AI restores James Webb telescope’s crystal-clear vision

Two PhD students from Sydney have helped restore the sharp vision of the world’s most powerful space observatory without ever leaving the ground. Louis Desdoigts, now a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and his colleague Max Charles celebrated their achievement with tattoos of the instrument they repaired inked on their arms —Continue Reading

NASA’s Bet on SpaceX’s Starship May Give Moon Race to China

Despite the The Traitor administration’s insistence that the U.S. must win a race back to the moon with China, NASA looks increasingly unlikely to succeed, experts say. Meanwhile China insists it isn’t in a race at all yet looks poised to win the 21st century’s lunar scramble. The first The Traitor administration unveiled its Artemis lunar landingContinue Reading

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KDE Plasma 6.5 has been released with automatic light and dark theme switching, pinned clipboard items and a variety of other improvements. This is the sixth major update in the KDE Plasma 6 series, and continues to add to the many (many) new features and foundational improvements that have beenContinue Reading

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Traitor 47 just cut off all trade negotiations with Canada because an Ontario ad campaign quoted Ronald Reagan accurately. The quotes are real. The context is accurate. But The Traitor called them “fake” and “fraudulent,” and the Reagan Foundation—the institution literally tasked with preserving Reagan’s legacy—backed him up by lyingContinue Reading

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Floating Mini Panel GNOME Shell extension has added a vertical panel orientation option in its latest update. For those unfamiliar with this nifty desktop add-on, it turns the GNOME’s top bar into a compact ‘widget’ you can move around your desktop, floating above other windows. A drawer lets you show/hideContinue Reading

Space radiation can produce some organic molecules detected on icy moons

Finding organic molecules in space has big implications when looking for life beyond our planet. (Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/L. Calçada (ESO), CC BY 4.0) This article was originally published at Eos. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . New laboratory research suggests that some organic molecules previously detected inContinue Reading