January 9, 20251 yr New Glenn launch: Blue Origin's reusable rocket set for maiden flight (New Scientist) Quote Blue Origin, the space company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is set to launch its reusable New Glenn rocket for the first time on 10 January. If successful, the rocket could become a rival to SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, which has become the go-to launch vehicle for companies looking to put large payloads into orbit. New Glenn is a 98 metre-tall rocket, around the height of a 30-storey building, designed to deliver payloads of up to 45 tonnes to low Earth orbit. It is expected to compete with SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, which can carry about 64 tonnes of cargo. The rocket has two stages. The first stage is designed to land on a sea platform, similar to Falcon Heavy, and Blue Origin claims it will be reusable for 25 missions. At the top of the rocket is a disposable upper stage where cargo and mission payloads can be stored. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
January 16, 20251 yr A Jeff Bezos-Built Rocket Finally Reaches Orbit in a Key Milestone for Blue Origin
January 18, 20251 yr The Blue Origin first stage was lost during re-entry, so at this stage it's still an expendable. Meanwhile, the Starship upper stage exploded, but they did successfully capture the main booster. The FAA has grounded the launcher pending an investigation. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
February 1, 2025Feb 1 Today in weird science... Surprising Link Between Menthol And Alzheimer's Discovered in Mice "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
February 13, 2025Feb 13 KM3NeT Telescope Detects Most Energetic Cosmic Neutrino Yet A particle that rarely interacts with normal matter yet its "energy was roughly a 100 million billion times the energy of visible light photons..." Whoa. It's something called a cosmogenic neutrino. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
February 22, 2025Feb 22 Einstein wins again! Quarks obey relativity laws, Large Hadron Collider finds | Space
February 25, 2025Feb 25 On 2/22/2025 at 2:11 PM, Gfted1 said: Einstein wins again! Quarks obey relativity laws, Large Hadron Collider finds | Space Hah, so much being the top quartz, you still have to obey the law 😝 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
February 26, 2025Feb 26 A Spiral Found at the Solar System’s Edge—And It’s Full of Surprises Quote ...a team of scientists recently ran simulations using NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer to model the structure of the Oort Cloud. They incorporated data on the orbits of long-period comets and factored in the gravitational influences not just from the Sun and planets but also from external cosmic forces. The result? A discovery that challenges everything we thought we knew: the inner Oort Cloud may not be a simple sphere after all. Instead, the simulations suggest it forms a spiral disk structure, much like a tiny, frozen version of the Milky Way galaxy. The simulations revealed that this spiral structure extends across the inner region of the Oort Cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the Sun. Even more astonishingly, the spiral arms stretch up to 15,000 AU from end to end. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
February 28, 2025Feb 28 The Next COVID Vaccine Could Come in Pill Form Pretty cool technology. I'll bet it will be popular with those who dislike injections. That is, if it can get past RFK Jr. Multimillion-dollar Biden-era COVID-19 vax project halted by Trump’s HHS "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
March 16, 2025Mar 16 James Webb Telescope Spots Unprecedented Galaxy Rotation Pattern Quote These images showcase galaxies in the farthest reaches of the universe, many of which are billions of light-years away. What Shamir and his team found was a strikingly consistent pattern: the vast majority of these galaxies rotate in the same direction. Specifically, about two-thirds of the galaxies rotate clockwise, while roughly one-third rotate counterclockwise. In a random universe, one might expect the rotation direction of galaxies to be distributed fairly evenly, with approximately equal numbers of galaxies rotating clockwise and counterclockwise. The fact that JWST’s observations show a clear preference for galaxies rotating in one direction suggests there might be an underlying cosmic phenomenon at play—one that is not immediately clear from existing theories of cosmology. Things that make you go, hmm... "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
March 16, 2025Mar 16 Well, more like scientific discoveries note made because of the Annoying Orange. Edited March 16, 2025Mar 16 by majestic No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
March 25, 2025Mar 25 Dark Energy Might Be Evolving over Time in Unexpected Ways The Universe just keeps getting weirder. As one site put it: The universe doesn't care about your precious standard model "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
March 31, 2025Mar 31 Quantum Computer Generates Truly Random Number in Scientific First : ScienceAlert
April 2, 2025Apr 2 Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech I for one welcome our new mind-reading AI overlords... "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
April 3, 2025Apr 3 James Webb Telescope Spots Unprecedented Galaxy Rotation Pattern Quote These images showcase galaxies in the farthest reaches of the universe, many of which are billions of light-years away. What Shamir and his team found was a strikingly consistent pattern: the vast majority of these galaxies rotate in the same direction. Specifically, about two-thirds of the galaxies rotate clockwise, while roughly one-third rotate counterclockwise. The reason? A hypothesis is that our universe was formed inside a rotating black hole. That's a pretty remarkable discovery if it pans out; it has been conjectured before, but this is the first actual evidence. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
April 18, 2025Apr 18 Author Juvenile colossal squid observed at natural depth: Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni was formally described and named 100 years ago, in 1925, based on two partial specimens found in the stomach of a sperm whale near the South Shetland Islands. However, no one has ever captured footage of a living colossal squid until now. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
April 18, 2025Apr 18 A slowly spinning universe could solve the Hubble tension Quote "Much to our surprise, we found that our model with rotation resolves the paradox without contradicting current astronomical measurements. Even better, it is compatible with other models that assume rotation. Therefore, perhaps, everything really does turn. Or, panta kykloutai," noted Szapudi. Their model suggests the universe could rotate once every 500 billion years—too slow to detect easily, but enough to affect how space expands over time. If true, it presents a nice, tidy package for our understanding of the big bang. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
April 22, 2025Apr 22 NASA’s Lucy Captures Stunning Views of Peanut-Shaped Asteroid in Latest Flyby The asteroid is named for the anthropologist who discovered the Lucy fossil in Africa. It looks pretty beat up. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
April 22, 2025Apr 22 China’s CATL says it has overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV charging time Quote The world’s biggest electric vehicle battery maker said on Monday that a new version of its flagship Shenxing battery cell could offer a 520km (323mi) range from just five minutes of charging time. They've almost caught up to gasoline-powered vehicles now, which have an average range of 413 miles per tank. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
April 27, 2025Apr 27 Astronomers have a narrowed down a candidate for planet nine. More observations are needed, of course... A Search for Planet Nine with IRAS and AKARI Data (arXiv) Is This the First Hint of Planet Nine? (Universe Today) "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
May 3, 2025May 3 A new Planet 9 candidate has been found: Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart Hopefully the new survey telescopes coming online soon will sort it all out. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
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