Enlarge / Artist’s illustration of catch arms ensnaring SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster. The Federal Aviation Administration has signaled to SpaceX that it won’t approve a launch license for the next [...]
On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that could very well revolutionize the way we think about spacecraft [...]
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Google just landed a deal to capture planet-heating pollution at a huge bargain: $100 per ton of CO2, the price climate tech startups around the world are racing to achieve [...]
Editor’s Note:The following is the text of a letter from Expedition Three Commander Frank L. Culbertson (Captain, USN Retired), reflecting on the events of September 11. September 12, 2001; 7:34 [...]
Ancient humans are said to have evolved to leave the trees, where our primate ancestors lived, in favour of open grassy savannahs – but we may have this idea wrong [...]
Medical diseases have existed since ancient times. We’ve read about the horrors of the bubonic plague in history lessons, but did you know that even the plague technically still exists [...]
Syphilis was until recently an anachronism to medical professionals. The sexually transmitted infection (STI) was so common in the 19th century that it earned its own specialism – syphilology – [...]
Paleontologists from the University of New South Wales have unearthed the fossilized remains of three new species in the thylacinid genera Badjcinus, Nimbacinus, and Ngamalacinus in the Upper Oligocene deposits [...]
Four private astronauts blasted into space early on Sept. 10 in a modified SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, kicking off the company’s five-day Polaris Dawn mission, which aims to test new [...]