WASHINGTON — The successful return of human orbital spaceflight to the United States generated bipartisan praise, but it’s unclear if that support will translate into funding required to enable other NASA human spaceflight ambitions. While President Donald Trump’s presence at the May 30 launch of SpaceX’s Demo-2 commercial crew mission received attention, he was accompanied
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Bonusly, a platform that involves the entire organization in recognizing employees and rewarding them, closed on a $9 million Series A financing round led by Access Venture Partners. Next Frontier Capital, Operator Partners, and existing investor FirstMark Capital also participated in the round. Bonusly launched in 2013 when cofounder and CEO Raphael Crawford-Marks saw the
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President Donald Trump meets with China’s President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. Kevin Lemarque | Reuters China’s foreign ministry has accused the U.S. of selfishly pursuing unilateralism, Reuters reported on Monday, following President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the
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Kenneth Frazier, CEO of pharmaceutical company Merck. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images Merck CEO Ken Frazier said Monday that George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police, could have been him. “What the African American community sees in that video tape is that this African American man,
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As people who are lucky enough to be able to work from home slide into their 12th week of doing so, certain fashion standbys are starting to feel as remote as a matinee with a large popcorn or a night out at a crowded bar. I’m talking about jeans and all other “hard pants,” anything
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A particularly fascinating class of quantum states are topological states of matter. Credit: IQOQI Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch Topological materials – materials that have surface properties very different to those found in their bulk – are currently revolutionizing condensed-matter physics thanks to their unique characteristics. Researchers in Austria, France, the US and Germany have now put forward
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