After Dragon’s historic docking, America has more new spaceships on the way

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft made history for the second time on Sunday. On May 25, 2012, a Cargo Dragon was grabbed by the ISS. It became the first private spacecraft to visit the International Space Station. On Sunday, when Dragonship Endeavour docked with the station 15 minutes ahead of schedule, above the border of China and Mongolia, it became the first private spacecraft to fly crew there (or anywhere in orbit, for that matter).

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Risks for autism and depression are higher if one’s mother was in hospital with an infection during pregnancy. - Health Tips

Risks for autism and depression are higher if one’s mother was in hospital with an infection during pregnancy. This is shown by a major Swedish observational study of nearly 1.8 million children.

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Astronaut capsule docks with space station

US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken have docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Their Dragon capsule - supplied and operated by the private SpaceX company - edged them into port on the high-flying lab's bow section. The men will have to wait for leak and pressure checks to be completed before they can disembark and join the Russian and American crew already on the ISS. Hurley and Behnken launched from Florida on Saturday.

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Microsoft Just Built a World-Class Supercomputer Exclusively for OpenAI

Microsoft just built a huge supercomputer for AI research organization OpenAI. It's a dream-machine for the company. What will they do with it?

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For Russia, SpaceX success is 'a wake-up call'

Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station following the flawless manned launch by US company SpaceX. The Russian space agency congratulated the United States and Mr Elon Musk's SpaceX on the first crewed flight ever by a private company, but experts said the launch should be a wake-up call for Roscosmos.

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Coronavirus research updates: The nose could be the body’s entry point to infection

The nose is the probable starting point for COVID-19 infections. Richard Boucher and Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and their colleagues tracked the ease with which the new coronavirus infects various cell types in the respiratory tract. The researchers found a gradient of infectivity that decreases from the upper to the lower respiratory tract: the most easily infected cells are in the nasal cavity, and the least easily infected deep in the lungs.

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Watch NASA astronauts fly SpaceX’s Crew Dragon using touchscreens

Another first on an already historic flight

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