Victor Glover became the first Black astronaut to orbit the Moon this week, a milestone that draws a direct line through more than two centuries of American exploration, back to an enslaved man named York who never received credit for helping chart the western frontier. Glover, serving as pilot aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission, flew […]

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Volunteering to go first is often misread as confidence. In reality, it's frequently a nervous system strategy for escaping anticipatory anxiety, which research consistently shows is more distressing than the feared event itself.

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Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most decorated living war veteran, faces five counts of war crimes murder related to the killing of unarmed Afghan civilians. The charges mark the first time a recipient of the Victoria Cross — Australia’s highest military honour — has been criminally prosecuted for conduct in a war zone. But the significance of […]

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An international research team boarded ESA’s 86th parabolic flight campaign in May 2025 with ultralight graphene aerogels, then hit them with light during zero gravity phases to observe their reaction under space-like conditions.  

Inside a vacuum chamber, a continuous laser beamed on three small cubes made of graphene aerogel. A high-speed camera recorded the action through glass tubes. This video has been slowed down 10 times; each experiment run lasted 30 milliseconds. 

The effect of the laser during the microgravity phases was startling: the graphene samples shot forward instantly. Another finding was the ability to control the propulsion by tuning the light beam. The stronger the laser,

Last year, history was made as a navigation receiver on the Moon determined its position in real time using signals from approximately 410 000 km away. The receiver, called the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), acquired signals from four navigation satellites orbiting Earth: two Galileo satellites and two GPS satellites.

The mission also tested Galileo’s Emergency Warning Satellite Service (EWSS) on the Moon, demonstrating the robustness and reach of the planned service.