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Final tests of NASA’s laser beam communication technology offer a promising new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space, including future missions to Mars. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, a technology demonstration carried aboard the Psyche mission, has completed its 65th and final test, successfully exchanging laser signals across 218 million miles …

For the first time, scientists have observed the wild hybrid offspring of a blue jay and a green jay during a study near San Antonio, Texas. The hybrid bird is the product of two species whose habitat ranges began to overlap a few decades ago, according to a study published Sept. 10 in the journal Ecology and Evolution. “We think …

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, as the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships to minority students works to raise $1 billion to strengthen all 37 of its historically Black colleges and universities. The gift is one of Scott’s largest single donations ever and among the first to be publicly disclosed in 2025. Famously private, …

Students walk past Royce Hall at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2024. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption toggle caption Damian Dovarganes/AP LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San …

A federal judge Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in UCLA medical research grants, halting for now a nearly two-month funding crisis that UC leaders said threatened the future of the nation’s premier public university system. The opinion by U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California added hundreds of UCLA’s National Institutes …

Cannabis use may secretly quadruple your risk of diabetes. Credit: Shutterstock Cannabis use may come with an unexpected cost: a nearly fourfold rise in diabetes risk. The finding, drawn from millions of health records, challenges assumptions about the drug’s effects and underscores the need for closer medical monitoring. Cannabis Use and Diabetes Risk Cannabis use has been associated with nearly …

NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, as the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships to minority students works to raise $1 billion to strengthen all 37 of its historically Black colleges and universities. The gift is one of Scott’s largest single donations ever and among the first to be publicly disclosed …

Love And Mental Health: Study Of 6 Million Couples Shows Partners Often Share Psychological Disorders  Study Finds Study shows spousal correlation for psychiatric disorders  Taipei Times New research explains why we are more like our spouses than we think.  Psychology Today Research: Mental Disorders Affect Partner Choice and Risk to Children  112.ua Source link

Topline Turning Point USA raised nearly $400 million under Charlie Kirk, with support from billionaires and secretive donor-advised funds—but its largest direct backer is a little-known Texas foundation that gave $13.1 million, and has not been reported until now. Charlie Kirk speaking on stage at America Fest 2024 in Phoenix. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP …

Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) Dear Pay Dirt, I need a sanity check on what I owe to my sister.  We are both in our late 30s.  She and I grew up comfortably middle class, but not rich.  Our parents divorced due to our mother’s affair.  …