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hubie writes:Coastal city residents would like to do more to reduce their single-use plastic waste and they are trying to recycle more:

upstart writes:Roman Telescope Will Do in Months What Would Take Hubble a Lifetime:NASA is still a few years away from launching the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, but a new study explores what this groundbreaking space observatory will be able to do. Unlike the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, which zero in on small patches of the sky, the Roman Telescope will be designed to take a wider view of the cosmos. According to the researchers, it would take Hubble decades to see what Roman will be able to see in a few months.The Roman Telescope passed a critical design review in 2021 and is currently under construction at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center with the aim of launching it aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in 2027. When complete, it will have two instruments: a coronagraph for visualizing exoplanets and a wide-field camera with a 300.8-megapixel resolution. It's the latter that will allow the Roman Telescope, which will use a 2.4-meter mirror similar to Hubble, to perform both wide and deep sky surveys.[...] "Roman will take around 100,000 pictures every year," said Jeffrey Kruk, a research astrophysicist at Goddard. "Given Roman's larger field of view, it would take longer than our lifetimes even for powerful telescopes like Hubble or Webb to cover as much sky." Specifically, the study says it would take Hubble 85 years to do what Roman will do in 63 days. However, Roman won't be ideal for precision observations of specific objects. Webb and Hubble will still be vital for that kind of work, but Roman can help nail down observational targets that could solve long-standing mysteries about galactic evolution.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:AstroAccess is on a mission to make it possible for disabled people to live and work in space:

A couple of unrelated Zoom stories submitted by users:Porn Zoom bomb forces cancellation of Fed's Waller eventAn Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/feds-waller-virtual-event-canceled-after-zoom-hijack-2023-03-02/

upstart writes:For the second time in four months, the Facebook and Instagram parent company could axe thousands of staff:

upstart writes:Iberians were using heavy metal on hard rock way before it was cool:

fliptop writes:On April 1, Amazon will be permanently closing some of its Amazon Go stores in major cities on both coasts:

upstart writes:'Firemode reset' sees Interstellar Boundary Explorer back on the job:

SomeGuy writes:The NZ Herald reports:

upstart writes:Once praised for its generous social safety net, the country now collects troves of data on welfare claimants:

upstart writes:The sanctions are having a huge impact:

After Nearly a Decade in Development, Japan's New Rocket Fails in Debutupstart writes:Japan's science minister said the failure was "extremely regrettable:

upstart writes:Washington judge issued an arrest warrant and ordered her to involuntary detention:

upstart writes:50 Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World:

upstart writes:Dutch Officials Warn That Big Telecom's Plan To Tax 'Big Tech' Is A Dangerous Dud:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/02/8086-modrm-addressing.html

upstart writes:The corridor is 30 feet long and likely slopes upward. Where it leads is still a mystery.

upstart writes:Huge lithium find may end world shortage – there's a catch:

hubie writes:Scientists are aiming to revolutionise British diets by slipping more UK-grown beans into our daily bread:

upstart writes:In-hardware security can be defeated with just two extra bytes:

upstart writes:Arm says it decided a sole US listing in 2023 was "the best path forward":

upstart writes:The Foss community is giving yet another try with an app store for all Linux OSes:

NASA: DART Mission Proves Kinetic Impact Can Save Earth From Incoming Asteroidsupstart writes:NASA's DART mission was a smashing success:

upstart writes:Dish Network Finally Acknowledges Huge Hack After Days Of Not Answering Questions:

fliptop writes:Europe's original plan to bring AI under control is no match for the technology's new, shiny chatbot application:

upstart writes:Air Force has already successfully tested and approved the sustainable aviation fuel:

hubie writes:A physicist's task is to constantly create equations that keep up with our observations of physical phenomena:

upstart writes:Russian Nuclear Company Tests 'Beaver' PCs With Homegrown Baikal CPUs:

upstart writes:Droughts, flash floods the future for the Midwest ... probably:

upstart writes:Interstate feuds threaten to complicate the already-difficult task of getting regional power grids off fossil fuels:

mrpg writes:The increase in estradiol may help prepare the lemurs for fatherhood:

canopic jug writes:The Linux mailing list had an admonition for Mutt users to fix their Mutt configuration. A recent change to that otherwise popular e-mail client has broken the way Message-ID headers are formed in Mutt. The developers have proven unwilling so far to fix it, therefore the onus falls upon Mutt's regular users to make local reconfigurations to avoid breaking the mailing lists and archives they might be participating in.

upstart writes:The curious comfort of victim-blaming – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow:

upstart writes:"Ecofascism," "liminal space," "digital nomad," and "petfluencer" are just some of the words born from our digital world:

upstart writes:Half of all active satellites are now from SpaceX. Here's why that may be a problem:

upstart writes:China has a "stunning lead" over the US:

hubie writes:OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships:

upstart writes:Commuting to work is passé and employers are embracing the brave new world of remote work:

upstart writes:The Morning After: FDA reportedly denied Neuralink's request to begin human trials of its brain implant:

upstart writes:A new study is the largest to date of ancient Europeans' DNA:

fliptop writes:The engineer says, "I haven't had the opportunity to run experiments with Bing's chatbot yet... but based on the various things that I've seen online, it looks like it might be sentient:"

upstart writes:Establishing a standard time for the moon is necessary for the new era of lunar exploration:

upstart writes:Waymo robotaxis have now driven 1 million miles autonomously with no recorded injuries:

hubie writes:Scientists studying archaeological remains at Gruta da Figueira Brava, Portugal, discovered that Neanderthals were harvesting shellfish to eat:

upstart writes:Pre-existing mental health issues and the stress of working in Cuba are more likely culprits:

fab23 writes:Research shows that, when given the choice, most authors don't want excessively-long copyright terms:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/meta-says-725m-deal-ends-all-cambridge-analytica-claims-one-state-disagrees/

upstart writes:Experiments in mice show the microbes hijack cells in the brain's protective cover:

hubie writes:When you're in a bad mood, you might want to focus on tasks that are more detail-oriented:

upstart writes:Traditional burials and cremation aren't great for the environment: