Arizona fires seen fuming from space
The biggest fire now burning in the U.S. can be seen raging from space. It’s now peak fire season in Arizona, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-16...
Microsoft employs experimental undersea data center in search for COVID-19 vaccine – TechCrunch
Part of the challenge in seeking out an effective treatment for COVID-19 is simply one of scale – protein folding is key to understanding how the virus that causes COVID-19...
Astranis reaches key milestone with MicroGEO communication satellite, aims for service to begin next summer – TechCrunch
Satellite telecommunications startup Astranis has achieved a key technical milestone with its MicroGEO product, a small geosynchronous communications satellite that it will use to launch its first commercial service starting...
Partying Americans just got a reality check from the coronavirus
On June 6, after over 100,000 Americans had already been killed by the new coronavirus, over a dozen friends went out to party at Lynch's Irish Pub in Jacksonville Beach,...
SpaceX to build floating spaceports for rockets bound for the Moon and Mars, and for hypersonic Earth travel – TechCrunch
SpaceX is hiring experts in Offshore Operations in Brownsville, job ads revealed on Tuesday – and the purpose is to help the company develop and build floating spaceports that will...
A glimmer of hope
Hola pandemic pals, It’s the middle of June and COVID-19 is still here. In fact, the data indicates it’s just getting started. We’re seeing the largest daily spikes of new...
Bit Bio’s ‘enter button for the keyboard to the software of life’ nabs the company $41.5 million – TechCrunch
Bit Bio, the new startup that pitches itself as the “enter button for the keyboard to the software of life,” only needed three weeks to raise its latest $41.5 million...
There’s an extreme, unusual warm spot on Earth right now
A big swath of Siberia has been way, way warmer than normal this year. Through May 2020, temperatures in the region averaged about 13 degrees Fahrenheit, or 7 degrees Celsius,...
MIT’s new way to remotely monitor vital signs over time could help with early COVID-19 detection in care homes – TechCrunch
MIT researchers have been building out the capabilities of a system they created that can monitor vital signs without requiring any direct contact sensors or wearables – using wireless signals...
CMU demonstrates nanoscale technology that causes plants to absorb nutrients with nearly 100% efficiency – TechCrunch
Spraying plants with fertilizers and pesticides is typically a highly lossy affair – as little as 1% of the substances currently used in industrial and food production farming is actually...