By Ashley Strickland, CNN
A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Continue reading New Milky Way map reveals a wave of stars in our galaxy’s outer reaches
BY CRAIG WELCH, National Geographic
Joe Biden’s father sold used cars, steeping the future president in the world of combustion engines. The younger Biden washed vehicles on weekends, borrowed a Chrysler off the lot to drive to the prom, and hit automobile auctions to help stock his dad’s dealership. President Biden still owns the green ’67 Corvette his father gave him as a wedding gift, which he told Car and Driver magazine has “a rear-axle ratio that really gets up and goes.” Continue reading Has the electric car’s moment arrived at last?
We hear a lot of doom and gloom regarding the health of our planet, but Bill Pekny says the news is not all bad. Just in time for Earth Day on April 22, he shares some encouraging bright spots. Continue reading Some Good News This Earth Day: A Few Ways the Natural World Is Improving
By Julia Musto, Fox News
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission is set to launch for the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning. Continue reading NASA, SpaceX Crew-2 prepare for another historic flight
BY TORI B. POWELL,
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, 42, safely returned to Earth on Saturday after living aboard the International Space Station for six months, according to NASA. Rubins, along with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov, arrived southeast of the town Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, in a parachute landing at 10:55 a.m. local time. Continue reading NASA astronaut Kate Rubins returns safely to Earth after six months in space
By Ashley Strickland of CNN
The mystique of Mars is one that humans can’t seem to resist. The red planet has easily captured our interest for centuries, heavily featured in science fiction books and films and the subject of robotic exploration since the 1960s. Continue reading Why Mars? The fascination with exploring the red planet
By Zaria Gorvett
He Jiankui seemed nervous.
At the time, he was an obscure researcher working at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. But he had been working on a top-secret project for the last two years – and he was about to take to the podium at the International Summit on Human Genome Editing to announce the results. There was a general buzz of excitement in the air. The audience looked on anxiously. People started filming on their phones.
Continue reading The genetic mistakes that could shape our species
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By Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY
Mammals will have to take a seat in history books after a group of international scientists discovered a flying reptile with the oldest recorded opposing pollex – commonly known as a thumb. Continue reading ‘Monkeydactyl’: Scientists discover Jurassic era flying reptile with oldest opposed thumbs
By UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, Sci-Tech Daily
Modern humans are fundamentally different from our closest living relatives, the great apes: We live on the ground, walk on two legs and have much larger brains. The first populations of the genus Homo emerged in Africa about 2.5 million years ago. They already walked upright, but their brains were only about half the size of today’s humans. Continue reading Earliest Homo Populations in Africa Had Primitive Ape-Like Brains – Just Half the Size of Today’s Humans
