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Spaceflight strikes a deal to put rideshare satellites on Relativity Space’s rocket
An artist’s conception shows Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket lifting off from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (Relativity Space Illustration)
Seattle-based has signed a launch services agreement to put payloads on Relativity...
Public dread of nuclear power limits its use
(Carnegie Mellon University) Nuclear power has been a part of the American energy portfolio since the 1950s, but for a number of reasons, the general public has long felt a significant dread about it.
Transplanting gut bacteria alters depression-related behavior, brain inflammation in animals
(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Scientists have shown that transplanting gut bacteria, from an animal that is vulnerable to social stress to a non-stressed animal, can cause vulnerable behavior in the recipient. The research reveals detail...
New molecule maps cerebrovascular system
(Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Peptide developed in Brazil is capable of binding to the blood-brain barrier that protects the central nervous system and could help create novel imaging tests to diagnose Alzheimer's and Pa...
NOAA announces $94 million ocean exploration institute led by University of Rhode Island
(University of Rhode Island) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration selects University of Rhode Island to lead new $94 million consortium to support ocean exploration.
Pan-European LifeTime initiative is launching in Berlin
(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) About 500 scientists, clinicians, patients, and stakeholders from 20 European countries and beyond have gathered in Berlin at the LifeTime Opening Conference. The pan-European...
Can 3-D Printing Produce Lung and Liver Tissue for Transplants?
New technique creates working models—with a little help from grocery-store food coloring-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Rapid heating equipment for semiconductor devices using innovative wireless lamp
(Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) Researchers from Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology (TUAT), ORC Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and Techno Research., Ltd achieved high quality crystallization of amorphous silicon film by developing...
Hurricane Maria Prompts Rare Investigation into Building Damage
The National Institute of Standards and Technology inquiry will also examine communications failures and the storms’ death toll-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction
Landmark UN-backed report finds that agriculture is one of the biggest threats to Earth’s ecosystems-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com