Well-designed urban street plantings provide relief from summer heat
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Newswise — Researchers have found an ingenious way to make soft robots and wearable technology more than three times more powerful by harnessing the surface tension of a tiny liquid metal droplet smaller than a rain droplet. Their breakthrough, demonstrated in a new study led by the University of Bristol, with collaboration of North Carolina…
Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, the most prolific comet-discoverer of all time gets his start. With a remarkable memory and a “comet-seeker” telescope, Jean-Louis Pons found more comets than any other observer in history. Credit: Wikimedia On July 11, 1801, French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery, c/1801…
I just read some great background info on why NASA lost the race for the first manned mission into space in John Logsdon’s great book – John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon: But the January 31 [1961] flight with Ham aboard had landed 132 miles downrange from its target point and had…
A SpaceX rocket just inched closer to the record books. A Falcon 9 vehicle lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California tonight (July 10) at 11:01 p.m. EDT (8:01 p.m. local time; 0301 GMT on July 11), carrying 29 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO). It was the 35th…
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Two organizations show how patient trust is reshaping clinical trials and accelerating drug development. Boston Globe via Getty Images Research by the Tufts Center reports that every day a clinical trial runs behind schedule it costs sponsor organizations an average of $800,000 in unrealized drug sales. And most trials run very far behind with around…