Open Source New Year Almanac: What Does 2026 Hold for You? 🗓️
2026-01-11
Step into 2026 with your personalized open source forecast!, Read More From It’s FOSSContinue Reading
NASA’s Pandora Mission, CubeSats Ready for Flight
2026-01-11
Teams encapsulate in early January, NASA’s Pandora small satellite, and NASA-sponsored Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) CubeSat and several other payloads, inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing along with several other satellites at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, as part of theContinue Reading
Welcome to Launch Day for NASA’s Pandora Mission, CubeSats
2026-01-11
Artist’s concept of Pandora spacecraft without thermal blanketing. NASA’s Pandora small satellite will travel to sun-synchronous orbit to study the atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets and the activity of their host stars. In this orbit, it will pass over the same spot on Earth at roughly the same timeContinue Reading
This wild fruit is getting a CRISPR makeover
2026-01-11
Scientists have used CRISPR to give the goldenberry a modern makeover, shrinking the plant by about a third and making it easier to farm. Goldenberries are tasty and nutritious but notoriously unruly, with bushy plants that complicate harvesting. By editing a few key genes and selectively breeding the best-tasting fruits,Continue Reading
Hudson Williams Turns ‘The Tonight Show’ Into a Locker Room Stretch Session
2026-01-11
Hudson Williams brought hockey energy, and a knowing wink, to late-night television. The 24-year-old actor, who stars in the buzzy queer sports drama Heated Rivalry , made his late-night debut Wednesday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon . What began as a standard sit-down quickly shifted when Williams tradedContinue Reading
While celebrating Maduro’s capture, Venezuelan immigrants worry about deportation
2026-01-11
For many of the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants facing possible deportation, their relief about the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro was cut by the fear about what comes next from an administration that has zeroed in on Venezuelans as a target., Read MoreContinue Reading
Al Jazeera reports from rebel-held Myanmar during disputed election
2026-01-11
A second round of voting has been held in Myanmar’s controversial election., NewsFeed A second round of voting has been held in Myanmar’s controversial election, which critics say will cement the military’s grip on power. Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng has visited rebel-controlled areas where millions of civilians, living in fearContinue Reading
Israel kills Palestinian in Hebron, raids Nablus, East Jerusalem wedding
2026-01-11
Killing comes amid record Israeli violence and settlement expansion across the occupied West Bank., A Palestinian man has died from gunshot wounds after Israeli forces opened fire on his vehicle in Hebron, amid escalating violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza shows noContinue Reading
“Disease X”: How pandemic preparedness talks spawned conspiracy theories online
2026-01-11
On 17 January 2024, public health experts including Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), held a roundtable titled “Preparing for Disease X” at the World Economic Forum of Davos (WEF). In light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the panel discussed what had failed in theContinue Reading
The Traitor Picks the Weirdest Moment to Hype Up His New Ballroom
2026-01-11
The president’s myriad disparate interests finally aligned on Friday when he was able to squeeze his recent acquisition of Venezuela’s oil reserves into the same sentence as his White House ballroom project. “The largest Oil Companies in the World are coming to the White House at 2:30 P.M.,” Traitor 47Continue Reading
How ICE raids in Minnesota connect to a years-old fraud scandal
2026-01-11
The The Traitor administration is using a years-old scandal first prosecuted under the Biden administration to justify its immigration crackdown in Minnesota., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Watch SpaceX launch NASA’s Pandora exoplanet-studying satellite on Jan. 11
2026-01-11
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Pandora mission, which will help scientists untangle the signals from exoplanets’ atmospheres — worlds beyond our solar system — and their stars. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab) SpaceX will launch NASA’s next exoplanet mission on Sunday morning (Jan. 11), and you can watch the action live. AContinue Reading
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 192 — Space, 2026!
2026-01-11
Space, 2026! – What’s Coming in Spaceflight This Year – YouTube Watch On On Episode 192 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik looks forward to 2026, which promises to be the most exciting year in the new space age yet! On other news, NASA’s budget seems on track to be passedContinue Reading