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NASA is asking six companies to help the agency move spacecraft between difficult-to-reach orbits. The agency recently awarded a total of $1.4 million to the group, which includes companies like Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance and Rocket Lab. The goal is to eventually send various sizes and types of spacecraft to a variety of destinations in the final frontier, using …

Appeals court clears way for deep cuts, restructuring at CFPB  Politico CFPB staff layoffs can proceed, appeals court rules  NPR Trump Administration Gets Major Court Win  Newsweek CFPB cuts can resume, divided appeals court rules  CNN Federal appeals court allows CFPB dismantling to proceed  Axios Source link

A powerful new radar system designed to detect and track objects in distant orbits above Earth has passed a key initial test. The “Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability,” or DARC, is a multi-site radar system being developed by the U.S. Space Force and its counterparts in the United Kingdom and Australia. Once complete, the system will consist of three separate …

Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya believes the early minutes will tell the story of the UFC 319 headliner. UFC middleweight titleholder Dricus du Plessis and Khamzat Chimaev headline a stacked card this Saturday at UFC 319. In what arguably is the toughest on-paper title defense of his reign, Du Plessis will look to hand the undefeated Chimaev his first …

Lamar Jackson was in mid-season form during Wednesday’s practice. The two-time MVP was dialed in through the air during the Ravens’ final padded practice of the week, consistently finding his receivers for chunk plays across the field and deep touchdowns down the field. Jackson kicked off the first live period of the day with a rocket to Rashod Bateman on …

With Deep N.I.H. Cuts, Research Into Health Disparities Falters  The New York Times Why DOGE Halted Vital Black Maternal Health Study by Black Professor  The Root Black Maternal Health Study Halted After Federal Grant Termination  Black Enterprise Source link

Deep-learning-guided identification of archaeasins We collected 18,677 non-redundant reviewed protein sequences from 233 archaeal organisms available on UniProt10 and used APEX 1.1, a deep learning antimicrobial activity predictor6 retrained on updated data (‘APEX 1.1’ in Methods), to mine EPs within archaeal proteomes. As APEX predicted bacterial-strain-specific minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs), we used the mean MIC to represent the overall antimicrobial …

For more than 20 years, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express orbiter has been imaging the surface of the Red Planet. One region, in particular, continues to fascinate the Mars Express team, known as Acheron Fossae. A new high-resolution photo examines the western edge of this region, giving us a closer look at the fascinating topography found here. Acheron …

QUICK FACTS Name: Headless chicken monster (Enypniastes eximia) Where it lives: The depths of the world’s oceans What it eats: Marine snow (organic matter that floats from the surface down to the seabed) If you happened upon this bizarre creature in the ocean, you could be forgiven for thinking someone had flung a chicken carcass into the sea and it …

The large-scale deposits of salt around the Dead Sea, known as salt giants, are built up as the lake’s highly saline water evaporates, and a new study of their formation has revealed some of the secrets of these mounds of halite. That’s exciting for geologists, because salt giants can be found in several other places, including under the Mediterranean Sea. …