Tag: Science News

Audio Files Being Consumed as ‘Digital Drugs’: Study

A study on the Global Drug Survey 2021 has raised questions on the phenomenon of binaural beats in audio files being consumed as “digital drugs” capable of “eliciting mental and emotional responses” akin to psychoactive drugs. “We’re starting to see digital experiences defined as drugs, but they could also be seen as complementary practices alongside…


Blue Origin Launches, Lands Its 4th Human Flight

Blue Origin launched and landed its fourth human flight for the New Shepard program, blasting off Thursday from rural Texas. This was Blue Origin’s fourth flight with passengers on board. The passengers are CEO and investor Marty Allen; Sharon and Marc Hagle; teacher and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen, George Nield, a former NASA manager who has…


US Astronaut With Record-Long Spaceflight Mission Returns to Earth in Russian Capsule

U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two Russian cosmonauts have returned to Earth on Wednesday after spending a record 355 days at the International Space Station (ISS). The American space explorer clocked the single longest spaceflight by a NASA astronaut in mid-March after breaking the previous record, held by retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, by 15…


Blue Origin’s 4th Astro-Tourism Flight Set to Launch Without Big Names

The fourth commercial flight of Jeff Bezos’ space tourism venture Blue Origin, offering short suborbital joyrides to well-heeled thrill-seekers and celebrity guests, has been delayed by two days because of poor weather conditions, the company said. Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft was scheduled for liftoff on Tuesday from the company’s launch site in rural west…


NASA’s Bill Nelson Talks Moon and Beyond

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson detailed his agency’s coming efforts at an address Monday at the Kennedy Space Center. Nelson said the President Joe biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget would allow NASA to sustain America’s innovation leadership and keep NASA at the forefront of exploration and discovery by returning to the Moon with the Artemis program….


Azores Volcanic Island Hit by Thousands of Quakes Starts Evacuation as Fears Grow

LISBON—Authorities on a mid-Atlantic Portuguese island hit by thousands of small earthquakes in recent days started evacuating people living at the bottom of coastal cliffs on Thursday as fears of a stronger tremor or a volcanic eruption grow. Since Saturday, over 2,000 earthquakes, with a magnitude of between 1.6 and 3.3, have been recorded on…


Elon Musk Says SpaceX’s Starship Orbital Likely in May Despite Pending Regulatory Approval: Here’s Why

Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk said on Monday SpaceX’s orbital debut for the Starship rocket from the Boca Chica launch site in Texas is likely to take place in May. What Happened The billionaire entrepreneur said SpaceX is currently building 39 flight-worthy Raptor 2 engines that will be ready by next month, following which it will take another month to integrate them with…


Azores on Watch for Large Quake, Eruption as Island Keeps Shaking

LISBON—A series of multiple small earthquakes that have been rattling a mid-Atlantic Portuguese island for three days could trigger a stronger tremor or a volcanic eruption, experts said on Tuesday, as authorities urged people not to travel there. The number of earthquakes recorded on the volcanic island of Sao Jorge, in the Azores archipelago, since…


Decentralize Scientific System to Lessen Reliance on Journals, Major Funders: Kulldorff

The current scientific paradigm needs to change to lessen reliance on journals and major funding entities such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Martin Kulldorff says. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the serious problems with the system, including how a select few control much of the financial support available to researchers in the…


SEC Rule Would Mandate That Companies Disclose Climate-Related Information, Greenhouse Gas Emissions

President Joe Biden’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released proposed rules Monday for publicly traded companies that would compel those firms to disclose a range of climate-related information to shareholders. Described in a 500-plus-page document, that information includes financially material climate-related risks as well as estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which were described by the…