Category: Art

Boeing’s Starliner space capsule is seen docked at the International Space Station. (Image credit: NASA) Boeing’s Starliner capsule now has a homecoming date. NASA announced this evening (Aug. 29) that Starliner will depart the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than next Friday (Sept. 6), provided the weather cooperates and no technical issues pop up....

The fossilized remains of an extinct manatee relative that was attacked by a crocodile date back about were uncovered in Venezuela. Jaime Bran Sarmiento One unknown day millions of years ago, a prehistoric manatee relative was attacked by a hungry crocodile. After it was killed by the crocodile, the seacow’s remains were scavenged by a...

Earth planning date: Monday, Aug. 26, 2024 Today’s planning day was a good example of how our team comes together to make quick decisions based on new information and science priorities. The original intent of today’s plan was to perform contact science on some interesting bright-toned rubbly rocks in our workspace, seen in the image...

A lyrical ode to Earth’s geologic landscapes invites readers to ponder our place in the cosmos…Read whole article here

Illustration of the decay topology of a hypernucleus and the variables for the selection criteria. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07823-0 In experiments at the Brookhaven National Lab in the US, an international team of physicists has detected the heaviest “anti-nuclei” ever seen. The tiny, short-lived objects are composed of exotic antimatter particles. The measurements of...

NASA’s Boeing Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will now return to Earth on a SpaceX Dragon capsule in February 2025. (Image credit: NASA) On Saturday (Aug. 24), NASA announced its final decision regarding the fates of the two astronauts aboard the International Space Station whose original eight-day space jaunt had turned into a...

In the past three decades, Brooklyn – specifically Bushwick and the surrounding areas – has transformed into a popular tourist area beyond the bustling crowds found in Manhattan.  But as the southern borough has continued to reinvent itself, there are reminders that the people and rich cultural legacy remain in Bushwick—with street art playing an...

In the summer of 2015, officials in Jackson, Mississippi sent the state a series of water samples taken at different locations throughout the city’s public water system. Residents had complained for weeks about the low pressure in their taps, and the city wanted to test the distribution system to check for possible contamination. Sure enough,...

Understanding the drivers of respiratory pathogen spread is challenging, particularly in a timely manner during an ongoing epidemic. In this work, we present insights that we obtained using daily data from the National Health Service COVID-19 app for …Read whole article here

At Fermilab, planned staff furlough, online screed highlight continuing management problems…Read whole article here