The sun went spotless for the first time since 2011 on June 4 and then again a few weeks later as the electromagnetic sphere approaches what is known as a solar minimum. “The blank sun is a sign that the next solar minimum is approaching and there will be an increasing number of spotless days…
The Long March 7 rocket lifted off at 8:01am ET on Saturday morning. Chinese TV screenshot China’s developing space program took another major step forward on Saturday with the launch of its Long March 7 rocket, a new class of booster capable of lifting up to 13.5 metric tons to low-Earth orbit (LEO). The primary…
Russia is planning to release to public its catalog of near-Earth objects, including US military satellites, a Russian official said. Russia will publicly release its own database of Earth orbiting satellites, Viktor Shilin, head of the Russian delegation at the 59th session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, told the Russian newspaper Izvestia. © Flickr/ NNSANews/United…
I wrote this piece in 2012, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting. I re-post it now, because it equally applies to the Orlando shooting. No, I’m not talking about the flicker of the television picture. I’m talking about an on-off switch that controls information conveyed to the television audience. The Sandy Hook school…
The mosquito is the architect of much suffering: It’s responsible for more human deaths than any other animal on earth (including other humans). And few species have caused as much misery as Aedes aegypti. This 4-millimeter-long insect is responsible not only for the Zika outbreak but also for transmitting yellow fever and two other excruciating diseases, dengue…
