Dream Chaser is delayed again, raising questions about Vulcan launch plans
Is there still a path to Vulcan flying a national security mission in 2023?
Science // Science & Exploration
Rocket Report: German launch company loses backer; Soyuz-5 may be in trouble
“Shooting rockets off in the middle of Los Angeles or Dallas doesn’t make a lot of sense.”
Missouri House advances bill to limit nonexistent vaccine microchips—just in case
The bill aims to stop COVID vaccine mandates while promoting conspiracy theories.
There’s a simpler answer to ‘Oumuamua’s weird orbit: Outgassing hydrogen
‘Oumuamua is "a standard interstellar comet that just experienced heavy processing."
The Paja Formation: An ecosystem of monsters
What allowed an ecosystem to support toothy predators all over the food chain?
Relativity Space has a successful failure with the debut of Terran 1
"Today is a huge win, with many historic firsts."
Moderna CEO brazenly defends 400% COVID shot price hike, downplays NIH’s role
Sen. Sanders accused the company of an "unprecedented level of corporate greed."
Animals without a brain still form associative memories
Cnidarians like anemones and corals have a nerve net, but that seems to be enough.
Beethoven’s genome, sequenced for first time, yields clues on cause of death
Composer had genetic predisposition to liver disease and hepatitis B infection.
Feral hogs are the invasive menace you’ve never thought about
They destroy crops, uproot landscapes, and spread disease—and not much is stopping them.
Relativity Space hopes to live additively ever after with Wednesday’s launch
Watch this one because there won't be many Terran 1 launches.
Here’s the full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on COVID’s origins
The genetic data paints a picture of spillover in one zone of the market.
New VLT data reveals more about aftermath of DART vs. asteroid collision
Two new papers shed light on debris cloud, altered surface of Dimorphos asteroid.
New method gets better performance out of atomically thin transistors
A new way of making wafer-scale electronics out of atomically thin sheets.
Kazakhstan’s seizure of Russian space assets threatens the Soyuz-5 rocket
Russia has spent nearly $1 billion on the development of the new Soyuz-5 rocket.
