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NASA Administrator Jim BridenstineJames (Jim) Frederick BridenstineHouse’s appropriators cut NASA’s moon landing funds; Will the Senate do better? NASA names DC headquarters after the agency’s first black engineer Mary W. Jackson. He is tirelessly forming an international coalition to support Artemis’s return to the moon program. Recently, Bridenstine signed a …

After the coronavirus pandemic forced closing concert halls and opera houses this spring, online performances proliferated. The Metropolitan Opera began streaming nightly operas from its extensive video archive, and in April it hosted a Home Gala, broadcast on smartphones from singer houses around the world. The classical and opera offerings …

“TikTok is spying on you,” announce the ads, and links to a poll and Trump campaign mailing list record asking if TikTok should be banned in the United States. TikTok, owned by a Chinese company and popular with young Americans, has become a focal point in the tensions between Washington …

Stacy Rasgon has been on Twitter since 2011, but she recently realized that her tweets were a bit boring. “These are pictures of children and airline seats,” he thought, noting that his employer, global asset management firm Bernstein, does not allow him to tweet about semiconductor companies or most of …

July 18, 2020 A THE VISITOR IS hanging in the night skies of the northern hemisphere. Comet neowise was discovered on March 27 by the eponymous Near-Field Infrared Reconnaissance Explorer for Near-Earth Objects, an orbiting telescope owned by NASA, the United States space agency. Neowise was originally “wise”, an instrument …