Firefly Aerospace buys the final scraps of doomed Virgin Orbit

The last remnants of Virgin Orbit have been offloaded. Firefly Aerospace has agreed to buy the defunct satellite-launch company’s remaining assets for $3.8 million. Firefly’s purchase included the leftovers from a May auction that cleaned out most of the company’s possessions, netting $36 million in Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy proceedings. Firefly’s purchase was reported in June…

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3D muscle reconstruction shows 3.2 million-year-old “Lucy” walked upright

3D reconstruction of lower limb muscles of Australopithecus afarensis fossil AL 288-1, aka “Lucy.” Credit: Ashleigh Wiseman 3D reconstruction of lower limb muscles of Australopithecus afarensis fossil AL 288-1, aka “Lucy.” Credit: Ashleigh Wiseman One of the most famous fossils in human evolutionary history is known as “Lucy,” who belonged to an extinct species called…

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