Space 18 September 2020 By Joshua Rapp Learn Eugene Cernan and Ronald Evans flew on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972JSC/NASAThe average age of space travellers has been on the rise since cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin first blasted off in 1961, while the overwhelming majority of the 566 people that have been to space are male,…

The 2020 holiday buying season is expected to be like no other: An avalanche of ecommerce deliveries, merchants running promotions earlier than ever, and tight crowd controls on Black Friday.Why it matters: Retailers desperately need the revenue from this critical time of year — and they fear that overwhelmed package-delivery services will leave their customers…

UPDATE: It's been a few short months since beauty retailers have slowly started reopening across the country, and while makeup sales have continued to plummet amid the pandemic — seeing an overall decline of 52 percent in the category, according to NPD data — shopping as a whole is still going strong. It just looks…

Popular kids' clothing store The Children's Place is closing around 625 brick-and-mortar US locations over the next 20 months. According to a conference-call transcription about the company's 2020 earnings, reps for The Children's Place said the COVID-19 outbreak "significantly increased" its original closing plans, as ecommerce sales have picked up since the pandemic began. The…

What do you get when you combine one of the largest Dinosaur databases in the world with the powers of Google Earth-like technology? The sweet chance to view what your area looked like millions of years ago. You can even see what fossils are nearby. The best part is, the 3D map, dubbed Ancient Earth,…