[ad_1] SpaceX says that Starman, the mannequin spaceman in the driver’s seat of a Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space, is officially on its way to “the restaurant at the …
Read More »Japanese cargo ship leaves the space station. Next stop: Oubli.
[ad_1] A Japanese robotic cargo ship takes off from the International Space Station on Wednesday, November 7th, for a weekend date with forgetting to conclude a successful replenishment mission. The station's astronauts …
Read More »A Florida senator went to space while he was in power, but he may be coming home
[ad_1] Senator Bill Nelson, D-Fla., Has generally been a strong advocate for NASA at committee hearings, such as the 2012 one. Credit: NASA / Bill Ingalls While the results of yesterday's mid-term …
Read More »Ultrasound releases a drug in the brain
[ad_1] Stanford University School of Medicine has developed a noninvasive way of delivering drugs to within a few millimeters of a desired point in the brain. The method, tested in rats, uses …
Read More »Ornithologists discover a hybrid warbler of three species
[ad_1] November 7 (UPI) – Scientists have discovered in Pennsylvania a hybrid warbler composed of three species, a rarity. The bird, documented by ornithologists at Cornell University, is the product of a …
Read More »NASA’s ‘quiet’ sonic boom tests kick off in Texas, and could change air travel forever – BGR
[ad_1] Modern air travel is fast, but it could be a lot faster. As the Concorde demonstrated, supersonic air travel is totally doable but comes with a lot of compromises. One of …
Read More »Airglow gives the Earth an air of another world – Quartz
[ad_1] In October, an astronaut from the International Space Station took a picture of what looks like another world, yellow and orange. But this photo, taken at about thirty kilometers above Australia, …
Read More »The first monarchs arrive in Mexico's wintering grounds
[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain The first monarch butterflies arrived in their wintering areas in the mountains of central Mexico, almost a week later than usual. Millions of monarchs annually migrate 3,400 …
Read More »Discovery: Rare three-species hybrid warbler
[ad_1] Rare triple-hybrid warbler (Golden-winged Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, and Chestnut-sided Warbler). Credit: Lowell Burket Scientists have shown that a bird found in Pennsylvania is the offspring of a hybrid warbler mother and …
Read More »Why the Pacific Island of Palau Prohibits Sun Protection
[ad_1] The Pacific Islands of Palau is considered one of the best dive sites in the world, with hundreds of varieties of fish and coral found in its reefs. In order to …
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