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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

How hard is it to prevent recurring...

Researchers at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) have shown that using decision-making software and dynamic monitoring of weather and energy use can significantly improve resiliency in the face of weather-related outages, and can also help to efficiently integrate renewable energy sources into the grid. The researchers point out that the system they suggest might have prevented or at least lessened the kind of widespread power outage that Puerto Rico experienced last week by providing analysis to……

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30 years after discovery of remains, DNA...

WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer’s property, a renewed quest is playing out in laboratories to solve a long-running mystery: Who were they? A new team working to identify the unknown dead says the key to their success will be getting relatives of men who vanished between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s to provide samples of their own DNA. Those samples can then be…

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Two aging Crystal City buildings first in...

Developer JBG Smith will redevelop two Crystal City buildings as apartments and a hotel under Arlington County, Virginia’s new building conversions incentives program. JBG Smith is the largest landlord in Crystal City and the broader National Landing area, with two dozen buildings, including new construction and several aging buildings that are in need of redevelopment. Flagged for conversion are 2100 Crystal Drive, an 11-story, 250,000 square-foot building constructed in 1968 and most recently leased by Amazon for temporary offices…

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Coby White stars as Bulls rally past...

CHICAGO (AP) — Coby White made a go-ahead layup with 47 seconds left, and the Chicago Bulls topped Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs 114-110 on Monday night. Zach LaVine had 35 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists for Chicago, which trailed by 19 before rallying in the fourth quarter. Nikola Vucevic had 24 points and 11 boards, and White finished with 23 points. After White’s layup gave the Bulls their first lead at 111-110, Devin Vassell threw…

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Florida’s Manatees Are Relative Newcomers, According to...

This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Manatees, long considered among Florida’s most beloved and enchanting inhabitants, are not native at all, and only came to the Sunshine State for warm temperatures and clear blue waters like any other visitor, researchers have found. The surprise revelation by scientists at the University of South Florida (USF) and George Washington University (GWU) upends decades of thinking about the origins of……

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Loren Graham, professor emeritus of the history...

Loren R. Graham, professor emeritus of the history of science who served on the MIT faculty for nearly three decades, died on Dec. 15, 2024, at the age of 91. Graham received a BS in chemical engineering from Purdue University in 1955, the same year his classmate, acquaintance, and future NASA astronaut and moon walker Neil Armstrong graduated with a BS in aeronautical engineering. Graham went on to earn a PhD in history in 1964 from Columbia University, where……

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Why Pennsylvania Rings in the New Year...

This article is adapted from the January 4, 2025, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, a crowd gathered on the streets of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, craning their necks to catch a glimpse of the evening’s main attraction dangling above. Anyone expecting a glittering ball drop would’ve been in for a surprise. Dropping shiny orbs to mark the last 10 seconds of the year is so, well, last……

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Golden Globes Fashion: Ariana Grande eschews Glinda...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Fasten your seatbelts, fashion fans! With some of Hollywood’s most fashion-forward stars up for awards this year, it’s going to be an eventful season. And the Golden Globes gets it all started, with stars (and their stylists) marking their territory at one of Hollywood’s splashiest events. Big this year: lots of sparkle and shine. Here are some of the looks catching attention Sunday at the Golden Globes: Ariana Grande: From Glinda pink to Hepburn…

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The Latest: The Golden Globes kick off...

Hollywood is getting dressed up as the Golden Globes return for their annual champagne-soaked celebration of film and television workers at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. The show serves as the ceremonial start to the 2025 awards season. The audacious musical “Emilia Pérez” leads all nominees with 10. Other nominees include “The Bear,”“Shōgun,”“Wicked” and “Challengers.” Comedian Nikki Glaser is emceeing the ceremony. Here’s the latest: LIMITED SERIES, ANTHOLOGY SERIES, OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION: ‘Baby Reindeer’…

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Demi Moore, Sebastian Stan win at Golden...

The 82nd Golden Globes, which host Nikki Glaser introduced as “Ozempic’s biggest night,” dished out awards Sunday for Demi Moore in the body horror film “The Substance,” Sebastian Stan in “A Different Man” and for the genre-shifting trans musical “Emilia Pérez.” In a ceremony that offered few surprises early, one shocker was Moore’s win for best actress in a comedy or musical. Her comeback performance in “The Substance,” about a Hollywood star who resorts to an experimental process to…

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Border shelters relieved the pressure during migrant...

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — When Roselins Sequera’s family of seven finally reached the U.S. from Venezuela, they spent weeks at a migrant shelter on the Texas border that gave them a place to sleep, meals and tips for finding work. “We had a plan to go to Iowa” to join friends, said Sequera, who arrived at the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in October. “But we didn’t know how.” Dozens of shelters run by aid groups on…

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Border shelters relieved the pressure during migrant...

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — When Roselins Sequera’s family of seven finally reached the U.S. from Venezuela, they spent weeks at a migrant shelter on the Texas border that gave them a place to sleep, meals and tips for finding work. “We had a plan to go to Iowa” to join friends, said Sequera, who arrived at the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in October. “But we didn’t know how.” Dozens of shelters run by aid groups on…

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Flick ‘not happy’ but confident as Barcelona...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Coach Hansi Flick was “not happy” but expressed confidence in Barcelona on Friday as the club continued to try to register playmaker Dani Olmo for the rest of the season despite missing an end-of-the-year deadline to clear salary-cap space. Flick said in a news conference ahead of the team’s Copa del Rey match against fourth-division club Barbastro on Saturday that the situation wasn’t ideal but he felt Barcelona was doing everything possible to solve the…

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At MIT, Clare Grey stresses battery development...

“How do we produce batteries at the cost that is suitable for mass adoption globally, and how do you do this to electrify the planet?” Clare Grey asked an audience of over 450 combined in-person and virtual attendees at the sixth annual Dresselhaus Lecture, organized by MIT.nano on Nov. 18. “The biggest challenge is, how do you make batteries to allow more renewables on the grid.” These questions emphasized one of Grey’s key messages in her presentation: The future……

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Coming Home: Our Favorite Reads

As weary winter travelers make their way back from holiday destinations, or put the decorations away and prepare their spaces for the year ahead, we reflect on stories of homecoming. From Antarctic researchers racing the clock to Indigenous peoples and ponies reuniting, these stories are about coming home — or what makes home homey in the first place. The Great Antarctic Escape By Robin George Andrews When borders began to close during the early stages of the pandemic, three-dozen……

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