South Korea Urges Restraint After Recent North Korea Missile Tests
SINGAPORE — South Korea’s Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo on Saturday fended off calls to step up pressure on North Korea after it test-fired missiles last month. Jeong told an annual security conference in Singapore that the tests were being investigated …
bubmagJune 1, 2019
Space Photos of the Week: How Stars Get 86’d
In true space exploration fashion, lets start locally and expand our horizons universally this week. On Mars, we can chill next to Curiosity and watch the water ice clouds go by. Mars was once an active world, and its volcanoes (the solar systems largest) and…
bubmagJune 1, 2019
Swedish Activist to Skip Studies for Sake of Travelling to US Without Planes
The youngest ever Nobel Prize nominee, Greta Thunberg from Sweden, has been attempting to prove with her own day-to-day example that sustainable life, much like sustainable tourism, is more than real. However, she has recently stirred a controversy after it c…
bubmagJune 1, 2019
Kids suing the US over climate change are getting global support
In 2015, when a group of 21 children and teens first sued the US government over climate change, their claim in Juliana v. US was not totally newyouth in Uganda and the Netherlands had filed somewhat similar environmental suitsbut it seemed a little strange. …
bubmagJune 1, 2019
JPMorgan is poaching Google tech whizzes; Square is working with a select group of CBD startups; inside the growth plans of Aperture Investors
Hey, readers! I can't believe it's already June and that we're nearly halfway through the year. To everyone who thought we'd see a summer news slowdown, remember that Donald Trump is in power. This week the American president again threw the economy …
bubmagJune 1, 2019
Could the Next Big Information Technology Be… DNA?
Billions of years before humans developed hard drives, evolution chose DNA to store its most precious information: the genetic code. Over time DNA became so proficient at this task that every known life-form on earth uses it. With recent technological breakth…
bubmagJune 1, 2019
Khomeini’s legacy looms over Iran 30 years after death
TEHRAN: Thirty years ago millions of mourners crowded the streets of Tehran for the funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and today the founder of the Islamic republic remains a guiding figure in Iran. The image of the black-turbaned cleric who brought dow…
bubmagJune 1, 2019
Engineer Charged with Falsifying Inspections of SpaceX Hardware
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have charged a man with falsifying inspection records for hardware his company produced for SpaceX, highlighting an issue about the overall aerospace industry supply chain. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District …
bubmagJune 1, 2019
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to take gap year
The young climate activist has instead decided to take a year away from education in order to continue her work for the environment, she told newspaper Dagens Nyheter. It was a difficult decision, but it had to be taken now, Thunberg said. In September, Thu…
bubmagJune 1, 2019