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Elon Musk is looking to expand his presence in the Lone Star State. The business magnate shared the news via Twitter on Tuesday, revealing his plans to create his own Texas city called “Spacebase.” Though Musk has kept details to a minimum, Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño confirmed he was aware of the SpaceX CEO’s desire to incorporate Boca Chica Village, […]
Thanks to his habit of actively defending science amid the pandemic era, Dr. Anthony Fauci—the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—has been awarded the $1 million Dan David Prize. The Dan David Foundation, based in Israel, announced Dr. Fauci as the winner of one of three prizes due to the recognition he’s earned […]
SpaceX has announced the first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit, which marks an objectively awesome milestone for the expansion of space travel. Per a press release shared on Monday, SpaceX is targeting “no earlier than” the fourth quarter of 2021 for the Falcon 9 launch of Inspiration4 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in […]
On top of raging wildfires and intensifying hurricanes, the ocean’s angelic and intelligent mammals, a.k.a. dolphins, are severely suffering from the impacts of the climate crisis. An international study recently published in Scientific Reports links a potentially-fatal skin disease in the animals to climate change. According to the study, dolphins have developed a novel “fresh-water skin […]
A newly published study suggests the Milky Way galaxy could contain alien civilizations, though there’s a strong possibility most of them are already dead. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Santiago High School used an expanded version of the famous Drake Equation, which determined the odds of extraterrestrial intelligence existing in our galaxy. The […]
The first known dinosaur with feathers discovered in the Southern Hemisphere was revealed by researchers in a just-published report and this prehistoric peacock has paleontologists pumped. The truly odd Ubirajara jubatus was a chicken-sized carnivore who roamed the area of modern-day Brazil, sported spear-like spines from its shoulders, and a fluffy mane down its back. The newly discovered dinosaur was […]
The sun recently launched a coronal mass ejection, or CME, which is described as “large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from its corona.” Putting that into simpler terms, CNN called it a “massive solar belch,” sending a mass of protons and electrons through the solar system. Check out a visual of it all below. This burst […]
A baby has been born from an embryo that was initially frozen all the way back in October 1992, breaking a record previously held by her older sister. CNN reports that Molly Gibson, the one-month-old baby born from the embryo, was born to parents Tina and Ben of Tennessee this October, 27 years after the […]
An unknown mass that will buzz past earth in the early hours of December 1 (tomorrow) has NASA scientists a tad confused. As a result, this mysterious object has been given the moniker “2020 SO” by those scientists. Also by “buzz” we mean come within between 31,000-32,000 miles of this planet. No need to freak. The […]
Moderna is asking regulators in the U.S. and Europe to fast-track emergency approval of its COVID-19 vaccine, after tests showed it to be 94 percent effective in protecting users against the deadly virus. The two-shot vaccine was tested on a massive sample of 30,000 people. Over the course of the the study, 196 people overall […]
