When you picture the Solar System in your head, most people would think of the Sun, stolid and stationary in the centre, with everything else whizzing about around it. But every body in the Solar System also exerts its own gravitational tug on the star, causing it to move around just a tiny bit. Therefore,
Month: June 2020
Joseph DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer. ASSOCIATED PRESS Joseph DeAngelo has plead guilty to the murder of 13 people, the rape of around 50 women and committing burglaries in California during the 1970s and 80s. Commonly called the ‘Golden State Killer’, he was first arrested in April 2018 after detective work was combined with DNA
Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Facebook on Tuesday announced it had removed a network of accounts, groups and pages associated with the
This was the first time SpaceX recovered a booster following a National Security Space Launch mission. WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a U.S. Space Force GPS 3 satellite on June 30. The rocket lifted off at 4:10 p.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral, Florida, About eight minutes after liftoff, SpaceX landed the Falcon
By 2025, Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry brand by volume, will use 100 percent recycled silver and gold in its products. At least that’s the goal the Danish company set at the beginning of June. As it stands, 71 percent of the silver and gold in Pandora jewelry comes from recycled sources. And the company
With millions of Americans still at home, about 1 in 3 people nationwide are expected to see their utility bills go up by at least 10% this summer. That’s according to renewable energy company Arcadia, which measured the increase in residential energy use from 10,000 customer households across 13 major U.S. cities in March and April
The world’s last male northern white Rhino is one of only five of his species left on Earth.Credit: Nichole Sobecki/The Washington Post/Getty Next year, all eyes will be on Kunming, China, as talks resume on a new set of global goals to protect biodiversity. These are much needed, because most of the existing 20 targets,
Massive stars aren’t like your car keys. They’re not going to disappear under a pile of mail on your kitchen counter, or end up in the washing machine. But a massive star that astronomers were observing for a decade now appears to be totally missing. The star, in the very late stages of its lifespan,
A young man on a road watching the Milky Way and lighting the road with a flash. Taken in A Veiga, … [+] Orense. Getty While the night sky is available all year long, many of us don’t often get to enjoy it. Between light pollution and weather patterns, most of the world lives under
Connecting audio interfaces to the various mobile and computing devices we use these days can be a confusing headache. The iRig Pro Duo, which IK Multimedia announced this year at CES and recently released, is a great way to simplify those connections while giving you all the flexibility you need to record high-quality audio anywhere,
WASHINGTON — Key members of the House and Senate say they continue to work on space-related legislation, including a NASA authorization bill, but the two branches of Congress appear to remain far apart on their bills. At the time the coronavirus pandemic hit in March, stopping most legislative activity other than relief measures and other
June 22 marked the publication of the fifth annual GreenBiz 30 Under 30, our report celebrating rising young professionals in the field of corporate sustainability. What’s up in the worlds of the 120 alumni from past lists? We reached out this spring to check in, asking those inclined to weigh in on how current events
An employee fits a battery pack under a Tesla Model S automobile on the final assembly at the Tesla Motors factory. Jasper Juinen | Bloomberg | Getty Images The future of the auto industry may boil down to the difference made by a single letter: R. As in, the difference between a lithium-ion battery, like those
Drug production is a huge industry, with billions of dollars resting on the results of clinical trials.Credit: Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the crisis of credibility in clinical research Jon Jureidini & Leemon B. McHenry Wakefield (2020) In the race to find treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19, it’s more
The farther away we look, the closer in time we’re seeing towards the Big Bang. The latest… [+] record-holder for quasars comes from a time when the Universe was just 690 million years old. These ultra-distant cosmological probes also show us a Universe that contains dark matter and dark energy, but many questions remain unanswered
Uber has reportedly made an offer to buy food delivery service Postmates, according to The New York Times. According to the Times, the talks are still ongoing and the deal could fall through. For those that have been paying attention to Uber, this appetite is not new, albeit consistent. A little over a month ago,
SAN FRANCISCO – German launch services provider Exolaunch announced contracts June 29 to integrate NanoAvionics cubesats on SpaceX’s rideshare missions. Under the agreements, Exolaunch is procuring the launch, handling integration and deploying in orbit two six-unit cubesats built by NanoAvionics, a Lithuanian nanosatellite manufacturer. The first NanoAvionics cubesat covered by the new contract is scheduled to
The sun sets behind a McDonald’s restaurant in Southport, England, in January 2020. Anthony Devlin | Getty Images News | Getty Images McDonald’s U.K. said Monday that it was planning to install rapid charging points for electric vehicles at new drive-thru restaurants in the country. The fast food giant is partnering with a firm called
In January 2019, NASA announced that its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite had discovered a planet about three times the diameter of Earth. The planet, orbiting a dwarf star 16 parsecs (53 light years) away, was found using sophisticated equipment including the satellite itself and the Magellan II telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. But
A mysterious increase in radiation levels over northern Europe was detected this month by authorities from several countries, although no nation has yet come forward to claim responsibility for the anomaly. The subtle radiation spike – at levels that are considered harmless to humans, but significant enough to be picked up by radiation monitoring stations
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