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During their mission to the Moon, the Artemis II astronauts will serve as both scientists and research subjects, participating in five studies that explore how deep-space travel affects the human body, mind and behaviour. These experiments are essential for keeping astronauts healthy on longer missions and for developing technologies, protocols and preventive measures. 1. ARCHeR (Artemis Research for Crew Health and Readiness) ARCHeR is a cutting-edge study that monitors astronauts' sleep patterns, stress levels, cognitive performance, and teamwork dynamics using wearable wristbands. These devices collect real-time physiological and behavioral data, helping researchers understand how isolation, confinement, and the unique environment...

Science recently published the largest cluster-randomized trial to date on face coverings, a massive study that the science community had been calling for since the start of the pandemic.As the fear of Covid wanes with its news coverage, one of the remaining vestiges of the narrative involves face coverings. The premier journal Science recently published the largest cluster-randomized trial to date on masks, a massive study that the science community had been calling for since the start of the pandemic. This study divided rural villages in Bangladesh into those encouraged to wear either medical or cloth masks, or no mask....

Doctors have treated only three leukemia patients, but the sensational results from a single shot could be one of the most significant advances in cancer research in decades. And it almost never happened. In the research published Wednesday, doctors at the University of Pennsylvania say the treatment made the most common type of leukemia completely disappear in two of the patients and reduced it by 70 percent in the third. In each of the patients as much as five pounds of cancerous tissue completely melted away in a few weeks, and a year later it is still gone

Intelligent Design theory (ID) can contribute to science on at least two levels. On one level, ID is concerned with inferring from the evidence whether a given feature of the world is designed. This is the level on which William Dembski's explanatory filter and Michael Behe's concept of irreducible complexity operate. It is also the level that has received the most attention in recent years, largely because the existence of even one intelligently designed feature in living things (at least prior to human beings) would overturn the Darwinian theory of evolution that currently dominates Western biology. On another level, ID...