PHOTO CREDITS: ANNIE LINDSAY/SCIENCE NEWS According to ScienceNews, researchers at Powdermill Nature Reserve in Rector, Pennsylvania spotted a rose-breasted grosbeak that is half red and black and half yellow and brown. The bird’s right side, having the distinctive red markings, is male, and its left side, having the yellow and[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: NBC 6 According to Paul Chodas, the director of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Asteroid 2020 SO expected to enter Earth’s gravity in mid-November may not be an asteroid at all, but part of a rocket. Last month, astronomers in Hawaii were[Read More…]

IMAGE CREDITS: BUSINESS INSIDER According to Space News, SpaceX is preparing to offer StarLink satellite broadband internet in northern portions of the United States and Southern Canada before the end of the current calendar year.  StarLink is part of the aerospace company’s plan to fund its space program by providing[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: NASA According to CNET.com, Astronomers have captured the most detailed images yet of a star being ripped apart by a black hole.  “Spaghettification” is a term coined by Stephen Hawking in his book A Brief History of Time to describe an extraordinarily strong tidal disruption event. This takes[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: GETTY IMAGES The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded on Wednesday to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their 2012 work on Crispr-Cas9, a method to edit DNA.  The announcement marks the first time the award has gone to two women. “This year’s prize is about[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: SPACEX According to Space News, NASA has delayed the launch of a commercial crew mission again. This launch was set for October 23rd, then rescheduled for October 31st, and now has been rescheduled for early to mid-November of 2020. The objective of this mission is to send 3[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: THE VERGE According to CNBC, a selected group of customers of Waymo, a self-driving taxi service, in Phoenix, Arizona tested driverless vehicles last week. The autonomous vehicles would be available for the family and friends of the selected Waymo customers. The company plans to extend it to all[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: SHUTTERSTOCK  According to Futurism.com, the big bang of the universe may not have been the only big bang to have ever occurred.  Sir Roger Penrose, the person who suggested this theory, is a mathematician and physicist at Oxford University. Penrose is credited for the discovery that Einstein’s General[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: TAMI CHAPPELL/REUTERS Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published and then took down its guidance warning of possible airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus. The CDC then said they updated their coronavirus guidance Monday, September 28th. Before, it was assumed that the coronavirus is[Read More…]

IMAGE CREDITS: DNA INDIA According to SciTechDaily, researchers at the RMIT University in Australia have developed the world’s first photodetector that can see all shades of light. This breakthrough is expected to help with biomedical imaging, advancing early detection of health issues like cancer. Photodetectors – used in gaming consoles,[Read More…]