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Stratolaunch’s plane spotted from space
11:44pm, 26th September, 2018

Stratolaunch’s plane spotted from space

Stratolaunch’s giant airplane sits outside its hangar at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port in a picture captured on Sept. 22 by DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-1 satellite from an altitude of more than 300 miles. Click on the image for a larger version...
Shaking the swarm
11:53am, 26th September, 2018

Shaking the swarm

(Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) A team of Harvard University researchers spent months shaking and rattling swarms of thousands of honey bees to better understand how bees collectively collaborate to stabilize stru...