Greetings! This month was quite interesting, taking into account two private space flights. Virgin Galactic took the leadership to be the first one, but shortly after the huge achievement, their main test pilot left the company. Maybe they think that if it successfully flies once, it will continue to work further. But there certainly some doubts according to that. Mark ...

Ryanair said it was experiencing a “strong rebound of pent up travel demand into August and September” Ryanair has today raised its forecast for full-year traffic on strong summer bookings, with group chief executive Michael O’Leary saying the post-pandemic recovery offers the best growth opportunities of his three-decade career. Shares in the budget airline, Europe’s largest, rose 3.8% in Dublin ...

Blockchain start-ups worldwide raised a record £3.2 billion in funding during Q2 2021, in spite of the significant decline the cryptocurrency market has been experiencing since mid-April. This data, collected by analytics firm CB Insights in its ‘State of Fintech‘ report, represents a 50% increase over last quarter and a ninefold increase compared to the same time last year. The ...

Previous methods of robotic manipulation have relied on two different techniques. While model-based approaches capture the object’s properties in an analytic model, data-driven methods learn directly from prior experiences. A recent study proposes Particle-based Object Manipulation (PROMPT), which combines the advantages of both approaches. Image credit: NASA A particle representation is constructed from a set of RGB images. Here, each particle represents ...

Russia’s Progress MS-16 supply ship and Pirs module back away from the International Space Station Monday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Wrapping up nearly 20 years of service as a docking port and airlock, Russia’s Pirs module departed the International Space Station Monday under tow from a Progress supply ship, heading for a destructive re-entry in Earth’s atmosphere to clear the ...

Commander Dave Scott, here pictured at work on the slopes of Mount Hadley Delta, is the only remaining member of the Apollo 15 crew still with us. Photo Credit: NASA Fifty summers ago, astronauts Dave Scott, Jim Irwin and Al Worden flew Apollo 15, the fourth manned landing mission to the Moon. Launched on 26 July 1971 atop a Saturn ...

The Earth’s magnetic field is an underappreciated wonder of the natural world.  It protects our atmosphere, provides some of the most breathtaking scenery when it creates auroras, and allows people to navigate from one side of the world to the other.  Unfortunately, it won’t be able to save us from the death of the Sun though.  At least that’s the ...

The Ulster Bank branch in Ballyjamesduff in Co Cavan is set to be bought by Permanent TSB Permanent TSB is set to buy 25 Ulster Bank branches as part of a potential deal between the two lenders. It is also expected that about 400 to 500 Ulster Bank employees, who are wholly or mainly assigned to the retail and SME ...

Source: Adobe/velishchuk Contradictorily, in the US, people seem to trust crypto more, while at the same time lacking information about it. As the data gathered by the “real-time insights enablement platform” Civic Science indicates, since the beginning of the year, the number of people who have invested in crypto has risen, going from 9% in January to 17% in July, ...

Toronto-based Clearco — formerly Clearbanc — raised a new $215 million growth equity round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 as the company eyes further international expansion. Founded in 2015, the company has now raised more than $681 million, according to Crunchbase data. Just this April, the company raised $100 million in equity and $250 million in debt that valued ...