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Webb Space Telescope Deploys Its All-Important Sunshield
NASA, after a slight technical delay, has now tightened all five layers of the Webb Telescope’s protective sunshield.
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Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty of So Many Crimes
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of blood testing startup Theranos, will go down in history as the female entrepreneur who took Silicon Valley by storm, leaving financial disaster in her wake. On Monday, a California jury added another line to biography: a company executive guilty of so many crimes.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Learned What ‘Permanently Suspended’ Means on Twitter Today, Kind of
Twitter on Sunday banned the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia and frequent peddler of misinformation, after she tweeted about “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.” Greene’s statement was false, and it was her last strike on the platform, literally.
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Hunting Galaxies Far Far Away – Here’s How Anyone Can Explore The Universe
By far my favourite thing about my job as an astronomer is those rare moments when I get to see beautiful distant galaxies, whose light left them millions to billions of years ago. It’s a combination of pure awe and scientific curiosity that excites me about “galaxy hunting”. In astronomy today, much of our work…