Digital Transformation of the Caribbean Islands and the Unlikely Success of Anguilla as an AI Hub
The Caribbean is a vibrant mixture of cultures celebrated widely for their beauty and diversity. It consists of 7,000…
Category: Sciences & Technology
‘Cheaper, More Humane’ Drones Emerge as Key Weapon in Mosquito Control from Poland to Africa
In Ghana, Kenya, Japan, Poland and probably other countries as well, it’s now the mosquitos who fear the sound…
Museums Are Finding More and More New Species in Their Own Collections: an Example of ‘Museum Mining’
The next great era of paleontology may not actually happen digging in the field, but rather digging through drawers.…
House and Senate Committe Poised to Reject Trump’s NASA Budget Cut
The Senate Appropriations Committee is currently engaged in markup of an appropriations bill for Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS),…
As Japan Retires Reliable Rocket, Honda Motors Blasts Off into the Space Sector with Surprise Rocket Test
Surprising investors and industry experts alike, Honda Motor Company announced on June 17th that it had successfully tested its…
Global Space Economy Rockets Towards Half-Trillion Valuation Led by SpaceX’s 138 Launches Last Year
Space is no longer the domain of dreams and fiction. Particularly regarding the Earth’s orbital zones, it’s a domain…
SpaceX Cancellation, Dragon Capsule in Limbo, and US Space Policy Completely Upended
When the SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule was certified to carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station in 2020,…
NASA’s 25% Budget Cut Cancels Dozens of Science Projects to Fund Mars Exploration
The atmosphere of confusion and disarray communicated generally from several peripheral government agencies and departments since the second Trump…
Is Finland Really the Happiest Country? New Global Flourishing Study Find Indonesians Are Most Fulfilled
A new measure of global mental wellbeing was recently released through a series of papers from Harvard University and…
America’s Weaponization of Space Continues Whilst NASA Sees Budget Cuts
Story at a glance… NASA is seeing flagship missions stall from lack of funding at the same time the…
Bamboo Panels on World’s Longest Sea Crossing Withstand 6 Years of Sun and Typhoons–Still Solid as Ever
Six years after their installation on the world’s longest sea crossing, thousands of bamboo panels have withstood six years…
3,500 Years of Climate History Show Arid Periods Linked to Periods of Turmoil and Depopulation
A recent study analyzing tree ring data has produced a 3,500-year-long record of precipitation rates on the Tibetan Plateau,…
On the Potential Upcoming Asteroid Colliding with Earth: We’ve Deflected Them Before and Can Do So Again
In January, an analysis was released by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) that concluded the planet faced…
Our Ancestors Show How to Possibly Create a More Egalitarian Society: Raise More Athletes
The gender division of labor among hunter-gatherers has been a topic of heated debate for decades, as much at…
Trade on the Medieval Silk Road Was so Rich, it Sustained High Mountain Cities, New Discovery Finds
A pair of lost cities in the highlands of Uzbekistan recently found by archaeologists using lidar demonstrate that the…
SpaceX Polaris Dawn Success Heralds New Age in Spacesuit Innovation
Early Thursday morning at 7:58 a.m. ET, members of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew successfully completed the world’s first…
Living During the Dawn of Biohybrids—Robots Made from Designed to Work in Nature
Recently, a series of innovations in robotics has seen motherboards replaced with fungal mycelium, metal chassis replaced with oat…
Lava Tubes and Water Frost Found on Mars Offer Double Opportunity in Search for Life
Yet more evidence for liquid water on Mars has been uncovered by a European space probe in the form…
Beijing Announces Date for Manned Mission to the Moon’s Surface in Rare Public Statement
Officials with the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO), who rarely comment on the details of future space missions,…
As Long as a Whale, New Extinct Snake Found in India May Be Largest to Have Ever Slithered the Earth
A giant snake, now thought to have been almost the largest to ever slither the Earth, has been identified…