On Jan. 19, SpaceX performed its final test before putting astronauts in its Crew Dragon capsule by intentionally aborting a Falcon 9 rocket launch shortly after liftoff. A video of...
It's been a long, cold weekend of hunkering down for people living in eastern Canada. A powerful blizzard dumped a record-shattering amount of snow on the province of Newfoundland across...
SpaceX and NASA exploded a Falcon 9 rocket to test a very important safety feature, Crew Dragon's in-flight escape system. It was the final milestone before SpaceX gets NASA's approval...
After six years as head of DuPont, Ellen Kullman joins the fast-growing 3D printing company Brian Heater @bheater / 2 months Last month, Carbon announced its first new CEO in...
Australia's historic fire season, enhanced by a warming climate, still rages. Though the profoundly parched bushlands around southeastern Australia received a much-needed deluge in mid-January, the rain was only enough...
Capella Space is all set to begin commercial operations in 2020, with the launch of seven satellites that will provide synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-based imaging, which will provide its clients...
It might not come as a shock to learn that stress can turn your hair gray, but a team of Harvard scientists recently discovered the surprising reason why. Scientists have...
In 1937, aboard slowly-moving trains, the Army National Guard used flamethrowers in an attempt to quell a relentless plague of locusts crossing through Colorado. But the flamethrowers failed. And so...
Plenty of the ocean remains unexplored, even though it’s a huge trove of potentially valuable information. Current methods for mapping and gathering ocean data, especially deep-ocean data, generally require humans...
In the last few years, the use of 3D printing has exploded in medicine. Engineers and medical professionals now routinely 3D print prosthetic hands and surgical tools. But 3D printing...
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