Grace Wade, Author at New Scientist Science news and science articles from New Scientist Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:31:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 242057827 You Can See Everything review: Elizabeth Holmes film is absurd but captivating /article/2596113-you-can-see-everything-review-elizabeth-holmes-film-is-absurd-but-captivating/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_content=currents&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=NSNS Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:30:00 +0000 /article/2596113-auto-draft/
A still from You Can See Everything, showing Nathan Fielder (left) and Elizabeth Holmes
Courtesy of A24

(UK, out 20 November; US, out now)

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I sat down to watch , a documentary that follows the disgraced founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, in her final weeks before prison. At the very least, I thought I would gain insight into who Holmes is and why she defrauded investors of hundreds of millions of dollars. Instead, I left the theatre disorientated, my mind whirring like one of her faulty blood-testing machines. I couldn’t trust any conclusion this film spit out.

I suspect that was the point. The film’s directors, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, have both made their career unsettling audiences, which explains the documentary’s ridiculous premise. Fielder, a comedian known for constructing elaborate scenarios involving real people, moves in with Holmes, her partner Billy Evans and their two children for the month preceding her surrender to federal prison. The result is about as absurd as you might imagine.

Holmes is facing more than a decade in prison for falsely claiming that Theranos’s machine could run hundreds of diagnostic tests with just a single drop of blood. Yet, she is adamant she is innocent. She tells Fielder she has nothing to hide, going so far as to claim she hasn’t told a lie since childhood, not even a white one. But despite her promise that he can see everything, it becomes increasingly apparent that isn’t the case.

The film ultimately focuses less on Holmes and more on using her as a vehicle to examine how we form our perceptions of others. It casts doubt about our ability to recall information objectively and accurately, especially when the boundary between the personal and professional blurs, be it romantic partners starting a business together or a documentary maker befriending their subject. You can’t trust anyone on screen, not even Fielder, who seems more concerned with entertainment than truth-seeking.

This is one reason why I’m hesitant to call You Can See Everything a documentary. The others I won’t disclose due to spoilers. Regardless of what you end up describing it as, this is a film worth watching. I was captivated for almost the entire 3-hour runtime, an impressive feat given I boycott most movies over 2 hours.

Just don’t go in into it expecting Fielder to crack Holmes. If anything, she cracks him, which is even more fascinating to watch.

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Astronauts practise tasks in simulated moon environment and underwater. Astronauts have been practising walking on the Moon as their next-generation spacesuit passes milestone testing. NASA astronauts and spacesuit engineers recently simulated lunar surface operations and tasks underwater wearing the new suits, built by Axiom Space, to demonstrate safety and mobility. The space agency reported Thursday (Feb 12) that the spacesuit has passed a contractor-led technical review and is hoped to be used for the Artemis III mission as NASA prepares to send humans to the Moon???s South Pole for the first time. NASA said: "The AxEMU (Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit) is designed to give astronauts increased flexibility and improved mobility for moonwalking, including bending down to collect geology samples and perform a variety of scientific tasks."
Astronauts practise tasks in a simulated moon environment
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Preparing to send people back to the moon is a complex business, with astronaut safety at the top of the list of priorities. In the image above, NASA crew members are testing a new generation of spacesuits, built by Texas-based aerospace company Axiom Space.

The company’s Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit aims to make life easier by increasing the flexibility and mobility of the astronauts when they navigate the moon’s surface and collect geological samples.

Axiom Space completed its internal review of the suits earlier this month. Now, it is NASA’s turn to evaluate whether they are ready for its Artemis III mission. Set for 2028, Artemis III aims to return humans to the moon for the first time in over 55 years, this time to the lunar South Pole.

“This achievement reflects our shared commitment to deliver a safe, capable lunar spacesuit that will enable astronauts to explore the Moon’s surface,” Lara Kearney, manager of the extravehicular activity and human surface mobility programme at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, explained in a recent statement.

So far, the suits have undergone more than 850 hours of pressurised testing with someone inside them. Here, two NASA crew members practise emergency rescue drills while donning the suits in a pool that is about 12 metres deep. The suits are weighted to match lunar gravity, which is about a sixth of the gravity we experience on Earth.

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