Category : science

8 More Big Pharma Events in 2019 You Don't Want to Miss

These are the clinical trial readouts, FDA decisions, and blockbuster-drug launches that will set the tone for the entire industry.

NASA CFO on a 2024 moon landing: 'We can do it'

With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Americans are celebrating nationwide and looking ahead to the next 50 years. Seana Smith and NASA CFO Jeff DeWit discuss.

NASA astronaut on the new private space race

Fifty years after a historic moment for the planet, commercial companies are racing to get humans back on the moon, and beyond.

A look back at astronaut Buzz Aldrin's patriotic fashion

Buzz is a fixture in the scientific community, and at most meetings, galas and public events, he has shown up in his finest patriotic apparel.

Technology, temporary help keeps farmers on job longer

At 79 years old, Art McManus says he's still able to hop on the tractor and maintain the 160 acres of cherry trees at his orchard in Traverse City, Michigan. For McManus and many farmers across the country, assistive technology, help from seasonal h...

Virgin Has a Space Torpedo -- and Northrop Grumman Should Be Worried

Sir Richard Branson is (almost) ready to shoot satellites into orbit from an airplane.

Apollo 11 anniversary: Watch the historic moon landing 50 years on

This weekend marks 50 years since astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the lunar surface.The landing craft carrying the Apollo 11 Commander and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin touched down on the moon on July 20 1969, before Armst...

Apollo 11 anniversary: Toyota edges closer toward creating a space-traveling moon rover

Toyota teamed up with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to create a new lunar rover that astronauts will use to search the moon for frozen water.

Conspiracy theorist punched by Buzz Aldrin still insists moon landing was fake

Bart Sibrel, a filmmaker and conspiracy theorist punched by Buzz Aldrin, has centered his career around disproving the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

Alphabet-Backed Space Launch Company Wins Pentagon Contract

How big is the contract? When will it launch? And who the heck is "SpinLaunch" anyway?

One-stop clinics, a rare lifesaver for Zimbabwe's sick

Blessing Chingwaru could barely walk without support when he arrived at the specialist Rutsanana clinic in Harare complaining of chest pains and fatigue. Weighing a skeletal 37 kilogrammes (82 pounds), the HIV-positive motor mechanic knew something...

Why Apollo 11 Matters

In an Oval Office meeting a few days after Soviet Russia launched Sputnik in October 1957, two points emerged. Eisenhower’s deputy defense secretary, Donald Quarles, told the president that “there was no doubt that the Redstone, had it been used, cou...

Celebrating the Apollo 11 Moon Landing’s 50th Anniversary

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty50 years ago, two astronauts took the very first steps on the moon, as the world watched. Through this gallery, view the incredible moments of the Apollo 11 moon landing.The National Aeronautics and Space Ad...

Apollo 11 was a huge achievement, but unmanned spacecraft did a lot of the heavy lifting

The real promise of space exploration was realized by those ingenious, tireless, economical and endlessly versatile unmanned spacecraft.

Message to the moon: Celebrating 50 years of Apollo 11

Fifty years ago today, more than 650 million people witnessed one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind. It was July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong spoke those now legendary words, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for m...

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