The explosion of the New Glenn rocket seriously damaged the launch site as well. The cadence of lunar missions that NASA just announced will be completely scrambled.
Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.
A rough @nature.com poll of >1,900 researchers found:
~48% feel negative towards AI
63% say that risks for data analysis outweigh benefits
~60% felt AI FOMO: that they would be left behind if they did not use AI tools in their work.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
June 8, 1783, the Laki eruption, one of the largest basaltic fissure eruptions in recorded history and the deadliest volcanic eruption in Icelandic history, starts when a series of fissures erupting lava open in the ground 🌋🇮🇸
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Important update: This morning NSF removed its internal flags on 3 of the 4 universities (Princeton's remains). We've updated our story to reflect this and the release of the new awards to Harvard and Duke.
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Are you an astronomy graduate student interested in science communication? Apply for the @aas.org Media Fellowship by June 26: aasnova.org/2026/04/08/a...
Welp I was going to write about yesterday's NASA Artemis science talks but they didn't say very much and then a big rocket went boom last night so
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
NCAR just won in court! A US district judge in Colorado has prohibited NSF from taking #NCAR apart, specifically in spalling off its supercomputing center in Wyoming. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Our earlier story on this and why it matters:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Today NASA named four skilled astronauts as the #ArtemisIII crew for a test mission in low-Earth orbit, perhaps next year. All four are men, even though NASA has loads of highly qualified women astronauts. It's not a good look for the so-called Artemis generation. 🧪🔭
Almost half of the scientists who responded said that they feel broadly negative towards artificial intelligence, but they think that some tools are better than others.
Yikes…
Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4.
Welcome to the 2026 Volcano World Cup! Here's a little introductory post about the Volcano World Cup for the uninitiated. Look for Group A coming out at the end of the week to start us off. eruptions.site/2026/06/08/w... #volcanoworldcup
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Welcome to the 2026 Volcano World Cup! IDL TIFF file The 2026 World Cup is just about the start and although many of us have very mixed feelings about FIFA (to say the least), the same can’t …
