Something went wrong during today’s test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship, and the world was able to watch how it was handled...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin live-streams its spaceship’s risky test flight
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Smile, you’re in the FBI face-recognition database
(credit: National Institutes of Health)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has access to as many as 411.9 million images as part of its face-recognition database. The bulk of those images are photographs of people who have committed no crime, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The report says the bureau's Facial Analysis,...
NASA gets first official X-plane in a decade: Electric craft named X-57 Maxwell
NASA says it has received its first X-plane...
The bacteriophage ϕ29 tail possesses a pore-forming loop for cell membrane penetration
Most bacteriophages are tailed bacteriophages with an isometric or a prolate head attached to a long contractile, long non-contractile, or short non-contractile tail. The tail is a complex machine that plays a central role in host cell recognition and attachment, cell wall and membrane penetration, and viral genome ejection. The mechanisms involved in the penetration of the inner host cell membrane by bacteriophage tails...
Chewbacca Mom’s Facebook fame continues as she visits Hasbro, makers of the mask
What a view! Space station trio sails home through picture-perfect clouds
Three spacefliers from the International Space Station made a photogenic...
Jeff Bezos finds the perfect Father’s Day gift: A New Shepard launch
"Hey guys, do you think we can land with just two of those?" (credit: Blue Origin)
On Sunday morning, Blue Origin plans to continue pushing the capabilities of its New Shepard launch system, as well as the boundaries of the company's own transparency.
The company conducted the first two flights of New Shepard, which consists of a...
Revealed: EY names 2016 Entrepreneur of the Year winners for Pacific NW
Computational materials science: Predictions of pinning
A multiscale model has been implemented that provides accurate predictions of the behaviour of ferroelectric materials in electric fields, and might aid efforts to design devices such as sensors and digital memory. See Letter p.360
Nature 534 331 doi: 10.1038/534331a
The bastard battle you don’t want to miss: Epic ‘Game of Thrones’ episode airs Sunday
“Game of Thrones” geeks are going to finally get the epic battle they’ve been waiting for this Sunday, as Jon Snow takes on Ramsay Bolton in the “Battle of the...