Samples From Mars Soon To Come Home
On the 21st of December, 2021, the Perseverance rover dropped a previously gathered sample onto the dusty Martian surface below. This was no accident, though. The sample, safe in its…
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Alaskan Crab Shortage Wreaks Havoc on Seafood Industry
A shortage of Alaskan snow crabs is causing panic in the seafood industry, with prices soaring and distributors struggling to keep up with demand. The scarcity of the popular crustaceans…
Gymnasts Sue FBI for Mishandling of Larry Nassar Case
Content warning: mentions of sexual abuse, mentions of child pornography In 1986, former doctor Larry Nassar joined the USA Gymnastics national medical team where he proceeded to sexually abuse over…
Limits Set: Vector-Like Quark Pair Production
In mid-September of 2022, physicists from the CMS Collaboration at CERN reported new lower limits on vector-like top \((\text{T})\) and bottom \((\text{B})\) quarks. The analysis offers the strongest identified limits…
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California recently had a breakthrough with nuclear fusion, sparking excitement in many. On December 5th of 2022, a nuclear fusion reaction was…
China’s Shenzhou-15 Mission
Last month, China launched the 15th mission of a Shenzhou spacecraft, on November 29th, 2022, from the Gobi Desert. Shenzhou is translated to “Divine Boat” in English. This time, China…