The rocket’s first stage may have exploded moments after it separated from the upper stage. Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket on […]
Tag: Science
Physics of the perfect cacio e pepe sauce
The trick: Add corn starch separately to make the sauce rather than using pasta water. Cacio e pepe is an […]
Trump’s National Climate Assessment: No funding and all authors cut loose
As part of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, Congress mandated that every four years, the government must produce […]
A rocket launch Monday night may finally jump-start Amazon’s answer to Starlink
“This launch marks the first step toward the future of our partnership and increased launch cadence,” Bruno said. “We have […]
Spain is about to face the challenge of a “black start”
Local conditions While the grids in Spain and Portugal are connected to each other, they have limited connections to elsewhere. […]
50 years later, Vietnam’s environment still bears the scars of war
Large amounts of Agent Orange had been stored at the Da Nang airport during the war and contaminated the soil […]
New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths
“Microlensing” lets us find planets at much greater distances from their star. What does the “typical” exosolar system look like? […]
A grim signal: Atmospheric CO2 soared in 2024
The unprecedented increase of atmospheric CO2 is just one of several red lights flashing on the climate dashboard. This graph […]
Rocket Report: The pitfalls of rideshare; China launches next Tiangong crew
This week, engineers ground-tested upgrades for Blue Origin’s New Glenn and Europe’s Ariane 6. A Long March 2F carrier rocket, […]
A 2,000-year-old battle ended in fire, and a tree species never recovered
Then everything changed when the Fire Nation—sorry, the Han Empire—attacked. Han rose to power in the wake of Qin’s collapse, […]