NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this shot as it hovered over the Martian surface on Apr. 19, 2021, during the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The U.S. space agency, NASA, Monday received images and data confirming its small helicopter, Ingenuity, successfully performed the first controlled powered flight of an aircraft […]
Federal health officials in the United States are recommending an immediate pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine after reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration issued a joint statement early Tuesday announcing the agencies are investigating […]
FREDERICK, MARYLAND – U.S. Navy and law enforcement officials in the city of Frederick, Maryland say a Navy Hospital Corpsman shot and critically wounded two people Tuesday at an office park before being shot and killed a short time later at a nearby military base. Frederick is about 77 kilometers northwest of Washington. Frederick Police […]
The U.S. moved a step closer Friday to having another vaccine in its coronavirus arsenal, after an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously endorsed Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose COVID vaccine. Formal authorization for the vaccine could come in the next few days. The one-dose vaccine would become the third coronavirus inoculation approved […]