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NASA’s HPSC chip transforms how spacecraft navigate, land, and explore

NASA’s HPSC chip transforms how spacecraft navigate, land, and explore

Published by Jenni Sidey

NASA’s new spaceflight chip tackles a stubborn problem, spacecraft still rely on outdated processors, yet future missions need faster onboard decisions. Early tests suggest a major leap in speed and resilience. As a result, hopes are raised for smarter probes, landers, and crewed systems. A spacecraft can cross millions of miles, survive radiation, and land on another world. Yet its onboard computer often lags far behind the devices people carry in their pockets. That mismatch has long limited how much a mission can do on its own. Especially when help from Earth comes too late. NASA now says it is closing that gap with a new processor designed to give spacecraft far more computing power while surviving the punishing conditions of space. The chip sits at the center of the agency’s High Performance Spaceflight Computing project, or HPSC. This effort is meant to support more autonomous missions, faster scientific analysis, and future human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. The processor is being developed through a commercial partnership with Microchip Technology Inc., with the project led by …

The unspoken financial strains breaking up friendships and how to navigate them

The unspoken financial strains breaking up friendships and how to navigate them

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more The unspoken financial disparities among friends are increasingly causing unease and anxiety across the UK, with a new survey revealing the hidden strain money places on social bonds. More than one in five adults (22 per cent) admit to feeling uncomfortable when friends propose activities beyond their comfortable spending limit, while a further 20 per cent experience anxiety in such situations, highlighting a significant challenge to modern friendships. This revealing poll, conducted by Opinium for pension provider Aegon’s Money: Mindshift campaign, delves into the emotional and social factors shaping people’s attitudes towards money. It also highlighted several key reasons why many shy away from discussing finances openly with their friends. Nearly a quarter (24 per cent) fear upsetting someone who may be struggling financially, …

How 4 Singaporeans navigate sole caregiving, amid illness, fractured relationships and more

How 4 Singaporeans navigate sole caregiving, amid illness, fractured relationships and more

Published by Sam Flores

Yet beneath the frustration, there is love, complicated but undeniable. “Who better to look after her than me? She only has us,” Nonis says, fighting back tears. “Clearly, I love her. … But it’s very hard to admit.” As household sizes shrink and only children become more common in Singapore, more adults may find themselves in a similar position to hers, carrying the full weight of caregiving, perhaps shaped by relationships that are far from simple. She is one of four individuals whom the On The Red Dot series, Left To Care, follows as they care for ailing loved ones on their own — even as they confront their own fears, health struggles and personal sacrifices. What keeps them going? CARE, WITHOUT PAUSE Nonis’ father has been in and out of hospital since 2022 — after a fall, a heart attack and recurring gastritis. Her mother’s schizophrenia, though stabilised since her discharge from the Institute of Mental Health in 1998, requires monitoring and carries the risk of relapse. “There’s no such thing as taking a …

How Music Therapy Can Help Parentless Children Navigate Loss

How Music Therapy Can Help Parentless Children Navigate Loss

Published by Jenni Sidey

One of the many activities children and teenagers enjoy doing throughout their childhood is listening to music. Music is an outlet while children and adolescents are growing up, and can especially be a healthy and positive coping outlet when they are trying to navigate the death of their parent. Music can be a beneficial form of therapy in sessions with clinicians as well. The death of a parent is one of the hardest life situations a child or teenager can be forced to navigate. Trying to find comforting and positive outlets is key, as there will be a wide range of emotions grieving youth will experience while trying to work through this situation. For surviving parents and caregivers trying to help support grieving youth, turning to music or clinical music therapy can be highly beneficial for grieving youth. “Music therapy has been provided for children in a variety of settings: family sessions, individual sessions, time-limited school-based bereavement groups, child and adolescent grief camps, and open bereavement groups at a bereavement center. Family therapy sessions utilizing …

A Novel Approach to Navigate Hard Conversations at Work

A Novel Approach to Navigate Hard Conversations at Work

Published by Jenni Sidey

Your youngest team members may just be different from the rest of your team, and the most vivid illustration of this difference is in how they perceive hard feedback. Hard is now seen as harsh. Requests for mediation or support around perceived microaggressions, emotional distress, or communication breakdowns are on the rise. Coaches often refer to Gen Z as a fragile population, believing that many parents failed to prepare them for careers. In fact, today, being offended is often a form of moral high ground. Empathy is required. Professional is now seen as personal. I see a pattern where younger employees are likely to frame feedback as personally harmful, as unfair attacks, or as lacking in psychological safety. They feel “you’re not just criticizing what I did, you’re invalidating who I am.” Any criticism feels like an assault. The amygdala in their brains can react as if they’re in physical pain. Conflict is now canceled. Gen Zers may wish to cancel any experience that’s disagreeable. Managers are unsure how to proceed for fear of being …

Traveling Without Sight: How Blind and Visually Impaired Explorers Navigate the World

Traveling Without Sight: How Blind and Visually Impaired Explorers Navigate the World

Published by Sam Flores

Luke walked beside me, one hand curled around my arm, the other tapping a gentle rhythm with his white cane. We were crossing the Taj Mahal’s grounds just after sunrise, the air already balmy and faintly perfumed. From the scattered murmur of tourists, Luke said he could sense a grand, open space around us. I described the Persian-style gardens — reflecting pools, clipped shrubs, stone walkways in perfect symmetry. Then I read aloud a sign: “Don’t make direct eye contact with monkeys.” Near the mausoleum’s entrance, the ground changed — rough sandstone yielding to cool marble, smooth beneath our feet. I guided Luke’s hands to the white facade … As his fingers roamed, Luke recalled the photographs he’d seen as a child, before retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary eye disease, gradually narrowed his vision and then, at 18, took it away. “I get the impression of something opulent and magnificent,” he told me. Inside, we joined the flow of tourists circling the tombs of Shah Jahan and his beloved, Mumtaz Mahal. Their voices echoed beneath the …

A ‘third eye’ helps fish navigate deep underwater

A ‘third eye’ helps fish navigate deep underwater

Published by Jenni Sidey

Light behaves differently underwater. It shifts with depth, bends through murky currents, and separates into distinct wavelengths that change from surface to seafloor. For fish, those subtle differences are not just background noise. They are cues. A new study from Osaka Metropolitan University points to a specific region deep in the zebrafish brain that helps decode those cues. The work identifies the tegmentum, part of the midbrain, as a place where two streams of light information meet, one from the eyes and another from a lesser-known light sensor often called the “third eye.” Together, those signals appear to guide a simple but essential behavior: whether a fish swims up or down. The finding adds detail to a long-standing question about how animals translate light into movement, especially in environments where light is constantly changing. Light irradiation protocol generating PP1-specific responses in wild-type larvae. (CREDIT: PNAS) Where Two Light Systems Converge Fish do not rely on a single visual pathway. Alongside their eyes, many species possess a pineal organ, a small structure sensitive to light that …

A Playoff Salary Cap Is Coming to the NHL. GMs Get a Calculator to Help Them Navigate It

A Playoff Salary Cap Is Coming to the NHL. GMs Get a Calculator to Help Them Navigate It

Published by Sam Flores

Starting this spring, the lineup for each game must fit under the salary cap, which until now did not apply in the postseason. As part of the adjustment, the league added a playoff cap calculator to the SAP-NHL Front Office App that general managers and other executives have been using for more than a year. “Once we were going to cap-compliant rosters for playoff games, we needed something that would enable us to do it in real time,” Commissioner Gary Bettman told The Associated Press. “It was an issue that a lot of people were concerned about. I’m glad we were able to solve it conceptually, and I’m glad that SAP and Central Registry were able to create a tool that made it realistic for teams to comply with this in real time.” The rule change was part of the collective bargaining agreement reached with the players union last summer. It comes after years of complaints about the LTIR loophole, which helped numerous teams load up at the trade deadline and go on deep playoff …

Mexico City’s ‘Xoli’ Chatbot Will Help World Cup Tourists Navigate the City

Mexico City’s ‘Xoli’ Chatbot Will Help World Cup Tourists Navigate the City

Published by skeptic

The Government of Mexico City has launched Xoli, a chatbot that will provide information on services, tourism, and cultural offerings. It’s available now via WhatsApp in both English and Spanish. The platform was designed to meet the demand of the millions of visitors expected to arrive during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. However, the authorities assure that the tool will remain active once the sporting event is over, with the aim of promoting economic activities and facilitating access to public services in the capital. In a press conference, Clara Brugada, head of the Mexico City government, stated that Xoli “will be the technological instrument that will allow us to link culture, tourism, recreation, and entertainment with the population.” Chat With Xoli The tool was developed entirely by the capital’s government, as a result of the collaboration between the Digital Agency for Public Innovation and the local Ministries of Tourism and Culture. The chatbot is already available on mobile devices and will operate continuously, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. To use it, just …