Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada | The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.

Captured by the multispectral imager instrument on NASA’s Psyche mission, this is an enhanced-color mosaic created from four individual images acquired on May 15, 2026, during the spacecraft’s flyby of Mars.  Psyche was traveling from right to left (northeast to southwest on Mars) during the six minutes that it took to acquire the images for this…

Consider a sealed can completely filled with fluid placed on a supermarket conveyor belt. When the conveyor belt starts moving to the right, in which direction will the can move? Can its velocity relative to the ground be determined or quantified? (If so what parameters dectates it?) submitted by /u/Fit-Breakfast-2266 [comments]

Night Nurse is a movie of contrasts: It’s shocking and sensual, undeniably perverse and yet somehow weirdly wholesome. If nothing else, it’s entirely its own thing, taking a genre that disappeared almost entirely in the 2010s — the erotic thriller — and reimagining it on its own dreamy, unconventional terms. Writer-director Georgia Bernstein describes it…

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NASA astronaut Anil Menon, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, arrived safely at the International Space Station Tuesday, bringing the orbiting laboratory’s crew to 10 for about the next two weeks. The trio launched aboard the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT (7:47 p.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in…

Jurassic Park was wrong. Again.  In the second movie, hunters find an infant Tyrannosaurus rex and use it to lure the adults into a trap. But in reality, that baby would have been much smaller, about the size of a cat. And it probably wouldn’t have been alone – the nest may have been absolutely…