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The Guardian view on Artemis II: the light and dark sides of the moon | Editorial

07 April at 19:46 PM, via The Guardian

The threat posed by a new space race is real. But so is the wonder of humankind’s reaching for the skies

“Everything we need, Earth provides. And that is somewhat of a miracle, and one that you can’t truly know until you’ve had the perspective of the other.” This is how the US astronaut Christina Koch summed up her experience of travelling to the far side of the moon on Monday. The...

Judith Rapoport obituary

07 April at 18:30 PM, via The Guardian

Child psychiatrist who brought obsessive-compulsive disorder to public awareness and focused on the brain’s biology and its role in mental illness

The child psychiatrist Judith Rapoport, who has died aged 92, is credited with bringing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to public awareness. Her book The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing (1989), which was translated into more than 20 languages and...

Artemis II crew describe ‘overwhelming’ emotions after soaring past the moon

07 April at 16:23 PM, via The Guardian

Nasa astronauts begin journey home having collected eagerly awaited photographs of impact craters and ridges

Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts have described the powerful emotion felt when soaring over the moon as they photographed impact craters, cracks and ridges and began their long journey home.

Among the eagerly awaited images captured by the crew, who worked in pairs at the Orion capsule...

Trump tells Artemis II crew he saved Nasa despite trying to slash agency’s budget

07 April at 15:49 PM, via The Guardian

Astronauts had a call with the US president from space after setting record for the farthest-traveled humans from Earth

The crew of Artemis II phoned home from the moon on Monday night after their record-breaking day, to find Donald Trump musing about how he had saved the US space agency Nasa from closing down and telling the astronauts how much they deserved the honor of the president seeking...

Musk’s SpaceX courts retail investors as it aims for record-breaking stock market flotation

07 April at 15:43 PM, via The Guardian

Elon Musk’s aerospace to AI company will host summer event to try to convince buyers it is worth $2tn

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SpaceX will kick off the marketing for its highly anticipated stock exchange debut by hosting an event in June for 1,500 retail investors, as executives set out to convince buyers that the aerospace-to-artificial-intelligence group should be valued at $2...

Scientists develop gene-edited wheat that can make toasted bread less carcinogenic

07 April at 14:40 PM, via The Guardian

Bread and biscuits made from Crispr-edited wheat showed substantially reduced acrylamide levels, even after toasting

Gene-edited wheat which can make bread less carcinogenic when toasted has been successfully developed by scientists.

Researchers at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, used Crispr genome editing which allows researchers to selectively edit the DNA of living...

Artemis II makes lunar flyby: day five of Nasa mission – in pictures

07 April at 13:16 PM, via The Guardian

Astronauts onboard the Orion spacecraft break the record for the farthest distance humans have travelled from Earth – 5,000 miles (8,000km) beyond the moon – exceeding the distance achieved by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970

Artemis II swings back around after completing record-setting moon flyby

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Let’s stop going into space. There’s nothing to see and no one to talk to | Zoe Williams

07 April at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

I’ve nothing against astronauts or scientific innovation. But what’s the point of Artemis II?

It is absolutely self-evident to me that space exploration is pointless, and the more urgent the crises besetting this planet we live on, the more pointless it becomes. I can see why people got excited about it in the 1960s, back when the world was young and we still thought there might be little green...

Key moments from the Artemis II lunar flyby – video

07 April at 11:55 AM, via The Guardian

The astronauts of Artemis II flew further from Earth than any human beings before them, breaking Apollo 13’s distance record at 1.57pm ET on Monday.

Across a six-hour flyby, on the sixth day of a lunar mission that has reinvigorated Nasa’s space exploration programme, the crew of the Orion spacecraft captured views of the moon’s far side that have never been seen before

Blackouts, broken...

How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?

07 April at 11:00 AM, via New York Times

The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.

Can we eradicate a second human disease? – podcast

07 April at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

The number of human cases of guinea worm, a painful and debilitating tropical illness, fell to a record low of just 10 last year, according to the Carter Centre, the foundation set up by the late former US president Jimmy Carter. But despite years-long declines, it remains almost impossible to completely eradicate the parasite. Only one human illness has been entirely eradicated: smallpox. Why...

Blackouts, broken records and a message from the past: five key moments from Artemis II’s lunar flyby

07 April at 03:17 AM, via The Guardian

Crew of Orion capsule spent emotional day documenting surface of moon – and paying homage to astronauts who paved the way

Artemis II sets new record as astronauts travel farther from Earth than ever before

On the sixth day of a lunar mission that has rekindled global interest in space exploration and reinvigorated Nasa’s aims to return to the moon, the astronauts of Artemis II flew further...

Emotional Artemis II crew names moon crater ‘Carroll’ after Nasa commander’s late wife – video

07 April at 02:55 AM, via The Guardian

As the Artemis II mission approaches its lunar flyby, the crew shares an emotional moment as they call mission control to request a previously unnamed moon crater be dedicated to Carroll, the late wife of commander Reid Wiseman. ‘It’s a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll,’ mission specialist Jeremy Hansen says

Artemis II sets new record as astronauts travel farther...

Scientists identify ‘neural fingerprint’ of psychedelic drugs in the brain

06 April at 18:18 PM, via The Guardian

Analysis of more than 500 brain scans finds LSD, psilocybin and other psychedelics increase cross-talk between brain systems

Scientists have identified a hallmark signature produced by psychedelic drugs in the human brain when users experience their mind-altering effects.

The “neural fingerprint” of the psychedelic trip was spotted among hundreds of brain scans of people on LSD, psilocybin,...

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