APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss The first frame depicts the observer in empty space looking toward the constellation Orion. The three stars in Orion’s belt are visible to the right of the center of the screen. Sirius can be seen as the brightestContinue Reading
The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station display their mission plaque inside a training mockup of a space station module. From left are, Commander Jessica Watkins and Pilot Luke Delaney, both from NASA, and Mission Specialists Joshua Kutryk of CSA (Canadian Space Agency) andContinue Reading
Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the U.N. General Assembly’s leader and health officials are seeking to make sure that the lurking possibility of another worldwide disease emergency stays on the global agenda, Read MoreContinue Reading
The 2026-2027 challenge theme is, “Fueling Flight Design Challenge: New Energy Systems.” As more and more aircraft are a part of the US’ National Airspace System (NAS), NASA and partners at the FAA, at universities, and in the aviation industry are searching for ways to increase safety, make flight more affordable, find new fuels forContinue Reading
Engineering Notebook Template Scoring Rubric The 2026-2027 challenge theme is, “Fueling Flight Design Challenge: New Energy Systems.” As more and more aircraft are a part of the US’ National Airspace System (NAS), NASA and partners at the FAA, at universities, and in the aviation industry are searching for ways to increase safety, make flight more affordable, findContinue Reading
Rising borrowing costs so far show no sign of putting a brake on activity in world’s biggest economy…Continue Reading
Between 2src14 and 2src15, a marine heatwave known as “The Blob” warmed an area of the Pacific Ocean larger than the United States and Mexico combined. The massive event fueled toxic algae blooms, collapsed fisheries, killed off millions of emaciated seabirds, sent dead fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) and sea otters washing up on Alaska andContinue Reading
Common Cause condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling today allowing the federal government to continue using the flawed SAVE system. Statement from Common Cause President & CEO Virginia Kase Solomón: “The Supreme Court’s decision to allow DHS and states to use an error-ridden system is completely unacceptable and didn’t need toContinue Reading
Ubuntu’s new AI-powered dictation tool Myna isn’t officially ready, but you can give it an early test. Canonical has added the Myna orchestrator snap and a pair of speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store recently, and made its new desktop Myna Settings tool available to test from a PPA.Continue Reading
Microsoft’s Copilot “super app” has arrived, two months after CEO Satya Nadella confirmed it was in development. It combines conversational Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, a redesigned coding environment named Code, and Autopilot, the persistent agent formerly known as Scout, into a single Copilot experience. The idea is to makeContinue Reading
Adobe is preparing for a future where users increasingly interact with its software through AI assistants, rather than always going directly to its applications. That’s the idea behind its expanded integration with Anthropic’s Claude, as well as the first connector for Google’s Gemini, announced Thursday. The updated Claude integration addsContinue Reading
Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, trying to refute corruption allegations, may have just proven them. Earlier this week, ProPublica exposed Collins’s involvement in an alleged illegal pay-to-pay scheme with a defense contractor. Collins has denied the allegations. “The Biden-led Justice Department and FBI totally cleared my office, my campaignContinue Reading
Dozens of southern right whale calves have been found dead on Argentina’s Patagonian coast. Scientists are probing a possible bacterial infection after an unusually deadly season.Continue Reading