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Rocket Lab is scheduled to launch another Strix satellite for Japanese company Synspective’s imaging constellation, in orbit above the island nation. An Electron rocket will lift off from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex-1 (LC-1) in New Zealand today (June 26), during…
Anticrepuscular Rays over Sicily
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How many star projectors do you need? I still don’t have an answer. It started with a blue, Northern-Lights style projector, then one capable of projecting actual stars, albeit not in the right color. Now I’m eyeing up these Prime…
Public debt is higher today and growing at a faster rate than before the pandemic in 80% of the world’s economies. According to the latest fiscal report from the International Monetary Fund, global public debt could rise to 100% of…
Training in computational thinking can improve a student’s ability to tackle complex problems, according to research in the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, which examined both students’ perceptions of their own skills and their demonstrated performance. The findings come…
It’s no secret that U.S. housing has gotten less affordable. From 2019 to 2025, average home prices rose 60%, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Research by Penn sociologist Pilar Gonalons-Pons and others has shown that after a man and a woman have a child, the couple’s relative share of paid and unpaid labor tends to change dramatically, with the father specializing in paid work…
Loneliness among young adults has reached what the U.S. surgeon general has called an “epidemic,” with recent estimates suggesting that roughly half of U.S. adults report feeling lonely, and rates are particularly high among people ages 18–29. A new study…
What do wooden casks tell us about trade and everyday life between 1300 and 1800? Ph.D. candidate Jeroen Oosterbaan studied the life cycle of this shipping container and has shown how these everyday objects played a key role in the…