Sometimes the discovery of a new dinosaur species doesn’t require an extensive archaeological dig – it just needs a closer analysis of the dino bones already sitting in the collection of a university. That’s turned out to be case with the newly described Ngwevu intloko. The new species, now named “grey skull” in the South African
Month: August 2019
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident is widely considered one of the worst nuclear disasters. On 26 April 1986, the core of a nuclear reactor at the plant opened during a routine safety test, sending plumes of radioactive material into the air. The explosion and subsequent fires released widespread contamination across Europe, but the most
There are precious few places left in the United States where you can still view a “pristine” night sky, according to a new study in the Journal of Environmental Management. Situated far from the glare of city and small town lights, these places offer the same unimpeded view of the cosmos that our ancestors saw
Cobham accepted a U.S. private equity group’s $5 billion offer July 25 to take the British defense and aerospace contractor private. The buyout comes as Cobham’s Advanced Electronic Solutions group, which derives 25% of its revenue from space and counts OneWeb as a customer for approximately 40,000 waveguides (shown above), is gearing up to support
A Higgs boson event as seen in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at the Large Hadron Collider. This spectacular collision is 15 orders of magnitude below the Planck energy, but it’s the precision measurements of the detector that allow us to reconstruct what happened back at (and near) the collision point. Although every Higgs boson
If there’s one thing seagulls are famous for, it’s their pro-grade pilfering. They steal your snacks, nick your nosh, purloin your pudding, and liberate your lunch. No morsel is safe in the range of a seagull’s beady, greedy eye. But, as scientists in the UK have discovered, there’s a way you can hold them off:
Facebook has removed a mega-viral event called “Storm Area 51”, claiming it violated community standards. Before it was removed, the tongue-in-cheek event amassed more than 2 million Facebook users, grabbing the attention of the mainstream media. The idea, according to the even description, was to invite an army of memelords and alien enthusiasts to raid
On 6 August 2012, after an epic six-month journey, NASA rover Curiosity finally arrived at her new home on Mars. This week marks seven Earth years since touchdown, and we’re celebrating Curiosity’s Landing Day with some of the marvels it has brought us. It’s an isolated existence for the little rover, all alone in the
Within the past hundred years, water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of the human population. As water supplies continue to shrink, some parts of the world are facing a looming crisis. As of 2019, 17 countries in total are now experiencing “extremely high” levels of baseline water stress, according to
WASHINGTON — SpaceX launched a communications satellite for Israeli satellite operator Spacecom Aug. 6 on an expendable Falcon 9 mission. The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 7:23 p.m. Eastern, following a three-day delay to replace a suspect rocket valve. Amos-17, Spacecom’s newest satellite, separated from the rocket’s upper stage
Weather almost hampered the launch but it cleared at the end. SpaceX SpaceX has successfully launched its tenth orbital rocket of the year, but in a rare event, the rocket was dropped into the ocean and was not recovered after the launch. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at
Two separate prototypes of SpaceX’s Starship rocket could be ready to fly before the end of August, CEO Elon Musk revealed to the Twittersphere on Saturday – though it’s not clear whether the debut would be a short hop or a historic orbital adventure. On August 24, SpaceX will hold a presentation in Boca Chica,
How much can you learn from a microscopic drop of ancient seawater? More than you might think, a new study shows. Researchers have analysed a series of such drops and arrived at an estimate that the process that underpins Earth’s plate tectonics may have started some 600 million years earlier than previously thought. Plate tectonics – the
The SpaceNews editorial team is producing the official Show Daily for the AIAA/Utah State University 33rd annual Conference on Small Satellites in Logan, Utah, Aug. 5-8. The Day 1 issue, published Aug. 6, features coverage of OneWeb, Arianespace, SpaceX, HawkEye 360, LeoLabs, Kubos, Ruag Space, Momentus, Blue Canyon Technologies, Capella Space and more. DOWNLOAD THE
After 16 days in space, the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia was due to return to Earth. Residents of Texas watched as the shuttle glowed brightly in the clear blue Texas sky. Slowly, a realization that something was wrong dawned on them. Rather than one, bright, burning spot, as to be expected, there were
Black holes can get pretty big, but there’s a special class that is the biggest of the big, absolute yawning monster black holes. And astronomers seem to have found an absolute specimen, clocking in at 40 billion times the mass of the Sun. It’s at the centre of a galaxy called Holmberg 15A, a supergiant
We all know that Antarctica’s ice is melting into the ocean faster than ever, but we haven’t had a lot of information on how exactly that ice makes its way across the continent. A team of scientists has now pored over decades of satellite data to change this, and have developed the most precise map of
LOGAN, Utah — Spaceflight announced Aug. 6 that it will purchase the first commercial launch a new Indian vehicle scheduled to make its debut later this year. Spaceflight said it will launch payloads for an undisclosed U.S. satellite constellation customer on a flight of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), a derivative of the existing,
Einstein deriving special relativity, for an audience of onlookers, in 1934. The consequences of applying relativity to the right systems require that, if we demand energy conservation, E = mc^2 must be valid. Public domain image If you’ve ever heard of Albert Einstein, chances are you know at least one equation that he himself is
On Wednesday, July 24th, the people of the Great Lakes region were treated to a spectacular sight when a meteor streaked across the sky. The resulting fireball was observed by many onlookers, as well as the University of Western Ontario’s All-Sky Camera Network. This array runs across southern Ontario and Quebec and is maintained in
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