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Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network

.. OOI has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
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".. ships will be dispatched .. to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments .."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-takes-aim-at-crucial-ocean-monitoring-network/

2.6.2026

#AMOC #ClimateResearch #Klimaforschung #Klimawandel #NSF #Ocean #oceanography #OOI #Ozean #science #Sea #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit

Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

Scientific American
“A database maintained by Damien Charlotin, a senior research fellow at the Paris School of Advanced Business Studies (HEC Paris), lists more than 1,400 cases where courts have addressed AI errors in the past three years, including filings by attorneys and self-represented litigants. “ #SciAM #AI

Lawyers know AI can hallucinat...
Why lawyers keep citing fake cases invented by AI

The trend of attorneys getting caught citing AI-hallucinated cases points to a broader problem: instead of checking AI’s work, people keep trusting it

Scientific American

"It's a special thing to be a human and a special thing to be on planet Earth."

Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and his crewmates, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, have been sharing their insights and experiences of their trip around the Moon now that their feet are solidly back on terra firma. Scientific American has pulled some of their best quotes into a series of very short videos.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A0Z-xO2igBc

#Artemis #NASA #Moon #Lunar #Astronaut #SCIAM #Science #Humanity #Earth

"It's a special thing to be a human."

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Top climate scientist Kate Marvel just resigned from NASA. Here's why

Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges

Scientific American

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Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescope

NASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. A daring mission to boost it to safety could have big implications for science
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-nasas-audacious-plan-to-save-a-doomed-space-telescope/

26.3.2026

#astronomy #Astronomie #Katalyst #KatalystSpaceTechnologies #NASA #Pegasus #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceTelescope #Swift #Weltraumteleskop

Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescope

NASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. A daring mission to boost it to safety could have big implications for science

Scientific American

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NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say
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"U.S. lawmakers are moving to delay the International Space Station’s retirement, giving more time for commercial replacements to be built"

".. a draft measure to the NASA Authorization Act of 2026 that would order the space agency to extend ISS operations through 2032, .."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-must-delay-deorbiting-the-iss-u-s-lawmakers-say/

6.3.2026

#NASA #ISS #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight #USA

NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say

U.S. lawmakers are moving to delay the International Space Station’s retirement, giving more time for commercial replacements to be built

Scientific American

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NASA identifies which astronaut triggered the unprecedented medical evacuation of the ISS

This disclosure comes about a month after NASA made the decision to evacuate the four members of Crew-11 from the International Space Station
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"“I’m doing very well and continuing standard post-flight reconditioning at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston,” Fincke said. .."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-astronaut-mike-fincke-identified-as-suffering-a-medical-event-on-iss/

25.2.2026

#Crew11 #ISS #JSC #MikeFincke #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight

NASA identifies astronaut Mike Fincke as triggering the unprecedented medical evacuation of the ISS

This disclosure comes about a month after NASA made the decision to evacuate the four members of Crew-11 from the International Space Station

Scientific American

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Scientists Denounce Trump’s Plan to Kill Crucial Atmospheric Science Center

The U.S. government is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, jettisoning key climate science projects in the process
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-decry-trumps-plan-to-kill-crucial-atmospheric-science-center/

17.12.2025

#Boulder #climate #climatechange #Klima #Klimakrise #Klimawandel #NCAR #science #UCAR #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit

Scientists Denounce Trump’s Plan to Kill Crucial Atmospheric Science Center

The U.S. government is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, jettisoning key climate science projects in the process

Scientific American

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NASA Loses Signal from Critical Mars Orbiter

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft didn’t phone home as expected on December 6
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-loses-signal-from-critical-mars-orbiter/

10.12.2025

#Mars #Marsorbiter #MAVEN #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight

NASA Loses Signal from Critical Mars Orbiter

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft didn’t phone home as expected on December 6

Scientific American
SciAm usually does a good job explaining things but this is just so exceptionally well done I feel a need to boost it. #SciAm #fusionpower #greenenergy

How Three Fusion Reactor Desig...
How Three Fusion Reactor Designs Could Power Tomorrow

Inertial confinement reactors, stellarators and tokamaks each have pros and cons

Scientific American