Astronauts can face ‘nearly lethal doses’ of solar radiation — so why launch Artemis II during the sun’s peak of activity? Space scientist Patricia Reiff explains.

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Artemis II’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft are ready to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image credit: Gregg Newton / AFP via Getty Images) Artemis II’s astronauts are about to take off for a record-breaking flight around the moon, giving NASA a rare opportunity to study how deep spaceflight affects theContinue Reading

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The open source office space has turned unusually dramatic this week, with multiple conflicts unfolding at the same time. First, there is a new entrant called Euro-Office. While it is being presented as a European alternative, it is essentially a fork of ONLYOFFICE. That has not gone down well. ONLYOFFICEContinue Reading

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TDF’s Membership Committee has removed all Collabora staff and partners from membership in one move, covering over 30 developers. This includes, per Collabora’s own count, seven of LibreOffice’s all-time top ten core committers who are still active. To make things more complicated, this is only the latest in a seriesContinue Reading

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You’ll need at least 6GB of RAM to run Ubuntu 26.04 LTS comfortably, as the upcoming version of the distro raises its minimum memory requirement for the first time since 2019. According to the official specs, “Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS requires a 2 GHz dual-core processor or better, a minimum ofContinue Reading

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Bosch Rexroth has introduced the TS 7plus, a fully electric roller conveyor designed for heavy-payload manufacturing lines. The company says it’s the world’s first freely configurable, fully electric transfer system for loads up to 3,000 kg, targeting automotive, battery and aerospace/defense assembly. The TS 7plus runs on modular sections usingContinue Reading

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There is a wide range of ways to measure an airport’s size. One can look at the number of flight movements, the land size of an airport, the number of destinations, or the total number of passengers passing through an airport in a given year. The latter is what we’llContinue Reading