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Mars helicopter flight test promises Wright Brothers moment for NASA
NASA hopes to score a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment on Monday as it attempts to send a miniature helicopter buzzing over the surface of Mars …
read more‘NASA rules,’ Musk says as SpaceX wins $2.9 billion moon lander contract
NASA has awarded billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to the moon, bypassing Jeff Bezos’ Blue …
read moreThree astronauts return from International Space Station
Three members of the International Space Station’s crew returned safely to Earth on Saturday on a Russian Soyuz craft, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency reported.
read more‘Like Godzilla, but actually real’: study shows T. rex numbered 2.5 billion
If one Tyrannosaurus rex – the school bus-sized meat-eating dinosaur that stalked the Cretaceous Period landscape – seems impressive, how about 2.5 billion of them?
read moreUAE partners with Japan’s ispace to send rover to the moon in 2022
Lunar exploration company iSpace will transport a United Arab Emirates rover to the moon in 2022, the company said on Wednesday, as the UAE pushes …
read moreApple’s Next TV Product Will Watch You with Built-In Camera
Tech giant Apple is reportedly building a new Apple TV device with a built-in camera and speaker that will face the user.
read moreOn Gagarin flight anniversary, Putin vows Russia will remain space power
Russian President Vladimir Putin marked the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic space flight on Monday with a pledge that Moscow would remain a key …
read moreCOVID-1984: Video: DARPA Is Working On COVID Vaccine, Implantable Microchip To Detect Virus
“You put it underneath your skin and what that tells you is that there are chemical reactions going on inside the body”
read moreUAE selects first Arab woman for astronaut training
The United Arab Emirates has selected the first Arab woman to train as an astronaut, as the Gulf country rapidly expands into the space sector …
read moreElon Musk’s Neuralink shows monkey with brain-chip playing videogame by thinking
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup released footage on Friday appearing to show a monkey playing a simple videogame after getting implants of the new …
read moreBeast of five teeth: Chilean scientists unearth skunk that walked among dinosaurs
A fossil of a skunk-like mammal that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Chilean Patagonia, adding further proof to recent evidence …
read moreShrinking sea meadows store more carbon than forests. Scientists are racing to track what’s left
Hundreds of miles from the nearest shore, ribbon-like fronds flutter in the ocean currents sweeping across an underwater mountain plateau the size of Switzerland.
read moreChina begins construction of its fifth rocket launch site
A port city in eastern China has launched an ambitious plan to build the country’s fifth rocket launch site, under a longer-term goal to ramp …
read moreBulgarian cave remains reveal surprises about earliest Homo sapiens in Europe
DNA extracted from remains found in a Bulgarian cave of three people who lived roughly 45,000 years ago is revealing surprises about some of the …
read moreCOVID-1984: World Economic Forum Promotes ‘Smart Mask’ That Alerts You if You Forget to Wear It
Climate change shrinks marine life richness near equator: study
During some summers, as the Caribbean water temperatures climb, the luminous coral colonies of gold, green and blue that ring the island nation of Cuba …
read moreSwiss robots use UV light to zap viruses aboard passenger planes
A robot armed with virus-killing ultraviolet light is being tested on Swiss airplanes, yet another idea aiming to restore passenger confidence and spare the travel …
read moreSpaceX Starship SN11 rocket fails to land safely after test launch in Texas: SpaceX
An uncrewed SpaceX Starship prototype rocket failed to land safely on Tuesday after a test launch from Boca Chica, Texas, and engineers were investigating, SpaceX …
read moreSpaceX Starship SN11 rocket fails to land safely after test launch in Texas -SpaceX
An uncrewed SpaceX Starship prototype rocket failed to land safely on Tuesday after a test launch from Boca Chica, Texas, and engineers were investigating, SpaceX …
read moreSeats filled for first all-civilian spaceflight crew
A college science professor and an aerospace data analyst were named on Tuesday to round out a four-member crew for a SpaceX launch into orbit …
read moreCarnivorous dinosaur with short snout and strong bite menaced Patagonia
Scientists in Argentina have unearthed the well-preserved skull of a meat-eating dinosaur that roamed northern Patagonia about 85 million years ago – a beast with …
read moreBoston Dynamics introduces ‘Stretch’, new warehouse worker robot
U.S. robotics company Boston Dynamics on Monday unveiled a new robot called Stretch, designed to perform one very specific warehouse job: moving boxes.
read moreOctopus research yields insight into the evolution of sleep
The octopus is an extraordinary creature – and not only because of its eight limbs, three hearts, blue blood, ink squirting, camouflage capacity and the …
read moreU.S. should research solar geoengineering to fight climate change but exercise caution, scientists say
The National Academies of Science on Thursday called for the United States to pursue research into solar geoengineering to cool the Earth’s atmosphere but urged …
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