[ad_1] SpaceX’s Fram2 astronaut mission is all set to lift off toward a polar orbit, marking a dramatic departure from every crewed spaceflight that has come before. But why has this never been done before? The privately funded Fram2 mission — named for the Norwegian seafaring ship Fram (“Forward” in Norwegian), which explored the Arctic…
[ad_1] A nearly complete specimen of Plesiopterys wildi from Germany provides fresh insights into plesiosaur diversity and regional specialisation A newly described plesiosaur fossil from southern Germany is providing crucial evidence about the diversification of these ancient marine reptiles during the Early Jurassic. Published in PeerJ Life and Environment, the study details the discovery and analysis of an…
[ad_1] The U.S. Space Force is funding the development of a new “Orbital Carrier” spacecraft that can deploy multiple satellites when needed. The Orbital Carrier is being designed by Seattle-based company Gravitics and is funded through the Space Force’s SpaceWERX development office, which partners with private industry to develop new technologies and spacecraft. SpaceWERX has…
[ad_1] An authoritarian regime is a type of government system where power is restricted in the hands of a single leader or a group, limiting the participation of citizens in decision-making. As authoritarian states like China and Russia intensify their global information campaigns, a new study highlights Japan’s vulnerability to illiberal narratives. This research, led…
[ad_1] There are fewer of them then there are astronauts and no NASA spaceflight would be a success without them at the helm. Yet, if the public knows anything about them it is likely 50-year-old history, and probably none of them could be picked out of a crowd today. To address that last point, NASA’s…
[ad_1] Europe’s CERN laboratory said on Monday that a detailed analysis revealed no technical obstacles to building the world’s biggest particle collider, even as critics took issue with the “pharaonic” $17-billion project. The Future Circular Collider (FCC) project is essential for ensuring that Europe maintains its global leadership in fundamental physics, CERN chief Fabiola Gianotti…
[ad_1] A newly developed blood test for Alzheimer’s disease not only aids in the diagnosis of the neurodegenerative condition but also indicates how far it has progressed, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Lund University in Sweden. Several blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease are already…
[ad_1] SpaceX’s Starship megarocket, the world’s most powerful rocket, is officially on NASA’s list for future launches. NASA on Monday (March 31) announced that it has awarded SpaceX a launch services contract for Starship that adds the giant rocket to the private company’s roster, which already includes the reusable Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy boosters….
[ad_1] An exotic state of matter has been found lurking within a previous exotic state which had discovered in a magnetic compound last decade. In 2016, physicists Weiguo Yin, Christopher Roth, and Alexei Tsvelik of Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US identified what they referred to as a “half-fire, half-ice” phase of spin-states in Sr3CuIrO6,…
[ad_1] While everybody’s heart has an absolute chonological age (as old as that person is), hearts also have a theoretical ‘biological’ age1 that is based on how the heart functions. So someone who is 50 but has poor heart health could have a biological heart age of 60, while someone of 50 with optimal heart…