The Artemis II crew is about to fly farther from Earth than any human being has ever traveled, and the record they’re breaking belongs to a mission that nearly killed its astronauts. As the four-person crew aboard the Orion spacecraft approaches its lunar flyby, the mission is set to surpass Apollo 13’s distance mark from […]

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman defended a fiscal year 2027 budget proposal that would cut the agency’s budget by nearly 25%.

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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Five weeks into a war that has killed thousands, shuttered one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, and drawn in nearly every major power in the Middle East, a former Iranian diplomat is arguing that the outlines of a peace deal already exist. Mohammad Javad Zarif, who served as Iran’s foreign minister during the […]

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The United States military reportedly pulled off a high-stakes combat rescue deep inside Iranian territory over the weekend, extracting the second crew member of an F-15E Strike Eagle that was allegedly shot down over southern Iran on Friday. The operation — stretching across 48 hours, involving dozens of aircraft, heavy firefights, and at least one […]

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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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