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10 (Sad!) Reminders of Trump’s Bad Social Media Behaviour
Meta is lifting former President Donald Trump’s two-year ban on Facebook and Instagram following controversial posts after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden and in response to his posts that lead up to the January 6 insurrection.
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Engineers Are Racing to Salvage a Cubesat That Launched With NASA’s Moon Mission
A mission to measure lunar water-ice on the Moon is in jeopardy after the cubesat failed to fire its engines shortly after launch. Time is now running out, as the team has until mid-January to fix the spacecraft’s thrusters and give it a second chance to enter lunar orbit.
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Follow Along With NASA’s First Deep Space Biology Experiment
BioSentinel, a first-of-its-kind experiment from NASA, is carrying living organisms over 1.6 million kilometres into deep space to test the long-term effects of cosmic radiation on living things — in this case, yeast. NASA has unveiled a new real-time visualisation tool so the public can follow along with BioSentinel’s progress.
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10 Years Ago, Superstorm Sandy Shut Down the Largest City in the U.S.
Just before Halloween in 2012, Hurricane Sandy climbed up the East Coast and pummelled New York City and the Jersey shore. The storm’s destruction shut off power for millions, knocked out parts of the subway system, and inundated coastal communities with a 14-foot storm surge.