Odin was a kelpie. Attentive and protective, with a happy smile and an endless hope for food, he succumbed to a terminal disease late last year. At his death, a deep sense of grief ripped through the household of one of us (Andrew): While Odin was not human, he was an irreplaceable member of the…
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Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA Mikaela Koutrouli, Carolina Leote, Christopher M. Rose & John C. Marioni Department of Molecular Biology and Digital Science Center (DiSC), University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Francesca Finotello & Felix Petschko Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark Erwin M. Schoof, Pedro Aragon-Fernandez & Valdemaras Petrosius Center for Disease Neurogenomics, Icahn School of Medicine…
As NASA prepares to send four astronauts around the moon for the 10-day Artemis II mission, a veteran space flier’s unexplained illness in orbit is spotlighting one of the biggest risks of deep-space travel: the need for medical systems in case of emergencies. NASA astronaut Michael Fincke said a sudden episode aboard the International Space…
Listen to this audio excerpt from Erik Richards, Near Space Network Mission Manager: Your browser does not support the audio element. For Erik Richards, supporting NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission to the Moon and back is the culmination of a career spent helping spacecraft communicate with Earth. Like many kids who grew up at the height of the Space Shuttle Program, Richards…
My parents have discovered the wonders of ChatGPT, and have been gleefully using it for everything they can think of. I’ve had “the chat” with them about the reliability of LLMs, but like most people they do indulge in social media fads from time to time. Whether it’s using ChatGPT to turn you into an…
If a better snack is harder to reach, many animals give up and take the easy option. Wild squirrels are more willing to work for it. In field experiments, grey squirrels continued to choose their preferred food even when it required a longer, more difficult climb. Lower-ranking squirrels were more likely to switch to the…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts set to become the first lunar visitors in more than half a century arrived at their launch site Friday, joining the towering rocket that stands poised to blast off next week and send them around the moon. Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman flew in with his three crewmates…
March 27, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA’s Artemis II astronauts arrive in Florida ahead of moon launch During their 10-day mission, this four-person crew will swing around the far side of the moon—and potentially travel farther from Earth than anyone in history By Meghan Bartels edited by Eric Sullivan Canadian…
A humpback whale stranded on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast since early this week has freed itself and swum into deeper waters, rescuers said on Friday. A flotilla of vessels were following the weakened animal at a distance, hoping to help guide it into the North Sea and toward the Atlantic Ocean, its natural habitat. The…
