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New Shepard is a fully reusable suborbital rocket system developed by Blue Origin, designed to take passengers on short trips to the edge of space. Since its first launch in 2015, it has carried 98 people beyond the Kármán line, including William Shatner, who became the oldest person to travel to space when he flew in 2021.

In the silent vacuum of space, five autonomous robots churn through the lunar surface, digging up a loose layer of rock and dust and leaving rows of uniform tracks in their wake. Stopping only to recharge at a central solar power station, the car-sized machines process the lunar dirt internally to extract a type of helium so rare on Earth that a palm-sized container is estimated to be worth millions.

In recent weeks, China approved the world's first commercial brain-computer interface medical device and unveiled a five-ton class electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that has already completed a public flight.

Recent advancements in long-read sequencing technology and assembly algorithms have enabled the generation of high-quality diploid genome assemblies, which provide a more comprehensive view of complex variants and enhance our understanding of their formation mechanisms and functional consequences.