Sunday, January 1, 2017

SpaceX Could Return Falcon 9 Rocket to Flight Dec. 16 and other top stories.

  • SpaceX Could Return Falcon 9 Rocket to Flight Dec. 16

    SpaceX Could Return Falcon 9 Rocket to Flight Dec. 16
    SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket exploded during a routine prelaunch test on Sept. 1, 2016. A Falcon 9 should return to flight on Dec. 16, 2016, if all goes according to plan. Credit: USLaunchReport.com video SpaceX may return to flight two weeks from now with a 10-satellite launch. The private spaceflight company has been grounded since Sept. 1, when one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded during a routine prelaunch test, destroying a $200 million communications satellite. But SpaceX is nea..
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  • Russian Spacecraft Carrying Supplies Burns Up in Flight

    Russian Spacecraft Carrying Supplies Burns Up in Flight
    Photo The Progress 65 spacecraft in Kazakhstan on Tuesday. No astronauts were aboard when it failed to reach orbit on Thursday and largely burned up in the atmosphere as it fell back down. Credit RSC Energia A Russian spacecraft carrying 2.6 tons of food, fuel and supplies — but no astronauts — to the International Space Station failed to reach orbit on Thursday and largely burned up in the atmosphere as it fell back down.Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, reported th..
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  • The House Science Committee Doesn't Seem To Understand The Concept Of Winter

    The House Science Committee Doesn't Seem To Understand The Concept Of Winter
    The House of Representatives’ Science Committee sent out a Twitter message Thursday afternoon that appears to mock “climate alarmists,” an odd and disconcerting move considering the group is tasked with overseeing the government’s role in scientific research. .@BreitbartNews: Global Temperatures Plunge. Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists https://t.co/uLUPW4o93V— Sci,Space,&Tech Cmte (@HouseScience) December 1, 2016 The tweet linked to an article posted on hyper-conservative Breitbart News, whic..
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  • Hallucinogenic drugs could soon work like a 'surgical intervention' for mental illness

    Hallucinogenic drugs could soon work like a 'surgical intervention' for mental illness
    OceanFishing/Getty Images Dinah Bazer was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring of 2010. The Brooklyn resident, an ice skating teacher and former bank IT programmer in her 60s, was devastated. Luckily, doctors were able to successfully treat her disease with chemotherapy, but the dread of a reoccurrence just wouldn't go away. It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop. "I was totally consumed with fear and anxiety," she said on a recent call with a group of..
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  • Asia's first periodic table entry named after Japan - KPAX

    Asia's first periodic table entry named after Japan - KPAX
    By Emiko Jozuka CNN (CNN) -- Names stick for life. Get them wrong and your kids are likely in for a lifetime of hardships. Luckily, that principle doesn't apply to elements of the periodic table. 'Nihonium (Nh),' Moscovium (Mc), Oganesson (Og) and Tennessine (Ts) are four elements that were officially name-approved and joined 118 other elements on the periodic table Wednesday. With the latest additions, the periodic table is now complete down to the seventh row.What makes Nihonium (Nh) -- named..
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  • Schoolkids cook up $2 dose of the $750-a-pill Daraprim

    Schoolkids cook up $2 dose of the $750-a-pill Daraprim
    Remember Martin Shkreli, the hedge-fund manager who last year founded Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired an essential anti-parasitic drug, and quickly jacked up its price 55-fold, from $13.50 to $750 a pill? Well, he's just been shown up by a group of high school chemistry students in Australia who've produced a generic version of Turing's drug, Daraprim, for $2 a pill, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Led by chemist Alice Williamson and motivated by a dose of disgust, a class of Sydney Grammar..
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  • Rosie O'Donnell apologizes to Melania Trump for suggesting Barron Trump may be autistic

    Rosie O'Donnell apologizes to Melania Trump for suggesting Barron Trump may be autistic
    Rosie O'Donnell apologizes to Melania Trump for suggesting Barron Trump may be autistic Before you go, we thought you'd like these... Rosie O'Donnell has extended an apology to Melania Trump for suggesting that the soon-to-be first lady's son, Barron, may be autistic, reports TMZ.On Thursday, O'Donnell tweeted, "I apologize to @MELANIATRUMP – i was insensitive in my RT – i am sorry for the pain i caused – it was not my intent – i am truly sorry."The retweet she's referring to dates bac..
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  • Tornado Outbreaks Are On The Rise, And Scientists Don't Know Why

    Tornado Outbreaks Are On The Rise, And Scientists Don't Know Why
    A man clears the debris from a destroyed convenience store in Rosalie, Ala., on Thursday, the day after a reported tornado struck the area. Brynn Anderson/AP hide caption toggle caption Brynn Anderson/AP A man clears the debris from a destroyed convenience store in Rosalie, Ala., on Thursday, the day after a reported tornado ..
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  • Buzz Aldrin recovers in New Zealand after polar evacuation

    Buzz Aldrin recovers in New Zealand after polar evacuation
    In this Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, photo provided by Christina Korp, right, Buzz Aldrin lies in a hospital bed in Christchurch, New Zealand. Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, was evacuated from the South Pole to New Zealand where he was ...
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