Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a giant in the world of astrophysics, a brilliant mind whose contributions to theoretical physics earned him the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with William A. Fowler for their groundbreaking work in “…theoretical studies of the […]
After an incredible 151-year journey, Popular Science, the iconic science and technology magazine, is bidding farewell to its print edition and embracing a fully digital future. The decision marks the end of an era for the magazine, which has been […]
Microsoft co-founder is always making headlines. When he’s not talking about vaccines, he’s talking about how to save humanity from the impending doom of climate change. But this time, he’s shifted gears to talk about space as he renews his […]
Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made one of the highest-performance cameras ever composed of sensors that count single photons, or particles of light. With over 1,000 sensors or pixels, NIST’s superconducting camera can count […]
It appears the story of the US Military bioweapon labs in Ukraine is never going away. Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, there were numerous reports circulating on social media that Russia invaded Ukraine to target the U.S. […]
In December 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned that dwindling global fertility rates could result in the end of civilization as we know it. Musk argued that “civilization is going to crumble” unless people have more children. “There are not enough people,” Musk […]
Amberstone Biosciences, a Laguna Hills, California-based biotech startup that is focused on discovering novel immunotherapies, announced today it has secured $12 million in Series A funding to develop immunotherapeutics to treat solid tumors cancers, and other diseases. The round was led by Viva BioInnovator, […]
In March, we wrote a piece about a future spacecraft that could reach the speed of 72 million miles per hour and potentially becomes the spacecraft for future interstellar travel. Known as the antimatter rocket, the new spacecraft could provide […]
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the laboratory that produced the first atomic bombs used during World War II and the home of the primary nuclear weapons research facility in the United States, is about to lose dozens of its top nuclear […]
The UK food industry, already stressed from supply chain woes and labor shortages due to Brexit and the covid pandemic, is now under even more pressure due to the lack of carbon dioxide (CO2). Yes, you read it right–lack of […]
For over a year now, we have been trying to shed more light on the issue of mental health and what some tech startups are doing to help organizations reverse the trend, especially among tech workers around the world. Zhang […]
The quality of education at U.S. public schools is at an all-time low. We now live at a time when students depend more on calculators and Google to calculate very simple arithmetic. Gone are the days of the slide rule […]
Have you heard the phrase, “It’s not rocket science?” When someone says this, they usually mean that something is not too difficult. Oftentimes, “rocket science” is used as a metaphor for something complex, complicated, arcane, or difficult. Rocket science is based on basic […]
Turn Biotechnologies is a Silicon Valley-based tech startup and a Stanford University spinout that is developing mRNA medicines that induce the body to heal itself by instructing specific cells to fight disease or repair damaged tissue. Using the same mRNA technology […]
We covered Medable late last year after the Silicon Valley-based health tech startup raised $91 million in Series C funding to revolutionize clinical trials and reduce clinical trial timelines by 50 percent. Medable is transforming clinical research and predictive medicine […]
We honestly did not see this coming. Yesterday night, we updated you about NASA’s mission to the asteroid called 16 Psyche that’s scheduled for August 2022. The asteroid 16 Psyche is a giant metallic asteroid with large quantities of gold, platinum, […]
In the summer of 2020, SpaceX raised $1.9 billion in funding at a little over $40 billion in valuation, according to a regulatory filing which showed that 75 investors made equity investments in Elon Musk’s launch company. The announcement came just three months after […]
OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission. According to NASA, the mission’s primary goal is to obtain a sample of at least 60 g (2.1 oz) from 101955 Bennu, a near-Earth […]
When you look at seas and oceans on the map or from outer space, you might think that they just flow into each other. On the surface, it looks like there’s only one big giant ocean and scientists just gave […]
