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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin says it will fly again this year after explosion. Nasa needs it to
<p>The company’s response to the launchpad blast has become a key test for Artemis III</p><p>As Blue Origin tells it, the most <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/29/blue-origin-rocket-explodes">spectacular launchpad explosion</a> in recent memory, which destroyed its pioneering New Glenn space rocket last month and severely damaged almost everything around it, was merely a blip.</p><p>“We will fly again before the end of this year. <em>Gradatim Ferociter</em>,” Dave Limp, the company’s chief executive, <a href="https://x.com/davill/status/2061655383610114124">posted</a> on X on 1 June, using the Latin form of its motto, “Step by step, ferociously”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/13/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-nasa-aretemis">Continue reading...</a>
The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de Bernières
<p>Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain</p><p>I live in the Norfolk countryside, and what irritates me most about living here is the deluge of litter that gets thrown out of car windows in the lane outside my house. It is always from junk food outlets, so the question arises as to which way round things are: does junk food turn you into an antisocial moron, or is it that only antisocial morons eat junk food? Could it be an unfortunate confluence of both?</p><p>I never eat it, and never throw litter out of my window. <em>QED</em>. I do find other ways of being antisocial, I suppose, but farts disperse on their own and don’t have to be picked up by passing dog walkers and irate householders.</p><p>Louis de Bernières’s fourth novel, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, became a worldwide bestseller in 1994</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/13/the-hill-i-will-die-on-like-imprecise-redundant-speech-junk-food-britain">Continue reading...</a>
Hur överlever insekter krocken med glasrutan?
<p>Svar av Mikael Carlsson, zoolog, Stockholms universitet Att insekter inte skadar sig vid kollisioner beror på flera faktorer. För det första är deras kroppar mycket &#8230;</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fof.se/artikel/hur-overlever-insekter-krocken-med-glasrutan/">Hur överlever insekter krocken med glasrutan?</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://fof.se">Forskning &amp; Framsteg</a>.</p>
Trees may store less planet-heating carbon than hoped, study suggests
<p>Photosynthesis does not always result in wood growth, a key factor in carbon dioxide sequestration</p><p>Trees may not be able to store as much planet-heating carbon as hoped, a study suggests, with researchers finding photosynthesis does not always lead to wood growth.</p><p>Scientists studied 137 sites across the US and found trees stopped growing months before the point in the year at which photosynthesis stopped.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/13/trees-store-less-carbon-than-thought-study">Continue reading...</a>
Blood test can find thousands of genetic conditions in pregnancy, say scientists
<p>Technique that examines fragments of foetal DNA in mother’s bloodstream could limit need for invasive screening, according to researchers</p><p>A new maternal blood test that can detect thousands of serious genetic conditions in the developing foetus could limit the need for invasive screening during pregnancy, according to scientists.</p><p>The test, to be described at the European Society for Human Genetics conference in Gothenburg on Saturday, relies on detecting tiny fragments of a foetus’s DNA that circulate in the mother’s bloodstream during pregnancy. Using advanced sequencing techniques, scientists were able to identify a very high proportion of genetic conditions, such as cystic fibrosis, that are currently only reliably diagnosed using amniocentesis or other invasive tests.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jun/12/maternal-blood-test-detect-genetic-conditions-foetus">Continue reading...</a>