cellspacing=“0” cellpadding=“0” border=“0”>Media Platforms Design TeamEarly in December 2005, Debbi Dixon was running late for dinner, so the medical lab technician pushed her 2004 Subaru Outback a little harder than normal down Swanee Bean Road. “It was already winter here in Thetford, Vt.,” she says, “and the road was icy. I looked down to raise the heat, and when I looked up again, there was a deer right in front of me....
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) is taking the highest-resolution images of the moon’s surface from space, scouting locations for future astronaut or robot landings. But LROC may also have discovered the resting place of Lunar Orbiter 2, a NASA spacecraft that disappeared on the far side of the moon in 1967. Orbiter 2 was in an intentional death dive, but NASA never knew the site of its impact. The debris from an impact angle of 45 degrees or more spreads out like butterfly wings, says LROC science operations center manager Ernest Bowman-Cisneros....
Today NASA has announced three commercial Moon landing service providers that will deliver science and technology payloads for its upcoming Artemis missions.“Our selection of these U.S. commercial landing service providers represents America’s return to the Moon’s surface for the first time in decades, and it’s a huge step forward for our Artemis lunar exploration plans,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine in a press statement. “Next year, our initial science and technology research will be on the lunar surface, which will help support sending the first woman and the next man to the Moon in five years....
In the 1960s, the job of flight attendant had a sense of glamour attached to it. While that’s no longer the case, there are still certain routes that grant the flight attendant special access. One of them, the government’s route from Las Vegas to Area 51, is now hiring. AECOM, a multinational firm that provides professional services, is hiring for a flight attendant on the government-only airline it operates that is unofficially known as Janet Airlines....
Media Platforms Design TeamOn Oct. 22, 2012, the low pressure system off the coast of Jamaica was designated Tropical Depression Eighteen. A week later, at 7:30 pm on Oct. 29, 2012, blew ashore at Brigantine, N.J.—a barrier island just north of Atlantic City, N.J. Superstorm SandyThe storm had spent that week barreling up from the Caribbean, where it damaged 200,000 homes in Cuba and killed 80 people in Haiti. By the time it took a left turn and hit the northeastern U....
Photosynthesis, the process plants use to convert sunlight into energy, has sustained them for millennia. Now, scientists are looking to improve on nature’s efforts with a mixture of biological components and man-made technologies in the hopes of creating new possibilities in solar energy storage. “Natural photosynthesis is not efficient because it has evolved merely to survive so it makes the bare minimum amount of energy needed - around 1-2 per cent of what it could potentially convert and store,” says Katarzyna Sokól, first author of the paper and a PhD student at St John’s College describing the technique in Nature Energy, in a press statement....
Media Platforms Design TeamWhen it was released in 1987, was one of the most popular games on the then-fresh Nintendo Entertainment System. Now, nearly a quarter-century later, “Iron Mike” makes his return to video games with , a new boxing game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Just like in the 8-bit classic, players punch their way through a gauntlet of pugilists on the way to Mike himself.Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!...
The lone explorer has been drifting alone in the cosmos for months now, never to return to Earth. Now SpaceX’s Starman has gone even beyond the orbit of Mars.In February, the first test flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket carried with it a unique cargo: Elon Musk’s cherry red Tesla Roadster carrying Starman, a dummy dressed in one of the rocket company’s prototype spacesuits. Starman and the Roadster will drift around the solar system for potentially millions of years....
The U.S. Navy, without fanfare or notice, tested a new weapon last summer that could revolutionize surface warfare. The hyper velocity projectile (HVP) is a Mach 3 shell fired from existing guns on cruisers and destroyers. A guided projectile, HVP can drop high explosives on enemies on the ground up to three times as far as conventional ship gun ammo with a high rate of precision. It can also intercept incoming anti-ship missiles, providing an economical alternative to increasingly expensive anti-missile interceptors....
Buy NowThe ten-year-old set it up. He had a friend over, they were running around the backyard screaming and chasing each other with a Wiffle Ball bat. I gave them the box. They took it, looked it over, and ran to the treehouse. Worked on it for an hour. Had to go back and forth to the barn a couple of times for a hammer (to drive the staples to run the wiring) and a screwdriver....
The Denisovans have a new address. For the first time ever, bones belonging to the extinct group of hominins, who were related to Neanderthals, have been found outside of their only known home in Siberia, the Denisova Cave. These new fossils were discovered in Tibet. “I’m very excited—we have a Denisovan that’s somewhere else than Denisova,” Bence Viola, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Toronto who was not involved in the new study, told the New York Times....
A new unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is being marketed to do dangerous jobs previously taken on by the infantry. The drone’s unique design allows it to scale urban obstacles previously inaccessible by other robots and do everything from battlefield surveillance to ambushes.Developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), RoBattle is a six wheeled UGV designed to accompany troops into battle, either mounted or on foot. The system can be operated by an human but is also described as being “autonomous on several levels....
Today is the official release of Star Wars: Battlefront II, the sequel to the 2015 reboot of the franchise that lets you fight the movies’ epic battles as a foot soldier, Empire or Rebel as you please. But the news leading up to its release hasn’t been about the graphics or gameplay so much as rabid player backlash to an annoying feature that now, on launch day, has been removed: Microtransactions....
Genetic testing has a promising future, but the results are only as accurate as the data used to produce them. For example, ancestry data gleaned from your DNA might be wildly inaccurate if you hail from a place where not many people have been genetically tested. You may find out if you have a genetic disease only if lots of other people with that disease have been tested.This is one of the biggest hurdles to implementing routine genetic testing in medicine: It’s really expensive to build this kind of genetic database....
Media Platforms Design TeamOn-Sale Date: NowPrice: $22,725 to $26,225Competitors: VW GTI, VW Beetle Turbo, Mini Cooper S,Fiat 500 Abarth, Honda Civic SiPowertrain: 1.6-liter turbocharged I-4; 201 hp, 195 lb-ft of torqueEPA Fuel Economy (city/hwy): 26/38What’s New: When the Hyundai Veloster coupe hit the streets last year, it showed up with crisp handling, a wild style, and a strange three-door (only one rear passenger door) design. But what about horsepower? The standard-issue Veloster sent just 138 hp to the front wheels....
Outboard motors tend to evolve at the pace of the Nile crocodile, which dates to the early Pleistocene and has minimal updates for the 2019 model year. But lately, there’s been a lot of action from every major manufacturer—Mercury, Yamaha, Evinrude and Suzuki. With reliability generally taken for granted by customers (warranties sometimes stretch six years, depending on promotions), the new engines push progress on two fronts: horsepower and efficiency. Since outboards are powering increasingly large boats, there are new options for buyers looking for 350 horsepower and more....
While politicians debate whether or not we’re in a recession–and the Fed bails out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–the real estate market continues its long, agonizing downward slide. Times are tough, even in historically hot real estate markets such as Las Vegas, San Francisco, Phoenix and Miami, where homes used to sell in a matter of days–often at well above asking price. Nowadays, houses stay on the market for weeks, even months, without selling....
Media Platforms Design TeamUPDATE (5:04 p.m.): Above is your first look at Boeing’s updated design. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below … We offered an exclusive first look last month at Boeing’s plans for a truck-mounted High Energy Laser. Today, Boeing announced that it had been awarded a U.S. Army contract valued at around $36 million to continue developing the system. Under the new contract, Boeing will complete the design for the High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD), then build and test it on a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck....
Last July, BP agreed to pay 18.7 billion in fines to settle with five states and the U.S. federal government following 2010’s Deepwater Horizon disaster. Now, the final deal has come out of the Department of Justice including fees and costs BP has already paid, bringing the grand total is up to $20.8 billion. It’s the largest settlement in U.S. history, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch says in the DoJ’s statement....
Getting the cheapest flights doesn’t have to be headache. While you’ve probably heard a number of strategies, some of them based on past success and others total mumbo-jumbo, its 2019, so we found you a strategy that’ll work. We spoke with Scott Keyes Scott’s Cheap Flights to find the best strategy.Forget the “Tuesday Night” Mythpicture alliance"There is no single best time or predictable time that it is going to be cheapest....
