NASA’s Astrobee robots—Honey, Bumble, and Queen—are preparing for a historic transition that signals the next stage in space robotics. Originally developed as free-flying autonomous assistants aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Astrobee is now poised to enter commercial territory. This change aligns with NASA’s broader goal to commercialize low-Earth orbit …

  The Fragile Core of Quantum Power At the heart of quantum computing lies a delicate power: coherence. Quantum bits—or qubits—leverage the superposition of 0s and 1s to process information in ways that defy classical limits. However, this advantage depends on maintaining quantum coherence, which is notoriously brief. Even in …