Science

WASHINGTON – NASA is seeking scientists’ ideas about the research that astronauts could perform on the first Artemis landing mission in 2024. NASA announced on August 21 that it is looking for short white papers on the science that astronauts can perform on the Artemis 3 mission. The papers, no …

MIT researchers have developed a simple, inexpensive technology to administer powerful drug formulations that are too viscous to be injected with conventional syringes and needles. Credit: Images courtesy of researchers and edited by Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT. Researchers have designed a simple, inexpensive device for subcutaneous injection of viscous formulations. MIT …

NEW DELHI, India (AP) – In June, India began using cheaper, faster, but less accurate tests to scale up tests for the coronavirus – a strategy the United States is now considering. These rapid tests have improved India’s test levels almost five times in two months. But government figures suggest …

Zheng Zhongwei, director of the National Health Commission’s Science and Technology Development Center, said the vaccine was approved for use on July 22 during an interview with a Chinese state media broadcaster on Saturday. Zheng told the CCTV-2 program “Dialogue” that the people at high risk for exposure to the …

They number in the hundreds, can be larger than an NFL football field and are found throughout Saudi Arabia, including on the slope of a volcano. Speaking stone structures reported in 2017 now appear to be some of the oldest monuments in the world, dating back 7,000 years, archaeologists now …