True crime podcasts, books and documentaries are everywhereGetty Flip on the television, peruse a local bookstore, or browse a list of podcasts and you’ll see it: true crime stories are having a moment right now. Whether it’s popular podcasts like Serial or multi-part documentaries on Netflix like The Keepers and Making a Murderer, it seems
Month: February 2019
WASHINGTON — Maxar Technologies has decided not to sell or shut down its commercial geostationary orbit satellite business, but will restructure it with a greater emphasis on smaller satellites and government customers. In an interview with SpaceNews, Walter Scott, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Maxar, said that after months of analysis about
When it comes to finding life outside of Earth, it’s hard to know where to look. The dark and icy oceans of Enceladus and Europa offer one kind of hypothetical habitat. Meanwhile, the dusty, arid landscape of Mars looks to be almost the opposite – but scientists have just found a clue that gives hope
Lab-made marijuana is coming. In a move that’s expected to transform the marijuana and pharmaceutical industries, scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announced on Wednesday that they had for the first time created cannabis compounds in a lab, instead of by harvesting them from a plant. If the technique can scale, it could
FILE PHOTO: The first two satellites of Europe’s Galileo navigation system are launched aboard a Russian Soyuz VS01 rocket at the Guiana Space Center in Sinnamary, French Guiana, October 21, 2011. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe needs its own technology to guard against a growing threat to its satellites from space junk ranging
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Diamonds in a candy machine – Credit: Unsplash: rawpixel / @rawpixelrawpixel/@rawpixel The song goes; ‘Diamonds are a girl’s best friend’ but that isn’t true for Millennial women (or Millennials in general), 70% would consider buying lab-grown diamonds over mined ones. A statistic that is music to Type IIA
WASHINGTON — World View, a company developing stratospheric balloons that provide capabilities that have traditionally required satellites, has hired a new chief executive to help transition the company from development to operations. In a Feb. 28 statement, World View announced that it hired Ryan Hartman as its new chief executive. Hartman, formerly the president and
Have you ever seen fine water condensation on a transparent surface shimmer like a rainbow? Scientists have now figured out exactly how it happens – and have used this new knowledge to make water droplets produce a dazzling array of colours. If the droplets are on a transparent surface, and lit by a single lamp,
Remember when the Solar System was simple? When you learned to say My Very Easy Method Just Sped Up Naming Planets? Astronomers just had to go mess it up, didn’t they. Now our Solar System is littered with dwarf planets and comets masquerading as asteroids and ridiculous sounding ‘moon moons‘ and we can’t deal. Thankfully the
For years, scientists have warned of the “next big one,” an earthquake so powerful that it could topple buildings, slash power, and take lives across California. As far as natural disasters go, the quake represented the worst-case-scenario for cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, which are both located along the San Andreas Fault. Now
Lots of video games let you take on the role of the anti-hero: Grand Theft Auto, Hitman, even Mario’s mischievous alter-ego, Wario. But there’s never been a video game anti-hero quite like Plague Inc. – in this massively successful pandemic simulator, you actually play the role of a deadly and contagious pathogen, hell-bent on wiping
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Looking for a quick way to stop North Korean missiles immediately after lift-off, the Pentagon is studying as a near-term option whether a group of F-35 fighter jets hovering around North Korean airspace could pick off freshly-launched rockets. In its current form, the idea defies physics, missile defense experts say. It calls
When clinicians first peeked at the developing embryos in the uterus of an Australian mother-to-be, they found a not-uncommon phenomenon: a pair of 6-week embryos, each inside its own amniotic sac but sharing an outer sac. Totally normal for identical twins, and that’s exactly what everyone assumed the embryos were. But a scan in the
WASHINGTON — A bill introduced by a bipartisan pair of senators Feb. 27 would authorize an extension of the International Space Station to 2030 and also make permanent human settlement of space a national goal. Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) introduced the Advancing Human Spaceflight Act Feb. 27, with its central provision
SEATTLE/PARIS (Reuters) – A rocket carrying six satellites built by Airbus SE and partner OneWeb blasted off from French Guiana on Wednesday, the first step in a plan to give millions of people in remote and rural areas high-speed internet beamed down from space. FILE PHOTO: A scale model of an Airbus OneWeb satellite and
Hamacas colgando en la churuata del camping Ceguera en Amazonas, Venezuela.Getty In areas of the world where malaria is rampant, mosquito nets save lives, especially treated mosquito nets. In recent decades, the mass distribution of bed nets treated with insecticides has played a critical role in reducing the spread of malaria in endemic regions. Despite this, the number of global
WASHINGTON — A five-week partial government shutdown could delay the launch of the first element of NASA’s orbiting lunar outpost by as much as three months. In a procurement notice filed Feb. 26, NASA notified companies bidding on the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) module for the lunar Gateway that the start of the contract
Once again, scientists have scrutinised one of the strangest stars in the sky to understand its wild light fluctuations. The latest observations of KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby’s star or Boyajian’s star, have scanned for the kind of laser emission that could be produced by a civilisation. Well, guess what. It’s been three-and-a-half years
As far as environmental supervillains go, atmospheric carbon is the kingpin of crime. And just like in the comic books, every time we think we have a way to lock it up for good, it gets away from us. What we need is something cheap. Scalable. Something that can have a hope of ripping enough
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Looking for a quick way to stop North Korean missiles immediately after lift-off, the Pentagon is studying as a near-term option whether a group of F-35 fighter jets hovering around North Korean airspace could pick off freshly-launched rockets. FILE PHOTO: A Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft is seen at the ILA Air Show
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