The Department of Homeland Security tapped a little-known ad firm to produce Kristi Noem’s multimillion-dollar ad campaign during the government shutdown last year. But when asked to explain her rationale before a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, Noem was practically speechless. Reading off of a DHS notice, Colorado Representative JoeContinue Reading
Experts say adults can help children cope with the latest conflict in the Middle East by making space for conversation, validating their feelings and limiting exposure to frightening or inaccurate information, Read MoreContinue Reading
The Japanese HTV-X1 cargo spacecraft is pictured attached to the Earth-facing port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module with the Canadarm2 robotic arm in the foreground. NASA Expedition 74 is ready to send off a Japanese cargo spacecraft on Friday after four months attached to the International Space Station.Continue Reading
A NASA anomaly review board, convened in mid-February, is evaluating the recovery efforts undertaken for the agency’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft orbiting Mars. The spacecraft was last heard from on Dec. 6. The board also will assess the probable current state of the spacecraft and the likelihoodContinue Reading
Regional Air Mobility Resources Encyclopedia Updated Mar 4, 2026 Previous RAM Work at NASA N. Borer et al., Regulatory Considerations for Future Regional Air Mobility Aircraft, 2023 S. Viken et al., Overview of the Small Aircraft Transportation System Project Four Enabling Operating Capabilities, 2006 M. Moore, NASA Puffin Electric Tailsitter VTOL Concept, 2010 N.Continue Reading
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NASA Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Reference Vehicles Encyclopedia Updated Mar 4, 2026 Across the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) community, a wide range of vehicle configurations and operational missions have been proposed. The NASA UAM reference vehicles have been chosen to demonstrate specific vehicle attributes representative of those proposed across theContinue Reading
‘We already are in a scenario where the US has lost control of this war,’ argues political scientist Vali Nasr., ‘We already are in a scenario where the US has lost control of this war,’ argues political scientist Vali Nasr. Even though the joint United States-Israeli war on Iran isContinue Reading
Mojtaba Khamenei emerges as potential successor after death of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in US-Israel attacks., Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has again emerged as a potential figure to succeed his father, who was killed on the first day of the war with the UnitedContinue Reading
As Iranian missiles strike military, residential and economic targets in neighboring Gulf states, we speak to Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara in Doha, Qatar. Bishara says Iran’s targeting of U.S. allies in the region may be an Iranian calculation that there is “a cost to be paid forContinue Reading
Leave it to Rosalía to toss off a one-liner that spirals into a cultural moment. During a Spotify conversation with Argentine author Mariana Enríquez, the Spanish pop force was asked a familiar question: What quality does she like most in a man? Rosalía smiled, paused for effect, and answered, “ThatContinue Reading
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Barely two months on from Mark Carney’s widely discussed Davos address, the Canadian prime minister recently had this to say in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran — among the first victims of which appear to have been over 100 schoolgirls between theContinue Reading
This story was originally published by Grist and WBEZ . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Under the warm light of a hanging lamp, Marty Landorf carefully crumbled the dried flower head of a black-eyed Susan between her fingers, teasing apart the chaff to uncover its puny black seeds. Each oneContinue Reading