[ad_1] OK, focus: How much of your brain are you using up right now – or at all times? If you said 10%, you repeated a popular myth, but it was incorrect. The origin of the tale is murky but could be rooted in an outdated theory about the structure of the brain that was … Read more
[ad_1] Zero-g Baby Yoda put a smile on our faces, and that was the plan from the start. Minutes after SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Resilience” capsule launched on Sunday, November 15, the four astronauts on board released a passenger who was driving in secret – a small plush version of Baby Yoda, or “The Child”, from … Read more
[ad_1] Elon Musk wants to build a city on Mars, but Werner Herzog says the plans are unequivocally a “mistake.” SpaceX CEO Musk plans to send the first humans to Mars in the mid-2020s, using the Starship rocket under development. Once there, Musk wants to build a self-sustaining city of one million people on Mars … Read more
[ad_1] NASA’s next Mars rover is not silent on its long journey to the Red Planet. A microphone on board the Perseverance of the rover March 2020, which launched on July 30 and will arrive on February 18, 2021, captured the hum of the car-sized robot’s ‘heat rejection fluid pump’, a NASA audio file recently … Read more
[ad_1] The first human colony on Mars will be built using “glass domes,” according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The billionaire entrepreneur, who this week became the third richest person in the world, has frequently spoken of his ambition to travel to Mars during his lifetime and transform humanity into a multi-planetary species. The first … Read more
[ad_1] In 2019, Vice President Mike Pence laid out plans for NASA to bring astronauts back to the moon by 2024. Now a new report says the space agency will “struggle” to do so. A report from the Office of the Inspector General of NASA notes that the 2024 schedule for the Artemis Moon mission … Read more
[ad_1] A bright green meteor swept across Australia’s south coast of Tasmania, and researchers captured the fireball on camera as it parted over the ocean. The meteor lit up the night sky on Wednesday (November 18) at 9:21 pm local Tasmanian time (5:21 am EST and 10:21 am GMT). A live camera on the Investigator … Read more
[ad_1] A Leonid fireball captured over Sweden in 2015. Spaceweather.com/Andre Pooschke Say what you want of the perils of 2020. It has been a meteoric year for sky watchers, with bright comets and heavy meteor showers which continue this month with the appearance of the annual leonids, which last until the end of November. The … Read more
[ad_1] An Electron rocket prepares to be launched. Rocket lab Rocket Lab, the leading company in the construction and launch of small rockets, on Thursday took what CEO Peter Beck described as a “milestone” in his rocket reuse work. The company recovered the thruster from its Electron rocket after it was splashed in the Pacific … Read more
[ad_1] Scientists have inserted a human gene into the brains of monkeys to make them bigger and more wrinkled in baffling lab experiments. Experts found that insertion of the gene, called ARHGAP11B, resulted in a larger neocortex in the fetus of a common marmoset. The neocortex is the deeply grooved outer layer of the brain … Read more