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Frontier collects $10 million from AEI HorizonX
ALTA, Utah — Frontier Aerospace raised $10 million in Series A funding from AEI HorizonX, the venture capital fund formed by AE Industrial Parters and Boeing. “This latest funding round will accelerate Frontier’s engine development activities, support major expansion of manufacturing and vacuum test facilities,” Frontier Aerospace president Jim McKinnon said in a statement. “In…
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Puzzling radio signal unveils a galaxy cluster’s core
Astronomers observing a mysterious radio halo from the galaxy cluster Abell 1213 have uncovered something unexpected. While the radio signals themselves remain puzzling, they have allowed researchers to unveil the core of the galaxy cluster, right down to the central galaxy contained within. Even more intriguing about the discovery is that the researchers found evidence…
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Many U.S. Banks Face the Same Risks That Brought Down Silicon Valley Bank
In a speech just a few days before Silicon Valley Bank failed, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Martin Gruenberg said that the market value of U.S. banks’ long-term assets had dropped $620 billion in 2022. Yet a sobering new analysis finds that the banking industry’s unrealized losses are now more than three times that…
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Ultra-Rare Goblin Shark Discovery Is Really a Toy, Argue Scientists
A controversy is raging within the small but fiercely passionate world of ichthyology (the study of fishes). Depending on who you talk to, either a rare deep-sea shark washed up on the shores of Greece’s Anafi Island in 2020, and marked the first-ever recording of a goblin shark sighting in the Mediterranean Sea; or, some…
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Asia’s largest 4-metre liquid mirror telescope inaugurated in Uttarakhand | India News
In another scientific milestone for India, Asia’s largest 4-metre International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) was inaugurated at Devasthal in Uttarakhand on Tuesday.After inaugurating the telescope in the presence of Uttarakhand governor Lt. Gen Gurmeet Singh (Retd), Union science & technology and space minister Jitendra Singh said, “Today’s landmark event places India at a different and…
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Can we fix our failing food systems? Agroecology has answers
The U.S. has an industrialized and unsustainable food system that depletes non-renewable resources such as groundwater and soil, and this model has been exported widely around the world, a top agriculture author explains on this episode. Two regions where these impacts and depletion are being felt most are in California’s Central Valley and on America’s…
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Deep Fractures and Water-Carved Valleys
This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Nectaris Fossae and Protva Valles, complex geological features found on Mars. Round impact craters are scattered across the frame, and a band of fractured grooves, resembling scratches and scars carved into the rock, stretches from the top left to bottom right.This image comprises data gathered by Mars Express’…
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Ultra-lightweight Multifunctional Space Skin Created To Withstand Extreme Conditions In Space
Press Release University of Surrey … Continue Reading News Source: spaceref.com
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Artemis 2 moon rocket coming together for 2024 astronaut launch
NASA just reached a big milestone in moon rocket assembly. The agency’s crewed Artemis 2 mission, which will launch to the moon as soon as 2024, will use a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage that is nearly ready, an update from NASA officials (opens in new tab) indicated on Tuesday (March 21). The…
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Research reveals substantial human cost of international COVID-19 travel and border restrictions
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research being presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Copenhagen, Denmark (April 15-18) reveals the high human costs and negative impacts of border restrictions and travel bans during the COVID-19 pandemic on citizens stranded abroad. The research by Associate… Continue Reading News Source:…