We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked
Solar storms, like the one in August 1972 that hit during the gap between the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 missions, throw bursts of protons intense enough to raise an astronaut's cancer risk or even cause radiation sickness. Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field absorb this radiation, but crews heading to the Moon or Mars won't have that protection, and no spacecraft built so far has enough shielding to stop it. A team led by Jordan Houri and Oren Milstein of StemRad, an Israeli-American startup dev
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Quantum computing has alternated between breakthrough darling and overhyped promise in technology circles. Its powerful …