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Bye-bye, BepiColombo: Rocket’s red glare kicks off a marathon mission to Mercury
An Ariane 5 rocket rises from its launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, sending the BepiColombo probe on the first leg of its journey to Mercury. (Arianespace via YouTube)
A mission to the planet Mercury got off to a flashy start with tonight’s launch...
Seattle space leaders make their pitch to lawmakers for a new rocket test facility
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash, get a tour of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s campus in Redmond, Wash., from the facility’s general manager, Ken Young. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle)
REDMOND, Wash. — One of Congress’ leadi...
MSU pioneers new course: Digital introduction to biology, evolution
(Michigan State University) Michigan State University researchers have improved an introductory biology class to make it more accessible for students not majoring in life sciences. The new course, 'Integrative Biology: From DNA to Populations,&#...
Tiny Island Nation to Host World's Largest Microgrid
Palau, under threat from sea level rise, wants to have 70 percent renewable energy by 2050-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
$5 million NSF grant will help researchers show the impact of their work
(University of Missouri-Columbia) The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Missouri a $5.2 million grant over five years to establish the Advancing Research and its Impact on Society (ARIS) Center at Mizzou. It will advance the p...
NASA puts out the call for science and technology payloads made for the moon
An artist’s conception shows ispace’s lander descending to the lunar surface. (ispace Illustration)
NASA is following up on its by soliciting ideas for the scientific and technological payloads to put on them.
Those payloads could be flying to the mo...
12 years after her trip to space, Anousheh Ansari takes over as the CEO of XPRIZE
Anousheh Ansari, the newly named CEO of XPRIZE, comes on stage with co-founder Peter Diamandis at an XPRIZE Visioneering Summit in Los Angeles. (XPRIZE via Twitter)
In 2004, Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari helped fund the . In 2006, she...
With a microbe-produced toxin, bacteria prove old dogs can learn new tricks
(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) In the ongoing chemical battles among bacteria and their microbial neighbors, a new toxin has been uncovered. This unfamiliar toxin behaves in a familiar way. Its actions against other bacteria r...
Boeing and ISS National Lab award $500,000 to boost cancer research in orbit
The International Space Station serves as a platform for microgravity research. (NASA photo)
For the fifth year in a row, Boeing and the International Space Station’s U.S. national laboratory are partnering to pay out up to $500,000 in grants for sta...
Genetic breakthrough by CU Denver scientists will aid whitebark pine conservation efforts
(University of Colorado Denver) A University of Colorado Denver-led research team for the first time developed reliable genetic markers known as nuclear microsatellites for the whitebark pine, a discovery that could improve the tree's prospects...