A 64-year-old Kashmiri woman who never picked up a weapon has been sentenced to die in prison. In March, a special National Investigation Agency court in New Delhi handed Aasiya Andrabi three concurrent life sentences, making her among the first Kashmiri women jailed for participation in the self-determination movement to receive such a punishment. The […]

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We treat discipline as a character trait — something you either have or lack. But neuroscience increasingly shows that what we call discipline is actually trained attention: a cognitive skill that can be built, depleted, and rebuilt through structured practice.

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NASA’s Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations program isn’t just behind schedule. It’s drifting toward a failure that could end America’s continuous presence in low Earth orbit for the first time in over two decades — and hand that strategic territory to China, whose Tiangong station is already operational and expanding. The CLD program was supposed […]

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Improving the accuracy of space situational awareness data and using tighter thresholds for potential conjunctions can help retire most satellite collision risk in LEO, a new study concludes.

An Israeli drone strike reportedly killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Wishah in Gaza on Wednesday, bringing the journalist death toll to 262 and sharpening a question that press freedom organizations have been raising with increasing urgency: whether the unprecedented rate of journalist deaths in this conflict can still be explained as a tragic byproduct of […]

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A Nobel Peace Prize laureate is about to be classified alongside terrorist organizations. That is the reality facing Memorial, the storied Russian human rights group, as the country’s Supreme Court prepares to rule on a Ministry of Justice petition to designate it an “extremist organisation” — a legal classification that would criminalize any contact with […]

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A flurry of commercial innovation has left the U.S. government with no shortage of sensors and AI-driven insights to monitor the increasingly packed and contested space environment.