Billionaire Elon Musk is no fan of the billionaire-tax proposal from Democrat lawmakers. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. © Kimi Talvitie; NASA; Mark Brake/Getty Images; Samantha Lee/Business Insider In his most recent critique, Musk said he would use the billions in tax dollars to reach Mars. “My plan is to use the money to […]
“Who am I to say planet Earth is the only location of a life form that is civilized and organized like ours?” During an appearance this week at the University of Virginia, NASA boss Bill Nelson made some eyebrow-raising remarks about a possible connection between military sightings of unidentified flying objects and the search for […]
The female orgasm is apparently a subject of great mystery and bewilderment for many men and women alike. But after you break through the old myths, taboos, and prudishness, it’s not quite as complicated as the glossy gossip magazines and hearsay makes out. A new study by sexual health experts at Indiana University looked into […]
Men and women really don’t see eye to eye, according to a new study. Females are better at discriminating among colors, researchers say, while males excel at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance—evolutionary adaptations possibly linked to our hunter-gatherer past. The study, led by Brooklyn College psychology professor Israel Abramov, put young […]
For the first time in history, a group of American surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a human being, as part of an experimental procedure performed last month at New York University’s Langone Health Medical Center, he reported. this Wednesday the Reuters agency. Pig kidneys have long been studied for use in medicine, […]
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China tests hypersonic missile capable of circling the Earth The test, which took place in August, was kept secret and surprised US officials, according to the newspaper. China came to the attention of US officials by testing a hypersonic missile with a nuclear capability that circled the Earth. The test, which took place in August, […]
IN EUROPE THE cost of electricity is soaring. Prices had been rising steadily this year, as economic recoveries got under way. But they have spiked in the past few weeks. Since the start of September, wholesale power prices in Germany and France have climbed by 36% and 48%, respectively. They are now hovering at around […]
This week, the CoinDesk website reported a curious case about Bitcoin, dealing more specifically with its mining. According to the source, mining company MintGreen, which specializes in clean technology, is working with Lonsdale Energy Corp. to reuse the heat generated in the production of new cryptocurrencies and heat a small town called North Vancouver, in […]
Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, based on the eponymous book by Michael Crichton, is something of a moral fable about the dangers of human manipulation of technology, humanity’s failure thereby, technology’s influence on the human condition, and scientific advances that go wrong. Crichton’s work, a pioneer in the modern genre called techno-thriller, has always been to […]
As our eyes on the sky grow ever more sensitive, we’re going to find more and more things we’ve never seen before. Such is the case for a newly discovered source of radio signals, located not far from the center of the galaxy. It’s called ASKAP J173608.2-321635, and astronomers have been unable to figure out […]