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Source: See here Headlines: Scientific American Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head⁘and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the oldest questions about existence Rachel Feltman, Kylie Murphy, Alex Sugiura, Jeffery DelViscio, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Carin Leong Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it Hypochlorous acid is safe enough to spray in your eyes yet more effective than bleach. Why isn⁘t it everywhere? The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography or...

Reference: Visit website Headlines: Home | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian How can we expand the limits of human knowledge further into the unknown? The Center for Astrophysics is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard College Observatory that's designed to ask big questions about the universe, build the tools needed to answer them, and share the resulting discoveries with the world. "The coming decade will be an extremely exciting time for astrophysics with the next generation space- and ground-based telescopes being built and coming on-line. The CfA's strength is the expertise of its scie...

Source: Visit website Headlines: In April 2025 , rumors spread on social media about an allegedly declassified CIA document that proved a story about aliens turning 23 Soviet soldiers to stone after a UFO was shot down. One X post ( archived ) with the claim reached more than 11.1 million views, as of this writing. The text on the image attached to the post read, "DECLASSIFIED CIA DOCUMENT CLAIMS ALIENS TURNED 23 SOVIET SOLDIERS TO STONE AFTER UFO WAS SHOT DOWN." In short, although the document at the center of the claims was genuinely available on the CIA's website, it was not an official agency report. Rather, it was a translation of...

Source: Visit website Headlines: The 'creep test' was carried out on an inflatable habitat that would be carried to other planets to house humans. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), based in Huntsville, Alabama, performed the test with Lockheed Martin Space, which is developing habitats for use in deep space. MSFC said Monday (28 April): "Creep tests performed at Marshall are designed to take this space technology to its breaking point. The design achieved over 1,000 hours at pressure before bursting – well exceeding the planned duration." Lockheed said, "Good things come to those who wait! Recently, we conducted a 1...

Read more: Found here Headlines: SpaceX brought a bright start to the week as a Falcon 9 rocket lit up the night sky − and it is only the first of more launches to come. The Starlink 12-23 mission took off at 10:09 p.m. Sunday, April 27, from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40 after being moved forward 49 minutes. SpaceX rarely moves launch times forward, and did not reveal a reason for this change. The 23 Starlink internet satellites traveled into the night sky on a southeast trajectory. The well-flown booster was seeing its 20th flight. Previous missions the booster launched include: 12 previous Starlink missions, NASA's Crew-5...

Source: See here Headlines: Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues came home aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on April 19, touching down in Kazakhstan to bring their seven-month International Space Station (ISS) mission to a successful close. (In Kazakhstan, it was actually April 20 ⁘ Pettit's 70th birthday.) "I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good," Pettit told reporters during a press conference from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Monday afternoon (April 28). "I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan." "They're polite, and they...

Source: Found here Headlines: A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites ⁘ including 13 with direct-to-cell capability ⁘ lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. EDT (0209 GMT on Monday, April 28). It was the 250th time SpaceX had sent a batch of Starlink craft skyward, the company noted via X shortly after launch. About eight minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth for a vertical touchdown as planned. It landed on the SpaceX drone ship "Just Read the Instructions," which was stationed i...

Source: Visit website Headlines: Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University discovery not only solves a 30-year-old mystery, but also provides guidelines for a future sampling mission to Ceres. Knowing what happens when meteorites collide is important for understanding the evolution of the solar system because it provides a window into the solar system's past. And so, planetary scientists as well as astrobiologists analyzing meteorite samples have been puzzled to find that meteorites containing carbon show much less eviden...

Reference: Visit website Headlines: We've all heard of space debris that sometimes falls back to Earth. But the next hunk of space junk set to crash-land on our planet is a little bigger than just "debris." A Kosmos 482 spacecraft, built by the former Soviet Union, has been doing circles around our planet for more than 50 years after its original mission to fly to Venus was cut short by an equipment malfunction in 1972, EarthSky reported. It is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere sometime between May 8 and May 11. The issue? It was designed with a heat-resistant shield - which means it might hang together instead of...

Reference: Found here Headlines: NINGBO, China – China's secret weapon in the trade war is an army of factory robots, powered by artificial intelligence, that have revolutionised manufacturing. Factories are being automated across China at a breakneck pace. With engineers and electricians tending to fleets of robots, these operations are bringing down the cost of manufacturing while improving quality. Factories are now more automated in China than in the United States, Germany or Japan. China has more factory robots for every 10,000 manufacturing workers than any other country except South Korea or Singapore, according to the Interna...

Reference: Found here Headlines: University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant icy objects in space beyond Neptune, offering a deeper understanding of our solar system's formation and growth. The findings, recently published in The Astronomical Journal Letters by the American Astronomical Society, reveal two distinct groups of TNOs with surface ice methanol presence: one with a depleted amount of surface methanol and a large reservoir beneath the surface, and another -- furthest from the Sun -- with an overall weaker methanol presence. The study suggests that cosmic irradiatio...

Source: See here Headlines: NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts Around noon Eastern time on Friday, three states reported air quality that was unhealthy for sensitive groups. Ryan Nichols, who was sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, said he is running for Congress because he did not receive due process. Bags of cash fell out of Brinks Home Security Company truck last week, resulting in approximately $300k being stolen, a complaint filed to Oak Park Police Department said. The complaint said the back door of the truck opened by unknown means, leading to three bags of U.S. currency falling out. Read...

Reference: Visit website Headlines: A recently declassified CIA document has revealed a UFO piloted by mysterious, bug-eyed extraterrestrials landed in Siberia during the height of the Cold War and made contact with a group of Soviet soldiers. However, they did not come in peace, RadarOnline.com can reveal, as the vengeful space aliens unleashed a horrifying light weapon that turned a whole platoon of soldiers into stone. The newly uncovered 250-page report written in 1990 by the KGB spy agency revealed a Soviet platoon conducting military exercises in Siberia spotted "a low-flying spaceship in the shape of a saucer." One of the soldiers apparently fired a ...

Read more: See here Headlines: Boom Technology, the Colorado company working on building the next generation of supersonic jets, has chosen to develop and test its engines of the future just 30 miles north of its Centennial headquarters ⁘ at the Colorado Air and Space Port near Watkins. Adams County commissioners this week approved a five-year lease with Boom. The company has pledged to invest $3 million to $5 million over the next year to improve and upgrade the site on the space port's east side where it will do its testing. ⁘We're absolute thrilled that Boom has chosen Adams County,⁘ Lynn Baca, who chai...

More details: Visit website Headlines: Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with a debris trail like a comet that stretches up to 5.5 million miles in space . This strange exoplanet , located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling apart. Its blistering host star is so close, the radiation is effectively melting it down, leaving behind a long tail of dust. Scientists say the rocky world , labeled BD+05 4868 Ab, is losing about one Mount Everest's worth of rock material with each orbit. At that rate, it may completely disintegrate in 1 million to 2 million years. A team of...

Reference: Visit website Headlines: In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch missions into orbit, according to a study soon to be published in the scientific journal Acta Astronautica. Launch is becoming more routine. Every few days, SpaceX is sending another batch of Starlink Internet satellites to orbit, and other kinds of missions fill up the rest of SpaceX's launch schedule. SpaceX, alone, has ample capacity to launch the handful of science missions NASA puts into space each year. If supply outpaces demand, shouldn't prices go down? So, there's a lot of demand, even if NASA's missions make ...

Source: Found here Headlines: On Wednesday, April 23, the "Firework" singer performed her first concert since the historic Blue Origin mission featuring an all-female crew . During the Lifetimes Tour stop in Mexico City kicking off her massive trek, Perry, 40, treated the crowd to some space-inspired dance moves while rocking a metallic bodysuit. Other concert outfits had a similar futuristic flair with shiny details as her stage featured intergalactic visuals. She also posed with two fans in NASA-branded suits to take a selfie, joking with the crowd , "I want these gentlemen to come on stage because they are dressed like my most current timeline." At o...

Source: Visit website Headlines: NASA is making final preparations for its first spacewalk since January. It⁘ll also be the first all-female spacewalk since November 2023 and only the fifth in NASA⁘s history. Astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers will be participating in the so-called ⁘extravehicular activity (EVA)⁘ on Thursday, May 1. It⁘ll be McLain⁘s third EVA after taking part in two others during a previous ISS stay in 2019. As Ayers only arrived in orbit for the first time last month, this will be her debut spacewalk. The pair will exit the station⁘s Quest airlock for a spacewalk that⁘s expected to last around six-and-a-half hours. ⁘The NASA duo will install a modification k...

Reference: Found here Headlines: WASHINGTON — SpaceX launched the third in its series of mid-inclination dedicated rideshare missions April 21, but with very few rideshare payloads on board. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:48 p.m. Eastern on the Bandwagon-3 mission. The booster, on its third flight, touched down back at Cape Canaveral, landing on a pad adjacent to one where the booster from the SpX-32 cargo resupply mission launch had landed earlier the same day . However, Bandwagon-3 carried only three payloads: the 425Sat-3 spacecraft for South Korea's military, Tomorrow-S7 for weather forecasting c...

Reference: Visit website Headlines: Katy Perry made history by taking part in the Blue Origin space flight which had an all-female crew. But influencer Laura Young believes that the flight which lasted just a matter of minutes lacked depth. The flight, which consisted of Katy, Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe, US journalist Lauren Sanchez, US research scientist Amanda Nguyen made history as they headed into space with an all female crew for the first time since 1963. Speaking exclusively to the Mirror , Laura who has been announced as the Girlguiding environment ambassador, scientist and climate ...

Reference: Found here Headlines: No, these are not two rings each set with a diamond, as depicted in this artist's rendering, but a sight of far greater rarity: a planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around a pair of stars. When an exoplanet is found in a binary star system – which indeed exists – its orbit is generally aligned with the plane in which its two hosts revolve around each other. A perpendicular orbit was theoretically anticipated, but this is the first time astronomers have reported solid evidence of such a phenomenon. The discovery of this "polar planet," made using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory ...

More details: Visit website Headlines: Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture's harmful impacts on the environment. The latest robo-bug from an MIT lab, inspired by the anatomy of the bee, comes closer to matching nature's performance than ever before.  Led by Kevin Chen, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the senior author of a paper on the work, the team adapted an earlier flying robot composed of four identical two-winged units, combined into a rectangul...

Read more: See here Headlines: Haven Energy has announced a first-of-its-kind program that completely removes the financial barrier to solar and battery system adoption in California. Leveraging California's $280 million Self-Generation Incentive Program Residential Solar ⁘ Storage Equity (SGIP RSSE), Haven is offering qualifying low-to-moderate income homeowners free solar and home battery systems — at no cost. This offer is achieved through Haven's unique financial structure: the company will own the equipment and collect state rebates, tax credits and demand response revenues, while the homeowners benefit from lower monthly elect...

Source: See here Headlines: The crescent moon will be the centerpiece of April's final astronomical event as it bunches up with Venus, Saturn and Mercury in the eastern sky on Friday morning. All four objects will be visible to the naked eye, although Mercury might be tricky to spot due to its dim glow and low position in the sky. The only catch is that onlookers will need to wake up before daybreak on Friday to witness this celestial gathering. Some people on social media are touting the event as a celestial "smiley face" with the moon serving as the smiling mouth and Venus and Saturn as the two eyes. But for stargazers in North America, it may not res...

Source: Found here Headlines: Aerospace engineer Mike Bara breaks down the states best ranked for preparing for an alien invasion on 'The Ingraham Angle.' A group of unidentified flying objects spotted by Navy sailors is raising eyebrows after witnesses reported watching the oddly-shaped aircraft rise from the ocean before jetting off in a synchronized fashion last year. The four aircraft were spotted by sailors aboard USS Jackson while off the coast of California last year, Jeremy Corbell, co-host of the "Weaponized" podcast, told Fox 11 . "[This] is a machine that is able to outpace, outmaneuver, and out...

Read more: See here Headlines: White House Director of Science and Technology Michael Kratsios has suggested the United States has technology that can "manipulate time and space." The comment came this week at the Endless Frontiers Retreat in Austin, Texas. Kratsios said U.S. technological developments have stalled compared to the 20th century. #news

Reference: Found here WASHINGTON — More states are lining up in a bid to host NASA's headquarters, but the prize they seek may turn out to be smaller than they expect. "For NASA to return to its core mission of excellence in exploration, its headquarters should be located at a place where NASA's most critical missions are and where transformational leadership from the ground up can be provided," the letter , signed by 27 members, stated. "We write to urge you to use this opportunity to reinvigorate our national space agency and move NASA...

Read more: See here Headlines: A SpaceX rocket launch from the California coast is now scheduled for shortly before sunrise Sunday and could be visible from the Coachella Valley. Officials at Vandenberg Space Force Base announced Saturday that the Falcon 9 launch is set for 5:29 a.m. Sunday. If for some reason the launch doesn't happen then, a backup window is available on Monday, April 21 starting at 5:08 a.m., SpaceX said. The launch will be carrying satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office, according to the publication Spaceflight Now . If you're a festivalgoer and up really early — or, let's be realis...

More details: Visit website Headlines: In four years, on 13 April 2029 to be exact, a large asteroid named Apophis will fly by Earth just 32,000 kilometres above the surface. Apophis, like the recently identified asteroid known as 2024 YR4, was once thought to be on a crash course with our planet. After its likelihood of hitting us was lowered to zero, and some presumed sighs of relief, astronomers began planning for the day it would make its exceptionally close flyby. #news ...

Read more: Visit website Headlines: But a leaked draft of the president⁘s 2026 budget request, which Scientific American has reviewed, instead calls for canceling Roman. ⁘This is nuts. You⁘ve built it, and you⁘re not going to do the final step to finish it?⁘ says astrophysicist David Spergel , president of the Simons Foundation and former co-chair of Roman⁘s science team. ⁘That is such a waste of taxpayers⁘ money.⁘ Roman isn⁘t the only casualty in the president⁘s draft NASA budget, which is still in flux and will ultimately require congressional approval. The proposal cuts heavily into the $25-billion space agency⁘s science divisio...

More details: Found here Headlines: Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet 2M1510 (AB) b orbits two stars ⁘ like Luke Skywalker⁘s home planet of Tatooine, for the Star Wars fans ⁘ but it does so in a highly unusual way. Astronomers had predicted that such an orbit was possible, but it had never been seen in reality before it was discovered using the European Southern Observatory⁘s Very Large Telescope (VLT). ⁘I am particularly excited to be involved in detecting credible evidence that this configuration exists,⁘ said lead researcher Thomas Baycroft of the University of Birmingham, UK. The pair of stars tha...

Reference: Visit website Headlines: A new machine learning model has predicted that there are 44 Earth-like planets in other star systems in the Milky Way galaxy, with researchers from Switzerland claiming that the algorithm at the core of the model is 99% accurate. The AI performed spectacularly well when applied to data on planetary systems with known properties and potential Earth-like planets. "The model identified 44 systems that are highly likely to harbor undetected Earth-like planets," said Dr. Jeanne Davoult, lead author of a paper published this week in Astronomy ⁘ Astrophysics . "A further study confirmed the theoretical possibility for these syst...

Reference: See here Headlines: Aerospace engineer Mike Bara breaks down the states best ranked for preparing for an alien invasion on 'The Ingraham Angle.' A group of unidentified flying objects spotted by Navy sailors is raising eyebrows after witnesses reported watching the oddly-shaped aircraft rise from the ocean before jetting off in a synchronized fashion last year. The four aircraft were spotted by sailors aboard USS Jackson while off the coast of California last year, Jeremy Corbell, co-host of the "Weaponized" podcast, told Fox 11 . "[This] is a machine that is able to outpace, o...

Reference: Found here L3Harris Technologies announced this week a $125 million expansion of its manufacturing facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana, focused on increasing production of infrared sensing payloads – a central technology for the Golden Dome missile-defense shield that relies heavily on space-based capabilities. Established through executive order, the Golden Dome project aims to create a comprehensive shield protecting the United States against multiple missile threats, including ballistic, hypersonic and advanced cruise missiles. At its core, the initia...

More details: Found here Headlines: Blue Origin is taking a star-studded crew of six female passengers to the edge of space on Monday in one of the most closely watched suborbital space tourism missions in years. The flight will last about 10 minutes — carrying the group more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) into the sky and offering a few minutes of weightlessness before they descend. But at what point during the flight will singer Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King and their fellow passengers reach "space"? Is it when they look outside their window and the blue glow of the sky fades to black? Is it whe...