Today marks five years since a human-made object first touched the Sun.
On Apr 28, 2021, during its 8th flyby, NASA's Parker Solar Probe entered the Sun's superheated atmosphere—the corona—for the first time, flying 8.1 million miles above the solar surface. To date, Parker has made 27 close approaches to the Sun, each time helping us understand more about our host star and the space weather events it creates.
Announcing Tech Week 2026!
Connect with industry leaders, discover breakthrough innovations, and hear from creators shaping the future of machine learning.
This year, Columbia Business School joins dozens of top companies and institutions to bring a week of cutting-edge programming to the Big Apple. Save your spot for our June 3 event now: https://t.co/jH5GOq1Czt
We are excited to announce the launch of a new minor in fusion energy — preparing students to help power the future of clean energy.
Read more: https://t.co/VxaX6wSkvb
New Anthropic Research: Disempowerment patterns in real-world AI assistant interactions.
As AI becomes embedded in daily life, one risk is it can distort rather than inform—shaping beliefs, values, or actions in ways users may later regret.
Read more: https://t.co/gyMB2AtOuq
🚀@SpaceiumInc just launched its first orbital refueling demo on SpaceX's Transporter-15.
Mission teams have been saying the same thing: fuel constraints are forcing real compromises in capability and mission design. Operators know where they want to go, but fuel limits cap maneuver profiles and reduce reach.
Spaceium's precision robotic actuator, now in orbit aboard D-Orbit's ION, is the first step toward solving this. Built in 5 months, it's engineered for real operational environments and designed to evolve into a complete fuel logistics architecture.
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Happy Birthday Marina Abramović! (@abramovicinstitute)
In 2005, she staged “Seven Easy Pieces,” a series of seven performances over as many consecutive evenings that occupied the Rotunda from 5 p.m. to midnight daily.
For the first six nights Abramović reenacted landmark performance works by her peers Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, VALIE EXPORT, Gina Pane, and Joseph Beuys, as well as her own 1975 piece “Lips of Thomas.”
For the final night she premiered a new work titled “Entering the Other Side” (2005). The project was premised on the fact that little documentation exists for most performances from the 1960s and ‘70s; one often has to rely upon testimonies from witnesses or photographs that capture only fragments of any given piece.
“Seven Easy Pieces” examined the possibility of reenacting and preserving an art form that is, by nature, ephemeral.
Photos: Kathryn Carr
The Climate Knowledge Initiative at CBS just released its new Nuclear Power publications, including this look at Reenergizing Nuclear Power.
Nuclear power is experiencing a paradox: while public support is high, deployment remains stagnant. Learn more: https://t.co/hQSunpr2pP
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