A shipment of Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines lands at Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The African Union wants most vaccines to be produced on the continent by 2040.Credit: Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Africa plans a vaccine-manufacturing revolution Africa’s leaders are on a path to ramp up vaccine manufacturing and boost regulatory bodies for medicines. On 13 April, they pledged to
In the area where the Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexican borders now meet, ancestral Pueblo societies thrived and then collapsed several times, over the span of 800 years. Each time they recovered, their culture transformed. This shifting history can be seen in their pottery and the incredible stone and earth dwellings they created. During
The extremely slow, steady pulsations of light from many red giant stars may finally have an explanation. According to a new analysis, these mysterious fluctuations in brightness are not caused by internal processes after all, but by binary companions obscured in clouds of dust siphoned off the dying giants. When stars of intermediate mass below
WASHINGTON — Dynetics has joined Blue Origin in filing a protest of NASA’s selection of SpaceX for a single Human Landing System award, a move that could force the agency to suspend work on the program. In a statement April 27, Dynetics said it filed a protest of the HLS award with the Government Accountability
With snow-capped mountains, shimmering lakes and vast swathes of verdant forest, Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, does not lack for natural beauty. In waters off its coastline, one project is attempting to harness nature’s power by testing and analyzing wave energy converters, a technology which could have an important role to
Veterinarians from the Animal Medical Center in New York City debunk 15 of the most common myths about training and owning dogs. MORE DEBUNKED: Pathologists Debunk 13 Coronavirus Myths Pediatricians Debunk 16 Baby Myths Myth Marathon: Experts Debunk 95 Health Myths —————————————————— #Dogs #Myths #ScienceInsider Science Insider tells you all you need to know about
In a previous article, I covered a recipe Elon Musk gave us for powering the world with renewables. He gave the overall plan, but obviously couldn’t give full details on the plan at the local level. During another part of the Q1 earnings call, he gave a lot more detail on how the local level
Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube speaking at #VidCon, July 23, 2015. Harriet Taylor | CNBC Google’s YouTube is already the world’s largest online video platform. If continues growing the way it has the last several quarters, it could also match Netflix in revenues by year’s end. In its first-quarter earnings report Tuesday, Google parent company Alphabet
No matter how advanced our technology becomes, there are certain limits that can never be overcome. Perhaps the most famous limitation is this: nothing in the Universe can communicate information or send signals at speeds greater than the speed of light in a vacuum. This cosmic limit — of 299,792,458 meters per second — can
A rapidly spinning brown dwarf (pictured, artist’s impression) tends to have narrow atmospheric bands; the faster the spin, the thinner the bands. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomy and astrophysics 27 April 2021 Dim stars that have failed at fusion are masters of spin Three brown dwarfs whirl on their axes at a dizzying rate that might be
DOUGLAS, U.K. — The Russian actress who will be sent to the International Space Station on the upcoming Soyuz MS-19 spaceflight will be announced from among four finalists on May 15, according to the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin. This unusual spaceflight will be connected to the filming of the movie “Vyzov” (“The Challenge”), which
REE Automotive and Hino Motors, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Group, announced a business alliance to design and produce solutions in “next-generation commercial mobility.” The alliance will combine Hino’s experience as a commercial vehicle manufacturer with REE’s proprietary REEcorner technologies. The result should be a unique modular platform capable of serving a multitude of various
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann speaks in conversation with Matthew Lynley of TechCrunch during the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 on September 18, 2017 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Shares of Pinterest dropped more than 10% in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the company reported its first-quarter earnings, in
There are now reports of 62 people in Israel and 14 people in the U.S. military being diagnosed with myocarditis after receiving Covid-19 mRNA vaccines. Does this necessarily mean that the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were the cause? Well, let’s get to the heart of the matter. Myocarditis is not the opposite of your-o-carditis but
In her laboratory in Barcelona, Spain, Miki Ebisuya has built a clock without cogs, springs or numbers. This clock doesn’t tick. It is made of genes and proteins, and it keeps time in a layer of cells that Ebisuya’s team has grown in its lab. This biological clock is tiny, but it could help to
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission approved a modification of SpaceX’s license for its Starlink constellation, allowing the company to operate more than 2,800 additional satellites in lower orbits. In an order and authorization published April 27, the FCC said it will allow SpaceX to move 2,814 satellites from orbits in the range of 1,100
The Spotify application is seen on an iPhone in this photo illustration. Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty Images Spotify on Tuesday launched its podcast subscription service in the U.S., giving creators more range in how they choose to make money. The move comes just one week after streaming rival Apple announced its own subscription
In June 1988, geologists Earle F. Mc Bride and M. Dane Picard collected some sand from the beach of Normandy in northernmost France. The sand reflects the rocky outcrops found inland and along the coast and is composed mostly of grains of quartz, feldspar, limestone and fragmented shells. But observing the samples under the microscope,
COVID-19 deaths have peaked in Brazil during its recent surge.Credit: Joao Guimaraes/AFP/Getty More than a year after Brazil detected its first case of COVID-19, the country is facing its darkest phase of the pandemic yet. Researchers are devastated by the recent surge in cases and say that the government’s failure to follow science-based guidance in
No matter where you are in the world, and no matter how light the skies are, the Moon is always there. Our only natural satellite has inspired literature, art and science for thousands of years. As the days lengthen in the northern hemisphere, it gets harder to spot some of the fainter stars in the
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