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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) is scheduled to launch on Dec 24, 2021, from ESA’s launch site at Kourou in French Guiana on board an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket. The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope — NASA’s largest and most powerful space science telescope — will probe the cosmos to uncover the history … Read more
Flushing trillions of tiny oxygen bubbles through the rectum increases blood oxygen in pigs and could be an alternative to ventilation for people with damaged lungs Health 15 December 2021 By Michael Le Page Pigs recover from low blood oxygen levels after bubbles are injected into their rectum Tyler Stableford Photography/Getty Images The injection of … Read more
The line between art and science is sometimes a swirly one. Researchers studying a social bacterium that moves and feeds in coordinated swarms have unintentionally recreated something that looks a lot like a familiar masterpiece. When a certain gene is overexpressed in a bacterium known as Myxococcus xanthus, the individual organisms self-organize into tiny circular … Read more
Things are looking up for transistors. Researchers from IBM and Samsung have made the first prototype computer chip in which the transistors stand on their ends, a change that will make it possible to pack circuitry more tightly and enable faster or more energy-efficient devices. “It’s a major breakthrough,” says Dan Hutcheson, a semiconductor industry … Read more
A communications glitch between the observatory and its launch vehicle forced the delay, NASA officials say Technicians work to secure the James Webb Space Telescope atop the Ariane 5 rocket that will launch it to space from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Credit: Manuel Pedoussaut/ESA Advertisement The launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope … Read more
In a feat of scientific repurposing, a team of physicists has used a detector designed to sense gravitational waves—fleeting ripples in space and time set off by, for example, the collisions of two black holes—to search for something even more elusive, dark matter. Although researchers found no sign of the particular hypothetical particles they sought, … Read more
Mercury pollution is a major global environmental problem, with small-scale gold mining and coal burning the two biggest sources, but fish can recover quickly when the pollution stops Environment 15 December 2021 By Adam Vaughan Northern pike recover quickly when mercury pollution stops Imagebroker / Alamy Fish populations appear to recover rapidly from mercury pollution … Read more
The Parker Solar Probe has finally reached the atmosphere of the sun. The NASA spacecraft spent more than three years winding its way by planets and creeping gradually closer to our star to learn more about the origin of the solar wind, which pushes charged particles across the solar system. Since solar activity has a … Read more
An image of the Apollo 17 moon rock troctolite 76535. (Image credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center) A lunar rock brought to Earth nearly half a century ago is revealing new information about the moon’s complex history. NASA’s Apollo 17 mission left the moon to return to Earth 49 years ago Tuesday (Dec. 14) and humanity hasn’t … Read more
Ethereum is using almost as much electricity as Ecuador, according to a new analysis, and a long-awaited upgrade to slash its energy use has been delayed once again Technology 15 December 2021 By Matthew Sparkes A coal-fired power plant in Germany Hans Blossey/Alamy A long-awaited upgrade to the Ethereum network which developers promise will slash … Read more