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🪢 Morphing 3D-printed structures from flat to curved—in space
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Morphing 3D-printed structures from flat to curved—in space
Because it's costly and cumbersome to transport large structures such as satellite dishes into space, aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor, Jeff Baur, at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, developed a creative and efficient energy-saving method to morph 2D structures into curved 3D structures while in space.

Does your local newspaper have a space news column? I wish mine did...
#news #localnews #spacenews
https://mastodon.scot/@fionaorkneynews/115835654661135458
fionaorkneynews@mastodon.scot - Space Notes January 2026
In a month when the heavyweight players in space have been relatively quiet, this is a good moment to take note of two important spacecraft which are no longer with us.
https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/01/04/space-notes-january-2026/

"So what if, right, what if, we put the data centres in … space!
This idea has a lot of appeal if you’ve read too much sci-fi, and it sounds obvious if you don’t know any practical details."
(Original title: AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work)
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AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work
Spending all the money you have and all the money you can get and all the money you can promise has a number of side effects, such as gigantic data centres full of high-power chips just to run lyin…

SBS Portuguese – SBS em Português
Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Portuguese-speaking Australians...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sbs-portuguese/

Anthropic says Claude "will remain ad-free", users "won't see 'sponsored' links adjacent to" conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-is-a-space-to-think

Claude is a space to think | Anthropic
Anthropic explains why Claude will remain ad-free—how advertising incentives conflict with building a genuinely helpful AI assistant users can trust.

Smashed shops, no water, and cooking food on open fires: HELLISH life under Russian occupation: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/smashed-shops-no-water-and.html

❝“Free speech culture” becomes bad and unserious when it starts telling us that speech is morally neutral, that we should not make value judgments against it, and that there is no moral component to promoting it. I am committed to the defense of the legal right to speak, but the defense of speech does not require us to refrain from speaking frankly about moral truths.
Giving Wax [a bigot] a platform to be a bigot is morally distinguishable from saying she should be free to be a bigot. “The only immoral thing you can say is that someone else’s speech is immoral” is not an ethos worthy of respect.❞
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-fashionable-notion-of-free-speech

McVay says Stafford's MVP case 'speaks for itself' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47508280/sean-mcvay-says-matthew-stafford-mvp-case-speaks-itself

🤮 The ups and downs of space research
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The ups and downs of space research
Microgravity experienced during spaceflight poses potential health risks to astronauts' cardiovascular systems. Determining how to mitigate these health risks is challenging, as countermeasures are tested in Earth's gravity. But what if there was a way to perform research in microgravity, without leaving the atmosphere?

SBS Examines Dalam Bahasa Indonesia
A podcast dedicated to dispelling misinformation and disinformation that has an impact on Australian social cohesion...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sbs-examines-dalam-bahasa…