While Florida, Texas, and Pasadena, California, are often the epicenter of NASA’s space world here on Earth, San Diego will get its moment in the moonlight when the Orion spacecraft completes its final leg of the Artemis I Mission on Sunday. Orion — the capsule that will one day transport America’s first woman and first …
Two views of Saturn’s moon Titan captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The image on the left uses a filter sensitive to Titan’s lower atmosphere, and the image on the right is a color composite. At bottom is an annotated version, indicating a few features captured in each image. (NASA, ESA, CSA, A. Pagan …
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NASA on Wednesday defended its decision to send a “Red Team” of technicians into a potentially dangerous blast zone to fix a leak in the Artemis rocket fueling system while the rocket was nearly full of fuel just before launch. Taking questions at a post-launch briefing were NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Artemis Mission Manager Mike …
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Credit: Wiley To convert heat into electricity, easily accessible materials from harmless raw materials open up new perspectives in the development of safe and inexpensive so-called “thermoelectric materials.” A synthetic copper mineral acquires a complex structure and microstructure through simple changes in its composition, thereby laying the foundation for the desired properties, according to a …
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8:00 AM ET ESPN staff The XFL is back in 2023, its third iteration after trying to launch a spring football league two other times. The first came in 2001, and there was also a COVID-19-shortened attempt in 2020. Before the league, which is being run by an ownership group headed by league co-owners Dwayne …
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The 2022 NFL trade deadline is fast approaching on Nov. 1. Some teams are already squarely in the “buyers” camp, with the Rams and 49ers reportedly bidding over Christian McCaffrey before the latter acquired the star running back. Others, like the Panthers, are already confirmed as sellers. But all 32 teams could use some degree …
Li Qiang, likely to become the next premier, is pictured here speaking at a major annual financial conference in Shanghai in 2020. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese stocks’ plunge on Monday over fears about China’s new leadership team “may be misguided,” consulting firm Teneo said. Chinese stocks in Hong Kong and …
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LYNCHBURG, Va. — Liberty coach Hugh Freeze called it the most important home football game in program history. Then the visiting BYU Cougars went out and played like it was the least important game in their history, like they didn’t even care. Certainly, it was one of the most embarrassing performances for BYU in the …
Red Bull owner and co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz has died, the company’s F1 team confirmed Saturday. He was 78. There was no immediate word where he died, or a cause of death. The Austrian billionaire gained fame as the public face of Red Bull, an Austrian-Thai conglomerate that says it sold nearly 10 billion cans of …
Scientists hope to use optical clocks to redefine the second.Credit: Julian Stratenschulte/DPA via ZUMA Press Physicists have devised a way to synchronize the ticking of two clocks through the air with extreme precision, across a record distance of 113 kilometers. The feat is a step towards redefining the second using optical clocks — timekeepers that …
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