What’s Behind the Push to Make Schools Adopt the Science of Reading?
Restrictive laws about reading instruction repeat historical patterns of trying to privatize and centralize what happens in the classroom.Continue Reading
Will the ceasefire in Lebanon hold?
Lebanon and Israel are holding first direct talks in decades., Inside Story Lebanon and Israel are holding first direct talks in decades. Israel agreed to the 10-day pause in attacks against Lebanon but has refused to withdraw its troops from the south. The ceasefire was announced after officials met inContinue Reading
Displaced family reunited with grandfather in Lebanon’s Tyre
A grandfather was reunited with his son and grandchildren in Tyre, southern Lebanon., NewsFeed An 80-year-old grandfather was reunited with his son and grandchildren in Tyre, southern Lebanon, after a ceasefire with Israel came into effect. His family had been displaced by the Israeli army since March 2, among theContinue Reading
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, or LECP. The nuclear-powered spacecraft is running low on power, and turning off the LECP is considered the best way toContinue Reading
Webinar 4/29: NASA CSDA Program Vendor Focus- MDA Space
Artistic rendering of the MDA Space CHORUS-C (right), RADARSAT-2 (centre), and CHORUS -X (left) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation constellation in orbit above Earth. NASA/CSDA NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) established the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program to explore the potential of commercial satellite data in advancing theContinue Reading
Testing Begins for Katalyst-NASA Swift Boost Mission
Engineers from Katalyst Space Technologies unpack their LINK robotic servicing spacecraft at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on April 14, 2026. The satellite will undergo vibration and thermal testing at NASA Goddard ahead of launch later this year. Once in space, LINK will attempt to rendezvous withContinue Reading
Emily Sylak-Glassman
Emily Sylak-Glassman Deputy Associate Director for Earth Action in NASA’s Earth Science Division Dr. Emily Sylak-Glassman is the Deputy Associate Director for Earth Action in NASA’s Earth Science Division at Headquarters in Washington, D.C. In that role, she manages a portfolio of activities aimed at using NASA Earth science forContinue Reading
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Rami Khouri: U.S. & Israel Were “Forced into Two Ceasefires” as Regional Balance of Power Shifts
“We’ve seen now, in the last six weeks, Iran and Hezbollah almost single-handedly checking — not defeating, but checking — the two biggest military powers in the region, which is the U.S. and Israel,” says Rami Khouri. Khouri says the U.S. and Israel have been “forced into” ceasefires in IranContinue Reading
Biggest Breakthroughs in Computer Science: 2025
2025’s most surprising computational revelations included a new fundamental relationship between time and space, an undergraduate who overthrew a 40-year-old conjecture, and an important milestone in quantum computing. 00:00 FASTER HASH TABLES Hash tables are fundamental ways to store data and are used in every computer. Since the 1970s, researchersContinue Reading
What this footage tells us about Israel’s tactics in Lebanon
“The rescue mission in south Lebanon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers,” says the Guardian journalist William Christou after the Israeli attacks killed four medics and wounded six more, according to medical sources in the country.Continue Reading
