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A view of the Artemis 2 rocket on the pad with a large clock showing 29 seconds on the count down.

Artemis 2 Wet Dress fueling test ran the clock down to t-29 seconds, and seems to have gone okay.

Report tomorrow on if everything went as planned.

It's not fiscal discipline if they're using the money saved from reimposing the two-child limit to cut beer duty. It's revenue-neutral.

Leaving aside the immorality of that policy ...

I legit a cannot stop laughing at this picture, it's so fucked up

Oh so you CAN question a court judgement after all

Ratcliffe doesn’t pay taxes here so he should shut the fuck up.

Full time score Leicester 3-4 Southampton, Saints came back from 3-0 down at half time!

UP THE SAINTS!!! #saintsfc Never in doubt!😳

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This stuff about student loans is absolutely grim. Student loans shouldn't be a thing. It's absolutely shameful that people can't just go to properly funded unis to study in this country. Whatever they want. With a grant, if necessary.

EDUCATION BENEFITS SOCIETY AND IS AN END UNTO ITSELF. #bbcqt

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science A weekly programme looking at the science that's changing our world.

Listeners to Radio 4’s Inside Science today get an essay from me in defence of astronomy as pure research. Please listen in and let me know what you think.

Show starts 4.30pm GMT here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Thank you for your attention to this shatter

Nuclear sites??? I thought they had already totally 100% definitely destroyed them

The MP for Clacton there, representing his constituents

Leo Scienza will never have to buy himself a drink in Southampton again if #SaintsFC win this. 😁

FUCKING GET IN THERE. LEO SCIENZA, YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING HERO. #SaintsFC

Morgan McSweeney’s 0% Strategy The plot to block Andy Burnham's return to Westminster tells you everything you need to know about how Keir Starmer's Government got itself into this mess

Blocking Andy Burnham from fighting the Gorton by-election is another gift to Reform from a Labour leadership whose entire strategy has so far played directly into their hands
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...

Yes… how’s that worked out with water, or trains or literally anything else?

Cowards

If Starmer blocks Burnham from standing for parliament it can only be interpreted one way - as anti-democratic cowardice.

Burnham couldn't possibly be any worse than Starmer as PM, but sadly the thing about blocking him from the by-election is that it would also be quickly forgotten.

#bbclaurak

German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Wide-field view of NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (Ground-based Image)
Image date: 24 April 2020, 13:00


This wide-field view captures the pair of nebulae NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 in the constellation of Dorado (The Swordfish). These two glowing clouds of gas, in the centre of ...

Dialogue from the Blackadder Goes Forth episode ‘Goodbyeee’ where Captain Blackadder explains to George and Baldrick why the First World War started

Didn’t Blackadder covered this and the inevitable outcome…

This shot by ULA/Ben Cooper is rather nice

#ArtemisII

It’s far past the time someone told Trump in plain English to fuck off

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Comet Linear Fragments (Hubble View)
Image date: 7 August 2000, 17:00


In one stunning Hubble picture the fate of the mysteriously vanished solid nucleus of Comet LINEAR has been settled. The Hubble picture shows that the comet nucleus has been reduced to a shower of glowing 'mini-comets' resemb...

Reminder: you live next door to a star.

A ball of plasma held together in hydrostatic equilibrium that contains a nuclear fusion reactor in its core.

All those bright points of light in the sky at night .... one of them also lives in your daytime sky!

"If you don't give me $1bn, we're going to have to increase taxes on our own population".

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Close-up images of the Orion Nebula
Image date: 11 January 2006, 16:00


These are six views of the Orion Nebula which pinpoint some of the region's most interesting features.
Orion in miniature [top left]
A massive star is illuminating this small region, called M43, and sculpting the landscape o...

#OnThisDay in 1610, Galileo Galilei recorded the first mention of Jupiter's moons. At first thinking them to be fixed stars near the gas giant, his later observations revealed them to be orbiting Jupiter. Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are now known as the Galilean moons. #HistoryOfScience

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