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SpaceX Starship Launch: Highlights From the 2nd Flight of Elon Musk’s Moon and Mars Rocket

The powerful Starship vehicle reached an altitude of about 90 miles above Earth on Saturday before SpaceX lost contact, potentially because of an automated detonation.

19 noiembrie 2023 | NYTimes

The Guardian view on new dictionary words: a parlour game that can clarify a scary reality | Editorial

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AI has given us hallucination as word of the year. We should quarrel with this humanising definition while recognising that it evokes unprecedented times When the Cambridge dictionary announced “hallucinate” as its word of the year this week, it was not referring to its existing definition as a human condition of “seeing, hearing, feeling or smelling something that does not exist”, but to the phenomenon of AI developing the capacity to make – or fake – things up. This is itself a so...

19 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Jeremy Hunt to announce US-inspired science and technology scheme

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Plan to nurture homegrown investors focused on ensuring UK innovations have commercial payoff Larry Elliott: Hollywood ending unlikely for Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Hunt will use his autumn statement to announce a US-inspired scheme aimed at developing homegrown science and technology investors focused on ensuring UK innovations have a commercial payoff. Amid concern in government that Britain too often fails to exploit scientific breakthroughs, the chancellor is expected to announce plans for a fello...

19 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

My brother the political prisoner, by Sanaa Seif

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I was just his little sister, now I’m trying to free him from an Egyptian prisonThe drive north out of Cairo from my family home is one I know well. It’s the route up to the coastal city of Alexandria, a joy-filled trip I often used to make to Egypt’s north-coast beaches. On the morning of 17 November 2022, however, almost exactly a year ago today, the journey could not have felt more different. We might have been travelling in that same direction, but our destination this time was the pri...

19 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

The doomsday vaults storing seeds, data and DNA to protect our future

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Around the world, highly secure chambers are being built to preserve everything we need to withstand any number of worst-case scenarios Are we allowed to go in?” I surprise myself with this question, given that I’m staring through the small window of a door into one of six underground vaults, each one essentially a walk-in freezer. The temperature inside is -20C. It is a grey winter day at the Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst, Sussex and the maze of featureless corridors and reinforced con...

19 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Rows and rockets blow up as Elon Musk’s firms endure turbulent weekend

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Another space launch failed, but it’s the loss of major advertisers on X that has enraged the tycoon It has been an explosive weekend for Elon Musk. The American billionaire has had to witness not only the public “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of another of his rockets, but also watch while a group of well-known global companies, including Apple, Disney and IBM, pulled advertising from X, his social media platform. The businesses, all of them household names, made the decision to stop sp...

19 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Scientists set to expose chaos and disagreement in UK government at Covid inquiry

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The eat out to help out scheme will face scrutiny when Patrick Vallance, Chris Whitty and Angela McLean appear this week Explosive evidence about the tensions and disagreements between the then prime minister Boris Johnson, his ministers and the country’s top scientific advisers at key moments during the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to be made public this week at the official inquiry into the crisis. On Monday, Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser – whos...

19 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Among the ‘memory athletes’, 1971

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Could a computer ever rival their astonishing feats? The idea seemed preposterous ‘Your memory could fill the Albert Hall,’ proclaimed the Observer on 21 March 1971, explaining that ‘a computer to perform even the simpler functions of the human brain would need to be at least as big as the Albert Hall.’ Now we outsource much of our memory to devices that slip in our back pockets, what can an exploration of extraordinary ‘memory athletes’ still tell us about how we remember? ‘Clare...

19 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

SpaceX\'s Starship rocket booster explodes after blast off – video

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SpaceX’s spacecraft Starship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, reached space for the first time on Saturday but was seen in footage experiencing a \'rapid unscheduled disassembly\'. The two-stage rocket ship blasted off from the Elon Musk-owned company’s Starbase launch site near Boca Chica in Texas on a planned 90-minute uncrewed flight into space. The 120-metre Starship rocket system, the most powerful ever built, failed a first flight test in April, when the spacecraf...

18 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Kimberley Wilson: ‘You can’t have good mental health without good nutrition’

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The psychologist, 40, talks about childhood memories, the shortness of life, always being honest and the answer to most of your problems: beansI was a bookish, quiet and nerdy child. I felt like an outsider, although I wonder if most kids feel that. I was rarely wild – being a black kid in east London, I was always aware of assumptions being made and of what others might get away with, but I might not. My earliest memory is having a picnic on the UK coast: sandwiches, chicken drumsticks in tin...

18 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Where did they all go? How Homo sapiens became the last human species left

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At least nine hominin species once roamed the Earth, so what became of our vanished ancestors? Just 300,000 years ago – a blink in evolutionary time – at least nine species of humans wandered the planet. Today, only our own, Homo sapiens, remains. And this raises one of the biggest questions in the story of human evolution: where did everyone else go? “It’s not a coincidence that several of them disappeared around the time that Homo sapiens started to spread out of Africa and around the...

18 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

SpaceX’s Starship reaches space for first time but explodes moments later

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Elon Musk’s next-generation craft reaches space but then explodes, similar to first flight in April SpaceX’s uncrewed spacecraft Starship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, reached space for the first time on Saturday but was presumed to have failed minutes later. It was Starship’s second test after its first attempt to reach space ended in an explosion earlier this year. Continue reading...

18 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

SpaceX attempts second test flight of world’s largest rocket – watch live

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The Starship rocket system is expected to launch from Texas after the spacecraft exploded in air during a first test flight in April Continue reading...

18 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

A Simple Way to Save Premature Babies

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Waiting two minutes to sever the umbilical cord after birth raises the chances that a premature infant will survive, new research shows.

17 noiembrie 2023 | NYTimes

How and When to Watch the Leonids Meteor Shower Peak

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Fireballs that come from the wake of comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle may be visible while the moon is a quarter full.

17 noiembrie 2023 | NYTimes

SpaceX delays second test flight of world’s largest rocket until weekend

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Starship now scheduled to launch from Texas on Saturday instead of Friday as component needs replacing SpaceX will attempt a second test flight of the world’s largest rocket on Saturday, with expectations high for a big show after April’s launch, when the spacecraft pulverised the launchpad during lift-off and then exploded at altitude. The 120-metre Starship rocket system, the most powerful ever built, was due to launch from Texas on Friday but that has been delayed until the weekend after...

17 noiembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

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