Science

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, perched on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, takes off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, taking NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. SpaceX With two more launches planned for June, SpaceX is slated …

Some people look at an equation and see a lot of numbers and symbols; others see beauty. Thanks to a new tool created at Carnegie Mellon University, anyone can translate math abstractions into beautiful and instructive illustrations. The tool allows users to create diagrams simply by writing an ordinary mathematical …

After Governor Roy Cooper issued a mandatory mask requirement in North Carolina on Wednesday amid growing COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the state, several sheriffs publicly said they would not comply with the mandate when the Friday. The Sampson County Sheriff said the rule “is not only unconstitutional, but cannot …

The asteroid known as 441987 (2010 NY65) will pass Earth today, June 24, and it is truly a giant. NASA has measured the asteroid somewhere between 140 meters and 310 meters, which means it would be more than three times bigger than the 96-meter-tall Big Ben on the upper scale. …

Ancient dogs adapted for the freezing cold helped primitive humans survive in the Arctic more than 10,000 years ago, according to research published Thursday in the journal Science. The study compares the genetics of modern breeds of “sled dogs,” including Alaskan and Siberian husky dogs used for dog sledding, as …