NASA has stopped work on a second mobile launch platform intended for an upgraded version of the Space Launch System the agency no longer plans to develop.

A 28-day-old infant was reportedly bitten on the face by a rat while sleeping inside a displacement tent in Gaza City, an incident that captures the scale of a public health crisis spreading through camps where more than a million displaced Palestinians now shelter under canvas with almost no protection from vermin. The attack on […]

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When a country’s banking system collapses and a million people are forced from their homes, money still has to move. In Lebanon, it is moving through phones. Digital wallets and peer-to-peer fintech platforms have become important infrastructure for crisis aid delivery in Lebanon, as reported by Wired, filling a void left by a banking sector […]

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Social performance begins before you arrive at the gathering — in the car, in the mirror, in the moment you decide which version of yourself walks through that door. The laugh deployed at parties is often not spontaneous but selected, calibrated, and sometimes literally practised.

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Refusing to ask for help isn't stubbornness — it's an identity structure. When your self-concept depends on being capable without assistance, every request for help becomes a threat to coherence rather than a practical decision.

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The James Webb Space Telescope's five-layer sunshield, made from Kapton polymer thinner than a human hair, is the single most important engineering achievement on the observatory. Its design, testing, and deployment reveal what engineering at the edge of possibility actually looks like.

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Syria’s government lost control of its own digital identity in early 2024, and the cause was not a sophisticated cyberweapon or a state-backed intelligence operation. It was bad passwords. Multiple official Syrian government accounts on X, including those tied to the presidency’s General Secretariat, the Central Bank, and several ministries, were breached in early March. […]

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