JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission(science.org)

97 points by Muhammad523 8 days ago | 19 comments

Science news feature on Japan's MMX mission, which aims to return samples from Mars's moon Phobos to learn how it formed and possibly retrieve pieces of Mars.

How Tycho Brahe really died (2001)(ips-planetarium.org)

66 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 22 comments

End of an Era: Landsat 7 Decommissioned After 25 Years of Earth Observation(usgs.gov)

105 points by keepamovin 1 year ago | 39 comments

Ex-NOAA employees laid off by DOGE rebuilt climate website(climate.us)

14 points by vincentchau 4 months ago | 1 comments

All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)(esa.int)

429 points by cybermango 6 months ago | 243 comments

ESA article on the toxicity of lunar dust, which caused Apollo moonwalkers 'lunar hay fever' symptoms and smelled like spent gunpowder.

End of an era: Landsat 7 mission takes final images(usgs.gov)

258 points by Qqqwxs 2 years ago | 45 comments

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

What Is PID 0?(blog.dave.tf)

344 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

Blog post by David Anderson explaining what PID 0 is in Unix/Linux, why it is hidden from userspace, and its role in booting and idle scheduling.

What to Know About JavaScript in 2026(blog.master.dev)

17 points by eustoria 1 month ago | 2 comments

A blog post outlining what developers should know about the JavaScript language and ecosystem in 2026.

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)

120 points by jiegec 1 month ago | 6 comments

A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.

NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist(axios.com)

406 points by Palmik 6 months ago | 292 comments

Reuters news article relaying an Axios report that the NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos AI model despite a government blacklist.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.