Super Lunar Event: Supermoon! Red Blood Lunar Eclipse! All Happening at Once – Here’s What It Means
The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going to happen during the early hours of May 26. But this is going to be a very…
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China’s Zhurong Rover Hit a Mars Milestone That Took NASA Decades – Here’s What’s Next
China’s Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet….
Pediatric Infectious Disease Expert Guidance: Should My Child Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?
The Food and Drug Administration expanded emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to include adolescents 12 to 15 years of age on May…
If a Rocket Falls on Your House, Space Law Protects You – But There Are No Legal Penalties for Leaving Junk in Orbit
On May 8, 2021, a piece of space junk from a Chinese rocket fell uncontrolled back to Earth and landed in the Indian Ocean near…
Warp Drives and Negative Energy: Physicists Give Chances of Faster-Than-Light Space Travel a Boost
The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.25 light-years away, or about 25 trillion miles (40 trillion km). The fastest ever…
National Cyber Defense Is a “Wicked” Problem: Why the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack and the SolarWinds Hack Were All but Inevitable
Takeaways: There are no easy solutions to shoring up U.S. national cyber defenses. Software supply chains and private sector infrastructure companies are vulnerable to hackers….
Tiangong: China May Gain a Monopoly on Space Stations
China launched Tianhe-1, the first and main module of a permanent orbiting space station called Tiangong (Heavenly Palace 天 宫), on April 29. Two additional…
The Chinese Mars Lander: How Zhurong Will Attempt to Touch Down on the Red Planet
For the first few months of 2021, the Martian atmosphere was buzzing with new visitors from Earth. First, it was the UAE Space Agency’s Hope…
Massive Flare Seen on Closest Star to the Solar System: What It Means for Chances of Alien Neighbors
The Sun isn’t the only star to produce stellar flares. On April 21, 2021, a team of astronomers published new research describing the brightest flare…
Exercise Scientist Explains: Do You Really Need to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day?
The warmer weather and longer days have inspired reminders to “stay hydrated” and drink eight glasses of water – or about two liters – a…
A Giant Piece of Space Junk From a Chinese Rocket Is Hurtling Towards Earth – Here’s How Worried You Should Be
A large piece of space debris, possibly weighing several tonnes, is currently on an uncontrolled reentry phase (that’s space speak for “out of control”), and…
The Human Genome at 20: How Biology’s Most-Hyped Breakthrough Led to Anticlimax and Arrests
When President Bill Clinton took to a White House lectern 20 years ago to announce that the human genome sequence had been completed, he hailed…
This Pink Supermoon Has a Twist – Expect Flooding, but a Lunar Cycle Is Masking Effects of Sea Level Rise
A “super full moon” is coming on April 27, 2021, and coastal cities like Miami know that means one thing: a heightened risk of tidal…
How NASA and SpaceX Will Get People From Earth to Mars and Safely Back Again
There are many things humanity must overcome before any return journey to Mars is launched. The two major players are NASA and SpaceX, which work…
How and Why Humans Became the Best Throwers on the Planet
Pitchers’ fastballs are getting better and better. From 2008 to 2020, the average speeds of all major league baseball pitches combined rose by between 1.5…
New COVID Variants Have Changed the Game, and Vaccines Will Not Be Enough
We Need Global “Maximum Suppression” At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain…
Intriguing Warp Drive Research Dashes Faster Than Light Travel Dreams – But Reveals Stranger Possibilities
In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around…
Here’s Why Resistance Training Is So Effective for Weight Loss
Weight lifting, also known as resistance training, has been practiced for centuries as a way of building muscular strength. Research shows that resistance training, whether…
