The Guardian9 hours agoCan you solve it? Are you smart enough to work for Elon Musk?verified_publisherThe Guardian - Alex BellosIn the early years of rocket company SpaceX, CEO Elon Musk liked to set job applicants the following problem: You’re standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you? The most common response was the …
The Guardian11 hours agoStarwatch: Libra is visible all evening but wait until midnight to do it justiceverified_publisherThe Guardian - Stuart ClarkThis week you can track down one of the fainter zodiacal constellations. Libra, the scales, is located in the southern celestial hemisphere, and so never rises that high in northern skies, but it is most visible from the northern hemisphere at this time of year. The chart shows the view looking …
The Guardian3 days agoGo fish: Danish scientists work on fungi-based seafood substituteverified_publisherThe Guardian - Rachel HallFrom plant-based meat that “bleeds” to milk grown in a lab, fake meats and dairy have come a long way in recent years. But there is another alternative that scientists are training their sights on, one with the most challenging texture to recreate of all: seafood. Scientists in Copenhagen are …
The Guardian1 day agoCan our mitochondria help to beat long Covid?verified_publisherThe Guardian - David CoxAt Cambridge University’s MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Michal Minczuk is one of a growing number of scientists around the world aiming to find new ways of improving mitochondrial health. This line of research could help provide much-needed treatments for people with long Covid, as well as …
The Guardian2 days agoSleep scientist Russell Foster: ‘I want to take the anxiety around sleep away’verified_publisherThe Guardian - Killian FoxBorn in Aldershot in 1959, Russell Foster is a professor of circadian neuroscience at Oxford and the director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology. For his discovery of non-rod, non-cone ocular photoreceptors he received numerous awards including the Zoological Society scientific medal. His …
The Guardian3 days agoNasa halts auction of moon dust and cockroaches expected to sell for $400,000verified_publisherThe Guardian - Associated PressNasa wants its moon dust and cockroaches back. The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the lunar rock contained any sort of pathogen …
