Tech from around the world
Tech from around the world
Enlarge / Retiring Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala. Scott J. Ferrell | Getty Images Every other year, luminaries of the air and space community gather in France for the famed Paris Air Show, the largest aerospace exhibition in the world.…
Enlarge / Past shorelines left deposits that are still visible on the hills near the Missoula Valley. Richard Forbes Had the city of Missoula, Montana, existed thousands of years ago, it would have been under water. During the last Ice…
For something so routine, walking is shockingly complicated. Biomechanists break a single step into several phases: First there’s touchdown, when your heel strikes the floor. Next comes the single support phase, when you’re balancing on that leg. After that, you…
In November 2022, Swiss scientists opened an eagerly awaited package from rural Ethiopia. It was full of shit. For two months, public health researcher Abdifatah Muhummed had been collecting stool samples from children in a remote, pastoralist community in Ethiopia’s…
In November 2022, Swiss scientists opened an eagerly awaited package from rural Ethiopia. It was full of shit. For two months, public health researcher Abdifatah Muhummed had been collecting stool samples from children in a remote, pastoralist community in Ethiopia’s…
Enlarge / A CT scan of the infant mummy’s head, showing deformation of the skull bones. A.G. Nerlich et al., 2022 There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once…
Enlarge / The framework needed to deploy the hardware worked on Earth, so it’s time to test it in space. Caltech/Momentus Solar power has become the lowest-cost way to generate electricity on Earth. But building it on Earth places some…
Enlarge / Revelers celebrate New Year’s Eve in Times Square on January 1, 2023, in New York City. This year’s New Year’s Eve returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic numbers, with around 1 million people estimated to fill Times Square. Getty |…
SpaceX is gearing up to launch the Transporter-6 mission today, January 3rd, and is hoping that the Falcon 9 rocket taking it to space will begin making its way to low-Earth orbit by 9:56 AM ET. The Transporter-6 mission will…
Enlarge / One of SpaceX’s 61 launches in the year 2022 was the CRS-25 supply mission for NASA to the International Space Station. Trevor Mahlmann On the penultimate day of 2022, SpaceX completed its final launch of the year, boosting…
