race, the United States is looking for new ways to track spacecraft and other objects flying to or from lunar space. Space · Nov 13, 2025
IonQ Is Advancing Its DARPA Collaboration. Should You Buy the Quantum Computing Stock Here? IonQ announced it has entered Stage B of its evaluation process with DARPA. Barchart · Nov 10, 2025
Bill Gates' Days Are 'Numbered'? Donald Trump Allegedly Believes Microsoft Co-Founder Funded Chemical Assault on America Donald Trump allegedly accuses Bill Gates of funding a 'chemical assault' on Americans, while Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s push around 'chemtrails' ignites scientific outrage and political alarm. International Business Times UK · Oct 27, 2025
'Diamond blanket' transistor cooling method delivers incredible success in testing, drops temps by 70C — micrometer-scale diamond layer grown directly on transistors reduces heat by 90% A team at Stanford University has developed a new method of printing a micrometer-thin diamond layer directly onto semiconductors, directly coating transistors with incredible thermal dissipation. The Stanford team expects the tech to reach the U.S. government and beyond. Tom’s Hardware · Oct 21, 2025
New DARPA 'field guide' looks for ways to jump-start a moon economy A recent DARPA study laid out a step-by-step process that could enable an economic link between Earth and the moon. But how real is the promise of giving the moon an industrial makeover? Space · Oct 5, 2025
Science costs money – research is guided by who funds it and why Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work. The Conversation · Oct 3, 2025
Could astronauts travel to Mars on nuclear-powered rockets? These scientists want to make it happen The team's design uses fission reactions involving uranium to heat propellant. Space · Sep 24, 2025
Martin Shkreli Amplifies Critique Calling D-Wave's Quantum Tech 'Dead-End:' It Would Take Until 2054 To Match Current Classical Solvers A critique of D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS), amplified by ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli, is challenging the company’s viability, alleging its technology is a potential “dead-end.” Benzinga · Sep 22, 2025
'A game changer': Space shuttle astronaut Pam Melroy joins Venus Aerospace after revolutionary rocket engine breakthrough Former NASA deputy chief and shuttle commander Pam Melroy has joined Venus Aerospace's board after its groundbreaking RDRE flight, bringing her decades of experience to help scale the startup's propulsion technology. Space · Sep 16, 2025
Is another 'AI winter' coming? Here's what past AI slumps can tell us about what the future might hold Academic skepticism and business frustration have triggered past AI winters. This time, both factors are present. But there are key differences too. Fortune · Sep 3, 2025
From hacker to bodyguard to target—AI pulled triple duty at the year’s biggest security events At Black Hat and DEF CON, AI was on all sides of the security fight—breaking into systems, defending them, and getting breached itself. Fortune · Aug 12, 2025
Rigetti Just Hit a New Quantum Computing Milestone. Should You Buy RGTI Stock Now? Rigetti Computing continues to expand its quantum computing capabilities in 2025. However, it remains a high-risk investment for shareholders at present. Barchart · Jul 21, 2025
DARPA smashes wireless power record, beaming energy more than 5 miles away — and uses it to make popcorn The feat has significant applications for military purposes and space-based solar power. LiveScience · Jun 20, 2025
Space · Jun 12, 2025 An entrepreneur wants to build a giant net to catch spacecraft landing on the moon, but can it be done? This novel idea could become an important piece of a future moon economy.
Fortune · Jun 10, 2025 Can AI be used to control safety critical systems? A U.K.-funded research program aims to find out The U.K.'s ARIA wants to create a 'production facility' where AI will design and test new control algorithms for power grids, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, and other safety critical systems.
Space · May 17, 2025 Can we actually build a thriving economy on and around the moon? Building a sustainable economy on the moon won't be easy, but we at least have some ideas about how to get started.
Space · May 2, 2025 DARPA wants a spacecraft to search for water on the moon DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is looking for a private company to build spacecraft to orbit the moon and search for water.
International Business Times UK · Apr 23, 2025 No More £500/Hr Consultants: Pentagon Pulls Plug on £3.87b in Contracts to Fund Soldiers' Healthcare DoD stated that the Pentagon cuts are aimed at restoring accountability in the department and halting any form of 'wasteful spending'.
MarketBeat · Apr 12, 2025 IONQ & RGTI Join DARPA Quantum Initiative: High Stakes Are Ahead IonQ and Rigetti Computing are joining a quantum imitative created by a pioneering government agency. The stakes for these stocks just got raised.
Barchart · Apr 9, 2025 DARPA Just Picked IonQ in a Major Win for the Quantum Computing Company. Is That Enough to Buy IONQ Stock on the Dip? As IonQ secures a key role in DARPA’s quantum push, is the current market crash the perfect entry point into this otherwise high-flying quantum computing player?
Space · Apr 1, 2025 DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth's atmosphere Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth's atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance.
LiveScience · Mar 28, 2025 Flat, razor-thin telescope lens could change the game in deep space imaging — and production could start soon Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded by NASA and DARPA.
The Guardian - US · Mar 28, 2025 Trump pick to head CDC sparks Maga backlash among conspiracy theorists Firestorm from science deniers of anti-vaccine set shows splits in Trump world and forced RFK Jr to defend hire
The Independent UK · Mar 6, 2025 Mysterious unmanned warship spotted off of Washington state coast The Defiant may have a role in the U.S. Navy’s drone ‘hellscape’ to help defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression