CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX launched a newer, bigger version of its Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station on Sunday, marking the first time the company has two capsules in orbit at the same time. The Dragon—packed with Christmas treats and presents—should reach the space station on Monday, joining the Dragon that delivered four astronauts […]

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 30, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Secure The Future 2100 (STF2100) has published a paper “Arctic Ice Loss Threatens National Security: A Path Forward” in the Fall 2020 issue of Orbis, the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s quarterly journal of world affairs. Co-authored by the scientist team at STF2100, the paper proposes a […]

The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine lowers the death rate of COVID-19 patients, U.S. researchers have said. Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of over 2,500 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2 in the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan. The study found 13 percent of those who received hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to 26.4 percent […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 26, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Parents and children can help scientists understand how the young mind grows and changes—all from home! Children Helping Science (childrenhelpingscience.com) from the Parent Researcher Collaborative connects families to hundreds of web-based studies of child development and brain function. “It’s like the Hubble telescope of child development,” says […]

WILMINGTON, Mass., April 2, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Green chemistry education nonprofit Beyond Benign has received a grant from life science company MilliporeSigma to develop laboratory resources for universities. The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada. Green chemistry is the design of chemical products and […]

YAP, Micronesia, Nov. 13, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — How can oil and gas companies lead in the fight against climate change? That is a question whose answer could very well solve the climate crisis rapidly. A new research project hosted by the Center for Open Science’s online collaboration platform explores one option: pay them generously […]

‘Science depends on diverse contributions, and benefits everyone, so this means we must make it inclusive,’ says official for diversity and equal opportunity NASA has announced it is revising some unofficial nicknames used to refer to cosmic objects as it joins efforts by some within the scientific community to promote values of “diversity, equity, and […]

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., June 10, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Hago Energetics Inc., a startup company focused on development of scalable solutions to climate change, announced today that it is a participant in the NASA CO2 Conversion Challenge. This Challenge seeks to make colonization on Mars possible for future generations. The Company is in Phase 2 of this […]

New York’s transit authority has launched a virus-busting pilot that uses a special kind of germicidal ultraviolet light to disinfect the city’s subways and buses. Calling it “another aggressive step” in keeping New York metro area’s transit system clean and safe, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Columbia University, and Denver-based startup PURO joined forces to […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 22, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — SciScore announces the release of its innovative solution, the first and only working application of its kind, in support of the pre-clinical scientific research community’s pursuit of reproducibility and transparency. “Finding the cure for any medical ailment facing our society, costs money. And, rightly so, the […]

Something in space has been releasing fleeting blasts of radio waves, and scientists have finally unraveled this decade-old astronomical mystery. The outbursts of energy, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are millisecond-duration radio pulses which were first identified in 2007 from archived data recorded at the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, in July […]

U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon, splashed down in the capsule in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after a two-month voyage that was NASA’s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years. Behnken and Hurley undocked from the station on […]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 2, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — In an era where most publications are shrinking, Hidden Compass, an award-winning quarterly magazine on exploration, is expanding. This week, the California-based startup is announcing Katie Knorovsky as its new managing editor. With roughly 15 years of experience writing and editing for the National Geographic Society, […]

Symptoms of a mysterious new condition appearing in children in Europe and North America include an extended fever, shock, and diarrhea, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Some scientists believe the new condition is linked to COVID-19, the new disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The WHO said in a new scientific brief […]

DUBUQUE, Iowa, Aug. 28, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Kendall Hunt is excited to announce they have been chosen as the manufacturing and distribution partner for OpenSciEd, a leader in the science Open Education Resource space. Currently, the OpenSciEd middle school units are being field tested by over 200+ teachers with over 5,000 students using the […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. probe that collected a sample from an asteroid earlier this week retrieved so much material that a rock is wedged in the container door, allowing rocks to spill back out into space, NASA officials said on Friday. The robotic arm of the probe, OSIRIS-REx, on Tuesday night kicked up a debris cloud of […]

President Donald Trump hailed his administration’s effort to develop a COVID-19 vaccine as a once-in-a-generation push that would “achieve a victory over the virus by unleashing America’s scientific genius” in record time. Trump said during a visit to Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies in Morrisville, North Carolina, on July 27 that the joint public-private program to develop […]

NASA and SpaceX have completed a historic launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, marking the first time a private company has ever sent people into orbit and the first time in nearly a decade that a space-bound aircraft has taken off from U.S. soil. The rocket lifted off on schedule at […]

Drugmaker Moderna has obtained clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to run a larger trial of its CCP virus vaccine candidate. The state of the phase two trial is “imminent,” Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said in a statement. The trial will include 600 participants. The biotechnology company hopes start a phase three study as […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 27, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Camp EDMO™, a leading Bay Area non-profit offering STEAM and SEL oriented After School and Summer Camp Programs, announced that it is making its Comprehensive After School Programs, which encompass 180 days of the school year, available to Bay Area schools. The programs are customized to […]