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A potentially history-making private moon mission is underway. Odysseus, a robotic lunar lander built by the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida early this morning (Feb. 15). If all goes according to plan, Odysseus will touch down near the moon’s …
Google and environmental group Environmental Defense Fund on Wednesday unveiled a partnership to expose sources of climate-warming emissions from oil and gas operations that will be detected from space by a new satellite. MethaneSAT will launch next month, one of several satellites that are being deployed to monitor methane emissions across the globe to …
Mysterious bass noises have shaken a Tampa neighborhood for years, leading residents to band together to solve the enigma. The frustrated South Tampa residents who have heard the puzzling deep bass tones periodically since 2022 have proposed a variety of theories, ranging from boat parties to secret military projects to aliens, according to one …
The American artist Jeff Koons watched as a SpaceX rocket carrying 125 of his miniature moon sculptures and other cargo departed from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the early morning on Thursday. SpaceX estimates that a lunar lander, which was designed by Intuitive Machines and separated from the rocket after takeoff, will …
Hours after the news broke on Wednesday that the United States had picked up worrisome intelligence about Russia’s capacity to strike American satellites, the Pentagon sent a missile-tracking system into orbit, part of a vast new effort to bolster the military’s growing presence in space. The timing was coincidental. But it underscored how concerns …
Ebola is one of the most feared infectious diseases, with more than half of those infected dying. A vaccine has now been shown to cut that mortality rate in half. Source link
During sex, my beautiful and brilliant new girlfriend often initiates the reverse cowgirl position – in other words, she is on top and facing away from me. She enjoys it, but I never cared much for this practice. It doesn’t allow for the intimacy and kissing of face-to-face positions or the full skin contact …
One set of 10 articles identified by Dr. David showed repeated reuse of identical or overlapping black-and-white images of cancer cells supposedly under different experimental conditions, he said. “There’s no reason to have done that unless you weren’t doing the work,” Dr. David said. One of those papers, published in 2012, was formally tagged …
TOPLINE: A cohort study of primary care patients with obesity found significant associations between weight management treatments (WMTs) and ≥ 5% weight loss for individuals. Yet, low WMT utilization hindered population-level benefit. METHODOLOGY: This retrospective, population-based cross-sectional cohort study included 149,959 primary care patients from a Michigan academic health system between October 2015 and …
The CDC announced last week that it’s tracking a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 — named BA.2.87.1 — given its large number of changes in the spike protein. So far, no cases of BA.2.87.1 have been identified in the U.S. In fact, the strain has only been detected in South Africa — just nine times …