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When Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo takes to the skies above New Mexico later this month, it will do so without the crowds and publicity once expected for the historic flight. SpaceNews

NASA has made awards to four companies worth exactly $25,001 to obtain lunar samples, part of an effort by the agency to establish a precedent for ownership and use of space resources. SpaceNews

Speakers describe studies to address Alzheimer's disease, sleep apnea, and to advance fundamental discoveries in cell and chromosome biology.

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when carbonaceous chondrite ast...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 10, to discuss the next test in the Green Run testing series for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's core stage that will fly on the agency's Artemis...

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is about to deliver a precious sample of asteroid dust to Earth late Friday, Dec. 4 (EST), and you can watch the event live.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Although Samsung (or actually Royale) started it last year, it was only really this year that foldable phones truly took off, with the more mature Galaxy Z Flip 2 and the Motorola Razr 5G. But even before the seemingly f...

If you can’t or simply don’t want to talk to your Alexa assistant, you’ll soon be able to text it instead. Amazon quietly rolled out the feature to iPhone users, enabling them to fire off a text message to their as...

Twenty-twenty hasn't been good for much, but it has been given us bountiful free time-- time you hopefully used to finally make good on that statement "Oh, I'd love to watch that but I don't have time." Well, in 2020 you...

For centuries, almanacs have served as valuable scientific documents that helped track heavenly bodies, the tides, planting seasons and more. But how good are they at predicting the weather?

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Chrome OS 87 is rolling out now, and it adds a few nice features to help you while browsing the web and when using Bluetooth accessories (via 9to5Google). One new addition in Chrom...

For a quarter of a century, the ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has been essential in helping scientists understand the heart of our Solar System, the Sun. The SOHO mission launched 25 years ago this w...

Get FIFA 21 for the lowest price yet ($25) for both Xbox and PlayStation.

Astra plans to launch its two-stage, 38-foot-tall (12 meters) Rocket 3.2 from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Alaska's Kodiak Island between Dec. 7 and Dec. 18.

Google Fiber has switched on its fastest service ever, with 2 Gig downloads promising double the speed of the ISP’s already-potent connection. A work-in-progress since Google’s internet provider arm announced it woul...

A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists has simulated the droplet ejection process in an emerging metal 3-D printing technique called "Liquid Metal Jetting" (LMJ), a critical aspect to the cont...

Razer's audio lineup continues to deliver in big ways, now with a genuinely great True Wireless offering. The true wireless earbud market right is all about compromise right now. There are no headphones in the center of ...

The new data it offers provides measurements that are "orders of magnitude" more exact than prior information, scientists say.

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President-elect Biden's plan to reverse some of the trends inherent in the most recent coronavirus updates for the US will include face masks as an important component. Biden's plan is to ask all Americans to wear face m...

Timnit Gebru is a leader among those examining the societal impacts of the technology. She had also criticized the company's diversity efforts.