science / science - 5 years ago
Stratolaunch Systems, the space venture founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it has successfully completed the first hot-fire test of a key component for its hydrogen-fueled PGA rocket engine. The full-scale hydrogen preburner was fired up last Friday at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mi...
science / science - 5 years ago
The People's Vote
science / science - 5 years ago
By Jonathan Schwarzberg and Kristen Haunss NEW YORK (LPC) - Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp, known as SpaceX, is looking to line up a $750 million leveraged loan, sources said. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is leading the transaction. A lenders presentation will be held by the Sp...
science / science - 5 years ago
For most U.S. voters, living or working far from home isn't a barrier to voting on election day. That's what absentee ballots are for. But what if you work someplace really far away, like say... outer space? American astronauts get to vote just like everyone else. They just have to get th...
science / science - 5 years ago
Central American migrants are still hundreds of miles from the U.S. border. See photos of the caravan arriving in Mexico City.
science / science - 5 years ago
Including the Grenfell Tower model investigation and an 'alien object' in our solar system.
science / science - 5 years ago
Portugal plans to build an international launch pad for small satellites in the Azores and has agreed with China to set up a joint research center to make satellites on the mainland, its science and technology minister said on Tuesday. The government has received tentative proposals from 14 consor...
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Pentagon says Russian jet flew too close to U.S. aircraft
science / science - 5 years ago
“We come from many countries,” Messaoud Harfouche, an Algerian beamline scientist, says as he checks a monitor. In what is being hailed as a breakthrough in science diplomacy, a particle accelerator in Jordan is breaking down atoms and barriers, offering scientists from across the fragmented Middle...
science / science - 5 years ago
Sometimes civic pride is not quite enough.
science / science - 5 years ago
A student has turned herself into eye roll girl meme at a Brexit debate by rolling her eyes at Nigel Farage.
science / science - 5 years ago
What on Earth is this thing?
science / science - 5 years ago
In the mouth-watering study, two physicists (Andrey Varlamov of the Institute of Superconductors, Oxides and Other Innovative Materials and Devices in Rome and Andreas Glatz of Northern Illinois University) and one food anthropologist (Sergio Grasso, an author and filmmaker based in Rome) recall the...
science / science - 5 years ago
Archaeologists have discovered the exploded remains of a German V1 "flying bomb" that crashed in a forest in 1944 on the way to its target in London. It was one of thousands of"retaliation weapons," or "Vergeltungswaffen,"launched by Nazi Germany in the last months of World War II. Project leader...
science / science - 5 years ago
The 20th-century philosopher Martin Buber believed that humans often miss out on opportunities to make new friends—in the form of the flora and fauna that share our planet. Buber said that people can engage in real dialogue with trees and creatures. He called these exchanges “I and thou”...