Celebrating the Path-Breaking Research That Lead to Coronavirus Vaccines

The Washington Post tells the remarkable story of how both Moderna's vaccine and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine relied on a specially desig...

The true price of a PlayStation 5

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge This past week I’ve been watching eBay, trying to decide if I should sell my PS5. I wouldn’t dream of b...

Component Failure Found in Crew Capsule NASA Hoped to Launch in 2021

The Verge reports that a power component failed on the Orion deep-space crew capsule that NASA hopes to launch (unmanned) from its Space Lau...

New Research Shows What We Can Accomplish by Manipulating Biology

Long-time Slashdot reader sixoh1 shares "an interesting spin on biotechnology tools that we've been seeing explode lately like Cris...

Go read this NY Times report about how police departments are using drones

As drones get smarter and the Federal Aviation Administration issues more waivers for its drone regulations, we’re likely to see more law ...

The Best Way To Win a Horse Race? Mathematicians May Have the Answer

sciencehabit summarizes a new article from Science magazine: Attention racehorse jockeys: Start fast, but save enough energy for a final kic...

SpaceX is about to send a second Dragon capsule to the space station

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Cargo Dragon spacecraft will launch Sunday from Kennedy Space Center | SpaceX This morning, SpaceX is set t...