
IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 6 hours ago
Later this year, a certain airship will lift off from New Mexico to embark on a Pacific crossing for its longest flight yet. But the real test won't begin until it arrives in Japan. There, the airship's builder, New Mexico-based Sceye, and its funder and partner , the Japanese telecom giant SoftBank Corp ., plan to test the craft's mettle as a floating cell tower 20 kilometers in the sky. They are not alone in planning base stations in the stratosphere. In theory, floating platforms...

Ars Technica - 2 days 6 hours ago
Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen.

Retraction Watch - 2 days 9 hours ago
If your week flew by we know ours did catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 63,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: Illicit AI use' in hundreds of peer reviews; 49-year-old commentary on talc retracted; co-authorship as a traded commodity'...

NBC News - 2 days 9 hours ago
Photos show the rocket and spacecraft that NASA will use to launch astronauts toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.