For the first time, scientists say they have clear evidence that the chemical building blocks of life exist on Mars. What they can’t say yet is whether there is, or ever was, life on the Red Planet. The new evidence comes from a pair of rocks. NASA’s six-wheeled Curiosity rover drilled into the planet in […]
Have you heard about the gig economy? It’s the future of work. The conventional 9-to-5 job is dying out, replaced by a system where workers rush to on-call jobs summoned via their smartphones. At least that’s what we thought, until the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) threw that narrative out the window today. The […]
General Electric, the company that brought you the light bulb and the toaster oven, wants to be a traffic cop for drones. GE (GE) formally launched a company on Thursday that plans to reinvent traffic management for unmanned aircraft. The venture, called AiRXOS, was created by GE about a year and a half ago and […]
Lifting weights might also lift moods, according to an important new review of dozens of studies about strength training and depression. It finds that resistance exercise often substantially reduces people’s gloom, no matter how melancholy they feel at first, or how often — or seldom — they actually get to the gym and lift. There […]
The Trump administration has vowed to make America great again in spaceflight, and the centerpiece of its space policy to date has been a re-prioritization of human spaceflight as central to NASA’s activities. As part of this initiative, the White House has sought to reduce funding for satellites to observe environmental changes on Earth and […]
Flying to the beach may be more expensive this summer. Rising fuel prices are pressuring airline profits. That means airlines will charge higher airfare. It’s difficult to predict how much more expensive seats will become or the timing of fare increases, but the message is the unanimous from the major carriers. “Consumers will pay more […]
Alphabet Inc’s shareholders, including top executives, voted down several proposals on Wednesday, defeating campaigns to tie pay to diversity goals and to get the Google parent to provide more data about efforts to moderate user-generated content. Alphabet management, which effectively has voting control of the company, had moved against the proposals. Shareholders and employees said […]
Using new drilling techniques after a stalled electrical motor halted sampling operations on Mars, the Curiosity rover has delivered rock powder to one of its onboard lab instruments for analysis for the first time since 2016, officials said Monday. The rover’s percussive drill, mounted on the end of Curiosity’s robotic arm, bored into a target […]
The frozen aisle in the grocery store gets no love. People often feel that if food isn’t fresh, it’s no good. We also often hear that frozen food has too many preservatives to be healthy. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. There are many incredibly high-quality, convenient frozen foods on the market. In […]
Tesla is producing 500 Model 3 vehicles a day, or an average 3,500 cars a week, Elon Musk said during the company’s annual shareholder meeting Tuesday. That puts Tesla on track to hit the crucial 5,000-per-week goal by the end of the June, he added. In early April, Tesla announced that it had officially missed […]
Britain’s government said Tuesday it was now prepared to give Twenty-First Century Fox the provisional go-ahead to buy Sky, subject to the sale of its Sky News channel. If approved, it could pave the way for a dramatic bidding war with U.S. media giant Comcast. Culture Secretary Matt Hancock said Fox’s proposal to divest Sky […]
It’s not exactly uncommon to struggle with healthy eating habits. Once you fall into a habit of any kind, it can feel difficult to break it, but it’s definitely not impossible! We spoke to Kym Ventola, wellness coach and founder of Nine Women’s Retreat, who gave us some useful insight into how you can change […]
