Boeing Is Ready to Launch Starliner, a Rival to SpaceX’s Dragon
The first passenger to fly aboard Boeing’s Starliner will be Rosie the Rocketeer, a mannequin set to blast off to...
Science
Is it topological? A new materials database has the answer
What will it take to make our electronics smarter, faster, and more resilient? One idea is to build them from...
People Who Are Making Health Care More Fair
The world has never had better medicine, more knowledgeable doctors or stronger data on disease. But these benefits are not...
Tiny Möbius strip fashioned from carbon nanotube building blocks
We have always been able to make Möbius strips out of paper, but now it is possible to make tiny...
This Is Where Dirty Old Cars Go to Die
With each passing year, emissions from cars keep rising. Global carbon emissions from passenger road vehicles measured 2.5 gigatonnes in...
From South Africa, a success story for democracy
Back in April 1994, the world watched a remarkable event: South Africa’s first democratic election with universal suffrage. The country...
If Sea Ice Melts in the Arctic, Do Trees Burn in California?
A new study links sea ice decline with increasing wildfire weather in the Western United States. -- Read more on...
Pollution killed 9 million people worldwide in 2019 alone
Pollution accounted for one in six deaths three years ago, a figure that is unchanged since the last analysis in...
The Almighty Squabble Over Who Gets to Name Microbes
IN DECEMBER 2009, a submarine plunged 2,000 meters into the Gulf of California and emerged clutching a whole new branch...
The small things make a big difference in the science of measurement – Horizon Magazine Blog
As industry works more and more on the nanometre scale (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre), there...
Will NASA Save Europe’s Beleaguered Mars Rover?
Europe’s long-awaited ExoMars rover—the first ever for the continent—seems to be cursed. Parachute problems scuppered its initially planned launch in...
Starliner: Boeing spacecraft will launch to the International Space Station
At the moment, only SpaceX is able to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from US soil, but Boeing...
Charting a safe course through a highly uncertain environment
An autonomous spacecraft exploring the far-flung regions of the universe descends through the atmosphere of a remote exoplanet. The vehicle,...
What the U.S. Can Learn from Brazil’s Successful COVID Vaccination Campaign
During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, media outlets, health experts and scholars have explained the COVID-19 vaccine divide in...
Solar storms: Why the next one might hit Earth without warning
A big solar storm could fry the internet, but at least space weather forecasts would give us a day or...
Scientists see signs of traumatic brain injury in headbutting muskox
Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai saw for the first time hallmarks of concussions and other...
PopularPosts
RecentPosts
Could you have COVID? Symptoms to watch for in 2025 include sore throat and fatigue
COVID symptoms are similar to those of flu, RSV, and...
Senator John Fetterman Is Ironing His Nicest Hoodie And Heading to Mar-a-Lago To Meet With Trump
Credit: Screenshot via PowerfulJRECredit: Screenshot via PowerfulJRE Senator John Fetterman...
Dems eerily silent on Trump sentencing as they prepare for Republican trifecta in Washington
Democratic lawmakers were noticeably silent following the sentencing of President-elect...
.jpg "The TikTok Ban Would Be Social Media’s First Extinction-Level Event")
The TikTok Ban Would Be Social Media’s First Extinction-Level Event
The Biden administration’s solicitor general, Elizabeth B. Prelogar, argued that...
Tangled Currents – The Poetry of Science
Below the ice-cloak’s reach,fractured filaments weavetheir silent nets –a ship’s...
Maria review – a tender eulogy for a remarkable talent
Maria review – a tender eulogy for a remarkable talent...
