Erin Brockovich’s crusade against data centers is going crowd-sourced
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WASHINGTON — Serbia is the latest nation to sign the Artemis Accords, joining the U.S.-led effort more than two years after signing on to China’s lunar base project. In a July 16 ceremony at NASA Headquarters, Marko Đurić, Serbia’s minister of foreign affairs, signed the Accords. Serbia is the 69th country to sign the document,…
New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by precisely tracking its motion through space and using powerful observatories that image faint celestial objects. This object has a dual personality: Past images hadn’t revealed obvious cometlike activity, suggesting it might be…
Japan has succeeded in the first-ever flight test of its RV-X experimental reusable rocket prototype. The launch — or hop, considering its duration and distance — took place at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Noshiro test facility on July 11 and lasted about 40 seconds. The 24-foot-tall (7.3 meters) test vehicle, powered by a…
If you’re sick of your dead-straight hair or untameable curls, the blame doesn’t start with your wash and dry routine, or even the temperature or humidity of your surroundings. It begins below the skin’s surface with hundreds of thousands of tiny follicles littering your scalp. In 2005, scientists dissected human scalp follicles and found that…
Kate Adamala has a vision of the future. In it, biology would replace chemical manufacturing. “Ultimate success,” says the synthetic biologist, would be that “all the atoms we’re moving in our economy are moved with biology.” Adamala and her colleagues at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis announced one step toward that future on July…
When the Motion Picture Association first moved away from the draconian Hays Code to the voluntary rating system still widely used today, the infamous X rating was reserved for films with obscene levels of bloodshed, erotic content, or coarse language. It was viewed by mainstream studios as a mark of doom for a film’s theatrical…