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Elon Musk wants SpaceX’s crewed Starship to reach orbit in 6 months

Sep30
by on September 30, 2019 at 5:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Space


Last Saturday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company’s ambitious Starship spacecraft – designed to (eventually) take humans to Mars – might reach Earth’s orbit within the next six months. Currently, the company is working on engine designs. It has tested a single raptor engine with a prototype vehicle called Starhopper this year. Now, it’s building a triple raptor engine (Mk1) in order to take the vehicle 20km off the ground. Plus, SpaceX is building the second engine prototype, Mk3, at its facility in Florida; construction of the third prototype (Mk3) will begin in Boca Chica, Texas, in a month.…

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How life on Earth was boosted by an asteroid collision 446m years ago

Sep29
by on September 29, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Something mysterious happened nearly half a billion years ago that triggered one of the most important changes in the history of life on Earth. Suddenly, there was an explosion of species, with the biodiversity of invertebrate animals increasing from a very low level to something similar to what we see today. The most popular explanation for this “Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event” is that it was a result of an uncomfortably hot Earth cooling and eventually heading into an ice age. But what actually triggered the change in temperature? In our new paper, published in Science Advances, we show that its…

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4-day workweeks are the future — and this is how you can make them happen

Sep29
by on September 29, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


Lift your head up from your desk and take a look around the office. Is the number of people at work today the same as yesterday? Probably not. Across the world, standard workweeks are already taking new shape and the United States is jumping on the bandwagon with Summer Friday initiatives and flexible hour scheduling. It won’t be long before all of corporate America adopts four-day workweeks to increase productivity and boost company morale, while minimizing the risk of burnout and business profit loss. Setting up shorter workweeks was a hot topic turned dream pursuit and now, it’s steadily becoming…

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