By Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Insider
NASA postponed a spacewalk on Tuesday due to a threat that’s becoming routine: space debris that might fly too close to the International Space Station (ISS). Continue reading High-speed space junk risk prompts NASA to abruptly delay spacewalk on the International Space Station
By Katie Hunt, CNN
The US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can now reproduce — and in a way not seen in plants and animals. Continue reading World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say
By John’s Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Scitech Daily
Lighting up the California coastline early in the morning of November 24, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft off the planet to begin its one-way trip to crash into an asteroid. Continue reading NASA’s DART Kinetic Impactor Spacecraft Launches in World’s First Planetary Defense Test Mission
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Despite 15% of the world’s population living with some form of a disability, research into the effects of climate change on the disabled community is still emerging. Continue reading Climate activists with disabilities fight for inclusion
By Deepa Shivaram, NPR
For the first time, a Black woman will live and work on the International Space Station, starting in April of next year. Continue reading Jessica Watkins will be the first Black woman to live and work on the space station
By Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR
NASA is about to launch an unprecedented mission to knock an asteroid slightly off course. Continue reading In a first test of its planetary defense efforts, NASA’s going to shove an asteroid
By Sophie Reardon, CBS News
Brigham and Women’s Hospital will test the safety and efficacy of a nasal vaccine aimed at preventing and slowing Alzheimer’s disease, the Boston hospital announced Tuesday. The start of the small, Phase I clinical trial comes after nearly 20 years of research led by Howard L. Weiner, MD, co-director of the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at the hospital. Continue reading First human trial of Alzheimer disease nasal vaccine to begin at Boston hospital
According to a report published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a now 31-year-old woman who was diagnosed with HIV in 2013 only took antiretroviral therapy for six months during pregnancy to prevent transmitting the infection to her baby. Yet multiple sophisticated tests looking for genetic evidence of HIV in the patient’s blood showed no intact virus in her cells, says Dr. Xu Yu, who led the research team reporting on the case. Continue reading A Second HIV Patient Has Cleared the Virus Without Antiviral Drugs
By George Dvorsky, Gizmodo.
All seven astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station are having to take shelter inside their respective spacecraft owing to the sudden appearance of a debris cloud in orbit, the source of which remains unclear. Continue reading Astronauts Forced to Take Shelter as Debris Cloud Threatens Space Station
By Paul Rincon, BBC News
Few observers expected Nasa to make the previous 2024 date, because of a funding shortfall and a lawsuit over the landing vehicle. Continue reading Nasa’s Moon return pushed back to 2025
