At 88, the Canadian reflects on a golden era of underwater discovery and how shipwrecks and the cruel sea are the ‘greatest of all teachers’

Joe MacInnis admits there are simply too many places to begin telling the story of life in the ocean depths. At 88, the famed Canadian undersea explorer, has many decades to draw on. There was the time he and a Russian explorer and deep-water pilot, Anatoly Sagalevich, were snagged by a telephone wire strung from the pilot house of the Titanic, trapping the pair two and a half miles below the surface.

Another might be the moment he and his team stared in disbelief through a porthole window at the Edmund Fitzgerald, the 222-metre (729ft) ship that vanished 50 years ago into the depths of Lake Superior, so quickly that none of the crew could issue a call for help. MacInnis and his team were the first humans to lay eyes on the wreck.

MacInnis diving in Lake Huron, off Tobermory, Canada, in 1969. Photograph: Don Dutton/Toronto Star/Getty Images

Un nouveau fait troublant vient secouer la coopération spatiale internationale. Le cosmonaute russe Oleg Artemyev a été retiré de la mission Crew-12 de SpaceX qui doit rejoindre la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) au mois de février 2026. Roscosmos a confirmé son remplacement par Andreï Fedyayev, sans fournir d’explication …

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Vinay Prasad memo said at least 10 children had died from Covid vaccination – but offered scant evidence for claim

America’s top vaccines official promised, in a long and argumentative memo to staff on Friday, to revamp vaccine regulation after claiming that at least 10 children died from Covid vaccination – but he offered no evidence for that allegation and scant details on the new approach.

The top-down changes, without input from outside advisers or publication of data, worry experts who fear vaccines such as the flu shot may quickly disappear and that public trust will take a major hit.

Véritable fantasme de la science moderne, l’antimatière devient peu à peu un véritable outil de laboratoire. Le CERN vient en effet d’annoncer une avancée majeure, soit la capacité de produire plus de 15 000 atomes d’antihydrogène en seulement quelques heures, un record qui va radicalement changer le rythme …

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