[ad_1] At least four popular Arcata restaurants elected to close last week after their employees tested positive for COVID-19 or were exposed to someone who tested positive for the virus. Plaza Grill, Salt Fish House, Campground, and Wildflower Cafe and Bakery each announced temporary closures on their respective social media accounts last week. “We have … Read more
[ad_1] Analyzing data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover, scientists discovered that flooding of unimaginable magnitude passed through Gale Crater on the Mars equator about four billion years ago. The discovery, published in the journal Scientific Reports, suggests the possibility that life may have existed on the Red Planet. The raging mega-flood – likely triggered by … Read more
[ad_1] A Falcon 9 rocket fires its engines at Cape Canaveral on Sunday in preparation for launch along with 60 other Starlink satellites. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now Sixty other Starlink Internet satellites are ready to be put into orbit Sunday evening from Cape Canaveral for the 100th flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 … Read more
[ad_1] Bay Area tech icon Keith Rabois has announced he’s definitely leaving San Francisco – and he’s criticizing the city on the way out. Rabois, an early executive at PayPal, Square, LinkedIn and more, told Fortune that he is “moving soon” because he finds “impossible to stay” in San Francisco. After living in the Bay … Read more
[ad_1] Just after sunset on the evening of December 21, 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer to each other in Earth’s night sky than they have been since the Middle Ages, offering people around the world a heavenly treat to ring at the Winter Solstice. “Alignments between these two planets are rather rare, occurring … Read more
[ad_1] A shooting star during the Perseid meteor shower. Soon, thousands of satellites will invade the night sky. Image via Shutterstock / The conversation. By Samantha Lawler, University of Regina I walk past my rural Saskatchewan home before dawn and look up, expecting my breath to be breathless at the large number of stars above … Read more
[ad_1] A Falcon 9 launch can typically carry around 60 Starlink satellites. SpaceX SpaceX aims to launch its 16th batch of its Starlink broadband satellites on Sunday, a day after the success of Elon Musk’s rocket company sent a new NASA and European Space Agency satellite into orbit. Boosting a new set of its routers … Read more
[ad_1] An artist rendering of the first Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle with the Orion spacecraft on the platform prior to launch. The Orion spacecraft and the SLS mega-socket – together referred to as Block 1 – and ground systems at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Will be part of the Artemis … Read more
[ad_1] There are many uses for large devices called hyperbaric oxygen chambers in the medical field. They can be used to treat injuries and can put a human under enough pressure so that oxygen can be forced directly into the tissues without the need for blood flow. A group of researchers said they reversed the … Read more
[ad_1] If Jason Benkoski is right, the path to interstellar space begins in a shipping container tucked away behind a high lab bay in Maryland. The setup looks like something out of a low-budget sci-fi movie: One wall of the container is lined with thousands of LEDs, an impenetrable wire mesh runs down the center, … Read more