SpaceX Demo-2 Crew Dragon Reaches Orbit
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on their way to the International Space Station has safely reached orbit,…
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Einstein’s Two Big Mistakes
Scientific research is based on the relationship between the reality of nature, as it is observed, and a representation of this reality, formulated by a…
Laser and Biology Experts Combine Efforts to Study Viruses in Droplets
Multiprong platform at the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator Center will produce X-ray images and chemical details. Laser and biology experts at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory…
NASA Wants to Go Nuclear on the Moon and Mars for Astronaut Settlement
It might sound like science fiction, but scientists are preparing to build colonies on the moon and, eventually, Mars. With NASA planning its next human…
MIT Student Probing Reality Through Physics, Philosophy and Writing
MIT Senior Michelle Xu’s varied interests all involve a desire to understand the universe. “I was just never particularly picky about which way to figure…
Data-Relay Satellite Ready for Service – Most Sophisticated Laser Communication Network Ever Designed
The second node in the most sophisticated laser communication network ever designed is ready to go into service. Dubbed the “SpaceDataHighway,” the European Data Relay…
New Research Points to Treatment for COVID-19 Cytokine Storms, Solution to Global Pandemic
How mice that model immune disease’s cytokine storms may point to solution for global pandemic. A transgenic mouse developed at Cincinnati Children’s to model the…
$3 Million Kavli Prizes Awarded to Scientists for Discoveries in Astrophysics, Nanoscience, Neuroscience
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters today announced the 2020 Kavli Prize Laureates in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. This year’s Kavli…
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launches Crew Dragon Spacecraft With NASA Astronauts: “A Great Day for America”
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launched from Kennedy Space Center’s historic…
Historic Test Flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon Launches NASA Astronauts
For the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way…