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Long space missions can force small crews to endure isolation, cramped living conditions, and intense psychological pressure for months at a time. To better understand how those conditions shape teamwork, an international research group studied a ten-month overwintering mission at Concordia Station in Antarctica. The research was led by Jan Schmutz, a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich, and Andrea Cantisani, a psychiatrist and research associate at the University of Bern. Concordia Station is among the most remote places on Earth, with winter temperatures falling as low as minus 80 °C (-112 °F). Its isolation…

Maybe it was the contrarian in me, or maybe just the tennis player, but I must confess that I spent years dissing pickleball during its meteoric rise. When I finally decided to give up my grinching and try the sport I had derided as “mini tennis”, I discovered what I’d been missing.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.Learning how to play was fun, simple and affordable. I began my journey with a beginner class at Court 16, a New York-based indoor tennis and pickleball club where I started…

US rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, known for hit songs including The Kill, This is War and Kings And Queens, was formed by Leto and his brother Shannon in the late 1990s.They began touring in the 2000s and progressed to headlining major arenas around the world.As part of the BBC documentary Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret, two men who worked with Leto’s band for many years recall how uncomfortable staff felt about the way Leto would interact with teenage girls.One alleges that crew members were instructed to invite young girls backstage after they would join Leto on stage at…

Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal has been honoured with the ZIK International Peace and Leadership Award in Ghana, recognising his administration’s notable achievements over the past three years. The 7th ZIK International Peace and Leadership Award ceremony was held on Friday at the British Council in Accra, Ghana. This year’s theme for the lecture was “Leadership, Peace, and Regional Integration: Advancing Africa’s Development in a Changing Global Order.” The award’s board and governing council emphasised, among other reasons for the honour, Governor Lawal’s significant progress in public sector leadership and economic reforms in Zamfara State. The Board of Trustees (BOT)…

·         Reveals electronic payment transactions rose to N122.98trn in July ·         Projected to hit N126.7trn in August Nume Ekeghe The Managing Director and Chief Executive of Financial Derivatives Company (FDC), Mr. Bismarck Rewane, has called on the federal government to extend the recently approved increase in the salary of military personnel to other security agencies, warning that excluding them could create distortions within the country’s security architecture. This is as the economist also revealed that the value of electronic payment transactions in Nigeria increased by 5.54 per cent month-on-month to N122.98 trillion in July 2026, up from N116.52 trillion recorded in June.…

Oluchi Chibuzor with agency reportA United States federal appeals court yesterday ordered Donald Trump’s administration to stop construction on a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House’s demolished East Wing, dealing the Republican leader a major setback in a case testing his presidential authority. “Each ‌President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House,” and cannot fundamentally reshape it without congressional approval, Reuters quoted the Washington-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to have said in a 2-1 opinion.The order upheld a preliminary injunction won by the National Trust for…

From a local initiative to one of Africa’s biggest STEM learning platforms, STEM Africa Fest has inspired nearly 30,000 young people, driven by Access Bank’s six-year commitment to science and technology education, writes Sunday Ehigiator On a bright Saturday morning at Landmark Event Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos, the usual sounds of children’s laughter mixed with the whirring of drones, the buzz of 3D printers and animated conversations about artificial intelligence filled the ears. Instead of spending the long school holiday indoors glued to television screens or mobile phones, more than 3,500 children gathered to immerse themselves in a world where…

Matt Walker couldn’t pet a dog without sneezing – until he and other scientists used a gene editing technique to produce a hypoallergenic beagle named Bailey.Now, he can feed Bailey spoons of peanut butter while she lies on his lap and play fetch with her in Central Park. His allergies didn’t go away: Bailey’s saliva and hair no longer contain a key allergy-causing protein.“The feeling right now is sort of a mix of relief and awe and gratitude that it worked,” said Walker, a geneticist. His company, Kindred Companion Sciences, created Bailey and her twin Alfie using a Nobel prize-winning…

Whisper it but perhaps that was the performance of a champion side. All week the talk had been about Wakefield Trinity and whether this could be the night they declared themselves as a Super League force in front of a sell-out crowd against Leeds Rhinos.In the end, they probably did that, despite the result. These two West Yorkshire rivals served up a classic under the Belle Vue lights but in the end, despite never leading until the 77th minute, Leeds mustered up all their strength and championship credentials to complete a comeback which began when they trailed by 16 points…

Music catalogue of the defunct P-Square group has recorded a resurgence on Nigeria’s Apple Music Albums Chart. According to music chart platform Album Talks HQ, the duo’s compilation album, Best of P-Square, climbed to number 100 on the Nigeria Apple Music Albums Chart, rising 87 places. The platform also reported that Get Squared and Game Over re-entered the chart at number 173 and number 182, respectively. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the renewed interest in the group’s catalogue comes amid renewed public attention surrounding the latest war of words between the P-Square duo-Peter and Paul. The lingering…