how-to-install-cosmic-desktop-on-ubuntu-24.04-(ppa)

If you want to install the new COSMIC desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, you’re in luck as a new (and totally unofficial) PPA makes it easy — but may upgrade critical system packages in the process. Chances are you’re familiar with COSMIC, the new, open-source Rust-based desktop environment developed byContinue Reading

James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes snap images of same nebula, 10 years apart

Astronomers are studying the hundreds of young, brown dwarf stars inside the stellar nursery.   Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team, ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, V. Almendros-Abad, M. Guarcello, K. Monsch, and the EWOCS team. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, andContinue Reading

elementary-os-8.1-is-out-–-now-uses-wayland-by-default

A new version of the Ubuntu-based Linux distribution elementary OS is available to download. The elementary OS 8.1 ‘Circe’ release is built atop a Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS base and runs the Linux 6.14 kernel by default. A raft of improvements to the Pantheon desktop environment, core apps, and the wider user experienceContinue Reading

research-from-anl-and-uchicago-pme-looks-to-resolve-battery-degradation-by-mitigating-nanoscopic-strains

New research from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) claims to have solved a battery mystery that has led to capacity degradation, shortened lifespan and, in some cases, fire. In a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers uncovered some of theContinue Reading