December 5, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Blue Origin is testing a method of catching the fairings of its not-yet-launched New Glenn rocket with a net
Scroll down to see the picture of the ship with net. SpaceX tried this technique aggressively, and abandoned it.
- First Rocket Lab launch from Wallops set for December 9, 2022
Two years overdue, due delays caused by NASA’s bureaucracy.
- Next launch of China’s Smart Dragon sea-launched rocket is set for December 9, 2022
The drop zone for the first stage is just to the east of Taiwan.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Blue Origin is testing a method of catching the fairings of its not-yet-launched New Glenn rocket with a net
Scroll down to see the picture of the ship with net. SpaceX tried this technique aggressively, and abandoned it.
- First Rocket Lab launch from Wallops set for December 9, 2022
Two years overdue, due delays caused by NASA’s bureaucracy.
- Next launch of China’s Smart Dragon sea-launched rocket is set for December 9, 2022
The drop zone for the first stage is just to the east of Taiwan.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Blue Origin does not have a track record that inspires confidence. That being said, quite often the second or tenth group to try something is the one that succeeds and gets into the history books. Sometimes a concept is just one tweak away from success.
Speaking as an inventor that has done things others thought unlikely, and has failed at concepts that others did successfully.
And how’s the bottom end of the new rocket coming along?
Mars LIDAR and dunes
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-lidar-technique-robotic-vehicles-safely.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-tiny-underwater-sand-dunes-larger.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-giant-mantle-plume-reveals-mars.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-cosmic-ray-hidden-spacecraft-highlight.html
Lunar pads
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-methods-lunar-pads-involve-microwaving.html
Dynamic soaring
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-idea-spacecraft-propulsion-involves-dynamic.html
Plasma nozzle
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-plasma-instability-solution-magnetic-nozzle.html
The Overview Effect
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-moon-views-space-earth.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-seeds-future-space.html
New antenna
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-space-time-coding-antenna-6g-wireless.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-synthesis-material-absorbs-electromagnetic-6g.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-3d-metal-printing-topological-materials-full-vector.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-on-demand-storage-photonic-qubits-telecom.html
New imager
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-ai-designed-material-super-resolution-images-low-resolution.html
Smaller particle accelerators?
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-sizing-special-downsize-particle.html
X-ray power boost
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-nobel-prize-winning-method-ultra-powerful-x-ray.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-x-ray-analysis-four-decade-enigma-cosmic.html
New laser
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-milestone-laser-technology-seeded-free-electron.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-lasers-bond-semiconductor-electronics-components.html
Flame-proofing batteries and solar tech
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-flameproofing-lithium-ion-batteries-salt.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-built-perovskite-solar-cells-tough.html
Sodium sulfur batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-battery-technology-potential-significantly-energy.html
An international team of researchers are hoping that a new, low-cost battery which holds four times the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries and is far cheaper to produce will significantly reduce the cost of transitioning to a decarbonized economy.
Fusion
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-nuclear-fusion-power-technology.html
Toughest material yet
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-toughest-material-earth.html
“Not only is the metal extremely ductile—which, in materials science, means highly malleable—and impressively strong (meaning it resists permanent deformation), its strength and ductility improve as it gets colder. This runs counter to most other materials in existence.”
Bio-plastics
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-important-strong-durable-bio-based-plastics.html
Radiation dummies
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-phantoms-moon-valuable-cosmic-doses.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-small-solar-flares-large-laser.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-space-atomic-clocks-uncover-nature.html
Hydroponics
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-space-feasible-reuse-high-salinity.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-harvest-untapped-source-freshwater.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-climate-spurs-oxygen-loss-lakes.html
Fluidics for control
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-fluidic-devices.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-chemists-reactions-general-synthesis-unexplored.html
The other SLS
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-materials-future.html
Black hole carnival
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-black-hole-carnivals-gravitational-wave-detectors.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-black-hole-spun.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-scientists-reveal-secrets-burping-black.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-simulations-black-hole-radio-wave-hot.html
Dark matter
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-explore-ways-dark.html
Solar Film
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-paper-thin-solar-cell-surface-power.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-harvest-electricity-wood.html
Large Hadron and tech news
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-large-hadron-collider-beauty.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-physicists-transfermium-isotope-lawrencium-.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-rebuild-atomic-clock.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-puzzle-cubic-silicon-carbide-wafer.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-antiferromagnets-suitable-distances.html
Sound mixing
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-behind-the-scenes-movie-magic.html
Rebuilding atomic clocks
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-rebuild-atomic-clock.html
New microscopes
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-telescope-inspired-microscope-molecules-6d.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-three-in-one-microscope-biomolecules.html
Biologists playing God—
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-layered-feedback-mechanisms-cells.html
“The problem is that once scientists have created the engineered cell, they have very little control over how it reacts to external factors.”
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-embryonic-adult-pluripotent-stem-cells.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-scientists-decrypt-mechanical-code-dna.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-dna-declines-age-limiting-fertility.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-unwinding-chromosomes-unique-perspective-chromosomal.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-scientists-master-genes-critical.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-genes-nature-master.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-visualizing-cooperative-adsorption-string-like-molecule.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-childhood-malnutrition-growth-stunting-vaccines.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-inhalable-mrna-therapy.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-journey-generations-inheritance-microbiome-seed.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-estrogen-delirium.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-electrochemical-output-science-reveal-microbial.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-selfish-genes-yeast-succeed.html
Mars mining microbes
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-microbial-miners-humans-colonize-moon.html
Robot-wheel
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-robot-omnidirectional-wheel-leg.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-speedy-untethered-soft-robot-based.html
The auto-assembler
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-automated-thousands.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-ultrasound-hands-free.html
Molecule jig and metal snowflakes (great band name)–other tech
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-synthesis-silicon-integrated-framework.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-adventures-nanotech-metallic-snowflake.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-technique-3d-imaging-polymer-chains.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-team-lithium-deposition-behavior-hard.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-battery-technology-potential-significantly-energy.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-scientists-pit-ai-algorithms-optimize.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-unexpected-speed-dependent-friction-graphene.html
COVID and med news
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-covid-cancer-spike-protein-lung.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-polarization-covid-global-reveals-unvaccinated.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-republicans-higher-covid-death-year.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-covid-vaccine-variants.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-crispr-insight-fine-tune-cas-protein.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-severe-covid-molecular-signatures-aging.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-infection-visceral-fat-cells-contribute.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-off-patent-liver-disease-drug-covid-.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-receptor-decoy-drug-neutralizes-covid-.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-links-molecular-covid-year-hospitalization.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-anatomical-barriers-shield-brain-sars-cov-.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-arsenal-drugs-covid-.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-avert-excessive-weight-loss-covid-.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-how-to-cancer-drugs.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-epigenetic-pediatric-brain-cancer.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-neurons-autonomously.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-basics-aerosol-formation-vocal.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-life-saving-malaria.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-efficient-synthesis-quinine-paves-malarial.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-technique-complex-molecules-antibiotics-anti-fungal.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-simple-production-vicinal-diamines.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-reveal-fat-dieting-protein.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-seaweed-molecules-outcomes-bypass-surgery.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-green-pain-mice.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-human-fetal-lung-cell-atlas.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-cells-gain-bacterial-symbionts.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-drugs-anxiety-stress-reactions-inflammation.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-flipping-scientists-genetic-cancer-genes.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-common-medicine-transmission-hiv-infection.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-3d-metal-printing-topological-materials-full-vector.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-oral-compound-osteoporosis.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-capsule-aims-drugsand-hopeto-gi.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-scientists-smallpox-vaccine-cells-mpox.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-large-international-uncovers-genes-involved.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-harmless-listeria-species-pathogenic-resistance.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-heart-chip-event.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-advantage-medicare-heart-survival.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-unexpected-mucus-clearance-future-pulmonary.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-g-protein-coupled-receptor-cancer-treatments.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-cancer-drugs-potatoes-tomatoes.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-biomarkers-coffee-consumption.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-cancer-efficient-dawn.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-high-drug-overdose-deaths-pregnant.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-chronological-age-biological-gender-affect.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-twin-links-beneficial-epigenetic.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-one-minute-daily-tasks-prolong-life.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-federated-machine-enables-largest-brain.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-unique-covalent-framework-drug-delivery.html
Watching viruses get stuck in masks
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-viruses-masks.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-liquid-coated-air-filters-early-analysis.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-household-air-purifiers-heart-health.html
–but
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-chess-masks-cognitive.html
Let patients choose
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-patient-diabetes-medication.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-future-possibly-robust-human-intestinal.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-body-scan-complexity-immunotherapy-response.html
Tell the Borg to sleep?
Now we do that with cancer
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-ai-words-cancer-cells.html
“Does your dog bite?”
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-room-humans-struggle-aggression-dogs.html
NO FEAR
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-mouse-fearlessness.html
Implants
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-micrometer-thin-elastic-conductor-wearable-implantable.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-wearable-sensor-precision-drug-dosing.html
Edible coatings
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-edible-coating-silk-shelf-life.html
New nitrogen
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-international-team-previously-unknown-nitrogen.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-catalyst-generates-nitrogen-containing-products-high.html
Computers
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-cat-states-fault-tolerant-quantum.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-facial-recognition-technology-scans-ear.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-energy-efficient-tiny-magnetic-vortices.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-faster-privacy-online.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-tactile-communication-skin-attached-telehaptics.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-decode-evolution-action-games-lens.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-simplicity-complexity-method-behavior-weather.html
“In one application, Floryan simulated a reaction between a couple of chemicals. The reaction resulted in complex behavior among the chemicals when they met: a repetitive rhythmic spiraling requiring more than 20,000 variables to simulate it. Floryan fed video of the reaction into his algorithm, and it discovered he needed just one variable to understand the action. The necessary variable was the time the spiral took to come back to where it started, like a second hand on a watch.”
Thermoelectrics
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-single-electron-devices-electronic-components.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-thermoelectrics-electricity.html
This effect (the Seebeck effect) can be used in numerous applications in industry but also in everyday life.Recently, Ernst Bauer’s research team made an exciting discovery in a thermoelectric material consisting of iron, vanadium and aluminum (Fe2VAl). The researchers recently published their results in Nature Communications.
Rivers and Earth news
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-future-landscape-river.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-intensive-agriculture-wild-pervasive-weed.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-steep-cheap-deep-roots-corn.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-paleontology-supersonic-boom-dinosaur-tails.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-dinosaurs-asteroid-downfall.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-smilodon-saber-teeth.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-feline-genetics-first-ever-domestication-cats.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-domestic-dog-lineages-reveal-genetic.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-discovery-world-oldest-dna-million.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-picture-arctic-sea-ice-freeze-thaw.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-three-in-one-microscope-biomolecules.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-synonymous-mutations-silent.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-tree-life-lions-microbial-world.html
Westworld
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-futuristic-fields-europe-farm-industry.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-rotten-meat-easier-biosensor.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-livestock-reservoir-antimicrobial-resistant-bacteria.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-algorithms-arsenic-contamination-private-wells.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-boosted-cropping-midwest.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-countries-risky-forests-soils-net.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-insect-footprints-crop-resilience-pollinator.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-current-southwestern-north-american-megadrought.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-soil-midwestern-eroding-faster.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-rust-coated-irrigation-pipes-hint-lack.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-scientists-australia-groundwater.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-pastoral-farming-biodiversity-crisis.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-harvesting-food-energy.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-elusive-carbon-dioxide-sensor-loss.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-scientists-mechanism-mouths.html
Late capitalism? and other topics
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-late-capitalism.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-opinion-jobs-wages-economist-gloomy.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-people-accounting-evolves.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-1600s-pirate-hid-colonies-impunity.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-hoodwinking.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-stock-consumers.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-genes-linked-alcohol-tobacco-diverse.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-big-egos-lack-staff-policy.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-voluntourism-outgrow-white-savior-stereotype.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-police-skull-ultra-violent-comic-vigilante.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-white-teachers-black-students-racially.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-abandoned-houses-nearby-gun-violence.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-code-switching-pressure-people.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-summit-dont-nature-scientists.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-trawler-cams-world-dwindling-fish.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-movement-viral-instagram-black-protests.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-fake-news-online.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-social-media-engagement-style-linked.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-energy-footprint-alternative-community-lifestyle.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-optimizes-political-fairness-redistricting.html LOOK OUT
Mind/body
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-idea-mind-body-natural-neurotypical.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-eyes-window-mystery-human-consciousness.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-biomembrane-advance-human-memory.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-reveal-trauma-brain.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-socialness-eye.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-pathway-brain-cells-deeply.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRY1hJs4Krs
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-believing-visual-perception.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-video-boost-remote-class.html
The right AI for you
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-ai.html
We all need our space
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-co-working-spaces-limit-creativity.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-secret-stem-diversity-peer-mentorship.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-pleasure-memory-older-adults.html