Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Article Source: Nature
09/21/2022
3D Printing With Drones
Researchers have mounted 3D printers onto drones with the aim of creating swarms of robots that could 3D print entire buildings.
08/10/2022
Scientists have unearthed what could be the world’s oldest ice core
Antarctic sample dated at 3–5 million years old extracted as international ice-drilling teams race to extend Earth’s climate record.
07/27/2022
Four revelations from the Webb telescope about distant galaxies
NASA built its state-of-the-art James Webb Space Telescope to peer into the distant Universe and back towards the dawn of time — and it’s already doing so spectacularly.
07/13/2022
Historic dive aims to map Earth’s deepest point like never before
Ocean-mapping specialist Dawn Wright is the first Black person to visit Challenger Deep.
04/20/2022
The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch
Implants are becoming more sophisticated — and are attracting commercial interest.
02/04/2022
China’s Winter Olympics are carbon-neutral — how?
Researchers commend Beijing for mitigating a wide range of emissions, but say that future games should wean themselves off carbon offsets.
02/03/2022
South African scientists copy Moderna’s COVID vaccine
Researchers at WHO technology-transfer hub complete first step in a project aimed at building capacity for vaccine manufacturing in low- and middle-income countries.
01/21/2022
Why scientists are racing to develop more COVID antivirals
The first crop of antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 is promising. But new drugs will be needed to counter the looming threat of resistance.
01/24/2022
Massive open index of scholarly papers launches
OpenAlex catalogues hundreds of millions of scientific documents and charts connections between them.
01/14/2022
First pig-to-human heart transplant: what can scientists learn?
Researchers hope that a person who has so far lived for a week with a genetically modified pig heart will provide a trove of data on the possibilities of xenotransplantation.
01/08/2022
Landmark Webb observatory is now officially a telescope
The observatory has flawlessly unfurled its mirrors and sunshield — although more steps are needed before the science can begin.
12/16/2021