Sci-tech
SpaceX's Starhopper aces 150 meter test flight after recent failure
It was expected to ascend more than 600 feet. Then, in another chaotic cloud of dust and smoke, lands on a concrete pad a few hundred feet away. SpaceX's Starhopper prototype comes down for a landing during its fourth and final test hop , on August 27, 2019. [Full Article...]
NASA warns huge asteroid 2000 QW7 will pass Earth on September 14
The size of the spectacular space rock was approximated at about 340 meters, making it one of the largest asteroids to pass this close to our planet. 'The impact odds as they stand now are less than one in a million, which makes us comfortable saying we can effectively rule out an Earth impact in 2036. [Full Article...]
Chandrayaan-2 takes photos of craters on lunar surface
The Terrain Mapping Camera 2 (TMC-2) captures a photo of impact craters on the moon, including Jackson, Mitra , Mach, and Korolev. The crater is named after Dr. "Today, the Chandrayaan-2 mission has achieved a major milestone". After that ISRO will undertake manoeuvres on the lander to position it for a ideal landing near the lunar south pole on September 7. [Full Article...]
Remedy's Control Is Out Now
You play as Jesse Faden, a woman who survived an encounter with an extradimensional entity when she was a child. At a young age, a supernatural event led to Dylan's kidnapping by the Bureau, a top-secret organization stationed right in the middle of New York City. [Full Article...]
More fires now burning in Central Africa than in the Amazon
According to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), there have been at least 72,843 fires in Brazil since the start of 2019. A record number of blazes are ravaging the world's largest rainforest, many of them thought to have been started deliberately in Brazil, drawing worldwide concern because of Amazon's importance to the global environment. [Full Article...]
International hotel chain to ditch single-use plastics
This move is expected to reduce Marriott's waste by around 500 million containers, or 1.7 million pounds of plastic, annually. "We are continuously finding ways to reduce our hotels' environmental impact . About 1,000 of Marriott's hotels have made the switch, and reaction from guests has been very positive, the company said. Each brand will implement the larger amenity bottles in a way that ... [Full Article...]
Hurricane Dorian Expected To Hit Florida Sunday Night
This time, Larrauri said the uncertainty made her nervous. The Florida Emergency Operations Center opened Thursday at Level 2, which enhances coordination between local, state and federal EOCs. The storm also downed trees and at least one electric pole in St. Thomas, he said. No serious damage was reported in the British Virgin Islands, where Gov. [Full Article...]
Team gets albino lizards with genetic manipulation
A team of scientists at the University of Georgia has now overcome these challenges to successfully make albino anole lizards , and say it could help us better understand vision problems in humans with albinism . Therefore, they made a decision to inject CRISPR reagents into the unfertilized eggs that were inside the ovaries to see if they had any effect. The researchers believe this shows... [Full Article...]