Enlarge / Quarterback Aaron Rodgers #12 of the Green Bay Packers warms up prior to the game against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field on January 02, 2022 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (credit: Getty | Patrick McDermott) In what may be the worst bait-and-switch in the history of bait-and-switches, sports fans tuned in to The […]
Enlarge / Russia’s chief of spaceflight, Dmitry Rogozin, is barred by US sanctions from traveling to the United States. (credit: Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images) On Wednesday morning, the sprawling Russian corporation that oversees the country’s space activities, Roscosmos, issued a statement from its general director on Twitter that appeared to speak both to NASA as […]
An international team of scientists used synchrotron radiation to image and analyze fossilized fish from the Tanis deposit in North Dakota. Some 66 million years ago, a catastrophic event wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably taking down the dinosaurs. The puzzle of why so many species perished while […]
Enlarge / Virgin Galactic’s new vehicle, VSS Imagine, is lighter than its predecessor, VSS Unity. (credit: Virgin Galactic) Space tourism company Virgin Galactic released its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2021, and the full year, on Tuesday afternoon. As usual, for a company that has yet to begin commercial service of its space […]
Enlarge / A health care worker treats a patient inside a negative pressure room in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Missouri, on Tuesday, August 3, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) Spread of COVID-19 within US hospitals hit a record high in January, with more than 3,000 hospital-acquired infections each […]
This is absolutely horrific — and especially so because it truly could happen to anybody. A teenager in New England was forced to undergo multiple amputations after eating a roommate’ s leftover chicken plus noodle dish from the refrigerator — and quickly thereafter developing what is being termed as the “ devastating” case of sepsis. […]
Enlarge / Image of a recent Aeon 1 engine hot fire test. (credit: Relativity Space) Relativity Space intends to use the small Aeon 1 engine it is developing to power its first rocket for only a few flights. Instead, the company plans to quickly perform a “block upgrade” for the Terran 1 rocket, which will […]
An ecological model has been applied to estimate the number of lost medieval manuscripts in Europe. Those who study human culture must grapple with what amounts to an incomplete data set, since researchers are limited to poring over the books, manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and other artifacts that have survived to learn about a given period. […]
Enlarge (credit: Slimak et al. 2022) According to a recent study, a child’s tooth unearthed from an old layer of a cave floor in Southern France belonged to a member of our species. If so, the tooth is now the oldest evidence of Homo sapiens living in Europe, and its presence means that our species […]
Enlarge / Russia President Vladimir Putin and Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin shake hands during a meeting at the Konstantin Palace. (credit: Mikhail MetzelTASS via Getty Images) Last week, European astronauts issued a call for the continent to develop its own independent means of launching humans into space. As part of their reasoning, the astronauts said […]