Sci-tech
Canada 'going to the Moon': Trudeau
NASA's goal is to create a sustainable architecture together with global and commercial partners to support permanent lunar operations. The government also said this investment will also give Canadian astronauts the opportunity to participate in missions to space and our scientists a chance to conduct cutting-edge research that can not be done on Earth. [Full Article...]
SpaceX launches demo flight, with humans
A crowd cheered as the rocket blasted off in a ball of fire and smoke and flash of light early Saturday, within minutes reaching speeds upwards of 4,000 miles per hour as it gained altitude. Musk said the redesigned capsule has "hardly a part in common" with its predecessor. About 450 pounds (200 kilograms) of supplies are going up on this flight. [Full Article...]
Waste-to-Energy Technologies Market-Trends,Latest Leading Key Plyers and Forecast 2023
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A dinner-plate-sized tarantula drag an opossum it just killed
Just when you think you've seen it all, a team led by University of MI biologists captured shocking video of a massive tarantula dragging a small opossum around the forest floor in Peru . While spiders are among the most diverse predators in the tropics, knowledge of such interactions has been limited. But one occasion really stands out. [Full Article...]
Wheeler gets EPA Senate Confirmation
In a speech on the Senate floor following that vote, Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat from DE, said that in some cases Wheeler has "accelerated the environmental damage and regulatory zeal" that Pruitt began. Targeting an Obama-era policy opposed by farmers, the EPA announced plans in December under Wheeler's leadership to kill a clean-water rule that offered federal protections for wetlands and... [Full Article...]
SpaceX launches unmanned U.S. space capsule to space station
A SpaceX rocket with a newly designed unmanned crew capsule blasted off on Saturday for the International Space Station, in a key milestone for Elon Musk's space company and NASA's long-delayed goal to resume human spaceflight from USA soil later this year. [Full Article...]
Ugh! Video shows giant tarantula preying on opossum
It's not surprising that spiders have varied diets. These observations suggest that arthropods are "a major source of mortality" for small vertebrates, said study co-author Dan Rabosky, an associate professor of herpetology at UM and a curator at the UM Museum of Zoology. [Full Article...]
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-1 Test Flight in Pictures
California's SpaceX firm is performing a demonstration of a new rocket and capsule system, which, if it works well, will be approved to carry people. NASA has scheduled the launch for 11:49 p.m. Now, as the hours continue to tick down, NASA has published a lovely little video showing off what the interior of the Crew Dragon looks like. Meanwhile, cameras attached to the station's Canadian-buil... [Full Article...]