Enlarge / Avery, 6, and Aidan, 11, got their second Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Friday, June 25, 2021, as part of the KidCOVE study evaluating the safety and efficacy of the particular Moderna vaccine in young children. (credit: Getty | MediaNews Group ) Wednesday brought some potentially […]
Enlarge / Hot fire of Ursa Major’s oxygen-rich, staged combustion Hadley engine at the company’s Berthoud, Colorado, headquarters. (credit: Ursa Major) Startup Ursa Major announced Wednesday that it had completed qualification of its Hadley rocket engine for use by both a space launch vehicle and a hypersonic launch system. The Colorado-based company said it has […]
Enlarge / A pharmacist at the Community Pharmacy of Saco demonstrates how Abbott’s BinaxNow COVID-19 Ag Card Home Test works by using a nasal swab and a solution onto a test strip. (credit: Getty | Portland Press Herald) To quickly confirm an asymptomatic case of COVID-19, a second rapid test within an hour of a […]
Enlarge / If homeopathic remedies had this much nonwater material in them, we probably wouldn’t be having this discussion. (credit: Iryna Veklich / Getty Images) One of the more productive ways that the methods of science can be used is to look at the scientific process itself. A “meta-science” study (like a recent one published […]
Enlarge / Jeff Bezos (right), the founder of Blue Origin and Amazon.com, and Tory Bruno, CEO of United Launch Alliance, display a small-scale version of the BE-4 rocket engine during a press conference in 2014. (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) As Blue Origin nears the critical point of delivering flight-ready BE-4 rocket engines to United Launch […]
Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with head of Russian space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin during a flight to the Vostochny Cosmodrome on September 4, 2021. (credit: ALEXEY DRUZHININ/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images) The fate of the International Space Station hangs in the balance as tensions between Russia and the West escalate following the country’s […]
New research from MIT explores fire from a whole series of new perspectives. The research uses deep-learning approaches that extract the vibrational features of flames as flickering objects and, in turn, renders them into sounds and materials. The 19th-century physicist Michael Faraday was known not only for his seminal experimental contributions to electromagnetism but also […]
Enlarge / Don’t bother me, I’m busy evolving. (credit: Indrek Lainjärv / EyeEm) When we think of evolution, we often think of slow, gradual changes made over millions of years. However, new research suggests that the process could be happening quite quickly, driving major changes over the course of a single year in response to […]
Enlarge / Don’t bother me, I’m busy evolving. (credit: Indrek Lainjärv / EyeEm) When we think of evolution, we often think of slow, gradual changes made over millions of years. However, new research suggests that the process could be happening quite quickly, driving major changes over the course of a single year in response to […]
Enlarge / A stack of OneWeb satellites is shown before a launch at Baikonur in Kazakhstan. (credit: OneWeb) OneWeb announced on Monday that it has reached an agreement with SpaceX to complete its constellation of low Earth orbit broadband satellites. This decision was necessitated after the United Kingdom-based company} decided it could no longer launch […]