NASA, Partners to Welcome Fourth Axiom Space Mission to Space Station. NASA.gov news release. Pull quote: “The Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and travel to the space station. Once docked, the private astronauts plan to spend up to 14 days aboard the orbiting laboratory, conducting a mission comprised of science, outreach, and commercial activities. The mission will send the first ISRO astronaut to the station as part of a joint effort between NASA and the Indian space agency. The private mission also carries the first astronauts from Poland and Hungary to stay aboard the space station.”
Renew Support for Renewable Energy. ScientificAmerican.com commentary. Pull quote: “That would be a mistake. A rise in renewable energy does not mean a fall in oil or natural gas. U.S. production is growing there, too, and overall power demand is increasing. We’re not proposing a future free of fossil fuels. Major energy transitions take time. But as numerous studies have shown, more fossil-fuel consumption makes climate change, air and water pollution, and public health worse. Ultimately renewable energy costs less, and the cheaper technology always wins. Some U.S. states have gotten this message: Texas, the oil center of the country, now produces more wind power than any other state. The market for clean technologies is “increasingly catching up with the markets for fossil fuels,” Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, noted in an October 2024 release of the agency’s latest study.”
Can Trump Just Order New Names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? ScientificAmerican.com article. Describes how the official name change process normally works, typically it starts locally. Pull quote: “It’s a lot of paperwork for something so seemingly minor, but people get passionate about place names. It took 40 years to rename Denali from the name established in the late 19th century, Mount McKinley.”
Life’s ingredients discovered in samples Nasa probe returned from an asteroid. ChemistryWorld.com article. Pull quote: “‘The range of evaporites means that you had to have a large body of salt water, such as a lake or ocean, to build up that high salinity,’ says Lauretta. ‘So we’re looking at a very wet world with water that ultimately evaporated away, leaving behind the salts.’”
EO 14161 Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats. Federal Register.
EO 14162 Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements. Federal Register.
EO 14163 Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program. Federal Register.
EO 14164 Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety. Federal Register.
EO 14165 Securing Our Borders. Federal Register.
EO 14166 Application of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to TikTok. Federal Register.
EO 14167 Clarifying the Military's Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States. Federal Register.
EO 14168 Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. Federal Register.
EO 14169 Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid. Federal Register.
EO 14170 Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and
Restoring Merit to Government Service. Federal
Register.
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