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NASA’s Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Timehttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-sees-asteroids-colliding-at-nearby-star-for-first-time/Like a game of cosmic bumper cars, scientists think the early days of our solar system were a time of violent turmoil, with planetesimals, asteroids, and comets smashing together and pelting the Earth, Moon, and the other inner planets with debris. Now, in a historical milestone, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has directly imaged similar catastrophic […]Dec 18, 2025 7:00 PM
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Thorium 229 nuclei driven by laser in opaque solid moves optical nuclear clock research forwardhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Thorium_229_nuclei_driven_by_laser_in_opaque_solid_moves_optical_nuclear_clock_research_forward_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 A team from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has for the first time excited the atomic nucleus of the isotope thorium 229 with laser light while the atoms are embedded in a non transparent solid host. The experiment demonstrates that nuclear laser excitation is possible even when the surroDec 18, 2025 4:03 AM
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Choosing the Right Stainless Steel Utility Sink for Heavy-Duty Usehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297672In industrial and commercial environments, every piece of equipment plays a role in keeping operations efficient, safe, and hygienic. Among these essentials, the utility sink often works quietly in the background, yet it supports countless daily tasks. From manufacturing plants to commercial kitchens and maintenance workshops, choosing the right stainless steel utility sink for heavy-duty use can make a measurable difference in workflow and durability.Heavy-duty environments place higher demands on sinks than residential spaces. They are used for washing tools, handling raw materials, cleaning components, and managing waste liquids. A well-designed sink must withstand frequent impact, exposure to chemicals, and constant moisture without compromising performance or hygiene. This is where stainless steel stands out as a preferred material across the metal fabrication and industrial equipment sectors.One of the first factors to consider is material grade and thickness. Industrial-grade stDec 17, 2025 2:48 AM
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Exposure Guidelines (SMACs and SWEGs)https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/esdmd/hhp/exposure-guidelines-smacs-and-swegs/The JSC toxicologists establish guidelines for safe and acceptable levels of individual chemical contaminants in spacecraft air (SMACs) and drinking water (SWEGs) in collaboration with the National Research Council’s Committee on Toxicology (NRC COT) and through peer-reviewed publication. The framework for establishing these levels is documented for SMACs and SWEGs, and recent refinements to the Methods reflect current risk assessment […]Dec 16, 2025 3:35 PM
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Defending against the CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) vulnerability in React Server Componentshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi4AFBVV95cUxNY2ZUV3dmelM1cGpxblR1YnVYZF9DUUJyTG91R1pPMFJmV082T1V3bnlqRTNJRkR3b3k3ck5ieHU1cERUVTVNWnctblIzYzJzOTRRQ1BiaEJFX05qd2c4VlU1eWtNUzBoVnhUb1FXWUN5UTc2alM1MjFNNDlCcjI3Zm5pU0ZReFBOQzUxS2VLSzZJa2xBM2dyRXNQdjhSQUdXd1VUTWtrSHJWcEtkTFJNUV80bnl6WHM2cXhEMHdjemw3emVNN3ZMMFFIc1Z3XzUwM0Q4RjN3M1U4Z2MwS3VIQQ?oc=5Defending against the CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) vulnerability in React Server Components microsoft.comDec 15, 2025 8:00 AM
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Gels may have given early Earth chemistry a place to organize into lifehttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Gels_may_have_given_early_Earth_chemistry_a_place_to_organize_into_life_999.htmlBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 An international team from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany has proposed that life on Earth may have emerged within sticky, surface-bound gels that formed before the first cells. The researchers argue that these prebiotic gels, attached to mineral or other surfaces, could have provided both structure and chemical environments that helped early chemistry progress toward biology. The teaDec 5, 2025 9:21 AM
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Hazardous Material Summary Tables (HMSTs)https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/esdmd/hhp/hazardous-material-summary-tables-hmsts/Hazardous Materials Summary Tables (HMSTs) are a compilation of the chemical, biological, and flammability hazards of materials on a given flight or mission. HMSTs are required by Safety for all Programs, including but not limited to ISS, Commercial Crew Program (CCP), Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), and Gateway. Johnson Space Center (JSC) toxicologists evaluate the […]Dec 3, 2025 1:39 PM
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The EU Space Act: a call for true strategic fairnesshttps://spacenews.com/the-eu-space-act-a-call-for-true-strategic-fairness/Before we start, a caveat: The following opinion is only relevant in a situation where the EU, together with its member states, would eventually decide to invest enough to equip itself with space capabilities commensurate with Europe’s economic importance, the role it wants to play in the world and current security threats (meaning: significantly more […] The post The EU Space Act: a call for true strategic fairness appeared first on SpaceNews.Dec 1, 2025 12:00 PM
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NASA Awards Liquid Hydrogen Supply Contractshttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-liquid-hydrogen-supply-contracts/NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to approximately 36,952,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at facilities across the agency. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid Hydrogen awards are firm-fixed-price requirements contracts that include multiple firm-fixed price delivery orders […]Nov 21, 2025 9:15 PM
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Announcing Azure Copilot agents and AI infrastructure innovationshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxPeHZFaDBCWmhhTFNDb2VZSjNDVUVTZWZxVXZXZTJzRnVRQ2lrOGhzdEJ3NEs0TVc1ZUlFbEpsUUdIMHdpS0lsZ2NTUEhJQ2RxZ29MeGNCUk1HN253NTRYQmxmZzkxZTFzbFZZSy1OZm0zZjU0Z1l2dUZHM0dWX1NQaVlOV1BzTVFldVBmSHYxR3FidkRpZGtFOE92SFpnSDdvNkxYUjRpU1E?oc=5Announcing Azure Copilot agents and AI infrastructure innovations Microsoft AzureNov 18, 2025 8:00 AM
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John McFall | Prosthetics, possibility & parabolic flights | ESA Explores #16https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/10/John_McFall_Prosthetics_possibility_parabolic_flights_ESA_Explores_16Meet John McFall – Paralympian, medical doctor and member of ESA’s Astronaut Reserve. As part of ESA’s groundbreaking FLY initiative, John is helping prove that physical disability is no barrier to space. In this episode, he shares the results of a feasibility study showing no technical showstoppers for flying to the International Space Station with a prosthesis and talks about what’s next—from hardware certification and scientific proposals to astronaut reserve training and running in microgravity.Nov 11, 2025 11:00 AM
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Learn what generative AI can do for your security operations centerhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiyAFBVV95cUxQNmtqWG1YbHltWHpzNTEwOU9HaW1leHk3OGphekxxVEFidng5MEZGLW9iSzFkbUxRamNRTEEwMEZZYWFNdXpCUVdUMTFidnpPa19tR194OEdkOWl5a2pkTFpJWTZGSGZ1TnhmXzliRDVRb0Y1UXNFYmhzbU9ZVC02WlFPWkp6Q2tpdVJaMUxwYVE5bFoyMFR6a1VfdEZZbHlZYzR5cDVvMUpBb09EMERYNzFwN3F1aWFfa1NUbl9ydzB3ZFQ5UkU4OQ?oc=5Learn what generative AI can do for your security operations center microsoft.comNov 4, 2025 8:00 AM
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Johns Hopkins, SpaceNews launch discussion series focused on the future of space explorationhttps://spacenews.com/johns-hopkins-spacenews-launch-discussion-series-focused-on-the-future-of-space-exploration/A panel of leading space industry executives will explore the trajectory of space technology over the next decade, examining how the long-imagined future depicted in comic books and science fiction […] The post Johns Hopkins, SpaceNews launch discussion series focused on the future of space exploration appeared first on SpaceNews.Nov 3, 2025 3:10 PM
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Resources, reactors and rivalries will decide the new moon racehttps://spacenews.com/resources-reactors-and-rivalries-will-decide-the-new-moon-race/A new race to the moon is underway; not merely to erect flags, but to prospect for and extract water and helium-3, establish nuclear power plants and capitalize on the economic and strategic advantages that will shape the balance of power in space for decades to come. Private companies are now making serious bets on […] The post Resources, reactors and rivalries will decide the new moon race appeared first on SpaceNews.Oct 31, 2025 1:00 PM
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World of Warcraft: Midnight's Class and Addon Changes Finally Make Sensehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a2b4c4b804ebe8e2001a916312999&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fentertainment%2Fgaming%2Fworld-of-warcraft-midnight-s-class-and-addon-changes-finally-make-sense%2Far-AA1PkHQy&c=1693774763130737925&mkt=en-usWorld of Warcraft is coming to Xbox, albeit in an indirect way. The next generation of Xbox console will reportedly be able to run Windows, meaning every PC program, from Microsoft Office to League of ...Oct 27, 2025 2:37 PM
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Agent Knowledge Needs More Than Just RAGhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435169When people talk about “knowledge for agents,” it almost always collapses into RAG. But knowledge can, and should—be treated as a first-class runtime tool, not just a context filler.In most implementations, knowledge lives in a vector database. Agents query it through a search_knowledge tool, often hybrid (keyword + semantic) with re-ranking. That’s essentially “Agentic RAG,” and it works well enough for a lot of use cases.But once you think of knowledge as runtime-accessible memory, other patterns open up:1. Dynamic Instructions Most serious agent use cases can’t just dump all instructions into the system prompt. Take a Text2SQL agent: it needs table schemas, column names, data types, and common query templates. You don’t bake all that into the core prompt—you store it and let the agent query the relevant slice when needed.That’s dynamic instructions: system prompt as RAM, knowledge base as disk. Core logic in RAM, path-specific instructions pulled from disk at runtime.2. Adaptive LeaOct 1, 2025 7:13 AM
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Show HN: PrevelteKit – Static-first Svelte/Rsbuild/jsdom frameworkhttps://tbocek.github.io/preveltekit/I built PrevelteKit to solve the architecture trade-offs I ran into with modern web apps.SPAs have clean separation between frontend and backend, but users see a white loading page or spinner while JavaScript loads and renders the initial UI. Next.js/SvelteKit solve the loading problem but require running your JavaScript stack in your frontend infrastructure. While services like Vercel hide this operational complexity (and they do it quite well), you're still coupling your frontend deployment to server infrastructure and adding another moving part to your system.I wanted something in between, a clean separation like SPAs, but with something already loaded for users.PrevelteKit pre-renders and hydrates your Svelte components at build time using jsdom, then serves them as pure HTML/CSS/JS files. During loading, users immediately see the layout and static content, while dynamic content takes another round-trip.Key features:* Static-first - No JavaScript runtime needed in production for thSep 26, 2025 9:20 AM
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Discover three skilling insights that set Frontier Firms aparthttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMixgFBVV95cUxNOXhrNFRnRlZTTkZtNmtpT2dIVnJUN1hZRDRoUllDVU1EcTFNRXBMZ2pqQkZneWdVZHNXRm9USmhoZnhvMWljNzJDYU85RkJCZVh0dUw4ZHdMallUYW9IV1IwS3ZHVWFvZHMzM2ZqWnBRWDk0dVhCak5WVXowLVZIUE53amFCVGlZaGxpZVRwbm1RZjBGamg2eUl1V1hCQUcyUWhvVHJacE0xeXhUT2xYdHYxOExBb3BqTlFYcW9UWjNValZWd1E?oc=5Discover three skilling insights that set Frontier Firms apart microsoft.comSep 18, 2025 7:00 AM
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A cell’s-eye view of altered gravity and ageinghttps://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/A_cell_s-eye_view_of_altered_gravity_and_ageingMuscle weakening, bone density loss and an impaired immune system: the systemic health impacts of spaceflight bear many similarities to ageing. Sharon van Rijthoven, a student from Delft University of Technology and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, compared the effects of ageing and altered gravity from a cellular perspective during her internship at the European Space Agency (ESA).Sep 16, 2025 8:00 AM
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How to Get My Transcript: A Guide to Requesting Your College Recordshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88ea6d9e0642c8a794cc5db5e372c6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snhu.edu%2Fabout-us%2Fnewsroom%2Feducation%2Fhow-to-get-my-transcript&c=5931449791892687172&mkt=en-usIf you’ve ever taken a college course, you have an academic record. If you need to verify your academic credentials, such as when you’re applying to a new school or for employment, you may be asked ...Sep 14, 2025 5:00 PM
