U.N. General Assembly President Sets Her Sights on Plastic Pollution
María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés is pushing internal action as well as changes within the U.N.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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NASA sets up more ‘Near Year in Space’ stays, including a record-setter for women
NASA astronaut Christina Koch conducts botany research aboard the International Space Station. (NASA Photo)
Just days after the , the space agency says two more extended stays on the International Space Station are in the works.
One of the missions w...
VP Mike Pence sets 5-year deadline for landing Americans at moon’s south pole
Vice President Mike Pence addresses the audience attending a meeting of the National Space Council at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama with an American flag, space artifacts and rocket models in the background. (NASA via YouTube)
Vice P...
Speed limit on DNA-making sets pace for life's first steps
(Princeton University, Engineering School) Fruit flies make for stingy mothers, imparting only a portion of the genetic building blocks their offspring need to survive. The rest must be produced by the fertilized egg in its first few steps of growth.
SpaceX sets its sights on a lower orbit for Starlink broadband network’s first satellites
SpaceX’s satellite plan suggests that Starlink spacecraft would be placed in two different sets of orbits, starting with lower-orbit satellites at an altitude of 550 kilometers. (PatentYogi via YouTube)
SpaceX wants to lower the bar for its first bat...
Air Force sets up $100,000 VQ-Prize contest for space awareness visualization tools
The VQ-Prize aims to boost the development of new visualization tools for space situational awareness. (Air Force Space Command via YouTube)
The U.S. Air Force is looking for a few good apps to visualize satellites and other objects in Earth orbit —...
Russian cargo ship sets a new record for same-day delivery to space station
News Brief: A robotic Russian Progress cargo craft today was that got it to the International Space Station in less time than it takes to drive from Seattle to Spokane. Liftoff of the Progress’ Soyuz rocket from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakh...