The Traitor’s proposed NASA budget is a ‘horrible threat to our future’ in space, Planetary Society CEO says

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The NASA logo at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2022. (Image credit: STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) The new chief of the Planetary Society says she is prepared once again to fight NASA’s science budget cuts, after helping the advocacy group do so last year. Planetary Society CEO Jennifer Vaughn saidContinue Reading

James Webb Space Telescope directly studies an exoplanet’s surface for the 1st time: ‘We see a dark, hot, barren rock’

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Scientists say this high-resolution photo of the planet Mercury probably resembles the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b, which the JWST just observed. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have, for the first time, directly analyzed the surface of a planet beyond our solar system, TheContinue Reading

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gThumb, the open-source image viewer and organiser, has been rewritten in Vala and ported to GTK4/libadwaita – and compared to the old UI, it’s barely recognisable. An alpha build of gThumb 4.0 is available for testing. Alongside the visual revamp, this brings support for WEBP and PNG animations, lets youContinue Reading

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New Eagle has launched the OpenECU NX3, a vehicle control platform that combines Megawatt Charging System (MCS) and Combined Charging System (CCS) charging protocols with full vehicle supervisory control—powertrain, charging and auxiliary management—in a single ECU. New Eagle says it’s the first production-ready controller to integrate both charging standards alongsideContinue Reading

Don’t Overlook The Energy Efficiency Workforce – Forbes

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The clean energy conversation often centers on solar panels, electric vehicles and grid modernization. But there’s a quieter, more immediate opportunity hiding in plain sight—energy efficiency. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, roughly 30% of the energy used in buildings is wasted. That statistic alone should reshape how we think about climate strategy, workforceContinue Reading