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[ad_1] SpaceX has successfully launched a flight-tested Falcon 9 rocket for the historic launch debut of the Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft. The weather for 11:39 am EST tomorrow (16:39 UTC), the December 5th launch attempt is only 40% favorable, but conditions should improve during a backup window around 11:15 am, …

[ad_1] While products that promise to protect you from radiation are far from new, now so-called Faraday router cages that claim to block radiation from the damaging electromagnetic field (and 5G signal too) are proliferating on Amazon. In a tweet yesterday, user @AnsgarTOdinson posted some screenshots from Amazon of “Faraday …

[ad_1] The Four Mountain Islands, a small group of volcanic islands in central Aleutians, may actually be part of a single giant volcano to be discovered in the same category as Yellowstone, according to new research. An oblique aerial photo of the volcanoes of the Four Mountain Islands, Alaska, taken …

[ad_1] NASA’s Voyager spacecraft may be billions of kilometers away and over 40 years old, but they are still making significant discoveries, new research reveals. An article published today in the Astronomical Journal describes an entirely new form of electron blast, a discovery made possible by the intrepid Voyager probes. …

[ad_1] The Arecibo Observatory radio telescope collapsed Tuesday morning when its 900-tonne suspended platform crashed into the huge dish below. Arecibo has been one of the best radio astronomy instruments on Earth for 57 years. His death is a major blow to asteroid tracking efforts and the hunt for alien …

[ad_1] Scientists are one step closer to restoring vision for the blind, having built an implant that bypasses the eyes and allows monkeys to perceive artificially induced patterns in their brains. The technology, developed by a team from the Dutch Institute of Neuroscience (NIN), was featured in the journal Science …

[ad_1] This photo from 1964 shows a Centaur rocket in the upper stage. The 2020 SO space object is one of them. NASA Welcome back, Surveyor 2 Centaur Missile Booster. We have just received a new chapter in a bittersweet space saga that features a fiery launch, a doomed moon …

[ad_1] Whether they are orange, pink or red, salmon shares a common color: green. According to a study published earlier this year, salmon was the third most valuable type of fish, valued at $ 598 billion in 2018. Salmon is not only good, but also good for us. These fish …

[ad_1] Primates process visual information in front of their eyes, similar to pixels on a digital camera, using small computing units located in the visual cortex of their brains. In order to understand the origins of our visual abilities, scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with the …

[ad_1] NASA names the companies that will mine the moonThe Washington Post NASA will pay a company $ 1 to collect the moon rocksCNBC NASA selects four companies to collect lunar material as it seeks to set a precedent for private sector outer space miningTechCrunch NASA selects companies to raise …