Tag: Science

SpaceX Delivers Tomato Seeds, Other Supplies to Space Station

SpaceX on Saturday launched its 26th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida and was delivering more than 7,700 pounds of supplies, science experiments, and equipment. It was also carrying a pair of solar arrays that will increase power for space station research…


Australian Supermarkets Form Taskforce to Combat Collapse of Recycling Program

Supermarket giants Coles, Woolworths, and ALDI will form a task force to address the suspension of a soft plastic recycling program following the collapse of REDcycle. REDcycle halted its soft plastic program on Nov. 9 citing “unforeseen challenges exacerbated by the pandemic” with its downstream recycling partners. The interim application of the “Soft Plastics Taskforce”…


NASA’s Orion Capsule Enters Far-Flung Orbit Around Moon

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA’s Orion capsule entered an orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles around the moon Friday, as it neared the halfway mark of its test flight. The capsule and its three test dummies entered lunar orbit more than a week after launching on the $4 billion demo that’s meant to pave the way…


Why the Colour of Your Roof Matters

Getting light-coloured roofs would cut your electricity costs in warmer weather or cities because the colour of your roof can reduce indoor temperatures, according to an urban studies Prof. Sebastian Pfautschat, from Western Sydney University. After five years of documenting heat in western Sydney, he warns that dark-coloured roofs can reach higher temperatures than lighter…


A Grass Pollen Tablet a Day May Keep Hay Fever and Thunderstorm Asthma Away

Researchers from Monash University have discovered that taking one small tablet containing grass pollen daily may prevent seasonal allergies like hay fever and thunderstorm asthma. In a Monash study involving 27 participants who suffered from an allergy to grass pollen, researchers found that sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) offered protection against thunderstorm asthma and hay fever. In addition, they…


LIVE November 25, 4:15 PM ET: Orion Spacecraft Performs Maneuver to Enter Moon Orbit

Artemis I Orion spacecraft performs direct retrograde orbit insertion burn, the second maneuver required to enter orbit around the moon. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@EpochTV Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/epochtv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus Gab: https://gab.com/EpochTV Telegram: https://t.me/EpochTV…


LIVE November 25, 7 AM ET: Russian Astronauts Step Out of the ISS for Spacewalk

Russian Astronauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin step out of the International Space Station for a spacewalk to move an airlock and make electrical and hydraulic connections. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@EpochTV Gettr:…


New Space Observatory Helps Solve Mystery Involving Enormous Black Holes

WASHINGTON—Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way’s center, some are fierce—guzzling surrounding material and unleashing huge and blazingly bright jets of high-energy particles far into space. Using data from the recently deployed Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) orbiting observatory, researchers…


There Are Better Answers to Methane Than Fart and Burp Taxes

Commentary Methane is the third most significant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, behind water vapour and carbon dioxide. It has a stronger effect than the notorious carbon dioxide but is present in much smaller quantities in the atmosphere (less than two parts per million, compared to four hundred parts per million for CO2). Methane emissions…


FDA Approves World’s Most Expensive Drug at $3.5 Million Per Dose to Treat Hemophilia

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved CSL Behring’s hemophilia B gene therapy, a one-off infusion treatment with a list price of $3.5 million, making it the world’s most expensive medicine. The approval of CSL Behring’s Hemgenix “provides a new treatment option for patients with Hemophilia B and represents important progress in the…