The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory,… [read more]
Year: 2022
Psychoactive drug DMT (aka N, N-Dimethyltryptamine) is known for its life-altering, metaphysical trips, but scientists are now looking into its potential to treat depression. Small Pharma, a Canadian… [read more]
A team of researchers has put forward a new theory suggesting possible life on the planet Venus could be making the environment more hospitable.
Published in the journal Proceedings of the National … [read more]
Talk about powerful.
Power Steering
SpaceXs brush with bankruptcy may be fading. CEO Elon Musk shared a video on Friday of the companys giant Starship flexing the steering system for its engines, a… [read more]
This is the smallest astronaut corps in roughly 50 years.
Now Hiring
Tons of employers are having a hard time filling jobs including, apparently, NASA.
A new report released by the agencys Office… [read more]
Is the future over? To some, it has been for some time. Ten years ago, the late critic Mark Fisher wrote of the slow cancellation of the future in his book, Ghosts of My Life, attributing cultural st… [read more]
Still, attribution scientists take numerous measures to avoid overstating how important climate change was to a given event. They look at many kinds of data from multiple sources, and often use mathe… [read more]
The biggest success of the fossil fuel industrys decades-long campaign to push doubt about climate science is that it forced the conversation about the climate crisis to centre on science.
Its not t… [read more]
For a variant that came to light less than a month ago, the evidence for Omicrons potential to wreak havoc has mounted at breakneck speed. What studies have emerged are rapid first takes, but the mes… [read more]
How refreshing to hear a GP recognising that recovering from illness may depend on going off-piste, leaving the well-trimmed paths of textbook solutions in favour of something wilder, more unscripted… [read more]
