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SpaceX launched its biggest, most powerful Starship yet on a test flight Friday, an upgraded version that NASA is counting on to land astronauts on the moon.
SpaceX launched its biggest, most powerful Starship yet on a test flight Friday, an upgraded version that NASA is counting on to land astronauts on the moon. The redesigned mega rocket made its debut two days after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced he's taking the company public. This week, another wealthy space tourist — Chinese-born bitcoin investor Chun Wang — announced he will fly to Mars on Starship's first interplanetary mission.
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A SpaceX rocket is getting prepared for another attempt to liftoff at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fl., on Sept. 9, 2024. The Elon Musk-controlled company is preparing to go public in what's.
For a habit to stick, you need to do more than just repeat it, says behavioral scientist BJ Fogg, founder of Stanford's Behavior Design Lab. Fogg shares insights based on the Tiny Habits method, a research-backed approach he developed in 2007 on how to create lasting change.
Wade Hanicker poses for a portrait at his home in Brooksville, Fla., on March 23. Hanicker was diagnosed with silicosis after years of cutting quartz countertops. Tina.
A new nanotechnology treatment reversed Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice by restoring the brain’s natural cleanup system.
Scientists have produced the clearest view ever of part of the cosmic web, the enormous hidden network of matter that stretches across the Universe and connects galaxies together. After spending hundreds of hours collecting observations, an international team captured a detailed image of a massive cosmic filament linking two actively forming galaxies from a time when the Universe was only about 2 billion years old. The study, led by Davide Tornotti, PhD student at the University of Milano-Bicocca, produced the sharpest image ever captured of a cosmic filament stretching roughly 3 million light-years.
NPR's science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how future sunscreens might come from fish, how loving art may impact aging, and a student's quest to build a more sustainable marimba.
Several views of the molar tooth archeologists discovered in Chagyrskaya Cave. Zubova et al./PLOS One hide.
Researchers at UBC Okanagan have uncovered the process plants use to create mitraphylline, a rare natural compound that has attracted attention for its possible cancer fighting properties. Barber Faculty of Science identified the first known plant enzyme capable of twisting a molecule into the distinctive spiro shape. "UBC Okanagan's mentorship and support made this possible, and I'm excited to keep growing as a researcher here in Canada."
