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Hypersonic jet aims for London-NY in 90 mins

US aviation start-up Hermeus reveals plans for a hypersonic jet that would travel at five times the speed of sound. That could whisk passengers from New York to London in 90 minutes or less. Based in Atlanta said it has obtained finance from seed funders and private investors to develop a plane that will travel at Mach 5 -- five times faster than Mach 1, the speed of sound.........

Moon is geologically active – and SHRINKING, seismic readings show

Far from the cold dead rock imagined by modern science, Earth's Moon is actually tectonically active, according to researchers who triangulated quake data with fault locations. Even stranger, it may still be shrinking. By comparing lunar orbital imagery from NASA with seismic readings obtained nearly half a century ago from equipment left on the moon by the Apollo missions.........

Jeff Bezos unveils mock-up of Blue Origin’s lunar lander Blue Moon

Jeff Bezos unveiled the design of his spaceflight company’s lunar lander, the Blue Moon, which can take scientific payloads — and eventually humans — to the surface of the Moon. Bezos said that his company, Blue Origin, has been working on the design for the lander for the last three years. ........

Scientists warn a million species at risk of extinction

Relentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has put an “unprecedented” one million species at risk of extinction, scientists said on Monday in a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilization to the natural world.........

AIDS drugs prevent sexual transmission of HIV in gay men

A European study of nearly 1,000 gay male couples who had sex without condoms – where one partner had HIV and was taking antiretroviral drugs to suppress it - has found the treatment can prevent sexual transmission of the virus. After eight years of follow-up of the so-called serodifferent couples, the study found no cases at all of HIV transmission within couples.........

The universe is expanding faster than we thought

The universe is expanding 9% faster than scientists expected, according to a new study. And new physics may be required to understand. The expansion rate is at odds with the universe's trajectory shortly after the Big Bang, more than 13 billion years ago. ........

China will build a space base on the moon in 'about ten years'

Zhang Kejian from the China National Space Administration (CSNA) told state media service Xinhua that in ‘about 10 years’ the country will have a research station on the moon’s south pole. He also mentioned in his speech that China plans to launch its first probe to explore Mars in 2020. So far, neither the United States, Russia or the European Union have any involvement in this plan. China is going it........