AI Generated ImageRocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets MarsscienceJun 19, 1:36 PMA French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.Ars Technica...
AI Generated ImageWhy can’t we just get rid of mosquitoes? One fed-up community is tryingscienceJun 19, 11:00 AMMosquitoes are everywhere, and their populations are growing. In one Washington, DC, neighborhood, the Itty Bitty Mosquito Population Committee is trying to squash them all.CNN...
AI Generated ImageRotating Spiral Brain Waves Act as a SpacescienceJun 18, 7:57 PMResearchers discover rotating spiral brain waves that travel across cortical networks, acting as a space-and-time clock for motor action.Neuroscience News...
AI Generated ImageTension Flared on Space Station as Russia Threatened to Drill and Saw Into Wall, Prompting NASA Astronauts to Take ShelterscienceJun 18, 7:39 PMWe felt there was a very high probability of a bad outcome happening if they sawed that bracket off."Yahoo...
AI Generated Image344 steps stood between the James Webb Space Telescope and total failure — any one could have ended it — and the telescope that survived them all now runs on less power than a household kettle, a millscienceJun 18, 7:30 PMWebb launched with 344 single points of failure, most tied to a deployment that could not be repaired at L2. It cleared them all. Today it runs on about one kilowatt, less than many kettles, kept cold passively by its sunshield, a million miles from Earth.Space Daily...
AI Generated ImageNASA Flyby Reveals Violent Origin of Weird Peanut-Shaped AsteroidscienceJun 18, 6:00 PMThe oddly shaped rock is likely the byproduct of a catastrophic collision millions of years ago.Gizmodo...
AI Generated ImageHow you can explore the cosmos, virtual reality style, in a new Smithsonian experiencescienceJun 18, 2:52 PMA new immersive, 3D virtual reality experience from the Smithsonian offers guests a window into the cosmos — the first of its kind in D.C.WTOP...
AI Generated ImageA Student Discovered His Father’s Lost Notebooks—and Unlocked a 55scienceJun 18, 1:30 PMA mummified fossil fish was forgotten in a university basement until a son's chance discovery brought it back to science.AOL.com...
AI Generated ImageChinese rocket breaks apart in space dangerously close to StarlinkscienceJun 18, 11:05 AMA Chinese rocket has disintegrated in orbit in a dramatic failure that occurred alarmingly close to SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network, adding yet another layer of concern to the increasingly crowded...Yahoo...
AI Generated ImageNASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceXscienceJun 18, 6:26 AMRelativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars.TechCrunch...
AI Generated ImageSpaceX launch may wake you up with sonic boomsscienceJun 17, 9:22 PMSpaceX is targeting Friday, June 19, for the launch of the classified NROL-179 mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base.KSBY News...
AI Generated ImageCharles Darwin argued that the roots of human morality were not separate from animal life, and the surprise is what that does to civilization — manners, conscience, and restraint become not the opposiscienceJun 17, 9:00 PMThe objection Darwin knew would be hardest to answer was not about bones or fossils. It was about conscience. As long as the moral sense could be held apart from animal life, the distance between human beings and other creatures remained intact. Rev. Leonard Jenyns made exactly this argument in a letter to Darwin in […]Space Daily...
AI Generated ImageGreat Apes Shatter Human Models of Social IntelligencescienceJun 17, 8:45 PMA pioneering longitudinal study reveals great ape cognition is highly individualized and structured completely differently than human intelligence.Neuroscience News...
AI Generated ImageRelativity Space to privately develop Mars orbiter missionscienceJun 17, 8:45 PMRelativity Space plans to launch a Mars orbiter in 2028 as part of a new initiative to privately develop planetary missions.SpaceNews...
AI Generated ImageNASA Tracking 130ft Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth TomorrowscienceJun 17, 8:16 PMThe rock is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood at a zippy 8,768 miles per hour, according to the space agency.Newsweek...
AI Generated ImageJames Webb Space Telescope discovers extreme exoplanet being roasted by its home starscienceJun 17, 7:00 PMWho ordered the roasted exoplanet? Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a world that really puts the "hot" in "Hot Jupiter."Yahoo...
AI Generated ImageTerzan 5: The ancient stellar system hidden in the heart of the Milky WayscienceJun 17, 1:30 PMScience News: The centre of the Milky Way is not an easy place to study. Dense clouds of dust drift between countless stars, obscuring much of what lies beyond them.The Times of India...
AI Generated ImageCSUB professor urges Kern County to plan ahead and follow drop, cover and hold on guidancescienceJun 17, 5:23 AMA new study is raising concerns about earthquake risk in Southern California, finding the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto faults are under some of the highKBAK...
AI Generated ImageStudy finds Southern California faults at 1,000scienceJun 17, 1:59 AMNew research finds the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults have reached their highest stress levels in 1,000 years.WGAL...
AI Generated ImageCockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomesscienceJun 16, 9:54 PMTransferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes.Ars Technica...