NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidates: Shaping Artemis Exploration 

When NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidates arrived at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston this fall, they stepped into history, sharing a common mission to master the skills and teamwork that define NASA’s next era of exploration.  Selected from a pool of more than 8,000 applicants, the new class represents a range of backgrounds —Continue Reading

CFTC Signals Support for Prediction Markets as State Pushback Intensifies

As the debate over prediction markets in the United States intensifies, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) finds itself under increasing pressure to issue a definitive statement on the sector’s legal boundaries. While state regulators are taking an increasingly harsher stance against event-based contracts, the CFTS recently endorsed the tokenized financial infrastructure that underpins modernContinue Reading

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The fastest air-breathing vehicle ever built was the NASA X-43. Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft measured 12 feet in length with a width of five feet. While they looked similar in appearance, they were engineered differentlyContinue Reading

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Here are the key events from day 1,371 of Russia’s war on Ukraine., Here are the key events from day 1,371 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Ukrainian soldiers ride a military buggy along a road near a front line in the town of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, onContinue Reading

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The House voted nearly unanimously on Nov. 18 to force the Department of Justice to release “all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials” related to the investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. After resisting the release for months, President Traitor 47 threw his late support to the bill, whichContinue Reading

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David Baker’s lab, the UW Institute for Protein Design, is pioneering the use of a wide-range of AI tools to design new and novel proteins in order to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Watch the related video “How AI Cracked the Protein Folding Code and Won a NobelContinue Reading