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Auftakt zu Icarus 2.0: Neuer Satellit für die globale Tierbeobachtung ist im All
Wegen des Kriegs in der Ukraine wurde ein ambitioniertes Projekt zur globalen Beobachtung von Tieren vorzeitig abgebrochen. Nun ist ein Nachfolger im All.

Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/indonesia-closes-2025-with-rising-disasters-and-stalled-environmental-reform/

Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform
JAKARTA — Indonesia closed 2025 facing an uncomfortable reality: climate disasters are escalating while policy direction has remained largely unchanged during President Prabowo Subianto’s first year in office, with the country still heavily dependent on fossil fuels and extractive industries such as palm oil and mining. One of the deadliest disasters in Indonesia in recent […]

Starlink plans to lower its satellites orbiting at ~550km to ~480km in 2026 to improve space safety and reduce the likelihood of debris collisions (Rishabh Jaiswal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defe…

Worrying new simulations show that a solar storm on par with the infamous Carrington Event
could potentially wipe out every single satellite orbiting our planet,
leaving us in a precarious and expensive predicament.
And experts say such a powerful solar storm is inevitable and will hit our planet sooner or later.
On Sept. 1, 1859, British astronomer Richard Carrington observed a brilliant flash of light coming from a gigantic sunspot that was about the same size as J…

The next solar superstorm could wipe out 'all our satellites,' new simulations reveal
New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting satellites — and it is a question of "when," not "if" this will happen, experts say.

Remote Auditing: Design-based Tests of Randomization, Selection, and Missingness with Broadly Accessible Satellite Imagery
Connor T. Jerzak, Adel Daoud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00128

Remote Auditing: Design-based Tests of Randomization, Selection, and Missingness with Broadly Accessible Satellite Imagery
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the benchmark for causal inference, yet field implementation can deviate. We here present a remote audit - a design-based, preregistrable diagnostic that uses only pre-treatment satellite imagery to test whether assignment is independent of local conditions. The conditional randomization test of the remote audit evaluates whether treatment assignment is more predictable from pre-treatment satellite features than expected under the experiment's registered …

Über 2 Millionen Euro: Magnetisches Full-Body-Tracking wird zum Crowdfunding-Hit
FluxPose stellt ein System für magnetisches Full-Body-Tracking in VR vor, das eine kompakte Alternative zu Valves Lighthouse-Tracking darstellen könnte.

The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities ✅without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for #grant

Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants - BLKNewsNow.com
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.

EOL: Logitechs POP-Schalter werden in zwei Wochen zu Elektroschrott
Logitech stellt seine vor weniger als zehn Jahren eingeführten "POP"-Schalter für das Smart-Home ein. Nutzer haben nur zwei Wochen, sich nach Ersatz umzusehen. 

Space Forge erhitzt erstmals Fertigungsofen im Weltall auf 1000 Grad
Das Unternehmen Space Forge aus Cardiff konnte zum ersten Mal Plasma im Fertigungsofen ihres Satelliten ForgeStar-1 erzeugen.
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Samsung stellt erstes Trifold-Gerät aus, Vorstellung noch ausstehend
Samsung hat sein Trifold-Gerät erstmals ausgestellt. Eine regelrechte Vorstellung lässt aber noch auf sich warten.
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