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Trump announces Space Command HQ will switch to Alabama from Colorado

02 September at 23:56 PM, via The Guardian

President says national security operations in space will be based in state he won comfortably, reversing Biden decision

Donald Trump made his first public appearance in a week on Tuesday to announce that the US Space Command (Spacecom) headquarters, which is tasked with leading national security operations in space, would be in the Republican stronghold of Alabama.

Flanked by Republican...

Herwig Schopper obituary

02 September at 21:36 PM, via The Guardian

Director general of Cern in the 1980s who went on to establish the Sesame laboratory in Jordan

The German physicist Herwig Schopper, who has died aged 101, was director general of Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, from 1981 to 1988, overseeing the laboratory’s first Nobel prize-winning discovery and paving the way to another. It was thanks to Herwig’s tenacity that the...

Long Covid has more than 200 potential symptoms. Selective gullibility is one of mine

02 September at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

When things are grim, the promises made by the wellness industry sound very appealing. I worry about how vulnerable this has made me

Ordinarily, I’m a sensible person – at least part-time. A journalist, an asker of questions, a checker of sources. Historically, a big fan of research.

But three years into a debilitating chronic illness, I am willing to try anything to get well. Even things that...

Archaeologists in Peru discover 3D mural that could date back 4,000 years

02 September at 12:30 PM, via The Guardian

The unprecedented find has shifted archaeological understanding about the first civilisations in the Americas

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a multicoloured three-dimensional mural that could date back 4,000 years, in an unprecedented find that has shifted archaeological understanding about the first civilisations in the Americas.

The centrepiece of the three-by-six metre mural is a...

‘A paradigm change’: black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang

02 September at 12:05 PM, via The Guardian

Sighting by James Webb space telescope of black hole with sparse halo of material could upend theories of the universe

An ancient and “nearly naked” black hole that astronomers believe may have been created in the first fraction of a second after the big bang has been spotted by the James Webb space telescope.

If confirmed as a so-called primordial black hole, a theoretical class of object...

RFK Jr and the chaos at the CDC – podcast

02 September at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

It’s been a dramatic week at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the space of seven days, the agency’s head was sacked and replaced by an interim head, four senior staff members resigned, and existing staff took to the streets to express support for their ousted leaders. To understand how everything unfolded and what it could mean for the health of Americans, science...

Saving the world’s fattest parrot: can New Zealand vaccinate its rare species before bird flu gets to them?

02 September at 04:00 AM, via The Guardian

In the last continent to remain untouched by the virus, hopes are being pinned on immunisation as migration season approaches

It is easy to imagine how it could happen. A petrel, flying east from the Indian Ocean at the end of the Austral winter, makes landfall at New Zealand’s southern Codfish Island/Whenua Hou. Tired from its long journey, the petrel seeks refuge in the burrow of a green...

Three-minute test helps identify people at greater risk of Alzheimer’s, trial finds

02 September at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

Test detects memory problems linked to Alzheimer’s long before typical diagnosis, raising possibility of earlier drug intervention

A three-minute brainwave test can detect memory problems linked to Alzheimer’s disease long before people are typically diagnosed, raising hopes that the approach could help identify those most likely to benefit from new drugs for the condition.

In a small trial,...

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