“We’re going to be making 3D movies of what is going on in the Milky Way galaxy.” A few weeks ago, technicians inside a cavernous clean room in Maryland made the final connection to complete assembly of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Parts of this new observatory, named…
Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox believes his state needs more power—a lot more. By some estimates, Utah will require as much electricity in the next five years as it generated all last century…
Gov’ts agree to ban or restrict international trade in shark meat, fins, and other products. For the first time, global governments have agreed to widespread international trade bans and restrictions for sharks and rays being driven to extinction. Last week, more than 70 shark and ray species, including oceanic…
Managing each finger separately can, with the right sensors, ease control issues. Modern bionic hand prostheses nearly match their natural counterparts when it comes to dexterity, degrees of freedom, and capability. And many amputees who tried advanced bionic hands apparently didn’t like them. “Up to 50 percent of people…
“If we build these platforms well, we get to ask new questions about what’s possible in orbit.” A startup established three years ago to churn out a new class of high-power satellites has raised $250 million to ramp up production at its Southern California factory. The company, named K2,…
Join us Tuesday, December 16, at 2 pm ET to hear from leaders who resigned in protest. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in critical condition. This year, the premier public health agency had its funding brutally cut and staff gutted, its mission sabotaged, and its headquarters…
There’s a less than 5 percent chance that earlier anomalies can be explained by fourth neutrino “flavor.” Since the 1990s, physicists have pondered the tantalizing possibility of an exotic fourth type of neutrino, dubbed the “sterile” neutrino, that doesn’t interact with regular matter at all, apart from its fellow…
If NASA is serious about exploring Mars, it’s past time to send new missions. NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission is running…
We didn’t start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.) Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the sediment at the site, along with the telltale…
The “arbitrary and capricious” standard strikes down another administration action. On Monday, US District Court Judge Patti Saris vacated a Trump executive order that brought a halt to all offshore wind power development, as well as some projects on land. That order had called for the suspension of all…
