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How NASA’s space research ends up in earthly products The agency’s inventions are used in everyday life Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy.Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy. Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week....

How NASA’s spacecraft will smash into an asteroid and save Earth from harm next year An expert explains NASA’s latest DART mission Are we facing an extinction threat from asteroids? We’ve all seen disaster movies in which an asteroid hits Earth, creating an extinction event similar to the one that killed off the dinosaurs millions of years ago. Could that happen now? Well, Earth is actually bombarded frequently by small asteroids, ranging from 1-20 metres in diameter....

How NASA’s spacecraft will smash into an asteroid and save Earth from harm next year An expert explains NASA’s latest DART mission Are we facing an extinction threat from asteroids? We’ve all seen disaster movies in which an asteroid hits Earth, creating an extinction event similar to the one that killed off the dinosaurs millions of years ago. Could that happen now? Well, Earth is actually bombarded frequently by small asteroids, ranging from 1-20 metres in diameter....

How nature has inspired scientists’ most powerful technologies From CRISPR to glowing proteins to optogenetics – scientists’ most powerful technologies have been borrowed from nature Bacterial defense systems as genetic editors Bacteria and viruses battle themselves and one another. They are at constant biochemical war,competing for scarce resources. One of the weapons that bacteria have in their arsenal is theCRISPR-Cas system. It is a genetic library consisting of short repeats of DNA gathered over time from hostile viruses, paired with a protein called Cas that can cut viral DNA as if with scissors....

How nature has inspired scientists’ most powerful technologies From CRISPR to glowing proteins to optogenetics – scientists’ most powerful technologies have been borrowed from nature Bacterial defense systems as genetic editors Bacteria and viruses battle themselves and one another. They are at constant biochemical war,competing for scarce resources. One of the weapons that bacteria have in their arsenal is theCRISPR-Cas system. It is a genetic library consisting of short repeats of DNA gathered over time from hostile viruses, paired with a protein called Cas that can cut viral DNA as if with scissors....