NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about how, when or even if those samples will be returned to Earth.
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South Korea’s Innospace said it will attempt a second launch of its small rocket in the first half of 2026 after its inaugural flight failed shortly after liftoff Dec. 22.
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How well have you been following events in physics? There are 20 questions in total: blue is your current question and white means unanswered, with green and red being right and wrong.
16–20 Top quark – congratulations, you’ve hit Einstein level
11–15 Strong force – good but not quite Nobel standard
6–10 Weak force – better interaction needed
0–5 Bottom quark – not even wrong
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ZAP-X is a next-generation, cobalt-free, vault-free stereotactic radiosurgery system purpose-built for the brain. Delivering highly precise, non-invasive treatments with exceptionally low whole-brain and whole-body dose, ZAP-X’s gyroscopic beam delivery, refined beam geometry and fully integrated workflow enable state-of-the-art SRS without the burdens of radioactive sources or traditional radiation bunkers.
Theresa Hofman is deputy head of medical physics at the European Radiosurgery Center Munich (ERCM), specializing in stereotactic radiosurgery with the CyberKnife and ZAP‑X systems. She has been part of the ERCM team since 2018 and has extensive clinical experience with ZAP‑X, one of the first centres worldwide to implement the technology in 2021. Since then, the team has treated more than 900 patients with ZAP‑X, and she is deeply involved in both clinical use and evaluation of its planning software.
She holds a master’s degree in physics from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she authored two first‑author publications on range verification in carbon‑ion therapy. At ERCM, she has published additional first‑author studies on CyberKnife kidney‑treatment accuracy and on comparative planning between ZAP‑X and CyberKnife. She is currently conducting further research on the latest ZAP‑X planning software. Her work is driven by the goal of advancing high‑quality radiosurgery and ensuring the best possible treatment for every patient.
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An Indian LVM3 rocket launched AST SpaceMobile’s next-generation direct-to-device BlueBird satellite Dec. 23, kicking off a rollout of dozens of spacecraft built around the largest commercial communications antenna ever deployed in LEO.
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