https://www.404media.co/ice-cbp-secret-service-all-broke-law-with-smartphone-location-data/
A bombshell government report also found that a CBP official used the data to track coworkers with no investigative purpose.
https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68440
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/honey-astrobee-returns-space/
The International Space Station is abuzz with the return of one of NASA’s Astrobee smart robots. The yellow Honey Astrobee, one of three free-flying robots,
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/why-egypt-went-war-1973
https://www.ancientpages.com/2023/10/04/cosmic-impact-hunter-gatherers-levant-agricultural/
Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra to adopt agricultural practices to boost their chances for survival.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-astronomers-massive-star-jwst.html
In 2009 a giant star 25 times more massive than the sun simply vanished. OK, it wasn't quite that simple. It underwent a period of brightening, increasing in luminosity to a million suns, just as if it was ready to explode into a supernova. But then it faded rather than exploding. And when astronomers tried to see the star using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), Hubble and the Spitzer space telescope, they couldn't see anything.
https://scitechdaily.com/study-reveals-that-50-of-the-worlds-population-will-have-a-mental-health-disorder-by-age-75/
Researchers from The University of Queensland and Harvard Medical School, in a collaborative global study, have discovered that one in two people will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Professors John McGrath of UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute and Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medic
https://www.ancientpages.com/2023/10/03/burials-challenge-ideas-anglo-saxon-gender/
There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were buried with.
https://scitechdaily.com/osiris-rexs-overflowing-treasures-a-stellar-surprise-from-asteroid-bennu/
NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample collection from asteroid Bennu exceeded expectations in material quantity, slowing the curation process. Advanced analysis methods are underway, with a more detailed examination planned for the coming weeks. The initial curation process for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample of ast
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-webb-sofia-telescopes-metallic.html
Southwest Research Institute scientists are using telescopes to observe the asteroid Psyche in the infrared, providing context for NASA's upcoming Psyche mission. Dr. Stephanie Jarmak is using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to look for water signatures on the metallic surface of Psyche, while Dr. Anicia Arredondo is using some of the last data collected by the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, to study differences in Psyche's composition at different points on its surface.
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