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Keith Wright from Dorset, worked on Apollo 11 - the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon.
It's easy to assume that Robert Woo was defined by the accident that took away his ability to walk. Certainly, the day of his accident 14 December 2007 was a turning point. Woo, an architect working on the new Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York City, hadn't attended his company's holiday party the night before, and that morning he was the only one in the trailer that served as the construction-site office. He was bent over his laptop when, 30 floors above, a crane's nylon sling...
Popular Mechanics - 8 hours 13 min agoAncient Egyptians had none of our technology, but managed to complete the megalith almost unnaturally fast.
Commercial data centers have become critical infrastructure, supporting everything from financial transactions to government services. And critical infrastructure is often targeted in war.
Streamflows the West relies on for drinking water and farms used to follow a fairly predictable arc as winter snow melted. Rising temperatures are changing that.
Being in public parks and natural environments with other visitors is a powerful opportunity to enhance enjoyment rather than detract from it.
Hydrologist Maureen Gutsch trudged through the mud and slush to confirm a grim picture: Colorado just had its worst snowpack since statewide records began in 1941. Even more troubling, mountain snow accumulations peaked a month early and contained just half the average moisture, per the AP . As a warm winter...
Popular Mechanics - 9 hours 13 min agoSure, it was important to keep track of commercial and economic details, but it was just as important to write out ancient consequences for homicide.
The Artemis II mission crew includes the first woman, the first Black person, and the first non-American astronaut to travel to the lunar environment.
Shifts in 988 hotline volunteer behavior can have a major impact for autistic callers, a population more likely to experience suicidal crisis.
Rescuers said Wednesday that they have given up hope for the humpback whale that has become stranded repeatedly off Germany's Baltic Sea coast; they now expect it to die in the inlet where it currently lies. Last week, it was rescued from shallow water at Timmendorfer Strand, a resort town...
Last Word On Nothing - 12 hours 37 min agoWhen I'm thinking about the evolution of animal forms, as one does, mostly I'm considering animals that exist, or that previously existed, and wondering what conditions and adaptations led to their rise and persistence. Which beak shape gave that bird an advantage where seeds were like stones? Which wing length made sense for a bird […] The post Mind the Gap appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
Harrison Schmitt, now 90, was on the Apollo 17 mission the last time humans visited the moon. On Wednesday, NASA's Artemis II mission aims to kickstart a return.
Dr. Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and the last person to walk on the moon, speaks with NBC News' Aaron Gilchrist about his experience, moon rock samples, and the significance of the upcoming Artemis II mission for the next generation.
Nature - 21 hours 13 min agoNeurodegeneration shows regional and cell-type-specific patterns in ageing and disease1, but the underlying mechanisms for cell-type-specific neuronal losses remain poorly understood. Previous studies have shown that upper cortical layer thinning occurs in progressive human multiple sclerosis (MS) and that cortical layer 2 and layer 3 (L2/3) excitatory neurons (L2/3ENs) that express CUT-like homeobox 2 (CUX2) are selectively vulnerable to degeneration2. Here we report that L2/3ENs within MS cortical...
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Nature - 21 hours 13 min agoThe Fischer Tropsch synthesis shaped history by providing a way of making liquid fuels from coal. It is now causing a stir again as a route to sustainable fuels.
The American Heart Assn. is the latest medical association to issue guidelines that conflict with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA-friendly guidelines.
Here's everything you need to know about the Artemis II mission, the long-awaited (and long-delayed) human return to the moon.
Retraction Watch - 23 hours 30 min agoThe BMJ has retracted a paper on stem cell therapy for heart failure after sleuths flagged the work for "serious" inconsistencies in data. Published in October, the paper reported the results of a phase III clinical trial of more than 400 patients in Shiraz, Iran, looking at whether stem cell therapy lowers the risk of … Continue reading BMJ retracts cardiac stem cell paper, removes authors months after sleuths flag data mismatch'...
NPR - 23 hours 54 min agoThe Artemis II mission crew contains four people -- including one woman and one Black man, both of whom will be the first on a lunar mission. But NASA hasn't been talking about these milestones much.
NPR - 23 hours 55 min agoA four-astronaut crew is going on the first mission to send humans around the moon in more than 50 years. NPR's Scott Detrow visited with the crew while they were still training in Houston.
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