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Why NASA and Boeing Are Being So Careful to Bring the Starliner Astronauts Home

✇NYT: Science
By: Kenneth Chang
28 June 2024 at 18:41
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will spend additional weeks in orbit as teams on the ground study malfunctioning thrusters on the Starliner spacecraft.

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The Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station, orbiting 262 miles above Egypt’s Mediterranean coast on June 13.

‘Biden can’t do it’: European politicians shocked by US president’s debate flop

✇The Guardian
By: Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
28 June 2024 at 13:02

Some call for rethink by Democrats and say continent must step up preparations for another Trump term

European politicians, already drowning in multiple crises of their own, were left shell-shocked and aghast at Joe Biden’s meandering performance in Thursday’s presidential debate, aware that a second Trump term had drawn that much nearer – with all that this implies for the rise of populism in the continent, the future of Nato, and for Ukraine and the Middle East.

The voices of despair came from across the mainstream political spectrum, interspersed with the odd call for Europe to prepare even more intensively for a Trump second coming.

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SCOTUS nixes injunction that limited Biden admin contacts with social networks

✇Ars Technica
By: Ashley Belanger
26 June 2024 at 14:38
SCOTUS nixes injunction that limited Biden admin contacts with social networks

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court tossed out claims that the Biden administration coerced social media platforms into censoring users by removing COVID-19 and election-related content.

Complaints alleging that high-ranking government officials were censoring conservatives had previously convinced a lower court to order an injunction limiting the Biden administration's contacts with platforms. But now that injunction has been overturned, re-opening lines of communication just ahead of the 2024 elections—when officials will once again be closely monitoring the spread of misinformation online targeted at voters.

In a 6–3 vote, the majority ruled that none of the plaintiffs suing—including five social media users and Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri—had standing. They had alleged that the government had "pressured the platforms to censor their speech in violation of the First Amendment," demanding an injunction to stop any future censorship.

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He Monitors Solar Flares. Here’s What Keeps Him Up at Night.

✇NYT: Science
By: Katrina Miller
25 June 2024 at 15:38
Mike Bettwy, a government meteorologist who focuses on potential threats from space weather, says that we are more prepared than ever — and that forecasting is only getting better.

© Rachel Woolf for The New York Times

Mike Bettwy, the operations chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center. “The sun is definitely entering its more active phase,” he said.

China Becomes First Country to Retrieve Rocks From Moon’s Far Side With Chang’e-6

✇NYT: Science
By: Katrina Miller
25 June 2024 at 13:32
The Chang’e-6 mission’s sample, which might hold clues about the origins of the moon and Earth, is the latest achievement of China’s lunar exploration program.

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Officials prepared to recover the landing module of the Chang’e-6 moon probe after it landed in Inner Mongolia, in northern China, on Tuesday.

NASA Cancels Spacewalk Over Spacesuit Water Leak

✇NYT: Science
By: Kenneth Chang
24 June 2024 at 14:37
It was the second scheduled spacewalk by NASA astronauts aboard the space station that faced an interruption this month.

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Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is pictured during a spacesuit fit check before a spacewalk in last month.

Biden Administration Bans Kaspersky Antivirus Software – Source: www.databreachtoday.com

✇CISO2CISO.COM & CYBER SECURITY GROUP
By: CISO2CISO Editor 2
21 June 2024 at 08:00

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Voyager 1, After Major Malfunction, Is Back From the Brink, NASA Says

✇NYT: Science
By: Orlando Mayorquín
15 June 2024 at 15:36
The farthest man-made object in space had been feared lost forever after a computer problem in November effectively rendered the 46-year-old probe useless.

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An illustration depicting the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

Law Enforcement Unit Formed to Crack Down on Illegal E-Cigarettes

✇NYT: Science
By: Christina Jewett
10 June 2024 at 13:26
Agents from various federal agencies will focus on unauthorized candy-flavored and nicotine-laden vapes that have flooded the U.S. market from overseas.

© Mike Blake/Reuters

Disposable e-cigarette vape products on a California store shelf bearing flavors like “peach berry,” “pineapple strawberry” and “triple berry ice.”

William A. Anders, 90, Dies; Flew on First Manned Orbit of the Moon

✇NYT: Science
By: Richard Goldstein
8 June 2024 at 17:42
During the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, his color photograph of an emerging Earth, known as “Earthrise,” became an icon and driving force for the environmental movement.

© William A. Anders/NASA

William A. Anders said of his journey around the moon: “Here we came all the way to the moon to discover Earth.”

Boeing’s Starliner Overcomes Malfunctioning Thrusters to Dock at Space Station

✇NYT: Science
By: Kenneth Chang
6 June 2024 at 16:00
Two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, opened the hatch of the spacecraft and boarded the outpost in orbit.

© NASA Johnson

The Boeing Starliner capsule en route to docking with the International Space Station on Thursday.

New Covid Vaccine Endorsed for Fall

✇NYT: Science
By: Noah Weiland and Christina Jewett
5 June 2024 at 16:21
The panel endorsed targeting a variant of the coronavirus that is now receding, though some officials suggested aiming at newer versions of the virus that have emerged in recent weeks.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Studies have shown that protection against serious illness from Covid-19 tends to improve as the vaccines more precisely target dominant strains, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

Boeing Starliner Carries NASA Astronauts to Orbit in ‘Milestone’ Flight

✇NYT: Science
By: Kenneth Chang
5 June 2024 at 15:47
The launch marks a long-delayed win for the aerospace giant, and the next step in NASA’s reliance on the private sector for its human spaceflight program.

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The Starliner lifting off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, Boeing’s first mission with astronauts aboard, who would take about a day to reach the International Space Station.

The Long, Difficult Road of Boeing’s Starliner Capsule

✇NYT: Science
By: Kenneth Chang
5 June 2024 at 13:44
Here’s a timeline of the setbacks that proceeded the spacecraft’s first trip to orbit with astronauts on board.

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Space Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

FDA Panel Rejects Use of MDMA for Treatment of PTSD

✇NYT: Science
By: Andrew Jacobs
4 June 2024 at 17:54
An independent group of experts expressed concerns that the data from clinical trials did not outweigh risks for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

© Travis Dove for The New York Times

A dose of MDMA from the MAPS Public Benefit Corp., which is now renamed as Lykos Therapeutics, a for-profit company whose studies the F.D.A. is analyzing.

What Is MDMA Therapy for PTSD? And What Are Its Risks?

✇NYT: Science
By: Andrew Jacobs
5 June 2024 at 11:40
An F.D.A. advisory panel dealt a setback to those seeking treatment for PTSD, citing health risks of the illegal drug and study flaws.

© Kenzo Tribouillard/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Developed in 1912, MDMA was reclassified in 1985 as a Schedule I substance, a drug defined as having no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

Meet Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA Astronauts Riding on Boeing’s Starliner

✇NYT: Science
By: Kenneth Chang
2 June 2024 at 10:32

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The astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on their way to the Starliner spacecraft on May 6, before the launch was called off.

FDA Reviews MDMA Therapy for PTSD, Citing Health Risks and Study Flaws

✇NYT: Science
By: Andrew Jacobs and Christina Jewett
1 June 2024 at 19:12
The agency’s staff analysis suggests that approval of the illegal drug known as Ecstasy for treatment of PTSD is far from certain, with advisers meeting next week to consider the proposed therapy.

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A seizure of the drug MDMA, known as Ecstasy or molly. It and other psychoactive drugs are still classified as illegal drugs with a potential for abuse.

NASA Astronauts to Wait Another Week for Boeing Starliner Launch

✇NYT: Science
By: Kenneth Chang
24 May 2024 at 14:56
Officials from NASA and Boeing say they have worked out a solution to a helium leak that has kept the Starliner astronaut capsule grounded.

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The astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on their way to the Starliner spacecraft on May 6, before the launch was called off.

A Second Dairy Worker Has Contracted Bird Flu, C.D.C. Reports

✇NYT: Science
By: Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes
22 May 2024 at 22:46
The new case, in a Michigan farmworker, did not suggest that bird flu was widespread in people, health officials said, adding that the risk to the general public remained low.

© Jackie Katz Cynthia Goldsmith/CDC, via Associated Press

An electron microscope image of an avian flu virion.

Setback Deals Blow to Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Patient, but He Stays Upbeat

✇NYT: Science
By: Christina Jewett
22 May 2024 at 11:57
Elon Musk’s first human experiment with a computerized brain device developed significant flaws, but the subject, who is paralyzed, has few regrets.

© Rebecca Noble for The New York Times

Dr. Paul Parkman, Who Helped to Eliminate Rubella, Dies at 91

✇NYT: Science
By: Sam Roberts
21 May 2024 at 22:13
He also identified the virus, which can cause infants to be born with severe physical and mental impairments as well as causing miscarriages and stillbirths.

© National Institutes of Health

Dr. Paul D. Parkman, right, and Dr. Harry M. Meyer Jr. inspecting a culture of the rubella virus in 1967. Working with a team of researchers, they created a vaccine for the disease.

FDA Approves Amgen Drug for Persistently Deadly Form of Lung Cancer

✇NYT: Science
By: Gina Kolata
16 May 2024 at 16:59
The treatment is for patients with small cell lung cancer, which afflicts about 35,000 people in the U.S. a year.

© Joe Buglewicz for The New York Times

Martha Warren, 65, of Westerly, R.I., found out last year that she had small cell lung cancer, and joined the tarlatamab clinical trial. She said she now feels as good as before her diagnosis.

Heat Stress Is Hitting Caribbean Reefs Earlier Than Ever This Year

✇NYT: Science
By: Catrin Einhorn
16 May 2024 at 16:27
Scientists in the United States are reporting “unprecedented patterns” of surface warming, an ominous sign for coral.

© Jorge Silva/Reuters

Bleached corals off Brazil this week. The world is currently experiencing a global coral bleaching event, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Overdose Deaths Dropped in U.S. in 2023 for First Time in Five Years

✇NYT: Science
By: Jan Hoffman
15 May 2024 at 11:40
Preliminary numbers show a nearly 4 percent decrease in deaths from opioids, largely fentanyl, but a rise in deaths from meth and cocaine.

© Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Empty cartridges of Kloxxado, a naloxone nasal spray that is twice as concentrated as Narcan, lay on the street after being used to revive a man in Portland, Ore., last year.

Alarmed by Climate Change, Astronomers Train Their Sights on Earth

✇NYT: Science
By: Katrina Miller and Delger Erdenesanaa
14 May 2024 at 03:00
A growing number of researchers in the field are using their expertise to fight the climate crisis.

© David Maurice Smith for The New York Times

Penny Sackett, former director of the Australian National University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory, just outside Canberra, in the remains of the observatory, which was destroyed in a 2003 wildfire.

How to View the Northern Lights on Sunday Night

✇NYT: Science
By: Amanda Holpuch
12 May 2024 at 12:57
The best weather conditions for viewing the colorful light display will be in much of the West while New England was “a question mark,” a forecaster said.

© Blake Benard/Getty Images

A geomagnetic storm lit up the night sky above the Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah, on Friday.

U.S. Investigating Tesla Recall of Autopilot

✇NYT: Technology
By: J. Edward Moreno
26 April 2024 at 16:03
The National Highway Safety Administration also released an analysis of crashes involving the system that showed at least 29 fatal accidents over five and a half years.

© Hannah Yoon for The New York Times

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating Tesla’s recall of its Autopilot system.
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