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Magnificent Desolation – The Journey to the Moon
Otto English on the beauty in that brief moment on 20 July 1969 when the human race came together and marvelled silently at the great things we can do.
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Science Museum Under Fire for Propping Up Arms Companies as Artists’ Group Pulls Out of Exhibition
A new exhibition on concerns around privacy in a digital age at London’s Science Museum is being sponsored by a company selling arms reportedly used to slaughter civilians in Yemen.
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The Attraction of Iran: The Middle East’s Locked Up Treasure Trove
It’s not just a wealth of natural resources that makes Iran such a target, but the fact they’re nationalised explains Adi MacArtney
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Science Hooker’s July Science Picks
Robo-fish Powered by Fluid Battery ‘Blood’. A 40cm soft robotic fish has been built that has no solid batteries but uses battery fluid like blood. This blood both propels the fish and stores energy. This is a big step towards creating autonomous robots. “The approach increased the amount of energy stored in the robot by…
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SCIENCE HOOKER: Heated Hatred – Does Conflict Correlate with Climate Change?
Is climate change exacerbating armed conflicts around the world? Yes, but probably less than you thought.
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Science Hooker’s June Science Picks
A review of the most interesting news about science from around the universe by Byline Times’ science correspondent Adi MacArtney
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SCIENCE HOOKER: Buying Redemption – Academic Reparations
Adi MacArtney on the debate in British institutions about how to account for their colonial past.
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Trump’s Political Space Race
Lindsay McKenzie reports from Washington on how NASA is being pressured by the President to work to his short-term political timescale
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Black Holes – A Lesson in Perspective
Katie Bouman, the woman who created the algorithm to prove Einstein’s theorem, has given Otto English a breath of Brexit relief
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SCIENCE HOOKER: Born Perfect –Scientists Speak Out Over Genetic Editing of Human Babies
Adi McArtney wonders whether germline editing is humanity simply taking Darwinism off autopilot or is a dark new chapter of divisive social engineering
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SCIENCE HOOKER: Learning to Kill
What are the consequences of handing over life and death decisions to a machine in combat, even with tokenistic human oversight?
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Trump Tries to Gut Science Funding, Again
Donald Trump’s administration has proposed further cuts to science funding, angering experts who argue the sector is essential to the U.S. economy.
