Tag: science
Hubble researchers find a gaggle of small black holes
Larger black holes may be the usual attention-getters, but the smaller ones may be at least as important. A team using the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a concentration of small black holes in the NGC 6397 globular star cluster (pictured abov… Source
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Immunai raises $60M as it expands from improving immune therapies to discovering new ones, too
Just three years after its founding, biotech startup Immunai has raised $60 million in Series A funding, bringing its total raised to over $80 million. Despite its youth, Immunai has already established the largest database in the world for single cell immunity characteristics, and it has already used its machine…
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NASA picks SpaceX Falcon Heavy for $332M mission to launch lunar Gateway components in 2024
NASA has announced that SpaceX will take two major parts of the Gateway lunar orbiter that will function as a pit stop for future moon missions. The Power and Propulsion Element and Habitation and Logistics Outpost — which together will form the first usable lunar space station — will go…
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Origami-like patch could help robot surgeons repair internal injuries
Robot surgeons could one day have an easy way to mend internal injuries with minimal impact. MIT researchers have developed an “origami-inspired,” biodegradable medical patch that can be folded around a robot’s minimally invasive surgical tools to se… Source
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SpaceX will launch a NASA mission to study the history of the universe
One of NASA’s more important science missions now has a ride. The agency has awarded SpaceX a contract to launch its SPHEREx astrophysics project. The mission won’t blast off using a Falcon 9 rocket until June 2024 at the earliest, but it promises to… Source
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‘Frozen’ CG snow and crash-test cadavers offer hints for 60-year-old Russian mystery deaths
The Dyatlov Pass incident is the mother of all cold cases: nine people found dead in 1959, deep in the Ural mountains, under circumstances no one has ever been able to satisfactorily explain. But new research uses simulation techniques from multiple eras to advance what is perhaps the least implausible…
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