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Nikon Stabilized 12x25 S binocular review

September 3, 2025
The Nikon Stabilized 12×25 S binoculars are my top recommendation for a compact binocular with image stabilization built in, all for under $650. It was back about three years ago in a previous review of the Nikon Monarch HG 10×42 binoculars that I yearned for Nikon to release image stabilized binoculars, and thankfully, just a few years later, that wish has been fulfilled. They are…
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1st Indian astronaut to visit ISS welcomed home as a hero

September 3, 2025
Shubhanshu Shukla, who recently became the first Indian to visit the International Space Station (ISS), received a grand welcome in his hometown of Lucknow in northern India earlier this week. Shukla returned to India from the U.S. on Aug. 17, following an 18-day mission in…
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Official death count of 2023 Hawaii wildfires doesn’t capture true toll, study suggests

September 2, 2025
In August 2023, the deadliest fires the U.S. had seen in a century tore through Lāhainā, Maui, devastating the town and taking the lives of between 100 and 102 people, according to an official death count at the time — and, as the planet warms and the climate changes, scientists expect wildfires to grow in number. Now, two years after those tragic Lāhainā wildfires, researchers have taken a…
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Galactic cannonballs: The mystery of hypervelocity white dwarfs may just have been solved

September 1, 2025
White dwarfs — the superdense, slowly cooling embers left behind when stars like our sun die — are usually quiet cosmic relics. A rare few, however, are anything but. In recent years, astronomers analyzing data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft identified a handful of white dwarfs hurtling through the Milky Way at breakneck speeds of up to 1,240 miles per second (2,000…
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NASA debuts new Orion mission control room for Artemis 2 astronaut flight around the moon (photos)

August 29, 2025
With shiny new next-generation spacecraft come the complex systems required to track their technologically advanced systems. When it comes to NASA’s Orion spacecraft, that need is a whole extra room of monitors. NASA has opened a new complex in the Mission Control Center at its Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston ahead of the Artemis 2 mission to send astronauts around the moon aboard the…
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