One of the longer chapters of the International Space Station has come to a close. NASA has sent the last of its 11 ExPRESS (Expedite the Processing of Experiments to the Space Station) science racks to the orbiting facility, 19 years after sending the first two. They don’t look like much, but they provide the […]
Usually AAA issues a press release on its holiday travel and gas price predictions right before long weekends, like this Memorial Day. This year they didn’t bother; Covid-19 lockdowns and our varying levels of commitment to those rules have made all modeling useless. The organization did predict some good news however: the resurgence of the […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — One of New Zealand’s largest media organizations will be sold for a single dollar to its chief executive, the owners announced Monday. The organization Stuff prints many of the nation’s daily newspapers and runs a popular news website of the same name. It employs about 900 staff, including 400 journalists. Owned […]
In the beginning, everyone was skeptical. But Elon Musk’s SpaceX defied expectations – and on Wednesday hopes to make history by ferrying two NASA astronauts into space, the first crewed flight from US soil in nine long years. US President Donald Trump will be among the spectators at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to witness […]
NASA just named a powerful new space telescope for the woman who masterminded the existence of such observatories in the first place. Dr. Nancy Grace Roman spent 21 years at NASA developing and launching space-based observatories that studied the Sun, deep space, and Earth’s atmosphere. She most famously worked to develop the concepts behind the […]
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope captured a stunning image of a planet being born around a young star located 520 light-years from Earth. The birth took place in the constellation Auriga, which is Latin for The Charioteer. “Thousands of exoplanets have been identified so far, but little is known about how they form,” […]
There are a lot of people trying to reach celebrity entrepreneur Elon Musk. Sometimes, though, they get Lyndsay Tucker, a 25-year-old skin care consultant. Tucker, who works at a Sephora beauty store in San Jose, Calif., had never heard of the Tesla and SpaceX founder and CEO until a couple years ago, when she began […]
Even as an increasing number of states have begun reopening their economies across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic is largely expected to have continued to wreak havoc on employment in the U.S. last week. Economists estimate that an additional 2.4 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the week ending May 16, following 2.98 million […]
Vice President Mike Pence praised the astronauts who will launch into space on a SpaceX rocket next week, calling them “trailblazers of a new era.” The mission, which will be the final test for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, will mark the first time American astronauts have launched in an American-made spacecraft from U.S. soil since 2011, […]
Humans have been wondering whether we alone in the universe since antiquity. We know from the geological record that life started relatively quickly, as soon our planet’s environment was stable enough to support it. We also know that the first multicellular organism, which eventually produced today’s technological civilization, took far longer to evolve, approximately 4 […]
Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that it will discontinue sales of its talc-based baby powder in Canada and the United States. The company has faced thousands of lawsuits alleging the powder contains asbestos, a claim the company denies. “Demand for talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder in North America has been declining due in large part to […]
Rolls-Royce (RR.L) plans to cut at least 9,000 jobs, or more than a sixth of its workforce, in the latest blows to the UK economy and aviation industry dealt by the coronavirus pandemic. The company, which makes engines for planes such as the Boeing 787 and Airbus 350, said on Wednesday it could also close […]
