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Flu Season Length May Differ by City Size
Work suggests preparedness strategy should differ by location-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Boeing and SpaceX reschedule Starliner and Dragon space taxi flight tests for 2019
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner are being developed to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA. (SpaceX / Boeing Illustrations)
NASA says we’ll have to wait until 2019 to see the first orbital tes...
Species-rich forests store twice as much carbon as monocultures
(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig) Species-rich subtropical forests can take up twice as much carbon as monocultures. This has been reported by an international research team in SCIENCE. The study was carr...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin makes a deal to build rocket servicing center in Florida
An artist’s conception shows Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket booster landing on a recovery ship. (Blue Origin Illustration via YouTube)
Blue Origin, the space venture created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has struck a deal with Florida’s spaceport aut...
U.S.-Russian trio returns to Earth from space station on Sputnik anniversary
At the end of its parachute, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft fires its landing pyrotechnic devices as it touches down, bringing a U.S.-Russian crew back to Earth from the International Space Station. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls)
What better way to celebrat...
SMU engineering profs receive NSF grant to improve drone communications
(Southern Methodist University) The $849,839 grant to SMU engineering faculty will be used to improve unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) communications, and will support the conversion of warehouse space into an indoor testing facility.
UM earns $10M contract to develop universal flu vaccine
(The University of Montana) The National Institutes of Health have awarded a $10 million contract to the University of Montana to develop a new universal flu vaccine.
Can a Mood-Predicting Smartphone App Work?
Evidence behind a digital tech intervention remains scant -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
More wet and dry weather extremes projected with global warming
(Rutgers University) Global warming is projected to spawn more extreme wet and dry weather around the world, according to a Rutgers-led study. Those extremes include more frequent dry spells in the northwestern, central and southern United States and...
What you can't see can hurt you
(University of Utah) Engineers from the University of Utah's School of Computing conducted a study to determine if homeowners change the way they live if they could visualize the air quality in their house.