The article in question is the scientific paper, so no silly "quote" "marks" there.
"They" just come from the "person" who "submitted" this "to" slashdot.

For me, the things that seem to be missing with low-end phones are wireless charging and the ability to use an e-sim.

For the high end, the thing that's missing is the ability to use a microSD card, which is a much cheaper way to add extra storage than buying the manufacturer's higher-storage models.

Samsung currently doesn't sell their mid-range A55 phone in the US.
The conventional wisdom on that is that they don't want to cannibalize their "flagship" phones.

Although, unfortunately, there are plenty of people around who like to shout into their phones on speaker with others around.

Yes!

But to read that much you do need to keep your ass on the couch rather than going outside...

It's the a mission to measure polarization of cosmic X-rays following IXPE, a collaboration between NASA and the Italian space agency (ASI) that was launched in 2021. There were a small number of previous attempts to measure the polarization of X-rays from black hole sources and similar systems (e.g. accreting neutron stars and pulsars) but they were much less sensitive and didn't achieve so much.

I suspect the reporters writing about the Indian mission either don't understand polarization, or else decided it was too complicated to explain concisely to a general audience!

Peter Wehner

David Brooks, Ross Douthat, Bret Stephens

Although normal people don't need temperatures given to 1/10,000 of a degree C.
(Particularly when the original numbers are rounded to the nearest degree F.)

Just because every new car sold will be an EV doesn't immediately make every car on the road an EV.
The average age of a car on the road is 12 years, so it will take a lot longer for most cars to be EV.

No researcher claimed the detection of ET.
They reported the detection of a signal that had some characteristics of that expected from an alien technological signal, but they also stated that the polarization indicated that it was due to EFI.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.researchsquare....

They is a very substantial risk to one's reputation for claiming a significant discovery that is not supported by the evidence.

That never happened.
I think only the Solar Maximum Mission and HST were repaired with the shuttle.
They were placed in the cargo bay, which is unpressurized.
And it wasn't a question of "just" going up there, the missions were very expensive and had to be planned in detail.

Fly-by would be easier!

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.baltimoresun.com%2Fn...

Evolution doesn't work to select the "best" of a species, only those that are better suited to the current environment.

e.g. if the climate becomes dryer, there's a selection for individuals who survive better in dry conditions, but they
will no longer be the "best" when the climate becomes wetter.

So, for the academic environment there's a selection for people who can write lots of papers and win grants, but that
doesn't necessarily provide the optimum environment for all types of work - particularly research that may take a long time
and has a large change of failure, even if the results can be very important if it succeeds.