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India shoots down a weather satellite, declares itself a “space power”0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 13, 2019
“It shows the remarkable dexterity of India’s outstanding scientists.”

By David Aragorn
Extreme elements push the boundaries of the periodic table 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 12, 2019
For superheavy atoms, chemistry gets weird

By David Aragorn
‘Three-person’ baby boy born in Greece 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 11, 2019
Fertility doctors in Greece and Spain say they have produced a baby from three people in order to overcome a woman’s infertility.

By David Aragorn
How scientists took the first picture of a black hole 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 11, 2019
Scientists crunched data gathered by a global network of eight radio telescope observatories

By David Aragorn
A Jetsons future? Assessing the role of flying cars in sustainable mobility 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 11, 2019
In the 1960s animated sitcom The Jetsons, George Jetson commutes to work in his family-size flying car, which miraculously transforms into a briefcase at the end of the trip.

By David Aragorn
Scientists discover whole new state of matter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 10, 2019
A new ‘chain-melted state’ makes it possible for atoms to exist as both a solid and a liquid at the same time.

By David Aragorn
Young entrepreneur aims to send 3-D-printed rockets to space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 9, 2019
To see Tim Ellis hunched over his laptop, alone in a room at a major space industry conference in Colorado, you can hardly imagine that he might be the next Elon Musk.

By David Aragorn
Brain zaps boost memory in people over 60, study finds 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 9, 2019
Zapping the brains of people over 60 with a mild electrical current improved a form of memory enough that they performed like people in their 20s, a new study found.

By David Aragorn
A ‘Self-Driving’ Spacecraft May Help Save Earth from Asteroid Collisions 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 9, 2019
Europe’s next asteroid mission, which could launch in 2023, will rely on the same kind of navigation technology as self-driving cars.

By David Aragorn
Dark matter is not made up of tiny black holes 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 4, 2019
An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its most rigorous test to date, and their results have ruled out the possibility that primordial black holes smaller than a tenth of a millimeter make up most of dark matter. Details of their study have been published in this week’s Nature Astronomy.

By David Aragorn