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Antares rocket launches Cygnus cargo ship, doubling up space station deliveries
Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket lights up the night at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (NASA via YouTube)
Two uncrewed cargo craft are now en route to the International Space Station, thanks to the launch of a Northrop Grumman Cygnus sp...
44 years after its first message to aliens, Arecibo Observatory calls for follow-up
A global contest will give the 1974 Arecibo Message a reboot. (Arecibo Observatory Illustration)
The Arecibo Observatory today kicked off a student-focused competition to design a new message to beam to extraterrestrials, 44 years to the day since th...
Treated superalloys demonstrate unprecedented heat resistance
(DOE/Idaho National Laboratory) Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have discovered how to make 'superalloys' even more super, extending useful life by thousands of hours. The discovery could improve materials performance for electrica...
Youth dating violence shaped by parents' conflict-handling views, study finds
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Parents who talk to their children about nonviolent ways of resolving conflict may reduce children's likelihood of physically or psychologically abusing their dating partners later - even when parents...
Playing high school football changes the teenage brain
(University of California - Berkeley) A single season of high school football may cause microscopic changes in the structure of the brain, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Duke University and the Univ...
Spaceflight Industries goes through financial restructuring as key launch nears
Spaceflight’s team gathers in front of SpaceX’s facilities at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California during preparations for a dedicated-rideshare launch. (SpaceflightInc via Twitter)
Seattle-based laid out the status of a debt restructuring plan th...
Researchers launch website on firearm deaths & injuries among children
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Nearly 28,000 American children and teens died because of firearms in the past decade -- second only to the 44,800 who died in motor vehicle collisions. But while the number of young people who die each ye...
New study reveals connection between climate, life and the movement of continents
(University of Texas at Austin) A new study by The University of Texas at Austin has demonstrated a possible link between life on Earth and the movement of continents. The findings show that sediment, which is often comprised from pieces of dead orga...
Rocket Lab reports $150M in fresh funding, cementing space unicorn status
Electron rockets are under construction at Rocket Lab’s production facility in New Zealand. (Rocket Lab Photo)
Fresh on the heels of a successful satellite launch, today announced that it has received $140 million in new investment.
Rocket Lab said t...
Reprogrammed Stem Cells Implanted into Patient with Parkinson's Disease
A man in his 50s is the first of seven patients to receive the experimental therapy-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com