Singaporean student team takes 3rd place in international rocket competition
SINGAPORE — A team of Singaporean university students recently achieved third place in an international rocket-building competition held earlier this…
Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges
PARIS, FRANCE — Scientists suffering insults and mass spam are abandoning Twitter for alternative social networks as hostile climate-change denialism…
Harvard study finds implicit racial bias highest among white people
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES — If there’s one thing we should all be able to agree on, it’s that all human…
Singapore expands elective egg freezing age limit to 37, allowing more women to preserve fertility
SINGAPORE— The age limit for Elective Egg Freezing (EEF) would be set at 37 years, instead of 35 years as…
Chinese rocket with manned crew to blast off Thursday
Astronauts blasting off on Thursday for China’s first manned mission to its new space station will have a choice of…
SpaceX to launch lunar mission paid with cryptocurrency Dogecoin
SpaceX will launch a satellite to the Moon next year funded entirely with the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, Canadian company Geometric Energy…
“I felt really heavy:” astronauts describe returning to Earth on SpaceX capsule
Four astronauts just returned from the International Space Station described on Thursday their reentry into Earth’s atmosphere and ocean splashdown…
In first, Perseverance Mars rover makes oxygen on another planet
NASA’s Perseverance rover keeps making history. The six-wheeled robot has converted some carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen,…
Microsoft wins $22 billion US army contract for augmented reality gear
Microsoft has won a Pentagon contract for augmented reality headgear for soldiers worth $21.88 billion over the next decade, the…
Youngest American to go into space is also a cancer survivor
By the end of the year, Hayley Arceneaux will be the youngest American in space and one of the first…