ULA crews at Cape Canaveral have already stacked the next Vulcan rocket on its mobile launch platform in anticipation of […]
Category: Science
22 states sue to block new NIH funding policy—court puts it on hold
Regardless of what else they might be doing, the indirect costs pay for various critical campus services, including at research […]
After Trump killed a report on nature, researchers push ahead with release
Skip to content “What does nature mean to you?” Major report was designed to answer the public’s biggest questions on […]
National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities
Grants paid by the federal government have two components. One covers the direct costs of performing the research, paying for […]
Return of the California Condor
North America’s largest bird disappeared from the wild in the late 1980s. The spring morning is cool and bright in […]
Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Vast’s schedule for deploying a mini-space station in low-Earth orbit was always ambitious. A stack of 21 Starlink internet satellites […]
White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation
The president proposes, and Congress disposes There are important caveats to this proposal. The Trump administration has probably not even […]
The UK got rid of coal—where’s it going next?
Clean, but not fully green The UK has transitioned to a lower-emission grid. Now comes the hard part. With the […]
Parrots struggle when told to do something other than mimic their peers
There have been many studies on the capability of non-human animals to mimic transitive actions—actions that have a purpose. Hardly […]
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
More data will likely reduce the chance of an impact to zero. If not, we have options. Discovery images of […]
