The world’s last male northern white Rhino is one of only five of his species left on Earth.Credit: Nichole Sobecki/The Washington Post/Getty Next year, all eyes will be on Kunming, China, as talks resume on a new set of global goals to protect biodiversity. These are much needed, because most of the existing 20 targets,
Month: June 2020
A big problem for companies these days is finding ways to connect to various data sources to their data repositories, and Fivetran is a startup with a solution to solve that very problem. No surprise then that even during a pandemic, the company announced today that it has raised $100 million Series C on a
The three major commands are Space Operations Command, Space Systems Command and Space Training and Readiness Command. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has revealed its future organizational structure that in some ways follows the traditions of the other military services but also has unique elements. The newest branch of the military will be organized
The Atlantic Ocean as viewed from Virginia Beach. L. Toshio Kishiyama | Moment | Getty Images Construction work on the second offshore wind farm in the U.S. has been completed, with its two turbines installed and plans for a much larger project continuing to take shape. In an announcement Monday, Dominion Energy said that the
Customer-centric innovation is helping US manufacturer Kimball Physics to prosper in its specialist niche of ultrahigh-vacuum electron and ion optics <!––>Eyeing the horizon: Kimball Physics is active along many R&D coordinates ’ in each case working closely with its customers. (Courtesy: Kimball Physics) Vocation, collaboration and innovation provide a unifying frame of reference for the
A new study by scientists from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, ZSL, and UCL featured the discovery of soft coral gardens off the deep sea in Greenland with the use of low-cost, innovative deep-sea video equipment that the research team built. The report was published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. It is
Soldiers involved in investigating the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, UK, in 2019.Credit: Rufus Cox/Getty Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia Dan Kaszeta Hurst (2020) When the Russian former military officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a ’novichok’ nerve agent in the
This photo of a production version of Tesla’s Model Y was included in the company’s Q4 2019 earnings report. Tesla Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent one of his characteristic motivational emails to all employees at his electric vehicle company on Monday around noon California time. In the email, which was shared with CNBC, he urged
SAN FRANCISCO – German launch services provider Exolaunch announced contracts June 29 to integrate NanoAvionics cubesats on SpaceX’s rideshare missions. Under the agreements, Exolaunch is procuring the launch, handling integration and deploying in orbit two six-unit cubesats built by NanoAvionics, a Lithuanian nanosatellite manufacturer. The first NanoAvionics cubesat covered by the new contract is scheduled to
The European Union will plough more money into rocket launches, satellite communication, and space exploration to preserve its often unsung successes in space and keep up with US and Chinese ambitions, its space chief said on Sunday. Over the past decades, Europe has sought to build independent access to space from US and Russian pioneers
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