By Heidi Harley

science / science - 6 years ago

Correction: Missing Hawaii Humpbacks story

HONOLULU (AP) — In a story Nov. 26 about a decline in Hawaii humpback whale sightings in Hawaii, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a researcher published data about the latest decline in whale sightings. The researcher has published peer-reviewed papers about this population of humpback...

science / science - 6 years ago

NASA will live stream the landing its is OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe

The Mars InSight lander only just touched down on the Red Planet, but NASA is already gearing up for the landing of another incredibly interesting mission. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft (OSIRIS-REx for short) is getting ever clos...

science / science - 6 years ago

New research, November 19-25, 2018

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change impacts& Mankind Decreased takeoff performance of aircraft due to climate change Failure to protect beaches under slowly rising sea level& (open access) Heading for the hills: climate-driven community relocations in...

science / science - 6 years ago

NASA chooses nine companies to bid on flying to Moon

The US space agency on Thursday announced nine private companies, mostly start-ups, that will bid on $2.6 billion in contacts to build spacecraft to carry payloads to the Moon as early as 2019. The move is part of NASA's goal of sending people to the Moon in the next decade, for the first time sinc...