WASHINGTON — NASA has named Amit Kshatriya as its new associate administrator in a move meant to emphasize the role of exploration at the agency. NASA announced Sept. 3 that its acting administrator, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, appointed Kshatriya to the post, the agency’s top-ranking civil service job. The position had been filled on an acting basis since early this …
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The recent passing of retired Navy Capt. Jim Lovell, an astronaut and one of our great American heroes, propelled many of us back to the iconic scenes from the superb retelling of the Apollo 13 movie in 1995. The three of us lived through that fateful mission in 1970, as the astronauts and mission control team dealt with critical issue after …
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Ali Abbas AhmadiBBC News, Toronto Canadian Space Agency A computer generated image of what the lunar vehicle could look like on the Moon In a shopping plaza an hour outside Toronto, flanked by a day spa and a shawarma joint, sits a two-storey building with blue tinted windows reflecting the summer sun. It is the modest headquarters of Canadensys Aerospace, …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link Forty years ago, in the early hours of September 1, grainy black-and-white images of a metal cylinder appeared on the video feeds in the command center of Knorr, a research vessel searching the Atlantic seafloor for the world’s most famous shipwreck: the Titanic. Members of the four-person watch team, suspecting the object might be a sunken …
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Cohen, J. D., McClure, S. M. & Yu, A. J. Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the trade-off between exploitation and exploration. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 362, 933–942 (2007). PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Daw, N. D., O’Doherty, J. P., Dayan, P., Seymour, B. & Dolan, R. J. Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions …
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Your genome carries quiet traces of meetings your ancestors once had with other kinds of humans. Some of those traces come from the Denisovans, a population that science met first in DNA, then slowly in bone. A new wave of research is turning these strangers into neighbors by stitching together where they lived, when they thrived, and what they left …
Read More »Welcome to our latest recap of what’s going on in the indie game space. This week, Nintendo held its latest Indie World showcase to spotlight titles that are coming to Switch and Switch 2, as well as some that arrived on the eShop on the day of the presentation. One of the latter was UFO 50, which featured on many …
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Photo: CMSA Global Times learned from the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Thursday that China’s Lanyue lander successfully completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test at the extraterrestrial landing test site in Huailai county, North China’s Hebei Province on Wednesday. This test, the CMSA said, marks China’s first landing and takeoff experiment for a manned spacecraft on an …
Read More »Moon exploration company Firefly’s stock skyrockets after another successful IPO MarketWatch Space Company Firefly’s Stock Zooms in Wall Street Debut The Wall Street Journal Firefly Aerospace hits $9.8 billion valuation in Nasdaq debut as shares takeoff Reuters Texas-based Firefly made history with its moon landing. Here’s how it’s fueling its next adventures CNN Firefly Aerospace soars over 30% in market debut to land at …
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bp drilled exploration well 1-BP-13-SPS at the Bumerangue block, located in the Santos Basin, 404 kilometres (218 nautical miles) from Rio de Janeiro, in a water depth of 2,372 metres. The well was drilled to a total depth of 5,855 metres. The well intersected the reservoir about 500 metres below the crest of the structure and penetrated an estimated 500 …
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