October 25, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Smart Dragon 3 rocket spotted on street in Haiyang, Shandong Province
This solid-fueled rocket will likely launch from the sea platform developed out of Haiyang. It has yet to complete an orbital launch.
- Protein crystal experiment to be launched on next Cygnus freighter to ISS
The tweet includes a cool picture of a protein crystal. From the experiment’s abstract:
The Ring Sheared Drop investigation examines the formation and growth of amyloids and fibrils without the complications associated with the solid walls of a container, because in microgravity, surface tension provides containment of the liquid. Fibrous, extracellular protein deposits found in organs and tissues, amyloids are associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Results could contribute to better understanding of these diseases as well as to development of advanced materials.
Forgive me if I am skeptical about this work. Protein crystal experiments have been going on on ISS now for more than two decades, without any clarity whether any have actually turned out useful on Earth. When I have seen presentations about them, I have repeatedly wondered if this isn’t more about creating papers and funding, not actual new knowledge that has a useful application.
If I am wrong I would love to be educated otherwise.
- China’s X-37B copycat spaceplane raises its orbit; gets funding boost
Launched on August 4th, China has released no information about its mission or its planned duration. The program however got new funding from China’s science bureaucracy in September.
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.
- Smart Dragon 3 rocket spotted on street in Haiyang, Shandong Province
This solid-fueled rocket will likely launch from the sea platform developed out of Haiyang. It has yet to complete an orbital launch.
- Protein crystal experiment to be launched on next Cygnus freighter to ISS
The tweet includes a cool picture of a protein crystal. From the experiment’s abstract:
The Ring Sheared Drop investigation examines the formation and growth of amyloids and fibrils without the complications associated with the solid walls of a container, because in microgravity, surface tension provides containment of the liquid. Fibrous, extracellular protein deposits found in organs and tissues, amyloids are associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Results could contribute to better understanding of these diseases as well as to development of advanced materials.
Forgive me if I am skeptical about this work. Protein crystal experiments have been going on on ISS now for more than two decades, without any clarity whether any have actually turned out useful on Earth. When I have seen presentations about them, I have repeatedly wondered if this isn’t more about creating papers and funding, not actual new knowledge that has a useful application.
If I am wrong I would love to be educated otherwise.
- China’s X-37B copycat spaceplane raises its orbit; gets funding boost
Launched on August 4th, China has released no information about its mission or its planned duration. The program however got new funding from China’s science bureaucracy in September.
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
Asteroid paper
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-publish-major-near-earth-asteroids.html
ISS
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-iss-habitat-safe-residents-year.html
Sat swarms
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-trajectory-microsatellite-swarms-macro-micro-perspective.html
Dish tech
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-radio-astronomy-cryogenic-all-metal-3d-printed-rf.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-world-largest-sic-aspherical-mirror.html
Lava and Earth news
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-nextgeneration-lava-fast-physicsbased-propagation.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-aluminous-silica-major-carrier-mantle.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-sharper-proof-early-plate-tectonics.html
MOND
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-astrophysicists-alternative-theory-gravity.html
Strange star
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-neutron-star-hess-j1731-strange.html
Cosmic ray winds
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-astronomers-cosmic-rays-galaxy.html
Exo-worlds
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-student-nasa-reveal-planets-solar.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-reward-planetary-exploration.html
Lunar soil
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-lunar-regolith-bricks-artemis-base.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-lunar-soils-sustainably-oxygen.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-technique-age-era-planetary-science.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-nasa-lunar-flashlight-ready-moon.html
For spacesuits
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-optical-fiber-sensor-based-mouthguard-devices.html
Solar spacing
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-spacing-solar-panels-benefits.html
3D print news
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-hackable-multi-functional-modular-extrusion-3d.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-fast-reliable-3d-scans-flora.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-compact-flexible-fiber-efficient-focusing.html
Plastic that conducts electricity?
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-material-plastic-metal.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-printable-circuits-fabric-plastic-fruit.html
Nano-fiber maker–for tethers
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-simple-machine-pave-powerful-cell.html
New wood-plastic
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-kind-wood-based-plastic-enable-circular.html
Room temp quantum state and more
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-exotic-quantum-state-room.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-quasiparticle-bose-einstein-condensate.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-electrons-liquids-pave-robust-quantum.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-graphs-key-holy-grail-quantum.html
Electricity harvesting
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-efficiency-nanogenerators-harvest-static-electricity.html
Bowties are cool–light-compression
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-compress-diffraction-limit-dielectric-material.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-uv-to-red-growth-global-food-issues.html
Light moves through metal
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-physicists-metal.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-dye-sensitized-solar-cells-power-conversion.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-solid-state-lidar-sensor-degrees.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-laser-reshape-landscape-photonics.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scanning-ultrafast-electron-microscopy-unveil.html
Alloys
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-imperfections-alloys.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-approach-cosmic-magnet-reliance-rare.html
Violin coatings
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-chemical-clues-mystery-coating-stradivari.html
Quiet road noise
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-noise-pollution-acoustic-walls-rubberised.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-humans-roads.html
Reading your mind
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-decoder-fmri-brain-scans-reconstruct.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-social-media-satisfaction.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-financial-trauma.html
Medical watch
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-cancer-drug-potentially-malaria.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-nerve-operated-prosthetics-future.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-adults-hearts-dont-regenerate.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-large-trial-intensive-blood-pressure.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-machine-learningguided-approach-blood-pressure.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-epilepsy-mutation-person-years.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-battery-free-light-powered-pacemaker-quality-life.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-effect-drugs-precisely.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-viruses-outwit-cellular-immune.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-antibody-blunts-heroin-lethality-paving.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-genomic-technology-ultra-sensitive-gene-fusions.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-magnetic-sensors-track-muscle-length.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-flu-rsv-viruses-fuse-hybrid.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-reveals-genes.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-revolutionary-method-cell.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-heart-failure-disrupts-cell-mitochondria.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-covid-pandemic-affected-americans-opinions.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-ten-older-americans-dementia-nationally.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-molecular-crystals-aiding-drug.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-breakthrough-crispr-effective-safer-gene.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-technology-rotational-motion-cells.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-experimental-method-ir-dosy-reveals-molecular.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-technology-single-cell-analysis.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-goldilocks-drug-triple-negative-breast-cancer.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-tumors-magnetic-bacteria.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-part-time-janitor-cell-nervous-janitors.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-uncovers-mechanisms-sars-cov-infection-macrophages.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-disruption-growth-hormone-receptor-gene.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-drug-elicits-antidepressant-effect-mice.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-mouse-unprecedented-human-immune.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-accurate-method-screening-potential-diabetes.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-class-antibiotics-resistant-bacteria.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-star-shaped-nanoparticles-cancer.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-pocket-full-moleculeshow-actin-filaments.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-evidence-biochemical-states-concert.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-evidence-theory-genetic-recombination.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-good-gene-bad.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-polyphenol-consumption-adolescents-cardiovascular-health.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-bioink-capable-physiological-blood-vessels.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-technology-enables-materials-mimic-blood.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-born-survivehow-human-neurons-century.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-wrong-brains.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-revealed-anterior-prefrontal-putamen-circuit-essential.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-sorbent-antibiotics-wastewater.html
Biblical times
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-geomagnetic-fields-reveal-truth-biblical.html
The new data verify the Biblical accounts of the Egyptian, Aramean, Assyrian, and Babylonian military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Climate talk
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-approach-air-pollution-disparities.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-vapor-heft-global-climate.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-efficiency-deltaic-sediments-carbon-hundreds.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-environment-greatest-business-leaders.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-france-climate-bill-doesnt-war.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-climate-daily-temperature-gap-clouds.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-tansat-human-caused-co2-successful.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-doctors-fossil-fuel-addiction-starves.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-persistent-fossil-fuel-over-dependence-health.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-real-time-space-super-emitter-power.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-methane-super-emitters-nasa-earth-space.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-populations-pathogen-transmission.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-molecular-cage-precious-metals-catalytic.html
https://balkangreenenergynews.com/wind-farm-in-germany-is-being-dismantled-to-expand-coal-mine/
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-real-time-air-quality-life.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-driven-climate-global-economy-trillions.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-mexican-pacific-islands-safe-havens.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-forests-indigenous-healthier-scientists.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-drastic-climate-routinely-excluded-economic.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/26/magazine/climate-change-warming-world.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-climate-earth-code-red.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-river-longer-thames-beneath-antarctic.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-fossil-fuel-industry-sports-greenwash.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-africa-country-specific-narratives-energy-future.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-cultivating-meat-sustainable-future.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-distinct-attitudes-stormwater.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-reuse.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ai-based-extreme-wildfire-danger.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-environmental-pressures-global-production-foods.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-kinetic-energy-driptips-important-intercropping.html plants
Conspiracy gaslighting
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-covid-hoax-gateway-belief-conspiracy.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-covid-conspiracy-theories-persist-social.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-conspiracy-theorist-worldview-language-argument.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-nostalgiaa-rhetorical-tool-populists-radical.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-link-workplace-bullying-conspiracy-beliefs.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-reddit-comments-equal-female-male.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-americans-unsure-god-politicstypically-politically.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-cold-interactive-media-tools-political.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-twitter-fueled-black-movement.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-americans-scientists-science-based-policy-making.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-school-2022with-months.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-difficult-poor-states.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-school-choice-equitably-low-income-less-educated.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-republican-party-lost-core-capitol.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-scientists-ease-nightmares-emotions.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-anti-inflammatory-drug-people-ptsd-traumatic.html
Chemistry and tech news
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-artificial-intelligence-molecule-machine-automated.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-soil-inspired-multifunctional-chemical.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-safe-sustainable-photo-on-demand-synthesis-polypeptide.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-quantum-nanomagnets-metal-free-multi-porphyrin.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-class-porous-metal-nanoparticles-yield.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-faster-topological-materials.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-nano-sized-islands-possibilities-application-single-atom.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-materials-future.html
Birds
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-beautiful-bird-species-remote-indonesian.html NEW SPECIES
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-3d-techniques-bird-lungs-efficient.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-pluripotent-stem-cells-endangered-avian.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-fossil-bird-skull-reconstruction-reveals.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-alaska-australia-flight-bird.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-birds-smaller-wingier-planet.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-migrating-birds-drawn-higher-chemical.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-nestling-birds-local-song-dialect.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-chirpy-birds-linked-mental-health.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-penguin-feathers-secret-effective-anti-icing.html
“It was only when we started investigating the qualities of penguin feathers that we discovered a material found in nature that was able to shed both water and ice.”
Bees
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-bees-x-ray-machine-peer-swarms.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-insects-contribute-atmospheric-electricity.html
By measuring the electrical fields near swarming honeybees, researchers have discovered that insects can produce as much atmospheric electric charge as a thunderstorm cloud.
I’ll dance at your wedding
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-inverted-dancers-acute-visuomotor-perception.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-brain-region-memories.html
A dirty habit
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-nose-alzheimer-dementia.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-effects-vaping-blood-vessels.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-e-cigarettes-cardiac-arrhythmias.html
Old ship found
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-swedes-17th-century-sister-vessel.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-skaft-cargo-tale-15th-century.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-uk-oldest-human-dna-revealing.html
The Mummy
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-virtual-autopsy-17th-century-mummified-toddler.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-qa-chromosome-cartographer.html