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Spaceflight’s SmallSat Express rounds up 74 satellites for SpaceX launch by year’s end
An engineer at Spaceflight’s facility in Auburn, Wash., checks out hardware for the company’s SmallSat Express, due for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this year. (Spaceflight Photo)
LOGAN, Utah — Seattle-based is confirming that it has 74 satelli...
Blowing Up Illegal Fishing Boats Helps Indonesian Fishers
The extreme practice could put the island nation’s fish catch on a path toward sustainability-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Subverting the Intended Use of Objects
From childhood forts to grown-up life hacks-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Noted UTA health care scholar elected American College of Cardiology Fellow
(University of Texas at Arlington) Mark Haykowsky, a University of Texas at Arlington nursing professor and leading expert in exercise physiology and heart failure rehabilitation, has been elected a fellow of the American College of Cardiology or ACC...
NASA names nine astronauts for SpaceX and Boeing flights to space station
The crews for the first four flights on SpaceX and Boeing space taxis wave to the cameras after their introduction at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. (NASA via YouTube)
NASA unveiled the first nine astronauts for its commercial crew missions to...
Chinese Heavy Metal: How Beijing Could Use Rare-Earths to Outplay America
By putting tariffs on these materials, vital for energy and defense technology, the White House would be shooting the U.S. in the foot-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
States Struggle to Reduce CO2 Emissions from Transportation
The proposal to freeze fuel efficiency standards have dealt those efforts another setback-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The new tree of life of freshwater macroinvertebrates in the European continent
(University of Barcelona) A study from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute of the University of Barcelona (IRBio-UB) analysed how water macroinvertebrate species, such as beetles, mosquitos and dragonflies, evolved and dive...
Rethinking ketchup packets: New approach to slippery packaging aims to cut food waste
(Virginia Tech) New research from Virginia Tech aims to cut down on waste -- and consumer frustration -- with a novel approach to creating super slippery industrial packaging. The study, which has yielded a provisional patent, establishes a method fo...
NASA confirms new timetable for space taxi flights; SpaceX to fly crew next April
An artist’s conception shows SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship docking with the International Space Station, plus a cargo-carrying version of the Dragon in the foreground. (SpaceX Illustration via NASA)
NASA today for flying astronauts to the Internatio...