If there’s one thing I love, it’s good news. So today as I was catching up on my podcasts while doing chores (Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe goes great with kneading dough, folding laundry, and doing dishes) I got around to listening to Science Friday’s multi-segment feature on new battery technologies. And boy am I excited.
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Back on December 15, Orbital ATK launched eight small satellites for NASA. But the way they did it — while not new — is still pretty unusual, so I thought I’d take a moment to (re)introduce you to the Pegasus XL.
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With Tesla set to sell hundreds of thousands of cars over the next few years, Chevy Bolt sales expected to hit 30,000 just next year, Germany passing a nonbinding resolution to ban internal combustion engine vehicle sales by 2030, and Bloomberg reporting that the unsubsidized lifetime cost of electric cars is likely to fall below that of gas-powered ones by 2022, it’s really starting to look like the clock is ticking for oil companies, or at least for their profits.
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Everyone’s reporting this week that the “first three-parent baby” has been born in Mexico, and that’s not really true at all. Here’s the facts. What just happened was that, in Mexico, the first child has […]
Image: Blue Origin The news spread yesterday like wildfire: Jeff Bezos has announced in an e-mail that his suborbital spaceflight company, Blue Origin, has a roadmap for going orbital. The new generation of rockets will […]
Gotta Catch ‘Em All | Photo: Eduardo Woo, CC BY-SA 2.0 So as you might’ve guessed after reading the last few days’ worth of posts over here, I have gotten into the Pokémon Go thing. […]