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Space psychologists are watching closely as allegations of violence at an Antarctic base highlight the limits in psychological screening for long-duration missions. “These tests mostly try to select people out—but they are not great at selecting people in. The human psyche is too complex for that.”


Near the northern coast of Antarctica’s Norway-controlled Queen Maud Land, a heavily secluded polar research station sits perched near the edge of the plunging Vesleskarvet cliff, a crisis among the scientist unfolded like the preamble to another season of True Detective.

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