NASA’s ‘human computer’: Meet the woman who calculated the future of spaceflight without machines
Annie Easley began as a ‘human computer’, performing complex calculations by hand before electronic systems took over. She later became ...
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Cool biz: Why Tokyo workers are ditching suits for shorts?
Tokyo’s metropolitan government is allowing employees to wear shorts to work this summer as part of an expanded “Cool Biz” ...
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In 2019, a NASA intern scanning star data noticed a tiny glitch and uncovered a world orbiting two suns
A seventeen-year-old intern at NASA, Wolf Cukier, discovered a unique circumbinary planet, TOI-1338 b, orbiting two stars. His diligent analysis ...
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