“SpaceX has its first commercial cargo contract to the lunar surface,” says Jaret Matthews, the founder of the tiny startup Astrolab which makes a moon rover the size of a Jeep Wrangler. On Friday, Astrolab announced that it had signed an agreement with SpaceX for its Flexible Logistics and Exploration Read more…
Like electronics or photonics, magnonics is an engineering subfield that aims to advance information technologies when it comes to speed, device architecture, and energy consumption. A magnon corresponds to the specific amount of energy required to change the magnetization of a material via a collective excitation called a spin wave. Read more…
“Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol every day does not — as once thought — protect against death from heart disease,” writes the Washington Post, “nor does it contribute to a longer life, according to a sweeping new analysis of alcohol research.” The review, which examined existing research on the health Read more…
In a new report published Thursday, the New York Office of the Inspector General for the New York Police Department (OIG-NYPD) said the New York Police Department violated the 2020 ââPublic Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act, which required the NYPD to publicly disclose surveillance technology. The POST Act was Read more…
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can’t find the entrance?
Late Tuesday night, the Missouri House of Representatives voted for a state operating budget with a $0 line for public libraries. While the budget still needs to work its way through the Senate and the governor’s office, state funding for public libraries is very much on the chopping block in Read more…