News at a glance: Moon landing, museum thefts, and gardening for conservation

SPACE SCIENCE Indian Moon lander begins search for ice India last week put a spacecraft on the Moon, making it the fourth nation to perform the feat, after the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. The $75 million, robotic Chandrayaan-3 mission is the first to explore a region near the lunar south pole, which is thought to hold frozen water that could be used to support human explorers. The area also contains large impact craters, which could hold clues to the history of the Solar System. Hours after landing, the craft released a solar-powered, suitcase-size rover that will study soil composition for at least 2 weeks. The mission is a vindication for the Indian Space Research Organisation, which failed to complete its previous Moon-landing attempt in 2019. WORKPLACE UNC materials scientist slain A University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill graduate student is accused of shooting dead his academic adviser, applied physicist Zijie Yan, in a campus research building this week. The student, Tailei Qi, was apprehended off campus 95 minutes after the killing. He has been charged with first-degree murder. The shooting prompted a 3-hour lockdown on the flagship campus. The Caudill Labs building, the site of the shooting, houses chemistry laboratories and some in applied physical sciences, where Yan worked. Chinese-born, he was a graduate of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He then came to the U.S. an...
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