Car-Sized Turtle Fossils Discovered In Spain - NDTV
NDTV News (November 17, 2022, 8:54 pm) - Plying the subtropical seas that washed the coasts of the archipelago that made up Europe 83 million years ago was one of the largest turtles on record, a reptile the size of a small car - a Mini Cooper to be precise - that braved dangerous waters. Read more
James Webb telescope finds two of the oldest and most distant galaxies ever seen - The Guardian
The Guardian (November 17, 2022, 8:23 pm) - Nasa says space telescope is finding previously hidden early galaxies, including one that may have formed 350m years after the big bang Read more
Dodging Death: Scientists Overturn Long-Standing Liver Disease Beliefs - SciTechDaily
SciTechDaily (November 17, 2022, 8:16 pm) - The surprise discovery redirects liver disease treatment efforts. Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) have demonstrated that common liver diseases are not caused by inflammatory cell death as was previously believed. This discovery set… Read more
Elusive, dusty inner region of distant galaxy: The long-sought after innermost dusty ring was detected with the highest spatial resolution in the infrared wavelengths ever used - Science Daily
Science Daily (November 17, 2022, 7:44 pm) - An international team of scientists has achieved the milestone of directly observing the long-sought, innermost dusty ring around a supermassive black hole, at a right angle to its emerging jet. Such a structure was thought to exist in the nucleus of galaxies… Read more
Molecules change their behaviors under a polariton leader - Science Daily
Science Daily (November 17, 2022, 7:13 pm) - Chemists sought to answer was whether polariton modes and dark modes (the molecular byproduct of polariton creation) both modify chemical reactions. The article shows unambiguously that chemical reactions only occur with polaritons. Read more
Development of an easy-to-synthesize self-healing gel composed of entangled ultrahigh molecular weight polymers: Circular-economy-friendly gel may be used in durable flexible devices - Science Daily
Science Daily (November 17, 2022, 7:13 pm) - A research team has developed a method for easily synthesizing a self-healing polymer gel made of ultrahigh molecular weight polymers (polymers with a molecular weight greater than 106 g/mol) and non-volatile ionic liquids. This recyclable and self-healable p… Read more
Imaging cells: New method enables clear, precise look inside: Researchers can now 'see' the fine structure and chemical composition of a human cell with unmatched clarity and precision - Science Daily
Science Daily (November 17, 2022, 7:11 pm) - Researchers have developed an innovative way to 'see' the fine structure and chemical composition of human cells with unmatched clarity and precision. Their technique takes a creative approach to signal detection. Read more
Shock to the system: Using electricity to find materials that can 'learn' - Science Daily
Science Daily (November 17, 2022, 7:07 pm) - Researchers used electrical pulses to watch nickel oxide undergo two responses, habituation and sensitization, bolstering the case for brain-inspired computing. Read more
Retraction for the article Preparation of novel pirfenidone microspher | DDDT - Dove Medical Press
Dovepress.com (November 17, 2022, 7:01 pm) - Retraction for the article Preparation of novel pirfenidone microspheres for lung-targeted delivery: in vitro and in vivo study Read more
A Tale of Terroir: Porcini mushrooms have evolved with a preference to local adaptation - EurekAlert
EurekAlert (November 17, 2022, 6:56 pm) - The first-of-its-kind genetic survey of porcini mushrooms across the Northern Hemisphere found that these delicious fungi evolved in surprising ways—contrary to the expectations of many who think that geographic isolation would be the primary driver for speci… Read more
A new experiment pushes the boundaries of our understanding of topological quantum matter - EurekAlert
EurekAlert (November 17, 2022, 6:56 pm) - In an experiment conducted in 2018, Japanese researchers purported to observe the strange, rarely observed Marjorana particle after inducing the thermal Hall effect in a magnetic insulator. Now, Princeton researchers have replicated the experiment under much … Read more
Generality vs. specificity: unraveling the electric double layer structure of highly ionic liquid electrolytes - EurekAlert
EurekAlert (November 17, 2022, 6:56 pm) - Using a combination of simulation and experimental techniques, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Material Science and Engineering researchers have been able to identify the electric double layer structure of an ionic liquid on a series of crystalline el… Read more
NASA to Provide Update on Orion Ahead of Powered Outbound Moon Flyby - NASA
NASA (November 17, 2022, 6:56 pm) - NASA will host a news conference at 5 p.m. EST Friday, Nov. 18, from the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston to preview Orion's entry into the Moon's sphere of influence and the pair of maneuvers that will propel the spacecraft into a distant retrograde … Read more
Follow Orion's trip to the moon with NASA Artemis 1 tracking website - Space.com
Space.com (November 17, 2022, 6:47 pm) - It feels like you're flying alongside the moon-bound capsule. Read more
Webb spots contender for youngest galaxy - The Irrigator
Irrigator.com.au (November 17, 2022, 6:45 pm) - NASA's Webb Space Telescope is finding bright, early galaxies that until now were hidden from view, including one... Read more
First Space Pics From Artemis 1 Remind Us of Classic Apollo Images - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert (November 17, 2022, 6:44 pm) - As it heads for the Moon, NASA's Orion space capsule is sending back snapshots of Earth that evoke the "blue marble" pictures taken by Apollo astronauts five decades earlier. Read more
ABL Space Systems' RS1 rocket aborts 1st-ever launch try - Space.com
Space.com (November 17, 2022, 6:38 pm) - The vehicle is healthy, company representatives said. Read more
NASA: Heat shield could land humans on Mars - CTV News
Ctvnews.ca (November 17, 2022, 6:29 pm) - When a large experimental heat shield inflated in space and faced the brutal reentry of Earth's atmosphere last week, the aeroshell survived — and NASA officials have deemed it a 'huge success.' Read more
First galaxies may be older than previously thought, Webb observations reveal - The Straits Times
The Straits Times (November 17, 2022, 6:26 pm) - The "cosmic dark age" – when the universe was just gas and dark matter – may have ended 100 million years earlier than currently assumed. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more
NASA Mars Rover Inspects 'Tantalizing' Rock for Clues to Ancient Life - CNET
CNET (November 17, 2022, 6:15 pm) - Perseverance spotted some sensational sandstone. Read more
Inflatable heat shield a 'huge success' that could land humans on Mars, NASA says - CNN
CNN (November 17, 2022, 5:56 pm) - When a large, experimental heat shield inflated in space and faced the brutal reentry of Earth's atmosphere last week, the aeroshell survived — and it has been deemed a "huge success" by NASA officials. Read more
Researchers made breakthrough in reconstruction for cryogenic electron tomography - EurekAlert
EurekAlert (November 17, 2022, 5:47 pm) - In a study published in Nature Communication recently, a team led by Prof. BI Guoqiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with collaborators … Read more
Russian cosmonauts complete station spacewalk to ready radiator for move - Space.com
Space.com (November 17, 2022, 5:32 pm) - Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin accomplished all of their scheduled tasks during the 6.5-hour spacewalk. Read more
