After two preliminary rounds, NASA today published its final call for industry proposals to have the first two landers capable of putting astronauts on the moon ready for 2024 and 2025. NASA's broad agency announcement, known as NextSTEP-2 Appendix H, makes clear that two different companies would be chosen to build human-capable landers. One of them would be used for the Artemis 3 mission,...

Social science and humanities scholars have been examining new, potentially more effective ways to communicate about climate...

What will it take to get people to connect to the climate change...

These places literally embody human lives, and are the only records we have of prehistoric indigenous peoples of the New...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk presented an update on the system at the company's launch facility in Cameron County, Texas on Saturday, Sept....

BOCA CHICA VILLAGE, Texas -- As Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, says repeatedly, he created a rocket company because he wanted to colonize Mars. His fervent argument is that humanity must spread to a second planet as insurance for long-term survival."Which future do you want?" he asked near the start of a presentation Saturday night at a launch site near the...

Repeat after me: entomophagy.It's derived from Greek and Latin: "entomon," meaning "insect," and "phagus," as in "feeding on."Some think it's the future of food.In 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released a report declaring the need to swap traditional protein sources for insects to support a sustainable future. The...

In addition to Chernobyl, Russia has tried to hide the details of other nuclear incidents, including an explosion that killed seven people in...

Will they get it?

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk set a revved-up timeline tonight for testing and building a fleet of Starship rocket ships that he says would eventually take people on trips to the moon, Mars and other deep-space destinations. Standing in front of SpaceX's newly constructed Starship Mk1 prototype at the company's South Texas facility, Musk said he expected the first 12-mile-high test flight to take...

In the early 1990s, a young Australian chef named Bill Granger had a bright idea: Why not spread avocado on toast?Nearly three decades after that successful experiment, the long and sometimes bizarre history of the avocado has reached a new and potentially controversial turning point -- albeit without the Instagram potential of avocado toast. As climate change threatens the fruit's place on...

Climate change protesters from Extinction Rebellion snarled traffic in Washington on Monday and again on Friday. You might find yourself asking, "Who helps pays for this activism?"The answer, in part, is the scions of some of America's most famous families, including the Kennedys and the Gettys.On Friday, climate protesters marched through parts of downtown Washington, D.C., blocking...

A UN report found that oceans are warming and sea levels rising due to climate change. Solutions to this trend could come from the water...

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture is on the top of the funding list for a newly announced round of "Tipping Point" funding from NASA for technologies that could be applied to exploration and settlement of the moon and Mars. Headquartered in Kent, Wash., Blue Origin will be awarded $10 million to conduct a ground-based demonstration of hydrogen and oxygen liquefaction...

At least 805 people have become ill and 12 have died from a mysterious illness tied to...

It measures up to 10 metres (32.5 feet) from snout to tail, has four stumpy legs and -- most noticeable of all -- boasts a jaw lined with scary, jagged teeth. It is the work of Viktor Radermacher, a South African who is half scientist and half...

A Cold War fantasy or a secret...

Climate change activists on Friday protested outside the Trump Hotel, the EPA, Wells Fargo Bank and BlackRock in Washington,...

Scientists have discovered that T. rexes had rigid skulls, which enabled the dinosaurs to have the strongest bite force of any land animal on...

Making wine in the Nordic countries is far from the glamour associated with Europe's famed wine chateaux: here the sun is fickle, the season is short and diehard aficionados work up more sweat than wine but climate change is helping boost harvests. Worlds away from the thousand-year-old vineyards of continental Europe, winemaker Murre Sofrakis inspects his vines on this late summer's day, his...

NASA and Google complexes in Silicon Valley are located on Superfund sites where manufacturing plants once leaked a chemical called...

You know Greta Thunberg. But here's a look at the 15 other young climate activists who are demanding the United Nations take action on climate...

In Vietnam, citizens were enlisted to post pro-government messages on their personal Facebook pages. The Guatemalan government used hacked and stolen social media accounts to silence dissenting opinions. Ethiopia's ruling party hired people to influence social media conversations in its favor.Despite increased efforts by internet platforms like Facebook to combat internet disinformation, the...