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SpaceX scraps Starship rocket launch in Texas for second time in two days

26 August at 02:35 AM, via The Guardian

Launch delay from Elon Musk’s company marks latest in streak of setbacks, including a liquid oxygen leak on Sunday

SpaceX was forced to scrap the launch of its giant Starship rocket from Texas again on Monday, this time due to weather, marking the latest in a streak of setbacks for the Elon Musk-run company.

The 232ft (71-metre) tall Super Heavy booster and its 171ft tall Starship upper half...

State capitalism creeps into corporate America

25 August at 18:26 PM, via TechCentral

US President Donald Trump said he wants to make more investments in healthy US companies on Monday. Whether corporate America is on board is another story.

Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests

25 August at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exposure to high temperatures could result in long-lasting damage to health of billions of people, scientists warn

Repeated exposure to heatwaves is accelerating ageing in people, according to a study. The impact is broadly comparable with the damage smoking, alcohol use, poor diet or limited exercise can have on health, the researchers said.

Extreme temperatures are increasingly common owing...

Surgeons transplant pig lung into brain dead human recipient for first time

25 August at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Genetically modified lung functioned for nine days, in latest development in xenotransplantation aimed at solving organ shortage crisis

Surgeons have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain dead human recipient for the first time and found it functioned for nine days, researchers have revealed.

The work is the latest development in a technique called xenotransplantation...

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