James Webb Space Telescope observes 72 stars and finds planet formation is a race against time

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(Main) An illustration of a protoplanetary disk; (inset) an artist’s rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani) Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have studied 72 young, sun-like stars. As a result, they found that forming planets is a real race against time. ThisContinue Reading

Astronaut Jonny Kim leaves NASA, will return to active military duty

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Former NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim services an experimental carbon dioxide removal device aboard the International Space Station in May 2025. (Image credit: NASA/JSC) Jonny Kim is leaving NASA to continue his military career. The 42-year-old astronaut, who has one of the most jaw-dropping resumes of any person alive, is departingContinue Reading

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If you’ve installed Chromium or Google Chrome as a Flatpak, you’ve installed an unofficial, community-maintained package done independently of the search giant – that could be about to change. Chromium’s build system is now able to generate Flatpak packages of the browser itself, though its developers caution that the changeContinue Reading

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SystemRescue 13.00 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS and Many Useful Improvements. SystemRescue 13.00 is now available. This is a significant update to the popular Arch-based live Linux distribution that many of us use for system repair and data rescue tasks. If you work with broken systems, need to recoverContinue Reading

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As battery-electric commercial vehicles continue to evolve, engineers face growing challenges in designing power distribution architectures that are scalable, efficient, and easy to integrate. Traditional vehicle architectures often require multiple components for switching, protection, monitoring, communications, and control, increasing system complexity, validation effort, and development time. Modular, integrated approaches canContinue Reading

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Savannah Mayor Van R. Johnson II joins “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” to share why his Georgia city is keeping Flock cameras despite known misuse by police department employees., Savannah Mayor Van R. Johnson II joins “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” to share why his Georgia city is keeping Flock cameras despite known misuseContinue Reading

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“Recent cases involving the misuse of automated license plate reader systems in Arizona and nationwide have raised concerns about the risks that come with the technology.”, “Recent cases involving the misuse of automated license plate reader systems in Arizona and nationwide have raised concerns about the risks that come withContinue Reading

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Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available to download, the first of 5 point releases scheduled for the ‘Resolute Raccoon’ in the 3 years. The release doesn’t add new features, but brings a refreshed installation image (.iso) that includes all of the bug fixes, security patches and package updates released sinceContinue Reading