Science news this week: NASA announces nuclear rocket, space reproduction proves difficult, and why weed gives people the munchies

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NASA announces moon base, Iran war releases staggering carbon emissions, why weed gives people munchies, and Artemis II preps for liftoff. (Image credit: Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images | NASA/Terra/Landsat) This week’s science news was crammed with fascinating revelations about the workings of the human body, leading with the finding that zero gravity means zeroContinue Reading

I Am Artemis: Erik Richards

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Listen to this audio excerpt from Erik Richards, Near Space Network Mission Manager: For Erik Richards, supporting NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission to the Moon and back is the culmination of a career spent helping spacecraft communicate with Earth.  Like many kids who grew up at the height of the Space Shuttle Program, Richards dreamed of spaceflight — a dream that eventually took him from the remote McMurdo Station in Antarctica toContinue Reading

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Last week, we announced the winners of our eighth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1930! Now it’s time to begin our series of spotlight posts, examining each of the winners in a bit more detail, and we’re kicking things off today with a look at the winnerContinue Reading

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The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is one of the most popular airliners ever built. Originally marketed as a replacement for the Boeing 767, the 787 has now sold nearly 1,000 more units than the 767, and it’s one of only two widebodies to receive more than 2,000 orders, with the otherContinue Reading

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For years, many Ubuntu users have felt that traditional .deb packages were being gradually sidelined in favor of the Snap ecosystem. It started quietly. Double-clicking a downloaded .deb file would open it in Archive Manager instead of the installer. Then came controversial changes. Apps like Chromium, Thunderbolt and Firefox beganContinue Reading