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Taking a daily multivitamin may help older adults preserve the strength and stamina needed for everyday activities. After three years, users reported better functional health than those taking a placebo, although the preliminary findings still require peer review. from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/mk4hBXc

The next great American observatory in space is just one month away from leaving this planet. NASA scientists got together Wednesday (July 29) to share a status update on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — the agency's next great observatory that will soon join the ranks of absolute legends like the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope . And that press conference was overflowing with good news. The $4 billion Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX rocket on Aug. 30 at 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 GMT). That's nine months ahead of schedule according to the team. I think of this as doing magic with physics." Julie McEnery, Roman senior project scientist "In 30 days, we're going to be launching Roman, testing it out, opening the deployable aperture cover, looking at the sky, and sending data down to the ground for the first time," Je...

Nostalgia is a powerful elixir as demonstrated by Paramount's moving "Star Trek" tribute video created for the franchise's big 60th anniversary this year and revealed last weekend at San Diego Comic-Con during a Star Trek Universe presentation at Hall H. It's a sentimental journey into the final frontier that chronicles the popular space opera property from its infancy as " Star Trek: The Original Series " in 1966, through 14 Hollywood feature films and numerous small screen iterations like "The Next Generation," "Deep Space Nine," "Voyager," "Enterprise," "Discovery," "Picard," " Strange New Worlds ," "Below Decks," "Prodigy," and even "Starfleet Academy." "We are all explorers, driven to know what's over the horizon," declares Scott Bakula's Capta...

Things aren't going so well for NASA's latest satellite rescue mission. NASA launched the Swift Boost mission on July 3, sending a specialized spacecraft to low Earth orbit on the final flight of Northrop Grumman's air-launched Pegasus XL rocket. The spacecraft is called LINK and was built by Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies. LINK was sent to orbit to try and link up with NASA's Swift observatory , a highly successful scientific satellite designed to search for gamma-ray bursts , some of the most energetic events in the universe. But it looks like just a few weeks after launch, LINK is experiencing some issues. "Katalyst's LINK servicing spacecraft experienced issues with attitude control, causing the spacecraft to spin and resulting in sporadic communications," NASA wrote in an update on Tuesday (July 28) . Despite the malfunction, however, the space agenc...

The July full "Buck Moon" rises tonight to lead Saturn, Mars and Mercury in a spectacular mini planetary parade through the summer sky. Here's what you need to know. July's full moon phase occurs at 10:36 a.m. EDT on July 29 (1436 GMT), when the lunar disk will appear fully illuminated. It's often called the Buck Moon, to reflect the time when young male deer grow out their antlers. It has also been named the Berry Moon by the indigenous Anishinaabe people and as the Thunder Moon by the Western Abenaki people, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac . Look to the southwestern horizon at sunset to catch the full Buck Moon as it creeps slowly into the summer sky. The moon may appear particularly large at moonrise thanks to a phenomenon known as the "Moon Illusion", where our brains trick us into perceiving it as larger than it actually is while close to the horizo...

Key specs Camera: 48MP 1/2-inch CMOS Video resolution: Up to 4K Frame rates: 4K 100 FPS / 2.7K vertical up to 60 FPS / FHD up to 100 FPS Battery: 2590 mAh up to 36 minutes flight Charger type: USB-C cable/battery charging hub Modes: Cine, Normal, Sport Video transmission range: 9.3 miles (IC) / 4.97 miles (CE/SRRC/MIC) Dimensions: : Folded 5.67 x 3.70 x 2.44 in / 144 x 94 x 62 mm / Unfolded 7.20 x 9.88 x 3.11 in / 183 x 251 x 79 mm Weight: 8.78 oz / 249 g The drone market is hotter than ever, with newbie and slightly more experienced drone pilots now able to enjoy some seriously impressive features on low-cost drones. The new DJI Lito series replaces the older Mini series, with the exception of the DJI Mini 5 Pro , which is DJI’s flagship sub-250 g drone. There are two models available and in this review, we are going to take a look at the DJI Lito 1. The Lito 1 may be the entry-level Lit...