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Humanity's quest to discover the origins of life Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 06, 2023 "We are living in an extraordinary moment in history," says Didier Queloz, who directs ETH Zurich's Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life and the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe at Cambridge. While still a doctoral student Queloz was the first to discover an exoplanet - a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside of Earth's solar system. A discovery for which he would later receive a Nobel Prize in physics. Within a generation, scientists have now discovered more than 5,000 exoplanet ... read more |
SpaceX launches 40 OneWeb internet satellites, lands booster Space Coast FL (SPX) Mar 10, 2023 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 40 broadband satellites into a polar orbit for the London-based company OneWeb on Thursday, March 9, and eight minutes later the rocket's first stage booster landed ... more Maxwell AFB AK (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 The Department of the Air Force launched a toolkit March 8, 2023, providing a supplemental resource for commanders to tailor training specifically oriented to the United States' pacing challenge. ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2023 The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) made the first-ever measurement of heavy atomic oxygen in Earth's upper atmosphere. Heavy oxygen is so called because it has 10 neu ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2023 In places across the U.S., tree cover is shrinking - forests are burned by wildfires on the West Coast and drowned by rising sea levels along the East. From the ground, it's hard to assess the scale ... more |
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NASA engages US farmers to bring satellite data Down to Earth Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 Since the launch of the first Landsat satellite in 1972, NASA and its partners have mapped agriculture worldwide and provided key input into global supply outlooks that bolster the economy and food ... more Fort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Mar 06, 2023 FocusPoint International (FocusPoint), the critical event management company that specializes in Emergency Response as a Service (ERaaS), announced that it has secured $20M in committed financing fr ... more Austin TX (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 Two-dimensional semiconductors have a chance to galvanize significant advances in electronic device capabilities, replacing silicon-based chips. However, many problems continue to hold back these de ... more Cleveland OH (SPX) Mar 06, 2023 Since the dawn of the 21st century, civilization has evolved into a high-speed digital society with networks of fiberoptics, Wi-Fi, and internet protocols connecting users across the globe. As ... more |
Drugs from the deep: scientists explore ocean frontiers Paris (AFP) March 3, 2023 Some send divers in speed boats, others dispatch submersible robots to search the seafloor, and one team deploys a "mud missile" - all tools used by scientists to scour the world's oceans for the next potent cancer treatment or antibiotic. ... more Beijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2023 China has successfully performed the first in-orbit ignition test in the Mengtian space lab module's combustion cabinet, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU ... more Riverside CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2023 A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on this planet, according to a UC Riverside experiment. UCR astroph ... more Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2023 In 2023, the German Aerospace Centerwill provide significant research support for the development and rapid application of sustainable technologies. The aim is to make the best possible use of innov ... more |
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