NASA budgeted 200 kilograms of fuel for Roman’s first course correction, but the telescope used only 18. Combined with extra fuel loaded before launch and further expected savings, that could stretch its 10-year fuel plan to at least 22 years.

NASA budgeted 200 kilograms of fuel for Roman’s first course correction, but the telescope used only 18. Combined with extra fuel loaded before launch and further expected savings, that could stretch its 10-year fuel plan to at least 22 years.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope began its journey to the Sun-Earth L2 region with a propellant budget built around uncertainty. The first major test of that reserve has yielded a much better result than the conservative plan. Roman’s team had allocated 441 pounds, or 200 kilograms, of fuel for the first midcourse correction. The … Read more

‘Babies are dying’: How Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak changed the vaccine mindset of this Amish country midwife

‘Babies are dying’: How Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak changed the vaccine mindset of this Amish country midwife

LANCASTER — Amish families peer into Roberta Devers’ Honda Passport as she drives between prenatal checkups along the rolling hills of Lancaster County. They ask her increasingly frequent questions about the vaccine: Do you have some measles in your car? Devers, 63, works as a traditional midwife in communities at the epicenter of Pennsylvania’s largest … Read more

Russia Barred Their Party, but These Antiwar Voices Are Still Standing

Russia Barred Their Party, but These Antiwar Voices Are Still Standing

They have almost no chance of winning. His party, Yabloko, was formally eliminated from the national vote in this weekend’s election. His party colleagues have been sentenced to years in prison for their pacifist positions. None of that stops them. The fact that Yabloko, Russia’s oldest liberal opposition party, is fielding 98 candidates in 42 … Read more

DOJ charges 16 people in noncitizen voting and election fraud cases

DOJ charges 16 people in noncitizen voting and election fraud cases

Mullin details voter fraud investigation and border protection after Texas arrests DHS secretary. Markwayne Mullin joins ‘Saturday in America’ to highlight updates on border enforcement and criticize the Biden administration’s border policies after 16 consecutive months of zero releases under current enforcement. Reiterates that DHS and ICE remain committed to focusing on high-risk individuals to … Read more

Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

Meta’s Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but it’s a little scary. Part of this is due to its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all her intelligence, Muse doesn’t really know how to describe herself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, posted on Threads screenshots … Read more

iOS 27 makes your iPhone faster in these 30+ ways

iOS 27 makes your iPhone faster in these 30+ ways

iOS 27 is now available to everyone and one of the big changes is that it makes your iPhone much faster. In fact, Apple has outlined more than 30 ways your iPhone will be faster after the update. How iOS 27 Makes Your iPhone Faster When Apple announced iOS 27 in June, the company emphasized … Read more

During the Solar System’s first million years, its earliest outer worlds formed from material that was up to 92 percent heat-forged rock, while gas flowing through the young system filtered out much of the surrounding ice-rich dust.

During the Solar System’s first million years, its earliest outer worlds formed from material that was up to 92 percent heat-forged rock, while gas flowing through the young system filtered out much of the surrounding ice-rich dust.

Los primeros mundos sólidos ensamblados en el Sistema Solar exterior no se limitaron a recopilar una primicia representativa de todo lo que les rodeaba. Un nuevo análisis de meteoritos de hierro carbonoso indica que sus planetesimales originales contenían sólo entre un 8 y un 17 por ciento de una matriz fina y rica en volátiles. … Read more