Investors put $2.5 billion into companies

A Falcon 9 rocket launches a batch of Starlink satellites to orbit on April 29, 2022. SpaceX Private investment in space companies dwindled in the second quarter — weighed down by broader economic and...

U.S. emissions caused $1.8 trillion in global economic losses: study

An aerial view of Phillips 66 oil refinery is seen in Linden, New Jersey, United States on March 8, 2022. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The U.S. and China, the world’s two greate...

Tech trees to fund ambitious science and tech

Have you ever played the game series Civilization, created by designer Sid Meier? Through the years, much has changed, but one of the unchanging hallmarks of the series has been the technology tree. W...

How Uvalde and Buffalo spurred push for first gun law in decades

After two horrific mass shootings in Texas and New York, Congress just passed the most meaningful gun legislation in decades. The Safer Communities Act will expand background checks in some cases, clo...

Decentralized science is key to future development

Although science has always been an integral part of human progress, it had always been constrained by centralized institutions and structures before decentralized science came to the rescue. After th...

How NFTs and Science DAO Are Helping Scientists Access More Funding

The scientific community, like any other sector, runs on money and projects in the space constantly need funding to be able to move forward. Ask any scientist and they will tell you that a huge part o...

Elon Musk had a bad week at Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter

Elon Musk pauses and looks down as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images ...

SpaceX fires employees after internal letter criticizes CEO Elon Musk

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk participates in a postlaunch news conference inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, following the launch of the agency&#...

Decentralized science platform Molecule raises $13 million in seed funding

Molecule, a platform where medical research projects can receive funding via decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has raised $13 million in seed funding in a round led by biotech venture cap...

FAA SpaceX Starship environmental review clears Texas program to move forward

A Starship prototype stands on the company’s launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas on March 16, 2022. SpaceX The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said it will require Elon Musk’s SpaceX ...

Diseases suppressed during Covid are back

Dowell | Moment | Getty Images The Covid-19 pandemic has abated in much of the world and, with it, many of the social restrictions implemented to curb its spread, as people have been eager to return t...

GM, Lockheed take lunar rover project to the commercial space market

MILFORD, Mich. — General Motors and Lockheed Martin said Thursday they plan to produce an array of moon-roving vehicles for commercial space missions and services powered by the automaker’s elec...

FDA decision on Novavax’s Covid shots could be delayed

A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. Patrick Van Kat...

Climate change will force some UK communities to move, official says

Houses on the east coast of England, photographed in 2020. On Tuesday, the chief executive of the U.K.’s Environment Agency said climate change meant some coastal communities would have to move....

Novavax vaccine clears key step on path to FDA authorization

Novavax’s two-dose Covid-19 vaccine for adults ages 18 and older cleared a key step on the path toward Food and Drug Administration authorization on Tuesday. The FDA’s committee of indepen...

Elon Musk says offering is 3 or 4 years away

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stands at the base of a Starship rocket prototype at the company’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Steve Jurvetson on flickr Elon Musk last week told SpaceX employees the com...

How the U.S. Space Force plans to police outer space

Outer space is getting crowded, with both commercial endeavors and secretive military projects. And it’s going to be up to the newest United States military branch, the Space Force, to protect A...

How to protect yourself against monkeypox, what to do if you catch it

Test tubes labelled “Monkeypox virus positive and negative” are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters A recent monkeypox outbreak across the U.S., Europe, Aus...

Boeing lands Starliner capsule, completing a crucial test flight

Boeing’s Starliner capsule lands in White Sands, New Mexico on May 25, 2022 to complete the OFT-2 mission. NASA TV Boeing landed its uncrewed Starliner spacecraft in the New Mexico desert on Wed...

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell defends Elon Musk over sex misconduct allegations

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk participates in a postlaunch news conference inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, following the launch of the agency&#...

Crypto monitoring app Merkle Science now supports 1,200 ERC-20 tokens

Merkle Science, a predictive crypto risk and intelligence platform, announced it has now extended support to over 1,2000 ERC-20 tokens. This additional coverage allows users to have better visibility ...

Oceans reached record heat, acidity in 2021: UN report

A diver inspects transplanted coral near Dibba Port in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, June 15, 2020. Christopher Pike | Reuters Oceans reached their hottest and most acidic levels on record last year...

Boeing’s Starliner OFT-2 launch update: What’s at stake

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out to the launchpad for the OFT-2 mission scheduled to lift off on May 19, 2022. Joel K...

Science DAO Provides Pre-IPO Investing Access

The Science DAO, a decentralized fundraising platform that offers pre-IPO investment options in breakthrough technologies and projects, debuted on May 5, 2022. The objective of the Science DAO is to u...

FastBlade tidal turbine testing site opens in Scotland

An image of the £4.6 million FastBlade facility. Scotland has a long association with North Sea oil and gas production, but in recent years it’s also become a hub for companies and projects focu...

Firms plan to use balloons to go to space in 2024

Nearly half of Americans want to travel to space. But that means the other half doesn’t, according to a 2021 survey by ValuePenguin, one of LendingTree’s financial research websites. Nearly 40% ...

That college degree is no longer the only path to the American Dream

Foto Sipsak | Getty Images For decades, a college education was the “golden ticket” to the American Dream, translating into higher lifetime earnings and better job security. To that point,...

Ken Griffin wins $8 million Bezos spaceflight auction, donating seats

Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel (L) and Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off (R) Reuters Ken Griffin, billionaire founder and CEO of hedge fund Citadel, placed the winning $8 million bid in ...

Cool New Science On Motivation

Great performance is the result of the right motivation. getty Performing well, getting things done and constantly improving are part of the human experience. People have an instinct to matter—and you...

SpaceX NASA Crew-3 mission, 6th astronaut flight, splashes down

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule Endurance splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida on May 6, 2022. NASA TV SpaceX returned the astronauts of NASA’s Crew-3 mission t...

Rocket Lab CEO touts helicopter catch of rocket as key toward reusable goals

The Electron booster comes into view of the company’s helicopter for the catch. Rocket Lab Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck heralded the company’s first attempt on Monday to catch its Electron ro...

Competitive contracts are making space exploration cheaper

The Artemis 1 mission Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Frank Michaux / NASA The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Tuesday discussed a dramatic shift in how the agency plans ...