A machine learning tool that can assess the credibility of research could shorten the review period for scientific studies and, potentially, help identify the most promising research on COVID-19. Assessing the merit of scientific papers can be a challenging…
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that some treatments appear to be limiting the severity or length of the COVID-19 disease and that it was focusing on learning more about four or five of the most promising ones. The Geneva-ba…
Former President Barack Obama said he couldn’t think of a case where someone got off “scot-free” for lying to the FBI. He pardoned just such a man. Retired Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright pleaded guilty in late 2016 to lying to the agency about his discussions with reporters about Iran’s nuclear program, specifically whether he…
Space is awesome. Luckily, we have science to reveal all the wondrous discoveries made beyond the Earth’s surface. Now, thanks to a technique called “lucky imaging,” we can see a super clear image of Jupiter.The process of “lucky imaging” involves taking numerous images of the planet at multiple exposures in one night, and keeping the…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover’s descent stage was recently stacked atop the rover at Kennedy Space Center, and the two were placed in their back shell. The Ingenuity helicopter can be seen attached to the rover’s underside (lower center of the image). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Stacking spacecraft components on top of each other is one of the…
SpaceX is busy preparing for its historic first crew launch, which is scheduled to lift off later this month. To that end, the company’s fleet of recovery vessels are doing trial runs, making sure they have what it takes to pull the crew and spacecraft from the water upon landing, or in the event of an…
While we were only previously given vague hints of what the plane was carrying, the Space Force is more forthright this time around. In its announcement, the military division has revealed that the X-37B’s sixth mission will deploy a small satellite called FalconSat-8 that was developed by the US Air Force Academy.As Gizmodo notes, the…
MICHELLE STARR 10 MAY 2020 Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable. The sky is up. Gravity sucks. Nothing can travel faster than light. Multicellular life needs oxygen to live. Except we might need to rethink that last one. Earlier this year, scientists discovered that a jellyfish-like parasite doesn’t have…
A full moon, also called the Supermoon or Flower Moon, shines bright in every part of the world. The Supermoon rises above the Statue of Liberty in New Jersey, US. A silhouette of a bird is seen as it files past the moon that is behind Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia.The Supermoon glows red in…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 asteroid probe snapped images that reveal the space rock had a close encounter with the Sun. Scorched rock was present on the asteroid’s surface, appearing red in spectral analysis and indicating extreme heating over a short period of time. Visit BGR’s homepage for more stories.Japan’s Hayabusa2 asteroid probe has already accomplished a lot.…
