After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why?
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Cute Baby Giraffe Is Completely Baffled by Mirror Enrichment Activity
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ASTRONOMY FOR WHĀNAU: GEMINIDS METEOR SHOWER PEAKS SATURDAY – Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
Role Funding: Sky watchers throughout Aotearoa are preparing for the Geminids meteor shower, peaking this weekend – a…
The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial
It is fitting that this week’s UN environment talks are in Nairobi, with Africa shaping the global climate…
NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one
Technicians work on the MAVEN spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its launch in…
The most monogamous animals – and where humans rank
Humans are one of the most monogamous mammals, research reveals. A study by the University of Cambridge has…
Collaborative project seeks safer therapies for ischemia and reperfusion injury
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Trinity University will improve a prodrug, a compound activated in the body, to…
‘Those who are responsible … must pay’
Natural disaster survivors in the Philippines and Pakistan have launched lawsuits against oil giant Shell, energy company RWE,…
The Lense-Thirring Effect: Spacetime Vortices Spotted For The First Time As Black Hole Kills A Star
Spinning massive objects drag spacetime along with them. This curious phenomenon is an important prediction in general relativity,…
Geminid meteor shower: where to watch Australia’s biggest shooting star show this weekend | Meteors
They’re bright, they’re plentiful and the Geminids – which make up what’s regarded as one of the best…
The Take: Is New Delhi’s toxic smog making the city unliveable? | Environment News
PodcastPodcast, The Take New Delhi’s residents have taken to the streets to protest the city’s air pollution crisis.…
World’s largest fusion device solves key plasma heat loss challenge
For decades, physicists have been puzzled by a phenomenon inside fusion reactors that defies conventional theory: heat escaping…