Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/

#Earth #Artemis #Artemis2 #Orion #Integrity #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #NASA #Moon #space #aurora

The Guardian | Fossil fuel companies finally accept the climate crisis – just not their role in it by Noah Walker-Crawford

The era of corporate climate denial is over but in courts around the world the big names have shifted strategy

While the US government continues to call climate change a hoax and attack the science, in courtrooms from The Hague to Honolulu, fossil fuel companies are taking a different approach. Shell, Chevron, RWE and TotalEnergies all accept that climate change is real, human-caused and serious. The era of corporate climate denial, at least in legal proceedings, is largely over.

What has replaced it is a more nuanced position: accepting the science of climate change while contesting their responsibility for it.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/26/fossil-fuel-companies-accept-climate-crisis-just-not-their-role-in-it

#energyindustry #fossilfuels #greenhousegasemissions #oilandgascompanies #climatechange

this ai bubble is going to burst any minute now, and we all know what that means: cheap data centre rack space in huge quantities.

can we use server racks to grow salad instead of swindle? i set out to find out: https://sa.lj.am/rack-mount-hydroponics/

Sigh.

So it turns out we've mapped the neural connectome of Drosophila *and simulated it in silico*.

https://flywire.ai/

Pop-sci explainer here:

https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/whole-brain-emulation-achieved-scientists-run-a-fruit-fly-brain-in-simulation/

Key quote: "The step from a complete connectome to a working computational brain model is not trivial." And there's an even more important finding in this screenshot (alt text via OCR):

"The wiring is the computation".

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