A few years ago, I found myself a bit tipsy at the National Book Award ceremony. It was my first—and so far, only—time there. The experience felt grand; it was a red-carpeted “benefit dinner” on Wall Street. People wore tuxedos and gowns. I couldn’t look around the room without seeing a writer I admired: Dorothy
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The Missile Defense Agency and the Space Development Agency approved separate L3Harris satellite designs WASHINGTON — A missile-tracking satellite developed by L3Harris for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency passed a critical design review, the company announced Dec. 20. The satellite is for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program. The Missile Defense Agency
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is scheduled to launch on 24 December. To mark the event, Physics World is publishing a series of blog posts on the telescope’s technological innovations and scientific missions. This post is the fourth in the series. Read the first here. Extra cold: Engineers installing MIRI onto the JWST at
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Vehicles queue up at the entrance of Port of Dover, ahead of travel restrictions between France and Britain, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Dover, Britain December 17, 2021. Henry Nicholls | Reuters Tighter restrictions are being considered around the world as spiraling cases of the omicron Covid-19 variant loom over the festive holiday
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Holdovers Drive My Car, Red Rocket and The Scary Of Sixty First looked good in limited runs on a weekend with few new specialty releases and even fewer numbers. Streamers – which presented The Lost Daughter (Netflix), Swan Song (Apple) and The Tender Bar (Amazon), don’t reveal them and smaller distributors often report early in
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