US investigative authorities slammed Boeing after Elizabeth Lund, Boeing senior vice president of quality, discussed an ongoing probe at a media briefing this week. A US investigative authority sharply rebuked…
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The science behind splashdown—aerospace engineer explains how NASA and SpaceX get spacecraft safely back
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For about 15 minutes on July 21, 1961, American astronaut Gus Grissom felt at the top of the world—and indeed he was. Grissom crewed the Liberty…
The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct
Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s last woolly mammoth took its final breath. Living on that island, isolated from…
how standing dead biomass affects litter decomposition of herbs – Functional Ecologists
In this Behind the Paper blog post, Šárka Angst – a research assistant at the Czech Academy of Sciences – discusses her paper “The effect of dead standing (marcescent) biomass…
UK’s Labour pledges climate “solidarity” with developing nations, no new funds
Labour’s shadow foreign minister says cost-of-living crisis means some climate finance must come from outside rich governments’ budgets A Labour Party government in the UK would show “full solidarity and…
First of Its Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image
For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) has captured a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to image directly. In this stunning image of the Serpens…
First specific PET scan for TB could enable more effective treatment
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A more accurate way to scan for tuberculosis (TB) has been developed by UK and US researchers, using positron emission tomography (PET). The team, from the…
NBC brings AI version of legendary broadcaster to Olympic coverage
Human editors at NBCUniversal will be checking the accuracy of personalized recaps of Olympics Games events in Paris that will be available at Peacock streaming service. US media giant NBCUniversal…
What are the prospects of developing a COVID vaccine against all strains and future pandemics?
The arrival of the next pandemic is a matter of when, not if. In order to be prepared for it, we will need government-funded basic science in universities and the…
