San Francisco (AFP) June 13, 2024
Workers fired by SpaceX filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Elon Musk of fostering a sexist "Dark Ages" culture at the company he founded. The civil complaint filed in a California court in Los Angeles contends Musk had the workers terminated after they published an open letter detailing their concerns and calling on the American aerospace firm's board to distance itself from the SpaceX chief

Boston MA (SPX) Jun 13, 2024
As you travel your usual route to work or the grocery store, your brain engages cognitive maps stored in your hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. These maps store information about paths you have taken and locations you have been to before, so you can navigate whenever you go there. New research from MIT has found that such mental maps also are created and activated when you merely think ab

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2024
Stainless steel owes its popularity to the metal chromium, which reacts with oxygen to form a protective layer. Scientists and engineers now aim to design alloys that withstand extreme environments, such as those in nuclear fusion reactors and high-temperature jet engines. They are experimenting with multi-principal element alloys or medium- to high-entropy alloys. These alloys combine many meta

Bozeman MT (SPX) Jun 13, 2024
A Montana State University researcher has announced the first confirmed detection of eclipse-induced gravity waves in Earth's stratosphere in data collected by students participating in an MSU-led nationwide atmospheric science program. Angela Des Jardins, director of the Montana Space Grant Consortium and an associate professor in the Department of Physics in MSU's College of Letters and

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2024
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the signing of a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) with the Department of Commerce to receive up to $23.9M in funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. The investment aims to increase Rocket Lab's production of compound semiconductors for spacecraft and satellites by expanding and modernizing its facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2024
As space travel becomes more frequent, a new biomarker tool was developed by an international team of researchers to help improve the growing field of aerospace medicine and the health of astronauts. Dr. Guy Trudel (Professor in the Faculty of Medicine), Odette Laneuville (Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, and Director of the Biomedical Sciences) and Dr. Martin Pelchat (Associate Pr

Helsinki (AFP) June 10, 2024
A software model of Earth, meant to simulate and monitor environmental hazards while findings ways to mitigate climate change, began its monitoring and predictive mission on Monday, the EU Commission said. The Destination Earth initiative resulted in a digital model of the planet to simulate natural phenomena by utilising an "unprecedented amount of data", according to its website. The m

Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jun 12, 2024
What scientists previously thought about where Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) come from is just the tip of the iceberg, according to new research led by astronomers at the University of Toronto. The mysteries of the millisecond-long cosmic explosions are unfolding with a new way of analyzing data from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). Published today in The Astrophysica

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2024
As long as humans have been traveling into space, astronauts have experienced significant health effects from the extreme conditions of space flight, notably the reduction of gravity. Two Buck scientists led a team that has revealed for the first time how the lack of gravity affects the cells of the immune system at single cell resolution. As co-senior authors, along with Christopher E. Ma

With ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite due to launch in a few weeks, the satellite is now at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California being readied for its big day. Once in orbit, this new mission will show how short-term weather forecasts in the Arctic and beyond could be improved.