NASA’s DART Spacecraft Sets Sights on Asteroid Target
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently acquired its first image of Didymos, the double-asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos. DART will intentionally…
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Giant Ice Volcanos on Pluto May Have Formed From Multiple Cryovolcanic Eruption Events
Scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission team have discovered multiple episodes of cryovolcanism may have formed some kinds of surface structures on Pluto, the likes…
NASA’s DART Kinetic Impactor Spacecraft Launches in World’s First Planetary Defense Test Mission
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…
Skyrocketing Suicides Were Predicted During First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Here’s What Johns Hopkins Researchers Actually Found
In a study that looked at suicide deaths during 2020’s first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Maryland, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that, contrary…
Study of 94 Countries Shows Immunization Programs Yield High ROI, Saving Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
Study of low- and middle-income country programs highlights the huge costs of preventable diseases compared to the costs of immunizing against them. Immunization programs offered…
New Study on COVID-19 Incubation Period: Coronavirus Infected May Be Symptom-Free for 5 Days
Median time from exposure to symptoms affirms earlier estimates and supports CDC’s current 14-day quarantine period. An analysis of publicly available data on infections from…
Breakthrough Flexible, Cuttable Lithium-Ion Battery Won’t Catch Fire – Unbreakable & Incombustible
The unbreakable battery that already operated under extreme conditions now adds unprecedented safety capabilities. A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory…
NASA’s Dart Mission to Demonstrate Planetary Defense Technique
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – NASA’s first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense technique – will get one chance to hit its target,…
Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover Cellular Defense Against Breast Cancer
Johns Hopkins researchers report they have demonstrated in mouse tissue grown in the lab that the cell layer surrounding breast milk ducts reaches out to…
