NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, CXC This image released on June 30, 2025, combines data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to visualize dark matter. Researchers used Webb’s observations to carefully measure the mass of the… Read More »Mapping Dark Matter
In this artist’s concept, the ocean-observing satellite Sentinel-6B orbits Earth with its deployable solar panels extended. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Sentinel-6B, an international mission delivering critical sea level and ocean data… Read More »NASA Sets Launch Coverage for International Ocean Tracking Mission
The 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm extends from a data grapple fixture on the International Space Station’s Harmony module in this July 23, 2025, image. www.nasa.gov · Public Domain
The following is a guest post by Justine Forcina, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist Jenny Gesley at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. This post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal… Read More »FALQs: 35 Years of German Reunification
Grand Canyon National Park will close the North Rim to all visitor access on Friday, November 14, 2025, at 5:20 p.m. Sections of the North Rim are tentatively expected to reopen to visitors for the 2026 season on May 15,… Read More »Grand Canyon National Park’s North Rim to Close for the Season on November 14
Voyageurs National Park is announcing the Rainy Lake Visitor Center Hours for the 2025-2026 winter season. https://www.nps.gov/voya/learn/news/winter-2025-2026-rainy-lake-visitor-center-hours.htm www.nps.gov · Public Domain
Independence Hall will be closed to visitors from November 13, 2025, to January 28, 2026, to enable preservation teams to complete comprehensive interior work to prepare the site for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. https://www.nps.gov/inde/learn/news/independencehalltemporaryclosure.htm… Read More »Independence Hall to temporarily close for preservation projects in advance of the 250th Anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence
Dr. Walsh is the institute’s seventh director and will also serve as director of the National Toxicology Program. www.nih.gov · Public Domain
NASA’s Technology Transfer Office invites entrepreneurs, innovators, and creative thinkers to apply NASA’s patented technologies to practical applications. Participants will select an existing NASA patent and develop a business or product concept that will be evaluated based on value proposition,… Read More »NASA Patent Remix Challenge
Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars… Read More »A Stranger in Our Midst?
Thanks to the CC Open Education Platform community’s time proposing projects and voting on the proposals, we now have five winning ideas to advance open education globally. CC will fund five projects in 2024, spanning Brazil, Ghana, Nepal, and Nigeria.… Read More »The CC Open Education Platform Funds Five New Community Projects
Launched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated nearly 1800 people from 66 countries. The Certificate program offers in-depth courses about CC licenses, open practices, and the ethos of the Commons. Our staff is constantly inspired… Read More »CC Certificate Alumni Making a Global Impact
Photo of Empty Classroom by Diana. Public Domain. The Open Education program at Creative Commons works to support CC’s mission through education, advocacy, and outreach on using open licenses and open licensing policies to maximize the benefits of open education… Read More »CC Open Education: 2024 Year in Review
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During 2022, the OER Foundation supported capacity development of staff at the Samoan Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture (MESC) to establish and maintain their own instance of the OER Foundation’s award winning Free and Open Source (FOSS) Digital Learning… Read More »Samoan Ministry of Education implements the OER Foundation’s FOSS Digital Learning Ecosystem
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) commissioned the OER Foundation (OERF) to deploy its open digital infrastructure to host a growing inventory of OER-enabled online courses for the Pacific Partnership for Open, Distance and Flexible Learning, thereby providing an innovative and… Read More »OER Foundation’s open digital infrastructure powers the Pacific Partnership’s open online courses
Open Educational Resources (OER) are likely approaching an existential crisis because rapid advances in generative Large Language Models under the banner of ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) could erode their competitive advantage as digital public goods when compared to commercial content. The… Read More »South Pacific scenarios for OER’s existential AI crisis
Friday, November 7, 2025 Queens assemblymember and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani Image: Wikimedia Commons/Karamccurdy. New York City residents voted for Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani over disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo in the Mayoral race. For weeks, Mamdani led the… Read More »Mamdani wins New York City mayoral election
Sunday, November 9, 2025 The annual cultural and educational event, “Night of the Arts,” was held on the eve of Russia’s National Unity Day, continuing a series of cultural festivals such as “Night at the Museum,” “Night at the… Read More »Russian "Art Night" in Crimea: Wikinews interviews Traveler Viktor Pinchuk
Monday, November 10, 2025 File photo of a man's opera hat, traditionally seen as a magician's symbol.Image: Rijksmuseum. The last week of October was National Magic Week in the U.S. Wikinews recently caught up with Bruce Chadwick, of Fort… Read More »Wikinews interviews magician and illusion builder Bruce Chadwick for National Magic Week