Month: January 2022

SAN FRANCISCO – NASA continues to face difficulties in sending some of its payloads to orbit as hosted payloads on commercial satellites. The space agency is looking for a geostationary commercial satellite to house the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory or GeoCARB, an instrument to measure carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane over North and South
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The OnePlus 9RT is the latest and most likely the last smartphone we’ll see in the company’s 9 series, and if you’re not all that excited about it, we don’t blame you. The ‘T’ refreshes of OnePlus phones usually bring minor improvements to design and performance. The OnePlus 7T (Review) was an exception, but the 9RT is
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A quantum probe for gravity: Physicists have detected a tiny phase shift in atomic wave packets due to gravity-induced relativistic time dilation – an example of the Aharonov-Bohm effect in action. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Evgenia Fux) The idea that particles can feel the influence of potentials even without being exposed to a force field may seem counterintuitive,
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For years, many student loan borrowers have suffered under the weight of excessive debt. Some 66,000 borrowers finally got relief when the recent Navient settlement erased their balances. (Here’s how to know if you’re one of them.) Millions more may never experience that kind of debt cancellation. Although federal student loan borrowers have the option
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The FTC opposes the merger due to antitrust concerns WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin’s proposed $4.4 billion acquisition of rocket engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne is likely to be blocked by the Federal Trade Commission, Aerojet said in a news release Jan. 25.  Lockheed Martin in December 2020 announced its intent to acquire Aerojet but the acquisition
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) delivers remarks about U.S. President Joe Biden’s first year in office on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 20, 2022. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters House Republican leaders have privately discussed ways they can campaign during midterm congressional elections on the issue of limiting lawmakers’ stock trading, an attempt to seize
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. For his fall 1989 “Buick” collection, Manfred Thierry Mugler turned women into race cars. Clad in souped-up supermodel silhouettes that resembled high-design 1950’s automobiles, his models strutted around in their hubcap bra cups and fender peplums. They shared the hard-edged mien
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