Kazimer fired up the crystal ball to see what the future holds for mountain biking in 2026.( Photos: 3 )
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What is the origin of the letters used in star classification?
What is the origin of the letters used in star classification? Why didn’t astronomers use ABCD? J. HaldimanChicago, Illinois Stellar spectral types originally followed alphabetical order. But as astronomers observed more stars and obtained more detailed spectra, they consolidated some categories and reordered the remaining ones. This left seven basic […]
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A Galactic Embrace
Mid-infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (in white, gray, and red) and X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) come together in this photo of colliding spiral galaxies released on Dec. 1, 2025. The pair grazed one another millions of years ago; billions of years in […]
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12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025
We saw quite a few milestones notched in the final frontier this year. But there were a number of failures as well, some of them quite dramatic.
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Eat Sawdust: Inside the Wandering Mind of Maxwell Paternoster
Maxwell Paternoster’s art is what would happen if you soaked R. Crumb’s brain in gasoline and LSD — at once deranged, poignant, and darkly humorous. Swap the ballooned manic breasts of Crumb’s characters with sweaty robots and laser skulls, and you’re most of the way there — a trip of […]
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How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don’t have much leverage (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
Noam Scheiber / New York Times: How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don’t have much leverage — They increasingly see themselves as rank-and-file workers who have traditional gripes with their companies. — Five weeks into a strike …