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MUSK BEATS BEZOS, WINS $2.9B NASA LUNAR LANDER DEAL
NASA awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's space company SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts...

By The Financial District
Apr 17, 20212 min read


U.S. FIRMS URGED TO INVEST IN ENERGY PROJECTS
Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi has urged American companies to look into opportunities in the Philippine energy sector.

By The Financial District
Apr 16, 20212 min read


AGE OF CONTROVERSIAL HOMO ERECTUS SKULL CONFIRMED AT 1.9M YEARS
A new study verifies the age and origin of one of the oldest specimens of Homo erectus -- a very successful early human who roamed the...

By The Financial District
Apr 15, 20212 min read


BEZOS SPACE FIRM NOTCHES 15TH SUCCESSFUL TEST OF REUSABLE ROCKET
Blue Origin, the private space company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has launched a reusable rocket successfully for the 15th time.

By The Financial District
Apr 15, 20211 min read


DICT BACKS TELCO USE OF GOVERNMENT RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR PROJECTS
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) expressed full support for the Department of Public Works and Highways...

By The Financial District
Apr 13, 20212 min read


PALEOLITHIC CAVE ART: STUDY SUGGESTS CAVEMEN MAY HAVE BEEN "HIGH" DUE TO HYPOXIA
Paleolithic artisans were making cave drawings not for the tribe to see, but for keeping and maintaining their relationships...

By The Financial District
Apr 12, 20212 min read


DRUG STOPPING CANCER GROWTH MAY BE GOOD VS COVID: STUDY
Cancer doctors may soon have a new tool for treating melanoma and other types of cancer, they may even find it good in combatting COVID-19.

By The Financial District
Apr 12, 20212 min read


LATEST MUSK SPACEX ROCKET BLAST BLAMED ON PLUMBING
The United States should not look kindly at the four successive failures of the Starship prototypes that Elon Musk’s SpaceX sent aloft...

By The Financial District
Apr 11, 20212 min read


SOUTH KOREA UNVEILS PROTOTYPE OF ITS FIGHTER JET
After about four years of development, South Korea has unveiled a prototype of a new domestically-produced fighter jet.

By The Financial District
Apr 10, 20211 min read


JAPAN COVID PATIENT GETS WORLD’S 1ST LIVING DONOR LUNG TRANSPLANT
Kyoto University Hospital said it has performed the world's first living donor lung transplant on a patient who lost functionality of...

By The Financial District
Apr 9, 20212 min read


U.S., EUROPEAN TEST RESULTS DEFY STANDARD MODEL IN PHYSICS
Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a...

By The Financial District
Apr 8, 20212 min read


LONDON'S UNDERGROUND BUNKERS NOW BLOOMING VEGETABLE GARDENS
Deep beneath London’s suburbs lies a gigantic vegetable garden farming hundreds of thousands of the capital’s freshest microgreens.

By The Financial District
Apr 8, 20211 min read


SINGAPORE TEAM: MICROBES BOOST PLANT GROWTH BETTER THAN FERTILIZER
Researchers in Singapore are studying how high-tech urban farmers can produce more crops with fewer chemical fertilizers by exploiting...

By The Financial District
Apr 8, 20212 min read


NASA’S MARS HELICOPTER SURVIVES 1ST NIGHT ALONE
NASA's Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, has survived its first cold night alone on the red planet.

By The Financial District
Apr 7, 20211 min read


FRENCH SCIENTISTS CREATE ‘CAMILLE NOUS’ AS AUTHOR IN PROTEST
Camille Noûs is a fictional character created by the RogueESR group, which opposes the policy of excellence and the break-up of the...

By The Financial District
Apr 5, 20212 min read


SCIENCE-FICTION WRITER INSISTS ‘SINGULARITY’ WON’T MATERIALIZE
An award-winning science fiction author, has dashed to smithereens the much-anticipated dawn of “singularity,” when AI...

By The Financial District
Apr 5, 20212 min read


U.S. FIRM CLAIMS ITS NUKE-POWERED DIAMOND BATTERY LASTS 28,000 YEARS
US startup has combined radioactive isotopes from nuclear waste with ultra-slim layers of nanodiamond to create a battery that...

By The Financial District
Apr 5, 20212 min read


JAPANESE NOBEL LAUREATE, LED INVENTOR, DIES AT 92
Japanese physicist Isamu Akasaki, a co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the world's first efficient blue light...

By The Financial District
Apr 3, 20211 min read


NASA WANTS STRICT SUPERVISION OVER FLUBBED SPACEX LAUNCHES
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is not amused with successive explosions of SpaceX rockets, and the Federal...

By The Financial District
Apr 2, 20212 min read


FUNKO EXTENDS TO NFTS
Funko, a leading pop culture consumer products company, plans to extend Funko’s pop culture platform to include digital assets on the...

By The Financial District
Apr 2, 20211 min read


JAPAN CO2 LEVELS HIT RECORD HIGH AS GLOBAL EMISSIONS DECLINE
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) announced on March 29 that the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) -- a primary greenhouse gas...

By The Financial District
Mar 31, 20211 min read


"AT LEAST THE CRATER WAS IN THE RIGHT PLACE!" ANOTHER SPACEX TEST ROCKET EXPLODES
SpaceX chalked up another failed landing Tuesday for its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship, as the prototype Mars rocket broke apart...

By The Financial District
Mar 31, 20212 min read


OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION EMIT MORE METHANE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from oil and gas production in its annual “Inventory of US...

By The Financial District
Mar 30, 20211 min read


CHINA GENERATED 53% OF WORLD’S TOTAL COAL-FIRED POWER IN 2020
China generated 53% of the world’s total coal-fired power in 2020, nine percentage points more than five years earlier, despite climate...

By The Financial District
Mar 30, 20211 min read
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