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Nasa brought crashing down to earth as budget threat follows lunar success

03 May at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Artemis II inspired the public but the Trump administration wants to slash the science underpinning human spaceflight

It should have been a victory lap for Jared Isaacman. The Nasa administrator was in Washington DC for what he surely hoped would be a celebration with lawmakers and the US president, little more than two weeks after the successful conclusion of the first human journey around the...

UK ‘invention agency’ grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms

03 May at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Aria is aimed at funding ‘crazy’ scientific projects to benefit the UK

Britain’s “invention agency” has pledged £50m of UK taxpayer money to US tech companies and venture capital projects.

Dreamed up by Dominic Cummings to fund “crazy” ideas, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) is meant to “restore Britain’s place as a scientific...

‘We don’t hear the frogs, we don’t see the birds’: government repeatedly delayed water to NSW wetlands, documents reveal

02 May at 22:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: A grazier has released emails that reveal the state’s environment and water department prioritised harvesting of winter cereal crops over wetlands

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The New South Wales government has routinely delayed environmental flows to critical wetlands in the state’s north-west in favour of farming, despite...

‘The happiest time of life is as you get older’: can positive thinking help you age better?

02 May at 22:00 PM, via The Guardian

Doing more trips around the sun does not mean inevitable decline, new research suggests – and having a optimistic outlook can even bring improvements

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By most standards, Prof Velandai Srikanth is at the peak of his career. He is the director of the National Centre for Healthy Ageing; his decades of highly regarded research have led to work being...

German museum to return rare Irritator dinosaur skull to Brazil

02 May at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

Spinosaurid fossil bought by Stuttgart institution in 1991 has been the subject of a long restitution campaign

It is a 113-million-year-old bone of contention.

After Stuttgart’s museum of natural history bought a fossilised dinosaur skull in 1991, researchers found it was the most complete spinosaurid skull known to date, belonging to a previously unknown genus of the huge meat-eating...

First malaria drug for babies is approved in ‘major public health milestone’

02 May at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

WHO prequalification of Coartem Baby means newborns can be safely treated rather than using medication for older children

The first malaria treatment for babies has been approved by the World Health Organization, opening the door to widespread use around the globe.

In parts of Africa, up to 18% of children under six months will be infected with malaria, but there has historically been no safe...

‘It’s super weird, super odd, super rare’: meet the twins who have different dads

02 May at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

When DNA test results shattered everything Lavinia and Michelle thought they knew about their family history, they also revealed something never before documented in the UK

I like being a twin. It defines who I am,” Lavinia Osbourne tells me on the 49th birthday she shares with her sister, Michelle. “It’s amazing to have a twin and have a built-in friend for ever,” Michelle says....

The Super Shoe’s Step-by-Step Evolution

01 May at 18:35 PM, via New York Times

The race to near-weightlessness has been a driving force of innovation in running sneakers and helped lead to records shattering at the London Marathon.

We are preparing to transform the moon and Mars. The public must have a say in this future | Ben Bramble

01 May at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

The Artemis missions are paving the way to civilizational decisions. It’s time to ask not just what we can do – but whether we should do it

This month’s splashdown of Artemis II was rightly celebrated as a technical achievement. Four astronauts traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and returned safely. It is an extraordinary thing to send people into deep space and bring them...

UK Biobank has my data, but I’m not worried. I know the benefits are too great to consider pulling out | Polly Toynbee

01 May at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Longitudinal studies are a research jewel, shedding light on motor neurone disease, cot deaths, Alzheimer’s and more. Don’t let the security breach in China put you off joining one

One thing Britain is exceptionally good at is collecting and using health data for research, studying cohorts of people over many decades. A shudder of alarm rippled through the research world at the news this week...

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