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5 articles from Guardian Unlimited Science

Universe review – Brian Cox’s trip to the stars is sheer cosmic cowardice

As the professor guides us through the solar system via excessive CGI and poetic chat, you can’t help but think his latest quest would be more effective if it wasn’t so dumbed downI don’t know how you make an hour-long programme that takes you slowly through 14bn years of history, but the BBC and Prof Brian Cox have done it with the first episode of Universe. Possibly it is a space-time...

SpaceX aims to fix leaky toilets before astronauts blast off at weekend

Tube came unglued during SpaceX’s first private flight last month, spilling urine on to fans and beneath the floorSpaceX is facing toilet troubles in its capsules before it launches more astronauts into space.The company and Nasa want to make sure the toilet leaks will not compromise the capsule launching early on Sunday from Kennedy Space Center, or another one that has been parked at the...

When the mystical goes mainstream: how tarot became a self-care phenomenon

Tarot used to be seen as the domain of the credulous. It’s now seen as a means of coping with the present, thanks to psychology-minded practitioners like Jessica DoreWhen Jessica Dore was growing up, her mother had a tarot deck from which she’d pull cards – much to the mounting mortification of her daughter. As a child, Dore went along with it as fortune-telling fun. But “as an adolescent,...