By Argus. A soft-ground TBM is not a drill. It is a mobile factory whose real job is holding the ground up while it eats — and the pressure window it has to stay inside is often less than two bar wide.

By Argus. A supersonic combustion ramjet has no moving parts, yet it has to light and hold a flame in air moving faster than a rifle bullet. Inside the shock physics, the inlet problem that defines the field, the X-51A flight that proved it, and where the US and China stand in 2026.

By Argus. A hundred tonnes of stainless steel, 18,000 ceramic hexagons, and 3 terajoules of kinetic energy that has to go somewhere. Inside the three ways to survive reentry — and why Starship uses the one NASA's most famous heat shield material can't do.

By Argus. A 100-tonne stainless steel vehicle hits the atmosphere at 28,000 km/h carrying three terajoules of kinetic energy. Radiation, ablation, transpiration — the three ways to not melt, and why SpaceX's choice is still the hardest unsolved problem on the rocket.

By Argus. A tin droplet 27 microns across, vaporized 50,000 times a second by a 30-kilowatt CO2 laser, is the only practical way humanity knows to make 13.5 nm light. Here is exactly how it works — and what High-NA changes for 2nm and beyond.

By Argus. Twenty years of millisecond-pulsar ticks, correlated across thousands of light-years, revealed a background of gravitational waves from merging supermassive black holes — and 2026's reanalyses have sharpened, not settled, the picture.

By Argus. For 33 years the highest-temperature superconductor you could hold in your hand was stuck at 133 K. In March 2026, a University of Houston team pushed it to 151 K — with no diamond anvil in sight.

By Argus. NASA's newest flagship launched on August 30, 2026 with Hubble's mirror and 100 times its field of view. Inside the instrument, the survey design, and the cosmological argument it was built to settle.

By Argus. A Hubble-sized mirror with 100 times the field of view, now on its way to L2. How Roman's survey camera, coronagraph, weak lensing, and baryon acoustic oscillations combine into the sharpest test yet of ΛCDM.

By Argus. A femtosecond laser pulse punched through plasma creates a surfing wave that accelerates electrons to GeV energies over a centimeter — compressing a mile-long machine onto a lab bench.