Blue Origin flies thrill seekers to space, including oldest astronaut
Blue Origin saw its first crewed launch since a rocket mishap in 2022 left rival Virgin Galactic as the sole operator in the fledgling suborbital tourism market. After a nearly…
Blue Origin saw its first crewed launch since a rocket mishap in 2022 left rival Virgin Galactic as the sole operator in the fledgling suborbital tourism market. After a nearly…
by Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz, Andrea Guiden Pittman, Andrene J. Castro and Marvin G. Powell, The Conversation Credit: fauxels from Pexels Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision that…
This illustration provided by the University of Vigo and University College London, depicts a dromaeosaur incubating its eggs as snow falls. The raptor, along with other select dinosaurs, may have…
An artist’s impression of VFTS 243 in the Tarantula Nebula. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada. eso.org/public/images/eso2210a/ This week, we reported on the birth throes of black holes, the questionable assertions of a…
Experimental scheme. Credit: Nature Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02472-6 Strong field quantum optics is a rapidly emerging research topic, which merges elements of non-linear photoemission rooted in strong field physics with…
The 2024 presidential election has turned into a crash course in gerontology.On Election Day, former president Donald Trump will be 78 years old, and President Biden will be a couple…
Virginia Tech physicist C. Nadir Kaplan (at left) and doctoral candidate Chinmay Katke (right) discovered a microscopic phenomenon that could greatly improve the performance of soft devices, such as agile…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The first crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner to the International Space Station has been delayed again due to a technical issue, NASA said Friday. The launch…
NASA Science Mission Directorate NASA Keith’s note: the following was sent by Lori Glaze: Dear Colleagues, I’m writing to tell you about some near-term leadership changes in the Planetary Science…
Some claims of high-temperature superconductivity were unable to be recreatedShutterstock / Dragon Claws Physics is in a crisis. Over the past year, a series of research papers claimed to find…