The far side of Earth’s Moon as photographed by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft

Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll do

Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

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  • Genome-wide analysis shows European dogs existed by 14,200 years ago, were already genetically distinct, received less Neolithic Southwest Asian admixture than humans did and contributed substantially to later European dogs.

    • Anders Bergström
    • Anja Furtwängler
    • Pontus Skoglund
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  • Single-nucleus chromatin and RNA sequencing identifies epigenetic chromatin domains that confer vulnerability to paediatric brain tumours such as ependymomas, providing insight into the development of such tumours despite ‘quiet’ genomes.

    • Alisha S. Kardian
    • Hua Sun
    • Stephen C. Mack
    ArticleOpen Access
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