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A previous launch of the night Starlink, on June 3rd. Today it looked like that too, we promise. SpaceX Under the cover of dark early Friday morning, SpaceX launched its ninth operational flight of the broadband-enabled Starlink satellites. The launch received three delays that returned in late June due to …

NASA will no longer use the old nickname given to Nebula NGC 2392. NASA / Andrew Fruchter (STScI) Conditions we use to describe the cosmos are not immune to control at a time when many people are working to identify and remove racist language. Just like tech terms are being …

The nation’s first public health bureau teaches that it is not immune to the complex effects of the coronavirus pandemic. © Audra Melton for The New York Times CDC headquarters in Atlanta. The agency had to re-close some office space it leased after Legionella bacteria was discovered in water supply. …

Clean power Published on August 8, 2020 | by Steve Hanley August 8, 2020 due to Steve Hanley Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could do something useful with too much carbon dioxide other than catching it, compressing it and burying it deep in the ocean floor? Scientists at Argonne …

RELATED STORIES Baby Shark’s has nothing to do with these awesome whites! Starting this Sunday and continuing through next weekend, Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is an annual, Jaws-drip spectacle with more than 20 hours of original programming about one of nature’s most feared predators. In addition to myriad documentaries, 2020 …