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When NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket launches the agency’s Artemis II mission to the Moon, four CubeSats, or small satellites, will be hitching a ride inside the rocket’s Orion stage adapter (OSA). All four Artemis II CubeSats are provided by countries that are signatories of the Artemis Accords. PayloadContinue Reading

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Maureen Kudlac Deputy Director (Acting), Advanced Air Vehicles Program Maureen Kudlac is the acting deputy director for the Advanced Air Vehicle Program (AAVP) within the Aeronautics Research Mission Ditectorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. In collaboration with the program director, Kudlac supports the overall planning, management, and evaluation ofContinue Reading

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The second day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) takes place in Davos today. The 56th World Economic Forum convenes under the theme ‘A Spirit of Dialogue’. – 1300 GMT Special Address by Emmanuel Macron: How Can We Cooperate In A More Contested World – 1400 GMT Rebuilding Trust inContinue Reading

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Local activists protested a St. Paul ICE field officer’s church. Now they’re under federal investigation. Published January 20, 2026 1:44PM (EST) MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – JANUARY 18: A protester with an anti-ICE sign, stands outside of the Henry Bishop Whipple Federal building on January 18, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protesters continuedContinue Reading

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System76 has updated the COSMIC Desktop with window shadows and consistent corner sizing across all applications, a change available on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS right now and coming to users on other Linux distributions soon. Both features apply the effects consistently, meaning that apps in different toolkits (Qt, GTK, Iced, etc)Continue Reading

James Webb Space Telescope discovers young galaxies age rapidly: ‘It’s like seeing 2-year-old children act like teenagers’

The 18 galaxies from the ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST survey (Image credit:  Andreas Faisst (Caltech) and the ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey team) Astronomers have obtained their most detailed look yet at young galaxies in the early universe using the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The conclusion? These cosmic adolescents grew up incredibly fast.Continue Reading