NASA’s JPL Lays Off Hundreds Amid Mars Budget Uncertainties

Hundreds of employees at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will be affected by budget constraints looming over the space agency for the current year, with Congress still behind on issuing the final budget for 2024 and its final decision regarding Mars Sample Return (MSR). ‘More People Need to Know About This History’: A Black Astronaut … Read more

BOJ sticks to ultra-easy monetary policy in light of ‘extremely high uncertainties’

Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the central bank’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s central bank expectedly left its ultra-loose monetary policy unchanged at its final policy meeting this year in … Read more