“For years, California has championed high-speed rail as its future, even as its marquee project faces headwinds,” writes SFGate. “While the high-speed rail connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco slowly comes to fruition, a separate rail plan in Southern California has finalized an important labor deal, and construction is set Read more…
The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that will stop electric car companies from opening their own dealerships in the state […]. The bill started as House Bill 401, which you can see on the Mississippi Legislature’s website. It amends Mississippi law related to car dealerships, clarifying that EV manufacturers Read more…
A 2012 trip to a Fayetteville, Arkansas, Walmart to pick up some milk turned out to be one for the history books. A giant bug that stopped a scientist in his tracks as he walked into the store and he ended up taking home turned out to be a rare Read more…
RMS Titanic Inc (RMST), which has been collecting artifacts associated with the ship since the 1980s, has hooked up with NFT flinger Artifact Labs and Venture Smart Financial Holdings to “bring the RMS Titanic and its physical artifacts into Web3.” The Register reports: Aiming to “place the legacy of the Read more…
According to research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, zebra fur is thinly striped and sharply outlined to thwart horsefly attacks. “These characteristics specifically eliminate the outline of large monochrome dark patches that are attractive to horseflies at close distances,” adds Phys.Org. “The team theorizes that the thin back Read more…
As part of the state’s biennial budget process, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called on the state legislature to provide $350 million to create and fund a Texas Space Commission for the next two years. “With companies seeking to expand space travel in coming years, continued development of the space Read more…
Astronomers spotted an unexpected trail in the gas surrounding a dwarf galaxy while using the Hubble Space Telescope…. The light emitting from the trail traveled more than 7.5 billion years to reach Earth and is thought to be traveling at a breakneck speed of 1,600km/s (3.5 million mph). Science Alert Read more…