Boeing Starliner Returns Home to an Uncertain Future
Until now, NASA has paid Boeing roughly $2.7 billion of the $4.6 billion total potential value of its commercial crew… Read More »Boeing Starliner Returns Home to an Uncertain Future
Why Super Typhoons Like Yagi Are More Common Than You’d Think
The year’s first super typhoon erupted over the steamy waters of the western Pacific Ocean on Thursday as Yagi churned… Read More »Why Super Typhoons Like Yagi Are More Common Than You’d Think
Students Find New Evidence of the Impossibility of Complete Disorder
A new mathematic proof marks the first progress in decades on a problem about how order emerges. —————————————————-
A Rare Coincidence of La Niña Events Will Weaken Hurricane Season
While much weaker than their Pacific counterpart, Atlantic Niñas can, however, partially counteract La Niñas by weakening summer winds that… Read More »A Rare Coincidence of La Niña Events Will Weaken Hurricane Season
John McFall, the Astronaut Flag Bearer at the Paris Paralympics, Is Ready to Fly
At first we studied how my disabilities and prosthesis might affect my ability to meet the requirements in-flight. At a… Read More »John McFall, the Astronaut Flag Bearer at the Paris Paralympics, Is Ready to Fly
The Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Come Home on SpaceX’s Dragon Next Year
NASA has announced that astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams will return to Earth next February aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft.… Read More »The Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Come Home on SpaceX’s Dragon Next Year
Bayesian Yacht Sinking: Climate Change Created Perfect Storm for Waterspouts
The waterspout blamed for the deadly sinking of a luxury superyacht carrying the British tech billionaire Mike Lynch in Italy… Read More »Bayesian Yacht Sinking: Climate Change Created Perfect Storm for Waterspouts
Why do researchers often prefer safe projects to risky ones? Explaining risk aversion in science
A mathematical framework that draws on the economic theory of hidden action models provides insights into how the unobservable nature… Read More »Why do researchers often prefer safe projects to risky ones? Explaining risk aversion in science
This Mpox Outbreak Isn’t Like the Last One
In May 2023, the World Health Organization released a statement declaring the end of mpox—formerly known as monkeypox—as a public… Read More »This Mpox Outbreak Isn’t Like the Last One
This Gargantuan Lab Simulates Blasting Satellites Into Space
Satellites go through a lot. As they hurtle around our planet at up to 17,000 miles an hour they must… Read More »This Gargantuan Lab Simulates Blasting Satellites Into Space