Boeing's Starliner could be ready for crewed flights by next March

Engadget

Boeing has rediscovered just how hard space can be in recent months, as its ambitious Starliner program has been repeatedly sidelined by lingering technical issues.

Scientists have reproduced last year's nuclear fusion breakthrough

Engadget : Environment

Scientists at a federally funded research center in the US have successfully conducted a second nuclear fusion reaction experiment that resulted in a net energy gain.

The safest place for some species of Florida coral? Land.

Tech Insider : Environment
A researcher stands in front of bleached coral samples preserved in water at a research site.
Temperatures off the Florida coast exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit in July, causing significant damage to nearby coral.

Maria Alejandra Cardona/Reuters

An ancient skull unlike any human ever seen is baffling scientists and could rewrite the story of our evolution

Tech Insider
A 3D scan of facial remains shows what we know of the skull uncovered in East Asia. This skull's top is reminiscent of modern humans, but its chin is more like an archaic human.
A computer generated image of the remains from the skull of HLD 6 (show in yellow).

Wu et al. PNAS 2019, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902396116

The 2023 Perseid meteor shower will peak this weekend, bringing up to 100 fireballs per hour. Here's where to watch.

Tech Insider
Perseids meteor shower
A meteor streaks across the sky during a Perseid meteor shower in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.

NASA/Bill Ingalls

Archaeologists are too scared to open the tomb of China's first emperor because they fear booby traps

Tech Insider
tomb of the qin shi huang china

DnDavis/Shutterstock

NASA used an interstellar 'shout' to reconnect with Voyager 2 probe after losing it in a technical screw-up

Tech Insider
An artist's concept which shows NASA's Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars.
An artist's concept which shows NASA's Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Mountains are collapsing: A Swiss mountain peak fell apart, sending 3.5 million cubic feet of rock into the valley below. Scientists warn climate change could make more mountains crumble.

Tech Insider
A view of the partially collapsed Fluchthorn mountain.
The grey middle peak shown here of Mt. Fluchthorn partially collapsed earlier this year.

Sean Gallup / Staff / Getty Images

The Panama Canal's water level is dropping thanks to a drought, throttling the number of ships that can get through

Tech Insider
panama canal
The Panama Canal has capped the number of ships that'll pass through it.

REUTERS/Rafael Ibarra

The FBI spent years investigating J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped make the WWII-ending atomic bomb. During the surveillance, interviewees alleged he was feeding nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.

Tech Insider : Politics
J. Robert Oppenheimer sitting in front of microphones during a hearing.
J. Robert Oppenheimer testifying at a hearing.

Bettmann / Getty Images Contributor

Subscribe to Science