First Pictures: Viking 1 on Mars – July 20, 1976 – 50 Years Ago

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SpaceX will launch the thirteenth Starship flight test from Starbase, Texas on Friday. The mission tests upgraded Super Heavy and Starship vehicles, deploys 20 next-generation Starlink satellites, conducts an in-space Raptor engine relight, and attempts a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The initial launch on July 13 was delayed after some of the engines…

We’re a far cry from the days where it was easy to falsely generalize horror films as disposable low-brow entertainment. Today, the genre has firmly established itself as both a reliable money-maker and a playground for intellectuals. Not a year has gone past in the last decade without a major horror release making waves critically…

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Brisbane’s Boggo Road Innovation Junction (BRIJ) precinct has grown from a long-term legacy in healthcare and community services to position itself as a national locus for life science scale-up. Professor Trent Munro, General Manager of the BRIJ, and Rebekah Cassidy, CEO of AusBiotech, spoke with BiotechDispatch about the precinct’s contribution to how Australia’s life sciences…

A 6-year-old girl was given a first-of-its-kind gene therapy in a hospital in China for a nonlethal condition. Within a week, she was dead. Her death was never publicly disclosed by the scientists who developed and administered her experimental gene therapy. But now, more than a year after her death, her parents are telling her…