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5 Min Read NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests Views from different angles of a plume-surface interaction test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Credits: NASA EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase ofContinue Reading

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Physics of the Cosmos … Physics of the Cosmos Community FLAG SAG Meeting, 28… About Community Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG) Science Groups Meetings Cosmic Pathfinders Science Gaps Early Career Workshops Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources   FLAG SAG Meeting Future Large Gamma-Ray Mission Concepts Science Analysis Group FLAGContinue Reading

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Jeret Howard, logistics management specialist at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, poses for a photograph on July 27, 2026. Howard is now a NASA civil servant at Stennis as part of the administrator’s directive to strengthen technical core competencies within the civil service workforce. NASA/Danny NowlinContinue Reading

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Washington escalated its campaign against the ICC last week by sanctioning its president and a senior trial lawyer., Washington escalated its campaign against the Hague-based court last week by sanctioning its Japanese president, Tomoko Akane, and a senior trial lawyer. Japan should try to counter the United States’ efforts toContinue Reading

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Apple has filed a motion demanding expedited discovery in its trade secrets litigation against OpenAI.  The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and some former Apple employees now at the AI firm deliberately worked to exfiltrate valuable trade secrets from Apple. The initial allegations describe a series of serious attempts to grab this information, includingContinue Reading

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The tech industry faced something of a reckoning in late 2022 with the arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a simple chatbot that could answer questions, seemingly by magic. The early frontier large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI and rivals like Anthropic and Google could reason, solve problems, and answer detailed queriesContinue Reading

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New policy allows India’s private sector to produce advanced weaponry, supporting its goal of military self-sufficiency., India has taken a major step towards opening one of its most sensitive areas of defence production to private companies. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved the transfer of technologies developed by the state-run DefenceContinue Reading