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The Day AWS Went Dark: Inside the US-East-1 Outage
A DNS failure inside Amazon's Virginia data hub knocked Snapchat, Fortnite, Ring and banks offline for 15 hours. Here is what actually broke.
Oct 21, 2025
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope Enters Final Commissioning as Hubble Maps Lenses for It
Roman has finished its initial checkout and can guide, image and slew, NASA says. On the same day Hubble released a lens image meant to teach astronomers how to read Roman's wide views.
Oct 23, 2026
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A Detector a Mile Under South Dakota Saw One Event It Cannot Explain, and Its Own Scientists Say Do Not Get Excited
The LUX-ZEPLIN collaboration reported a single particle interaction in ten tonnes of liquid xenon that matches no known background. It is a 2.6 sigma result, one chance in two hundred of being a fluke, and far from a discovery. Why it matters anyway.
Sep 8, 2026
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The Telescope Launching This Month Sees a Patch of Sky a Hundred Times Wider Than Hubble's
Nancy Grace Roman is not a bigger Webb. It is a survey instrument, built to photograph enormous areas of sky at Hubble-class sharpness, and its value is in the sheer volume of what it will record.
Aug 21, 2026
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ESA's Euclid Telescope Finds Its First New Comet, Spotted by Software as a Streak Across Five Images
A dark-energy survey telescope has picked up a long-period comet 1.3 billion km away, and ESA says the discovery was a happy accident rather than part of the mission plan.
Oct 19, 2026
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Drones Take Out a Third Yandex Data Centre in a Week, Hitting the Hardware Behind Russia's AI Push
Ukrainian drones shut Yandex's Vladimir facility on Sunday after hits on Sasovo and Kaluga, and a Cloudflare reading showing automated traffic from Yandex's network down about 94 per cent.
Oct 12, 2026
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Francis Halzen Wins the Nobel Prize in Physics for Turning Antarctic Ice Into a Neutrino Telescope
The Royal Swedish Academy gave the prize to one man for an idea he first floated in 1988: that a cubic kilometre of South Pole ice could catch messengers from the far reaches of the universe.
Oct 6, 2026
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UC San Diego Physicists Ran a New Check on Whether the Universe's Oldest Light Has a Slight Twist
Anto Lonappan, Brian Keating and Kam Arnold built an independent method to test for cosmic birefringence in the cosmic microwave background, finding a rotation angle that agrees with earlier hints of new physics.
Sep 29, 2026
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China Is Sending a Lander, a Rover and a Hopper to the Lunar South Pole on Monday
Chang'e 7 targets the one part of the Moon where ice may have sat undisturbed for billions of years, in craters the sun has never reached. The hopper is the part nobody has tried before.
Aug 21, 2026
