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Popular MechanicsArchaeologists Dug Up the Tomb of an Egyptian Queen. It Could ‘Reconstruct History.’
A treasure trove of knowledge about ancient Egyptian living was sitting undisturbed for 3,600 years.
- Robb Report
This New Supersonic Jet Can Fly From London to N.Y.C. in Under 2 Hours
A Mach 5 hypersonic version should cut the time to less than an hour.
- The Daily Beast
Bezos’ Blue Origin Launch Flops After He Shrugged Off Trump-Musk Bromance Threat to Space Race
The world’s second richest man suffered an embarrassing botched launch of his new rocket system just hours after shrugging off speculation he might be intimidated by Elon Musk having the incoming president’s ear on all things off-world. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space exploration company was due to fire off its New Glenn Rocket, widely seen as a potential competitor to Musk’s Falcon 9, in the small hours of Monday morning from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, only for the launch to be called off during t
- LA Times
Saturn's moon looked like a snowy Utah landscape in my mind. The reality is just as compelling
A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it is, can both evoke the sublime.
- CBC
Waddle this way: Calgary penguins take annual stroll
Fourteen king penguins, a species known to walk long distances in the wild to find open water, kicked off their annual walk at the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo for the 13th year. The walk had been delayed by warm weather and winds.
- Associated Press
Jeff Bezos' space company tries again to launch massive new rocket after last-minute postponement
Blue Origin will try again to launch its massive new rocket as early as Thursday after calling off the debut launch because of ice buildup in critical plumbing. The 320-foot (98-meter) New Glenn rocket was supposed to blast off before dawn Monday with a prototype satellite. Founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin further delayed the launch because of Tuesday's poor weather forecast for Cape Canaveral and a moonshot planned Wednesday by SpaceX.
- The Canadian Press
Lasers help archaeologists study ancient tattoos on Peruvian mummies
WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos.
- Country Living
January's full 'Wolf Moon' might be the most unique of 2025
Everything you need to know about January 13th’s full 'Wolf Moon' and why it might be one of the most unique of 2025.
- Fox Weather
'Unusual bumps' found by quarry worker leads to discovery of 'dinosaur highway'
Hundreds of different dinosaur footprints dating back to the middle-Jurassic period, about 166 million years ago, have been uncovered in a quarry in England, in what scientists have described as a "dinosaur highway."
- Time
NASA's Mars Rover Mission to Bring Samples Home Is at Risk
An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.
- The Weather Network
Later sunsets are coming soon to these Canadian cities
The sun is getting slightly higher in the sky at this time of year, so daylight hours will be getting longer for millions of Canadians
- GuruFocus.com
NVIDIA Showcases AI-Driven Healthcare Innovations at JPMorgan Conference
NVIDIA's VP of Healthcare, Kimberly Powell, discussed AI's transformative role in healthcare.
- Reuters
Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - with a death wish. The observations made using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope appear to show a white dwarf nearing the point of no return - called the event horizon - as it orbits the galaxy's supermassive black hole, according to the researchers. Black holes are extraordinarily dense objects with gravity so strong that not even light can escape.
- The Conversation
Why does a rocket have to go 25,000 mph to escape Earth?
A rocket needs to overcome the force of gravity to leave Earth behind.
- TechCrunch
Researchers open source Sky-T1, a 'reasoning' AI model that can be trained for less than $450
On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers based out of UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab, released Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a reasoning model that's competitive with an earlier version of OpenAI's o1 on a number of key benchmarks. "Remarkably, Sky-T1-32B-Preview was trained for less than $450," the team wrote in a blog post, "demonstrating that it is possible to replicate high-level reasoning capabilities affordably and efficiently." Synthetic training data, or training data generated by other models, has helped drive costs down.
- WESH - Orlando Videos
Blue Ghost lunar lander heads to the moon this week
Blue Ghost lunar lander heads to the moon this week
- USA TODAY
The 'brightest comet of 2025 so far' is orbiting the sun: Here's how to catch a glimpse
The C/2024 G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- The Canadian Press
Jeff Bezos' space company calls off debut launch of massive new rocket in final minutes of countdown
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Blue Origin called off the debut launch of its massive new rocket early Monday because of technical trouble.
- USA TODAY
What is the wolf moon? 2025's 1st full moon, plus other celestial happenings
Prepare to "howl" with delight at the first full moon of January 2025, aptly named the wolf moon.
- Reuters
Bezos sees no threat from Musk-Trump ties in space race
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos does not think SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will use his close ties with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to undercut Bezos' rival space company Blue Origin, and was "very optimistic" about the incoming administration's space agenda. The inaugural launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, tasked with eventually launching the company's moon lander for NASA, was due early on Monday after several delays, but was postponed for at least another day due to a last-minute issue with the vehicle. New Glenn is a 30-story-tall rocket that is expected to chip away at SpaceX's market dominance and kickstart Blue Origin's long-delayed entrance in the satellite launch business.