đź”— Articles: Monday 06.May.2024
ScienceAlert: Watch: Boeing’s Starliner Capsule Blasts Off on First Crewed Mission to ISS Today
Launch day is finally here: Boeing’s Starliner capsule blasts off Monday to the International Space Station on its first crewed mission – several years after SpaceX first achieved the same milestone.
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) it was scrubbed because of a faulty oxygen relief valve.
NYT: Bernie Sanders to Run for Re-Election, Seeking a Fourth Senate Term
The 82-year-old Vermont independent, a leading progressive in Washington, cast November’s elections as a fight for democracy.
ScienceAlert: Fusion Breakthrough: 6 Minutes of Plasma Sets New Reactor Record
A [tokamak] fusion reactor in southern France, called WEST, just achieved an important milestone that brings us one step closer to clean, sustainable, nearly limitless energy.
Scientists at New Jersey’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, who collaborated on the project, announced today that the device created … a plasma that reached 90 million degrees Fahrenheit (50 million degrees Celsius) for 6 straight minutes.
NYT: Michelle Goldberg: Senators Need to Stop the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
An unfortunate symbiosis has developed between pro-Israel culture warriors like Republican Representative Elise Stefanik and the most self-indulgent fringe of pro-Palestinian campus protesters. Together they are, wittingly or unwittingly, shifting attention from the urgent emergency in Gaza, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to defy the United States and invade the southern city of Rafah, to the much smaller problem of campus antisemitism.
NYT: Lead in Beethoven’s Hair Offers New Clues to Mystery of His Deafness
Using powerful technologies, scientists found staggering amounts of lead and other toxic substances in the composer’s hair that may have come from wine, or other sources.
Last Updated: 06.May.2024 23:21 EDT