I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world’s population.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7

Just throwing this out there for non-religious people who often seem confused by certain current events:

American evangelicals nearly universally have zero interest in what a pope has to say on a subject. By and large, they give the Pope's opinion the same weight as, say, the Dalai Lama's, which is to say, none whatsoever.

I mention this because I see things like "Trump says X but the pope says Y. How will his base react?" His base couldn't care less.

oh well done, that journalist!

she asks, deadpan(ish): “With regards to the troubleshooting of the space toilet… on a priority scale would you say that this was a number one or a number two priority?” 👏👏👏 👩‍🚀💩

#SpacePoop
#SpaceJokes
#NASA
#ArtemisII
#Artemis
 
 
ETA: I went back & re-watched the NASA news conference recording & it was Loren Grush from Bloomberg (& elsewhere) who wrote the book The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts 👩‍🚀 💁‍♀️

her parents were both NASA engineers who worked on the Shuttle Program (including STS-107 😢)