Category : science

Astronauts are using VR to train for the Boeing Starliner capsule

Astronauts can virtually prepare for any scenario

Boeing teams up with Varjo on virtual reality training for Starliner space taxi

Boeing isn't due to start flying NASA crews to the International Space Station until next year, but in the meantime, astronauts can steer a computer-generated Starliner space taxi with the aid of Varjo's virtual-reality headsets. Flnland-base...

The WHO Stumbles, and Some Scientists See a Pattern

Even as the World Health Organization leads the worldwide response to the coronavirus pandemic, the agency is failing to take stock of rapidly evolving research findings and to communicate clearly about them, several scientists warned Tuesday.In a ne...

Black engineers see both pride and exclusion in the return of human spaceflight

"You don’t have to leave aerospace to be confident you’re working against injustice, but you do have to change the way you’re doing the aerospace work."

World's largest green turtle colony nearly twice as big as thought

The world's largest population of nesting green turtles is nearly twice as big as previously thought, scientists said on Wednesday, after drones enabled better surveys of the animals. Australian scientists determined that there were about 64,000 gre...

NASA astronaut from historic spacewalk becomes first woman to reach deepest point in ocean

Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space is also the first woman to reach the deepest point in the ocean.

Tethers Unlimited to provide hardware for NASA’s PUNCH sun-watching mission

Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it will provide key communications and propulsion capabilities to Southwest Research Institute in support of a NASA mission to study how the sun's corona whips up the solar wind. Tethers Unlimited's...

Hope for pangolins as protection boosted in China

China removes pangolins from its official list of traditional Chinese medicine treatments, reports say.

US challenges planned expedition to retrieve Titanic's radio

The Atlanta-based salvage firm RMS Titanic Inc., said it would exhibit the telegraph while telling the stories of the operators who broadcast the sinking ship's distress calls. The U.S. filed its arguments with the same federal judge who ruled last...

Planet's satellites aim for still sharper view of Earth

Some locations on Earth, such as the UK, will be pictured at high resolution up to 12 times a day.

Britain goes coal free as renewables edge out fossil fuels

On Wednesday, Britain will mark two months without burning any coal to generate power.

Tiny briefcase-sized satellite spots an exoplanet and sets a new record

The ASTERIA satellite wasn't originally intended to perform science

Coronavirus disrupts global fight to save endangered species

Biologist Carlos Ruiz has spent a quarter-century working to save golden lion tamarins, the charismatic long-maned monkeys native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Thanks to painstaking reforestation efforts, the population of these endangered monkeys wa...

SpaceX opens era of amateur astronauts, cosmic movie sets

SpaceX’s debut astronaut launch is the biggest, most visible opening shot yet in NASA’s grand plan for commercializing Earth’s backyard. Amateur astronauts, private space stations, flying factories, out-of-this-world movie sets — this is the future...

Dolphins in the Louisiana Bayou Keep Dying. A Reconstruction Plan Might Make It Worse.

Freshwater diversion projects that have divided environmental advocates are intended to save the coast but may imperil dolphins.

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