SpaceX says on its website that it aims to conduct the sixth test flight of Starship as early as 18 NovemberSpaceX SpaceX is making preparations for the sixth test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket, Starship. The company has...
Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining control, which might help the cars recover from dangerous situations Source link...
Measuring the massive coralInigo San Felix/National Geographic Society In the south-west Pacific, off the coast of one of the tropical Solomon Islands, a giant structure beneath the water’s surface has just been identified as the world’s largest known coral. Visiting...
CLIMATEWIRE | President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the department in charge of disaster recovery has been skeptical of climate change, declined to accept federal climate money and been criticized for her own handling of a natural catastrophe.Trump named Gov....
There are two monumental problems with the world’s food system. Firstly, hundreds of millions of people can’t afford to buy enough nutritious food to stay healthy. Secondly, it is incredibly destructive. We are still razing rainforests to make way for...
A perforated pebble from the Nahal Ein Gev II archaeological site, which may be an ancient spindle whorlLaurent Davin A set of 12,000-year-old pierced pebbles excavated in northern Israel may be the oldest known hand-spinning whorls – a textile technology...
Air pollution is hard to avoid, particularly for city dwellersRon Adar/Alamy Air pollution is increasingly being linked to a raised risk of eczema, with the latest study showing a clear relationship between the exposure and the skin condition. Vehicles and...
The skeleton of Navaornis hestiae, an 80-million-year-old bird fossilS. Abramowicz/Dinosaur Institute/Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County An 80-million-year-old fossil bird has been discovered with a skull so exquisitely preserved that scientists have been able to study the detailed structure...
The ionosphere is part of Earth’s upper atmosphereShutterstock/buradaki Data from millions of phones has helped produce the most complete map ever made of the ionosphere, part of Earth’s upper atmosphere. This could help us understand disturbances caused by geomagnetic storms...
Gene editing can make larger tomato varieties sweeterPaul Maguire/Shutterstock If you like your tomatoes sweet, the smaller cherry tomato varieties are currently the ones to go for. But bigger tomato varieties could soon get a sweetness boost with the help...
