The unsexy, degraded parts of national parks just got vital funding
Sewage pipes and water lines aren't the sexiest things in national parks. But they're critical. The main water line in Grand Canyon National Park, a park considered a crown jewel...
Google promotes wearing a face mask in helpful Doodle
Google's latest Doodle is promoting one simple act of kindness: wearing a face mask. Replacing the company's logo on Wednesday, the Doodle sees the letters of Google's name grow little...
Watch SpaceX’s stunning Starship prototype ‘hop’ test flight and landing – TechCrunch
SpaceX achieved a big win in their Starship spacecraft development program on Tuesday evening, flying the SN5 prototype of that future vehicle to a height of around 500 feet, propelled...
SpaceX successfully flies its Starship prototype to a height of around 500 feet – TechCrunch
SpaceX has been developing Starship, its next-generation spacecraft, at its site in Boca Chica, Texas. The company has built a number of different Starship prototypes to date, include one prior...
What if black holes had a safe zone where little planets could live? Let’s call them blanets
Every once in a while the scientific community comes up with a discovery so important that it immediately changes the course of human evolution. I’m talking of course about the...
Twitter scientist who died of COVID-19 turned out to be a hoax. It only gets weirder from there.
What first seemed to be a tragic story — a professor was forced to work in-person and later died from COVID-19 — now seems to be a strange hoax. Multiple...
The kids aren’t alright
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Rocket Lab boosts Electron rocket’s lift capacity by 660 lbs – TechCrunch
Rocket Lab has managed to engineer a significant payload capacity bump into its existing Electron space launch vehicle, the company revealed today. Electron can now fly as much as 300...
How interplanetary migration could impact human evolution
I evolve best under pressure The first lunar colonies could start the next step of human evolution in just a few short decades. Image credit: NASA/Dennis Davidson How will this...
California’s Apple Fire spawns towering smoky clouds
When wildfires grow hot and large enough, they can spawn towering, smoky clouds. The Apple Fire burning in Southern California’s San Bernardino National Forest produced these big plumes, called pyrocumulus...