Collins Aerospace withdraws from NASA spacesuit contract

WASHINGTON — As NASA grapples with more space suit problems on the International Space Station, the company it selected to develop replacement suits says it is withdrawing from that effort. In a statement to SpaceNews on June 25, a spokesperson for Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of RTX Corp., said the company and NASA had agreed … Read more

University of Minnesota withdraws groundbreaking research on stem cells and Alzheimer’s disease

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 public domain Years after questions were raised about their integrity, two of the University of Minnesota’s most prominent scientific discoveries have been retracted in the space of one week: one that offered hope for the therapeutic potential of stem cells and the other that offered a promising path to treating Alzheimer’s disease. The … Read more

Meta withdraws a sextortion expert’s job offer after he publicly criticizes Instagram

Meta withdrew a job offer from a prominent cyber intelligence analyst immediately after he criticized Instagram for its failure to protect children online. Paul Raffile had been offered a job as a human exploitation investigator, focusing on issues such as extortion and human trafficking. He had participated in a webinar on April 24 on protecting … Read more