China successfully launched the first Long March 8 rocket late Monday (Dec. 21), kicking off a line of boosters that will eventually be reusable and make upright landings similar to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy.
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NASA receives $23.3 billion for 2021 fiscal year in Congress’ omnibus spending bill: report
NASA’s Artemis program to land humans on the moon by 2024 faces fresh challenges after a fiscal 2021 NASA spending bill allocated less money to the human landing system than what the agency requested.
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Sony says it’s already seeing some benefits from WarnerMedia’s big HBO Max bet
Sony Pictures saw a “bit of a boom” in interest from Hollywood creatives who want to work with a studio committed to theatrical releases, according to the company’s CEO.
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Substack says readers and writers are really in charge of moderation
Substack plans to take a “hands-off approach” to determining who can use its newsletter platform and “resist public pressure” to remove writers seen by some as “unacceptable.” In a blog post this afternoon, the company outlined a relatively lax content moderation policy designed to let writers know they won’t be […]
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Hyundai Austria Leaks Specs of Upcoming 2022 Ioniq 5 EV
The all-wheel-drive electric hatchback will have 313 horsepower and a targeted range of up to 280 miles.
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The best walking shoes for men for 2021
Asics, Brooks, New Balance: Walking shoes for every kind of feet.
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Best TV antenna to buy in 2021
Installing an over-the-air antenna is one of the easiest ways to get free TV. We tested seven OTA models to find out which is best.
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A Canadian Astronaut Will be on Artemis 2, Making it the Second Nation to Send Humans Into Deep Space (but not Walk on the Moon)
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) recently announced that a Canadian astronaut will fly as part of the crew of Artemis II. This mission, scheduled for 2023, will see an Orion space capsule conduct a circumlunar flight where it flies around the Moon without landing. This will be the […]
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Liver tumor in gene therapy recipient raises concerns about virus widely used in treatment
It’s troubling news that gene therapy researchers have long anticipated: A hemophilia patient injected with a virus carrying a therapeutic gene in a clinical trial has developed a liver tumor. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has halted the associated clinical trials, and uniQure, the Dutch firm behind the […]
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Massive 2021 U.S. spending bill leaves research advocates hoping for more
The massive $1.4 trillion spending bill that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law early this morning once again reverses the deep cuts the outgoing president had proposed for most science agencies. Even so, the modest hikes for 2021 have left the research community wanting more.