Biotech company Regeneron to buy bankrupt 23andMe for $256M
Biotechnology company Regeneron will acquire 23andMe out of bankruptcy for $256 million, with a plan to…
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Do these Buddhist gods hint at the purpose of China’s super-secret satellites?
Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to the…
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The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch
This was unusual Payload fairing problems have caused a number of rocket failures, usually because they…
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NASA scrambles to cut ISS activity due to budget issues
Canceling the tracker layer upgrade to the spectrometer would also not be catastrophic. The addition of…
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In his first 100 days, Trump launched an “all-out assault” on the environment
Schlenker-Goodrich, of the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC), is concerned about the administration’s efforts to isolate…
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid
An illustration depicts a NASA spacecraft approaching the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. Though there are no plans…
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Universities (finally) band together, fight “unprecedented government overreach”
We speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American…
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Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise
Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are…
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Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars
Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense…
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Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates
Shortly after its inauguration, the Trump administration has made no secret that it isn’t especially interested…
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How did eastern North America form?
For decades, geologists have understood the broad picture of how eastern North America came to be….
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Go back to the Grid in TRON: Ares trailer
[embedded content] An AI program enters the real world in TRON: Ares. It’s difficult to underestimate…
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With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military’s top launch provider
SpaceX will get 28 missions worth approximately $5.9 billion ULA will get 19 missions worth approximately…
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10 Python Built-in Functions That Will Simplify Your Code
As developers, we often stick to our favorite built-in Python functions and sometimes even write custom…
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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and…
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ESA finally has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?
Open your checkbook, please ESA’s governance structure isn’t favorable for taking quick action. On one hand,…
