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Over the past eight years, a modified Boeing 747 jetliner has flown hundreds of flights on a unique mission: carrying a 19-ton, 2.5-meter telescope known as Sofia, or the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. Flying a telescope on a jumbo jet offered a way to peer into the heavens at wavelengths that could not be glimpsed from the ground—but the ticket was expensive. So yesterday, NASA and the German space agency grounded the mission. Its final flight landed early Thursday morning at NASA’s Armstrong Flight…

Assessing damage of the 11th century frescoes in St Sophia's Cathedral Kyiv. Credit: Marina Fomina/ National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Researchers from the Natural History in London have collaborated with researchers from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine to establish the cause of damage to the world-famous medieval murals in Kyiv's Saint Sophia Cathedral—one of Ukraine's most important cultural sites.…

NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with the smaller body of the Didymos binary asteroid system on September 26, 2022. This artist’s animation illustrates the impact. ESA’s Hera mission will survey ‘Didymoon’ post-impact and assess how its orbit has been changed by the collision, to turn this one-off experiment into a workable planetary defense technique. Credit: ESA–ScienceOffice.orgAfter 10 months of flying through space, <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div…

An audacious planetary defense mission reached a historic crescendo today, with a NASA probe spectacularly crashing into the asteroid Dimorphos, obliterating itself in the process. The world-first attempt to bounce an asteroid off course has been hailed an initial success, and is considered an important practice run for how we might deflect a hazardous asteroid in the future.The DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission is an attempt to alter the orbit of Dimorphos around its larger sibling, Didymos, both part of a…

A cab is lowered on the frame of a battery-powered F-150 Lightning truck at Ford's Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan. Construction crews are back at Dearborn, remaking Ford's century-old industrial complex once again, this time for a post-petroleum era that is finally beginning to feel possible.…

Over the past decade, China has successfully built a strong foundation that can support an evolving AI foundation. The country’s AI initiatives have enabled its scientists to contribute abundantly to artificial intelligence research and development. According to certain reports, China has emerged as the top country on a global scale that possesses world-class AI vibrancy. Currently, AI adoption is soaring in China as the government is deploying the technology for various security, privacy, and monitoring purposes.…

Don't panic that you might miss out on tonight's potentially legendary match-up between the Yankees and Red Sox just because it's on Apple TV+ — there's a good chance you can tune in for free. Apple is streaming the game at no charge as part of its weekly Friday Night Baseball feature, with coverage starting at 6:25PM Eastern and the action starting in earnest at 7PM. It'll require a little bit of work and a compatible device, but you too can see if Aaron Judge will break Roger Maris' American League home run record.…

It’s been a little while since we last heard from Stormzy. We’ve had features for Knucks, Ghetts, Dave, Headie One, and a few others, but the last time we got a solo tune was when he went head-to-head with Wiley in 2020. Still, he’s back now, and he returns in the grandest possible way. Late last night, he dropped “Mel Made Me Do It”—Mel being Mel’s Wardrobe, Stormzy’s personal stylist—a near 11-minute epic, and with it a mammoth, star-studded music video.The list of stars involved is almost too big to mention, but we’ll…

Adobe is paying 2021 prices. It's 2022.Wall Street hates it. Silicon Valley is thrilled.related investing newsNeedham says buy Snowflake as potential new uses for its platform can boost the stock by 20%In a year that's featured exactly zero high-profile tech IPOs and far more headlines about mass layoffs than big funding rounds, Adobe's $20 billion acquisition of Figma on Thursday is what some might call a narrative violation. There was no other bidder out there driving up the price, according to a person familiar with…

Commemorating a historic event for human spaceflight …“We choose to go to the Moon …”An update on plans for Artemis I …And what NASA’s Perseverance rover is up to on <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Mars</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Mars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. It is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Iron oxide is prevalent in…