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Blue Origin’s 24th mission was a success. After its New Shepard rocket took off from West Texas on Tuesday morning, the booster and crew capsule safely separated mid-flight, with both landing back on Earth. Liftoff occurs around 25:44 in the livestream and from there, you can see New Shepard propel to a maximum altitude of … Read more
So far, only nine centers across the US are currently offering Casgevy, which may limit who gets access to it. Vertex says the number of participating sites will grow in the coming weeks and months. And despite the promise of a pain-free future, the grueling process of getting Casgevy may be a deterrent for some. … Read more
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a Morning Meeting livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. 1. U.S. stocks climbed higher to start the week, with the S & P 500 reaching another 52-week high on Monday morning. Mega cap technology stocks were bolstering the market, … Read more
AUSTIN (KXAN) – A $20 scratch off could be your ticket to space. The Texas Lottery announced this month a new promotion, the “Space Perspective Cash Adventure,” that could send four lucky winners to space. “We’re always looking for these kinds of unique, extraordinary special prizes,” said Ryan Mindell, Deputy Executive Director for the Texas … Read more
One might say this dolphin sticks out like a sore thumb. Researchers studying marine life in the Gulf of Corinth, off the coast of Greece, spotted a very unusual sight this summer, in the form of a dolphin that appears to be growing “thumbs” from its flippers. Researchers with the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute (PCRI) … Read more
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has admitted he does not know when he will be able to “stop the boats”, insisting there is no “firm date” on the promise he made. The PM made stopping migrant … Read more
The Earth is a wonderful blue and green dot covered with oceans and life, while Venus is a yellowish sterile sphere that is not only inhospitable but also sterile. However, the difference between the two bears to only a few degrees in temperature. A team of astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), with the … Read more
Life portrait of the Maidanetske mega-settlement. Credit: Susanne Beyer, Kiel University Nutrition in Trypillia mega-sites is currently the focus of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1266 at Kiel University (CAU). In the forest steppe northwest of the Black Sea—today the territory of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine—mega-sites of the Trypillia societies emerged about 6,000 … Read more
The first thing visitors to Paragraf’s lab, in the Cambridgeshire village of Somersham, are shown is a thin disc made of synthetic sapphire with a piece of graphene taped on to it. This was the first graphene product the company made, and it quickly evolved to a small wafer of 64 tiny graphene devices arranged … Read more
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25156556/1847880961.jpg "The world came tantalizingly close to a deal to phase out fossil fuels")
What would have been a historic deal to tackle a planetary crisis slipped out of reach at the eleventh hour. Even so, climate-vulnerable countries and environmental advocates scored some key wins with clean energy after heated climate negotiations wrapped up in the United Arab Emirates, a top oil- and gas-producing country. This was the closest … Read more
