ANCHORAGE, AK — There was a pindrop silence in the room on Tuesday (June 10), as Christoph Keller, director of the National Solar Observatory, spoke on stage here at the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting.
Standing in front of a giant…
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Congress Demands Answers on Data Privacy Ahead of 23andMe Sale
US Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jan Schakowsky on Thursday sent letters to the two potential buyers of troubled genetic testing firm 23andMe demanding details about consumer data privacy should either of them acquire the company.
Signed by…
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Snow leopards frequently cross Nepal, India, China borders, study finds
- Snow leopards in the Kangchenjunga region regularly cross the borders of Nepal, India, and China in search of suitable habitat, ignoring human-drawn boundaries.
- Their home ranges are significantly larger than…
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Bill Nye Cut Off RFK Jr After Receiving Dozens of Texts About Autism, Vaccines: “Just No Self-Awareness’
Bill Nye, the longtime advocate for science literacy and public health, says he cut off communication with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after receiving a barrage of unsolicited texts promoting debunked claims about vaccines and autism.
In a
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NASA Launching Rockets Into Radio-Disrupting Clouds
NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens its three-week…
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Top tools to protect rainforests
Crystal Davis, Global Program Director at the World Resources Institute, highlights positive strides in rainforest conservation worldwide. From successful protection efforts in Brazil and Colombia to the critical role of…
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NASA’s PUNCH Mission Captures Jaw-Dropping Solar Eruptions in Stunning Detail
NASA’s PUNCH spacecraft has released its first breathtaking images of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), massive solar eruptions that can disrupt space infrastructure and Earth’s communications. These images, captured between May and June 2025,…
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NASA’s Roman to Peer Into Cosmic ‘Lenses’ to Better Define Dark Matter
A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it — will soon become common when NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins science operations in 2027…
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Trump Plan to Kill Dozens of NASA Missions Threatens US Space Supremacy – Bloomberg
- Trump Plan to Kill Dozens of NASA Missions Threatens US Space Supremacy Bloomberg
- The NASA science missions that would be axed in Trump’s 2026 budget The Washington Post
- Trump-Musk row fuels ‘biggest crisis ever’ at Nasa BBC
- Commentary: Trump’s…
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