science / science - 6 years ago
A Renamed BFR Could Be Key to SpaceX's Satellite Internet Dream
To create a constellation of 12,000 satellites, SpaceX will need a really Big Falcon Rocket.
science / science - 6 years ago
To create a constellation of 12,000 satellites, SpaceX will need a really Big Falcon Rocket.
science / science - 6 years ago
Meet the women fighting for justice in the brutal war against Afghanistan's women
science / science - 6 years ago
Until now, the reticulated siren was just a rumor. A mythical and mysterious swamp monster—also known as a species of giant salamander—the reticulated siren is found in the shallow freshwater marshes of Florida and Alabama, and locally known as a "leopard eel." Rarely spotted and never pre...
science / science - 6 years ago
China on Saturday launched a first probe ever to explore the dark side of the Moon, marking another milestone in its ambitious space programme, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The probe, the Chang'e-4, is expected to make the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the Moon, according...
science / science - 6 years ago
Australian school children led thousands of demonstrators nationwide Saturday calling for a halt on plans for Indian mining firm Adani to construct a controversial coal mine in the country's northeast. The rallies across major cities followed a protest last month that saw thousands of Australian st...
science / science - 6 years ago
Dismayed by the German government's failure to meet climate protection targets, dairy farmer Heiner Luetke Schwienhorst has filed a lawsuit against Berlin to force it into action. To me, that's besides the point," said Schwienhorst, who suffered his poorest harvest in three decades after a record d...
science / science - 6 years ago
“It stands to reason if you lower metabolic rate of the body, you lower energy usage,” said Hannah Carey, a researcher at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose lab has extensively investigated hibernation in mammals on Earth. In science fiction movies like...
science / science - 6 years ago
While sitting in a police interrogation room, Watts claims to his father that he killed Shanann Watts after she had strangled their kids, but investigators weren't buying his story.
science / science - 6 years ago
OZ Architecture has been tapped to redesign the U.S. research center at McMurdo Station on the world’s coldest continent
science / science - 6 years ago
The star of the new Netflix comedy on easing the pain of adolescence
science / science - 6 years ago
BEIJING (AP) — China launched a ground-breaking mission Saturday to land a spacecraft on the largely unexplored far side of the moon, demonstrating its growing ambitions as a space power to rival Russia, the European Union and the U.S.
science / science - 6 years ago
Hania Aguilar was abducted and murdered in North Carolina last month
science / science - 6 years ago
Nick Mcdonell reflects on the widespread destruction in Mosul after it was liberated from ISIS in 2017, and how cash aid could help.
science / science - 6 years ago
For NASA researchers, InSight's mission success isn't based on speed, but on accuracy. Scientists are taking all precautions to ensure its success.
science / science - 6 years ago
KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of U.S. states, cities, businesses and churches planted the American flag at the U.N. climate talks Friday in an effort to show that many people in the United States remain committed to curbing global warming despite the stance of their president.