NASA teams all polled “go” for an Artemis II launch in early April
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New data adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits. Gift link:
Via @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social
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NASA smashed a spacecraft into one of a pair of asteroids. the impact shifted the pair’s orbit around the sun:
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This feels like prologue. They cut the reseach about keeping crowds safe www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/s...
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My first book, Entangled States, will be published in exactly three months. Please ask me about it! I will come on your podcast or write for your mag about quantum physics and how it intersects with my life anytime!
Jesse Jackson, Charismatic Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
News from the edge of the visible universe:
JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time.
(MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭
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People often disparage the press — and we often get it wrong — but almost everything you know about this administration is not because pundits go on tv or social media and pontificate but because of relentless reporting from real journalists at institutions that give them resources to do so.
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
THE TIMES IS UNION-MADE: Today we began bargaining our new contract, and in our first session, we not only told management we were united, we showed them. Our bargaining committee presented a pledge signed by 80% of our union, supporting five core priorities…..
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Wowzer! This is a mind-blowing discovery (and completely awesome science writing).
Hats off to
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social
in 2026, there will be journeys to the moon & Mars, new visions of the cosmos & a solar eclipse that might be worth traveling for.
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'm wrapping up 2025 by sharing my favorite story I wrote each month of the past year!🧵
🛌 January: I traveled to a freezing warehouse in Baltimore to see how mattresses get recycled!
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on the longest night of the year, residents of the world’s first dark sky city have even more time to spend under the milky way & hundreds of stars, visible even from downtown 🌌
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Concept art by Lou Romano for The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005), created by Craig McCracken, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
revisiting this piece i wrote a year ago on the difficulties of pursuing medical & scientific careers in gaza & the west bank:
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an insider essay on dark skies & reconnecting with a sense of cosmic wonder:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/i...
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
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a place called the badlands? i’m sold!
have you ever been somewhere so dark you could step outside & immediately spot the Milky Way? i traveled to the Upper Peninsula to learn about efforts to balance industrialization & economic growth with the preservation of starry skies:
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my roman empire!
