University of Stuttgart is a German public research university known for strong physics, engineering, and materials science programs.
NASA sent 12 student-built heat-shield test capsules down with a trash-filled Cygnus XL cargo ship that breaks apart on its planned reentry. The capsules eject during the breakup, so Moon and Mars materials still in development get flight data without a launch of their own.
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EU research funder EIC is putting about 4 million euros each into two University of Stuttgart construction-robot projects starting in November 2026. Because each develops its own timber connections or space-frame parts, a builder adopting either later would be taking on a building system as well as machines.
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A German project measured cardiac magnetism using nitrogen-vacancy centers in a diamond of less than half a cubic millimetre, working at room temperature and off the skin.
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Physicists in Stuttgart kept a circular Rydberg atom's electron in a stable orbit for 11 milliseconds without cryogenic cooling, and held the atom in an optical tweezer for 133 milliseconds. Both are records for these giant atoms.
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Francesco Romano's design collects the residual air that drags satellites down and turns it into plasma, and his models put indefinite flight between 190 and 250 kilometres inside a standard satellite's power budget.
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The €50M extension carries HyImpulse past €125M of equity and public money, but the agency's willingness to own one of four European contenders reads louder than the cheque, in a year when Europe flew under 10 orbital launches.
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A Physical Review Letters paper argues valley-imbalanced rhombohedral tetralayer graphene can pair at several incommensurate momenta at once. It hands experimentalists a specific thing to look for.
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