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Picturing Earth in a New Light

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Colossus: The Forbin Project

Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries

GitHub availability report: April 2026

In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. To increase transparency, at the end of April, we released a...

NASA Draws on Industry for Mars Telecommunications Network

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill about 1.5 miles (2.5 kilome...

Hindenburg’s Smoking Room

Judge orders Trump administration to return Colombian woman deported to DRC back to the US

Judge called Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata’s deportation to the Democratic Republic of Congo ‘likely illegal’A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration...

US reportedly dropped fraud charges against Indian billionaire after he hired Trump’s lawyer

Gautam Adani, richest man in Asia, was accused of conspiring to pay $250m in bribes to Indian government officialsThe US Department of Justice is dropping its f...

NASA, Industry Prepare Cryogenic Fuel Technology Demo

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA is collaborating with Eta Space of Rockledge, Florida, on an in‑orbit techno...

African fans face World Cup issues despite visa bond U-turn

The Trump administration waives a $15,000 visa bond for fans from five countries who have World Cup tickets, but African fans still face challenges.

From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance

When you’re working through a backlog—opening an issue, jumping to a linked thread, then back to the list—latency isn’t just a metric. I...

Fresh Food Delivery for Space Station

You’re allowed to play with your food when you’re on the International Space Station!NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway (bottom left)...

Springboks' Ntlabakanye given 18-month doping ban

South Africa prop Asenathi Ntlabakanye is banned for 18 months for breaking anti-doping rules - ruling him out of the 2027 World Cup.

Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland

Former Nigerian minister sentenced to 75 years in rare corruption verdict

Former Power Minister Saleh Mamman was convicted last week - but the authorities do not know his whereabouts.

UN pleads for Equatorial Guinea not to send US asylum seekers to their home countries: ‘Their life w...

Human rights experts make rare public appeal as US deportees describe being held in ‘prison-like’ conditionsHuman rights experts at the United Nations issued a...

High-Entropy Alloy

'They shot my neighbour in the head' - the lakeside city traumatised by war

Rebel fighters and Rwandan troops are accused of committing atrocities after capturing the DR Congo city of Uvira in December.

Ice Moves Out of Aniak

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NASA-Supported Space Tech Advances Earthly Construction

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Branch’s work outfitting a prototype of a lunar surface habitat they developed, p...