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By Hub staff report / Published July 13, 2026 Johns Hopkins University has submitted a formal comment letter urging the U.S. Office of Management and Budget to reconsider proposed changes to federal rules governing all awards, grants, contracts, and other financial assistance across federal agencies, warning that the revisions could undermine the merit-based system that…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways  Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event is next week.  It will announce new foldable phones, smartwatches, and more.  Early reports suggest a new foldable design.  We’re days away from Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked, where the tech giant will unveil its latest generation of foldables and smartwatches. Samsung’s mobile launch event takes place on…

NASA will commission a team of scientists to begin investigating unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) this fall, the agency announced today. UAPs are simply unidentified flying objects (UFOs) with less of a little-green-alien connotation about them. And that’s reasonable, because things labeled UFOs may not be flying objects at all, but instead optical illusions, image artifacts,…

We’d like to thank the members of the local organizing committee: J. Soltis (chair), A. M. Delgado, and M. Yunus and the STScI Events Planning Group, especially S. Smith and V. Ramnarine. We’d also like to acknowledge the generous support of travel grants provided by ESA’s Space Science Faculty.

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Underwater caves preserve some of the world’s most valuable fossils, but they’ve also been difficult to interpret. The tools to understand how these underwater graveyards impact the remains of extinct megafauna and other animals have been limited. There are many factors that change organic remains over long periods of time, such as temperature, oxygen concentration,…