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Genetics may help explain why results from weight-loss jabs vary, say scientists

08 April at 19:29 PM, via The Guardian

Data on almost 28,000 patients suggests understanding gene variations could improve treatments for obesity

Scientists have discovered how genetics may help explain why weight-loss jabs work better for some people than others.

Variations in two genes involved in gut hormone pathways, which regulate appetite and digestion, may help account for different weight-loss results or side-effects when...

What does the dark side of the moon sound like? Nasa’s sonifications are helping us imagine

08 April at 15:50 PM, via The Guardian

As Artemis II returns from the dark side of the moon, Nasa’s transformations of electromagnetic energy into sound remind us that everything is vibrating – even while the astronauts are listening to Chappell Roan

Jaw-dropping dark-siding exploration aside, it’s the mundane details of the Artemis II mission that connect us with the four astronauts slingshotting their way around the moon and...

How games capture the awe and terror of cosmic isolation

08 April at 13:40 PM, via The Guardian

As real astronauts vanish behind the moon, games have long tried to evoke the fragile quiet of drifting through space

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Last week’s launch of the Artemis II space mission was a stunning spectacle, the 17-storey-high rockets erupting into cacophonous life before wrenching the craft through the Earth’s atmosphere. But the images...

World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’

08 April at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Former UN climate chief to co-chair Lancet Commission examining how sea-level rise is reshaping health, wellbeing and inequality

Countries are being “held hostage” by their reliance on fossil fuels, a former UN climate chief has warned, describing the health impacts of climate change as “the mother of all injustices”.

Christiana Figueres, an international climate negotiator who...

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

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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.

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