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Sex Ideology, Like Gender Ideology, Misses What Makes Us Men and Women

8 August 2026 at 13:00

Gender ideology was defeated by sex ideology this week. But what both of these outlooks miss is what really makes us men and women, says Dr Sinéad Murphy – and how it protects us from the control of technocracy.

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NASA Awards Facilities Support Services Contract for Ames Research Center 

17 July 2026 at 21:34

CONTRACT RELEASE

NASA has selected Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC to provide comprehensive operations, maintenance, and repair services for NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. 

The Ames Facilities Support Services II contract ensures that the center’s historic and specialized facilities are properly maintained, fully operational, and capable of supporting the agency’s missions and tenant partners in the NASA Research Park. 

The hybrid contract has a five-year period of performance, consisting of a 12-month base period and four 12-month option periods, with the possibility of a six-month extension. The performance period is expected to begin Thursday, Aug. 13. The contract includes cost-plus-award-fee core requirements, firm-fixed-price phase-in, and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task orders, providing flexibility to address both routine and emergent facility needs. The award has a maximum potential value of approximately $158 million, inclusive of all options and total indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity ceiling value. 

For more information about NASA and its missions, visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov

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Jeanne Neal
Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley, Calif.
650-604-4789
jeanne.c.neal@nasa.gov

Connecting single-cell transcriptomes to projectomes in the mouse visual cortex

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10424-8

In the mouse visual cortex, multimodal cell-type definitions, gene expression patterns and cell location predict long-range projection targets of excitatory neurons, linking transcriptomic identity with morphological, electrophysiological and circuit-level properties.

A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity

Nature, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10676-4

A new quantum computer, Quantinuum Helios, which is a 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum processor built on the QCCD architecture, demonstrates performance well beyond classical capabilities and provides a path for scaling up quantum computing.
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