#The elite Canadian pilot who’ll be flying Virgin Galactic tourists to space

#The elite Canadian pilot who’ll be flying Virgin Galactic tourists to space

“#The elite Canadian pilot who’ll be flying Virgin Galactic tourists to space” Janjua in front of the VSS Imagine, in Mojave, California, at the Virgin Galactic facility (Courtesy of Quinn Tucker/Virgin Galactic) Jameel Janjua calls them “future astronauts.” That’s partly corporate speak—Virgin Galactic’s preferred term for customers who pay upward of US$450,000 for tickets to…

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#Letter confirms Wuhan lab leak was funded by US taxpayers

#Letter confirms Wuhan lab leak was funded by US taxpayers

“#Letter confirms Wuhan lab leak was funded by US taxpayers” The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 remains unclear, but recent revelations reinforce the likelihood that the true source was a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. A letter from Lawrence Tabak, the National Institutes of Health’s principal deputy director, to…

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#NASA’s Hubble Telescope in safe mode again

#NASA’s Hubble Telescope in safe mode again

“#NASA’s Hubble Telescope in safe mode again” National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Hubble Space Telescope is in safe mode yet again. A release from the agency explained it was continuing to look into why the iconic space-based observatory, named in honor of the trailblazing astronomer Edwin Hubble, recently went into the configuration and suspended science operations.  At 1:46 a.m. EDT…

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#Brain-zapping helmet could ‘cure’ dementia in major breakthrough

#Brain-zapping helmet could ‘cure’ dementia in major breakthrough

“#Brain-zapping helmet could ‘cure’ dementia in major breakthrough” Zapping the brain with infrared light could boost dementia patients’ memory and muscle control, a study claims. Durham University scientists found using a specially equipped helmet to beam invisible waves of light into healthy brains improved people’s memories and thought processing. They said it could pave the…

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#The multiverse theory, explained – Macleans.ca

#The multiverse theory, explained – Macleans.ca

“#The multiverse theory, explained – Macleans.ca” The term you’re hearing more frequently combines comic-book cinema with quantum mechanics A random number is printed on the copyright page of theoretical physicist Sean Carroll’s 2019 book Something Deeply Hidden. In our universe, each copy of the book shows that same number: 756,132,390,815,553. But that’s just one of…

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