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One room, three addressesCulture
Whistler's only surviving intact interior is bound to the museum by Charles Lang Freer's bequest. A new VR experience will retrace its London, Detroit and Washington lives.
256 wavelengths, no steering mirrorAI & Technology
The prototype flew four times in 2024. NASA reports 22-centimeter airborne resolution at roughly five kilometers, while an orbital version remains a design.
About 15% opened itTech & Work
A randomized University of Maryland trial found lower Canvas activity in classes offered an AI study assistant. In matched sections of the same course, an adjusted model estimated final grades 4.12 percentage points lower.
869°F in about one hourAI & Technology
A DAVINCI engineering development unit completed six furnace cycles that followed the pace of heating expected during the future probe's descent through Venus's atmosphere.
Scale came after heatAI & Technology
Kyoto University and Phenitec Semiconductor transferred much of a high-temperature silicon carbide transistor process to a commercial plant. The first wafer-scale trial showed tight voltage uniformity in the center of a six-inch wafer.
The gas was already thereWeird but True
Maine Beer Company began recovering gas from fermentation after a 2021 supply shortage. The system’s lineage runs through NASA-funded work on making resources from Mars’ atmosphere.
5,000 solsAI & Technology
NASA’s Curiosity rover reached its 5,000th sol three days after gaining one vertical kilometer from its landing site, while examining a wind-shaped Martian ripple.
About 1,000 targets at onceAI & Technology
MOONS has made its first observations at the Very Large Telescope. Its robotic fibers feed two spectrographs housed inside one exceptionally cold machine.
A lava lake under the iceWeird but True
Landsat found heat at Mount Michael’s summit on August 24. Eight days later, the same volcano drew a V-shaped wake through the clouds.
3 planets in one frameAI & Technology
A cockpit camera aboard NASA’s WB-57 recorded the eclipsed Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, and the bright world beyond totality in a single frame.
25 flights completedTech & Work
The experimental aircraft reached Mach 1.2 on its 25th flight. NASA says a chase plane's booms masked the X-59's sound, while dedicated acoustic validation still lies ahead.
$930,000 in ordersConsumer Watch
Three firms claimed they could target ads from conversations captured by smart devices. The agency says the service did not use voice data.
831 occupations mappedTech & Work
A new BLS dataset compares occupations by their contact with AI while the agency's 2035 projections show where employment may grow and shrink.
Prompting is one-fifthTech & Work
The federal AI literacy framework puts understanding, exploration, evaluation, and responsibility around the skill that gets the most attention.