Why Does NASA Need To Use Atomic Clocks In Space?

Alones/Shutterstock Humanity has used clocks since we became aware of the concept of time. And as technology has improved, so have our time-keeping methods. Today, many people rely on digital clocks to track the hours and tell us when to wake up (although physical alarm clocks are coming back in fashion). But these clocks areContinue Reading

Astronaut who nearly drowned in space selected for Artemis III crew

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano poses for his official portrait in a U.S. spacesuit at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Image: ESA/NASA   Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to ourContinue Reading

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Mozilla has added support for Google’s Play Integrity API, known for blocking users of custom ROMs from accessing banking apps, to Firefox for Android. Per a resolved issue in Mozilla’s public tracker, a new lib-integrity-googleplay library was added to Firefox’s Android codebase. It requests a Play Integrity token which is then passedContinue Reading

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Other than its well-known lineup of office suites, ONLYOFFICE has been consistently building up its collaborative platform, DocSpace, since 2023. It sits in the same space as Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, targeting teams that want a self-hostable, format-compatible alternative. Things got a bit complicated recently when Nextcloud and IONOSContinue Reading

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Collabora is a UK-based company that builds open source office suite solutions based on LibreOffice. These are designed to run both on a browser and locally, integrating directly into an organization’s infrastructure. Their flagship offering is Collabora Online (COOL), the paid, enterprise-grade version that ships with support agreements, long-term maintenance,Continue Reading

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WACKER has presented two new material innovations for EV battery safety: a ceramifying silicone for thermal barrier coatings and a pair of potting compounds engineered to resist filler sedimentation during long-term storage. The ceramifying product comes from the ELASTOSIL CM line. Applied as a liquid, it cures to a standardContinue Reading