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Tim Peake Major Tim and fellow crew members Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Tim Kopra, are due to dock with the ISS at 17:24 GMT (23:24 Kazakh time).  The former Army pilot is making history as the first official UK astronaut.  He was waved off by his wife and two sons at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier on Tuesday.  The launch was from the same place where Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in 1961.At blast-off, the rocket generated 422.5 tonnes of thrust - equivalent to 26 million horse power.  The launch went with no reported problems and after one minute, the rocket was soaring upwards at 1,000mph (1,600km/h).  After two minutes, the four boosters strapped around the rocket were jettisoned.  Zero gravity was reached by the Soyuz spacecraft after nine minutes of travel.Working with mission controllers on Earth, the crew will now be nudging the space capsule towards its rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS...

The advance, outlined in Science Magazine, comes as world leaders in the field gather to debate the ethics of altering human DNA using the method, known as Crispr-Cas9.  Gene editing holds medical promise.  But changing a person's DNA also has potential risks and ethical quandaries.  The first International Summit on Human Gene Editing will debate how far the science should progress.Crispr-Cas9 is a DNA cutting and pasting system that scientists have borrowed from nature. Bacteria use it to protect themselves against foreign DNA from viruses.Scientists have been using it in the lab to target and cut out faulty DNA in human cells that cause illnesses.  While effective, the process is less than perfect and can cut out too much DNA, experts have found.These unwanted or 'off-target' edits could alter other important genes, inadvertently triggering cancer, for example. Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard believe they have solved this problem b...

College is a huge part of your life, and it's a very important time of transition. There is much to consider, and you want to be fully prepared. While living through it will complete your experience, there are things you can do to help you in your planning. Keep reading to find out what to do!  When you enter college, try to reduce the amount of starches that you eat during your freshman year. Typically, you will put on a lot of weight in the initial stages of college, as this will help you to counter that. Try to incorporate a lot of fruits and vegetables into your diet.  Do not choose a college or university because it is popular, because your friends or relatives went there or because you are a fan of their football team. There are other important factors you need to take into consideration such as your funding, the kind of career you want or the area where schools are located. Find out where the admissions office is located and visit it before choosing a colle...

The Canadian team used tiny gas-filled bubbles, injected into the bloodstream of a patient, to punch temporary holes in the blood-brain barrier.  A beam of focused ultrasound waves applied to the skull made the bubbles vibrate and push their way through, along with chemotherapy drugs.  Six to 10 more patients will undergo the same procedure as part of a trial.  Experts said the experimental technique used at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre was exciting because it meant doctors might be able to give cancer patients potent drugs that otherwise would not work. The same non-invasive method could also be used for other brain diseases, such as dementia and Parkinson's.  But many more safety studies are needed, they say. Animal trials have produced some results, but it is not yet clear whether the treatment would work or have side-effects. Blood-brain barrier The blood-brain barrier keeps pathogens and toxins away from the  central nervous system...

Antimatter is a shadowy mirror image of the ordinary matter we are familiar with.  For the first time, scientists have measured the forces that make certain antimatter particles stick together.  The findings, published in Nature, may yield clues to what led to the scarcity of antimatter in the cosmos today.  It remains one of the big challenges of scienceAihong Tang, Brookhaven National Laboratory.  The forces between antimatter particles - in this case antiprotons - had not been measured before. If antiprotons were found to behave in a different way to their "mirror images" (the ordinary proton particles that are found in atoms) it might provide a potential explanation for what is known as "matter/antimatter asymmetry".  At the beginning of the Universe, the Big Bang produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts. But that's not the world we see today: instead antimatter is extremely rare. Some phenomenon must have led to the overwhelming dominance...

Adventures in the Anthropocene is her record of the people and places she encountered on a huge global tour.  The book details how humans are altering the planet, but it also tells the stories of how we are learning to limit and cope with that change.  The Royal Society Winton Prize is worth £25,000 to the winner.  "Anthropocene" is the word used by many scientists to describe the epoch of humanity's profound influence on the Earth.  There are arguments over when our activities started to distort natural processes, but there is no doubting the effects today. Pollution, species loss, over-exploitation of water and mineral resources, and of course climate change. The list goes on. This is "the age we made".Gaia knew all the data from her job as a science reporter, but she wanted to see the impacts first-hand. So, she put on hold the nine-to-five existence and bought a one-way ticket to Kathmandu, to start a personal odyssey and directly sample some of the...

At the point when the Bloodhound Super-Sonic Car is uncovered for the current week, people in general will have the capacity to see the numerous creative innovations utilized as a part of its development.   A few surface boards will be evacuated with the goal that individuals can glimpse inside to get a building's feeling needed to make an auto move speedier than 1,000 mph.   Given the bespoke way of Bloodhound, a noteworthy number of its segments have been created utilizing 3D printing methods.  This incorporates even the directing wheel.   With more than 3,500 specially crafted parts, it would have been restrictively extravagant, and inefficient, for the Bloodhound undertaking to utilize conventional group generation approaches in numerous occasions.  The perplexing configuration of the auto likewise requests shapes  that are troublesome - in some cases outlandish - to make utilizing conventional tooling.  As an outcome, the auto's origi...