Roy’s Links:

Staining reagents and syringe storage box (upper left), staining device (lower left), and miniature microscope (right) for the Moon Microscope investigation.

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International Timekeepers Scrap the Leap Second

First Lead-Ion Collisions in the Large Hadron Collider at Record Energy

Shocking question: Can We Store the Energy From Lightning?

Scientists Just Found a Hidden 6th Mass Extinction in Earth’s Ancient Past

Rex Could Have Been 70% Bigger Than Fossils Suggest, New Study Shows

A Soil Fungus That Causes Lung Infections Is Spreading Across the U.S.

This Is Your Brain with a Migraine

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(From the November 20 2022 edition of the TechNet:

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Thrilling Photos of NASA’s SLS Megarocket Launch to the Moon

SpaceX Awarded $1.15 Billion Contract to Build NASA’s Second Lunar Lander

A Satellite That Launched Aboard SLS Is Already in Trouble

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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:

Here is a picture transmitted from the Orion spacecraft with Earth in the background. The camera is located at the end of one of the four solar arrays.

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Neutron Stars Are Basically Giant Cosmic Pralines, Astrophysicists Say

Honey Bees Are Only Living Half as Long as They Did in the 1970s

FDA Approves First-of-Its-Kind Drug to Delay Type 1 Diabetes

A Measles Outbreak in Ohio Has Hospitalized Seven Kids So Far

The Dengue Virus Has Been Found in Arizona

Webb Telescope Captures Stunning Protostar ‘Hourglass’ in Space

Air Force’s Mysterious Spaceplane Finally Lands After Spending 2.5 Years in Orbit

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(From the November 13 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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NASA’s Moon Rocket Endures Excessive Winds on Its Launchpad in Florida

ROLEX: The Most Secretive Business In The World

Looks Like We’re Going to Have to Get Used to China’s Crashing Rockets

Space Force Wants to Launch Satellites Faster Than Anyone Has Ever Attempted

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Northrop Grumman Cygnus docks to the ISS with a failed Solar Panel. It has over 8,000 pounds of supplies for the seven astronauts on board.

LOFTID Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator. A 20 foot diameter heat shield is recovered successfully from orbit.

The X37B reusable top secret spaceplane returns after 908 days in orbit.

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For the First Time Ever, People Are Getting Transfusions of Lab-Grown Blood Cells

Alternative to Starlink: Beam-Hopping JoeySat Enters Final Assembly

Sony and Toyota Are Joining Forces to Flex Japan’s Semiconductor Muscles

Doctors Treated a Deadly Genetic Disease Before Birth for the First Time

Please Don’t Lick the DMT Toads, Begs the National Park Service

China’s New Megarocket Design Shows NASA’s SLS Is Already Obsolete

First Sentence Ever Found in Ancient Alphabet, and It’s About Beard Lice

New Materials Could Enable Longer-Lasting Implantable Batteries

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(From the November 6, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the sun ‘smiling’

The Silliest Puzzle I’ve Ever Seen on YouTube:

What Happens When You Plug a SUICIDE CORD in a LIVE OUTLET? Do Not Try This Ever

What Hath 5G Wrought?

What Are Those Mysterious New Towers Looming Over New York’s Sidewalks?

China’s Wayward Rocket Has Disintegrated Over the Pacific Ocean

China Launched the Final Module for Its Space Station

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Obesity Drug Helps Teens Lose Weight, Study Finds

Wild Experiments Are Trying to Bounce Radio Signals Off the Moon and Jupiter

Astrophysicists Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth

Caffeine During Pregnancy Linked to Shorter Kids

Alcohol to Blame for 1 in Every 8 U.S. Deaths Under 65, CDC Finds

Largest Trial Yet Shows Promising Results for Psilocybin as Depression Treatment

Scientists Find Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Hiding in the Sun’s Glare

Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA Discovered in Ancient South Americans

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(From the October 30, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:

The Man Who Tried to Fake an Element (an excellent YouTube documentary telling the fantastic story of how the heavy elements in the Periodic Table were discovered!)

Tim Maudlin Corrects the 2022 Nobel Physics Committee About Bell’s Inequality (a fascinating discussion about quantum entangled particles and the very nonintuitive concept of “non-locality” without any math!)

The Conspiracy Theorist ‘worldview’ And the Language of Their Argument

You’re Going to Have to Pay to Use Some Fancy Colors in Photoshop Now (who knew you could own a color!? Well, not you, silly, but companies, like Pantone.)

Can You Spot the Differences in Webb and Hubble Images of the Same Galaxies?

Vermont Town’s Top Water Guy Resigns After Spouting Fluoride Conspiracy Theories

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Crossword Puzzles Beat Computer Video Games in Slowing Memory Loss

NASA Names 16-person Panel Tasked with Investigating UFOs

New Drug Elicits an Antidepressant Effect in Mice In Just Two Hours

Six-Qubit Silicon Quantum Processor Sets a Record

A Person Who Lived 800 Years Ago Is the Origin of a Modern Seizure Disorder, Scientists Say

Scientists Manipulate Dreams with Sound to Help Nightmare Sufferers

Proton’s Puzzling Electromagnetic Structure Is Observed in New Experiment

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(From the October 23, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Here Are Some of the Freakiest Images of the Microscopic World

First Launch of Much-Needed Ariane 6 Rocket Slips to Late 2023

Data Recorder Malfunction Jeopardizes 30-Year-Old NASA Probe

Webb Telescope Shows the Pillars of Creation Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before

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Your Gas Stove Is Likely Leaking Cancer-Causing Benzene into Your Home

Fully Mature Hair Follicles Grown in Cultures

Hole In the Ozone Layer Has Grown for A 3rd Year in A Row — But Scientists Aren’t Concerned

Melting Glaciers Could Unleash Long-Frozen Viruses onto New Hosts

For The First Time, Astronomers Saw Dust in Space Being Pushed by Starlight

Astrophysicists Just Made a New Count of All the Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe

Planet With the ‘Density of a Marshmallow’ Spotted Around Red Dwarf Star

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(From the October 16, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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How DART Scientists Know the Experiment to Shove an Asteroid Actually Worked
SpaceX Sells 82-Year-Old Billionaire a Starship Ride Around the Moon

NASA Gets Closer to Venus Mission with Successful Robo-Balloon Test

NASA Conducts ‘Dangerous’ Test of a Vacuum Gun to Study Space Rock Collisions

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Here’s an illustration that might come in useful tonight:

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A Major Trial Shows Mixed Results for Colonoscopy in Preventing Cancer Deaths

Diabetes Drug Linked to Lower Risk of Dementia, Study Finds

America’s Birds Are in Big Trouble

There’s Officially a Nationwide Adderall Shortage

Elon Musk Says He’s Just Following Ukraine’s Suggestion to ‘Frack Off’ by Asking Pentagon to Fund Starlink

Scientists Apparently Taught Brain Cells How to Play Pong

CERN slashes experiment time next year by 20% as energy costs bite

A Young Man Became Allergic to Orgasms—but There’s a Happy Ending

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(From the October 9, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Elon Promised Dancing Robots – He Delivered A Slowly Stumbling Erector Set Travesty – AI DAY 2022 – TESLA vs BOSTON DYNAMICS

STARSHIP INSITU REFILLING ON MARS – Part 1 of 2

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Had Mystery Debris Stuck to Its Leg

NASA Tests Gigantic Slingshot for Hurling Objects into Space

Telescope in Chile Spots Huge Debris Trail from NASA’s Asteroid Crash Test

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Upgraded Covid-19 Boosters Could Save 90,000 American Lives This Winter—If We Get Them

The Internet Archive Wants Your Help Building Its Collection of Amateur Radio Material

Monoclonal Antibodies Remain Effective Against Latest SARS-CoV-2 Variants

CDC Says We Probably Can’t Get Rid of Monkeypox Now

The World’s Whitest Paint Can Now Be Used to Naturally Cool Cars and Planes

Mastercard Wants to Make Crypto Purchases Less Risky

Satellite Billboards Are a Dystopian Future We Don’t Need

New Form of Silicon Could Revolutionize Semiconductor Industry

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(From the October 2, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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The Most Intriguing Images of DART’s Fatal Encounter with an Asteroid

New Hubble and Webb Images Capture Aftermath of DART Asteroid Smash Up

Hurricane Ian Forces Delay of Next SpaceX Crewed Mission to ISS

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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:

ISS 120 Volt Box

These panels, called Utility Outlet Panels (UOP) are distributed throughout the US side of the station. They provide sockets to plug user equipment into.

The AC devices also use type Cannon plugs, as pictured. These boxes are located throughout the space station.

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NYPD Considers Using Encryption to Block the Public from Radio Scanner Broadcasts

A Cancer-Fighting Version of Herpes Shows Promise in Early Human Trial

Scientists Take Giant Step Toward Developing Room-Temperature Superconductors

Giant Centrifuge Startup That Wants to Hurl Things into Space Raises $71 Mil

More States Than Ever Have High Obesity Rates, CDC Data Shows

Study Links Coffee—Even Decaf and Instant—to Longer Life

Stressed? Your Dog Can Probably Smell It

Our Cancers Are Filled with Fungi

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Some Book Suggestions, from Yours Truly…

Composed of three books – The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forrest, and Death’s End, this is a trilogy written by Cixin Liu, an author from the People’s Republic of China, who wrote it in Chinese translated by Ken Liu into English. To me it does not ‘read’ like any other book I have read – the story staggers about, and it is often many pages into a scene that you can finally see where it fits into this very long story – there are flash backs, and flash forwards. The first forty pages of set up don’t seem to be going anywhere, until they do. It is one of those book series that rewards patience, if you can muster enough to slog through it all. I must admit I failed the first few times that I tried, but on my third attempt I reached the first plot thread that helped me get through it all.

The fiction is hard science fiction, and often it seems that the plot is just an excuse to examine very theoretical physics, just for the hell of it!

It was an interesting experience and the writing style and central theme of a consensus approach at times, rather than a lone heroic figure is said to be a common Chinese plot style. Will I be re-reading it again, as I have done with Dune, or Lord of The Rings, or Foundation? Hell, no. One time is enough for me, but if you are curious and aware of the speed bump at the very beginning of this series, perhaps you should give it a try as well?

What If? 2

This book is the second in a series, by Randall Munroe, who you might know as the author of the popular nerdist comic XKCD. In this series he collects weird ‘what if’ questions from children and attempts to research and answer them with his tongue firmly planted against his cheek. I had hoped to pick up a Physics Puzzle for the Technical Net from this book. Although I found two suitable entries, I had used them for previous TechNets – “What do protons taste like” (presented in this book as what would the Sun taste like), and “Could you build a large enough reflecting mirror or refracting lense to concentrate light reflected from the Moon to Earth, that could ignite a piece of paper” (as we have all done with sunlight)?

Taken in small bites, this is a very entertaining and thought-provoking book, but I would not advise reading it cover to cover without interruption, as I did. The children’s phrasing of the premises can get a bit too cute at times.

Still, it was an entertaining and informative book, and I look forward to the inevitable “What If? 3” in the years to come…

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(From the September 18, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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It looks like I won’t have to worry about any foul language FCC violation when I mentioned that our Universe is believed to be expanding faster than the speed of light, and the Law of Energy Conservation is a more complicated law <grin>!

Is space expanding faster than the speed of light?

Is Energy Conserved in General Relativity?

What the Orion Nebula Looks Like to Webb Telescope Vs Hubble Telescope

NASA’s CAPSTONE Moon Probe Is in More Trouble Than We Realized

What to Expect from NASA’s DART Mission to Deflect an Asteroid

See the Microscopic World in Motion Through These Winning Videos

Constipated Scorpions and the Best Way to Open a Door: The 2022 Ig Nobel Winners Are Here

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Cravings for Fatty Foods Traced to Gut-Brain Connection

U.S. Safety Agency Warns People to Stop Buying Male-to-Male Extension Cords on Amazon

The FCC Wants a 5-Year Deadline to Deorbit Defunct Satellites

Poor Dental Health Linked to Greater Dementia Risk, Large Review Finds

Five People with Lupus Went into Complete Remission After Immunotherapy

A Virus That Can Cause Polio-Like Paralysis in Children Has Returned

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(From the August 28, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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The James Webb Telescope Captures the Tarantula Nebula in Stunning Detail

Why Hydrogen Leaks Continue to Be a Major Headache for NASA Launches

9 Iconic NASA Stamps Issued by the U.S. Postal Service

These Two ‘Colliding’ Galaxies Make a Gorgeous Double Portrait

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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:

The Parker Solar Probe

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Scientists Are Working on New and Improved Hair Loss Treatments

Inhaling Whippits Left a Man Unable to Walk

The Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Just Got Hit by a Gigantic Outburst from the Sun

Shining Light On Why Plastics Turn Yellow

A Quantum Network of Entangled Atomic Clocks

Front-loading Calories Early in The Day Reduces Hunger but Does Not Affect Weight Loss

Molecular makeover Makes Wimpy Antibody A SARS-CoV-2 Tackler

Robo-bug: A Rechargeable, Remote-control Cyborg Cockroach

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(From the August 28, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Scrubbed Again: NASA Calls Off Second SLS Launch Attempt Due to Hydrogen Leak

Artemis 1: To Boldly Go Where Four RS-25 Engines Have Gone Many Times Before

See Webb Telescope’s First Images of an Exoplanet

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FDA Authorizes Upgraded Omicron-Specific Boosters for Covid-19

Recent Findings Suggest New Omicron BA.2.75 Is as Susceptible to Antibodies as The Currently Dominant Variant

Eerie, Ripple-Like Rings Around Distant Star in New James Webb Image Puzzle Astronomers

What to Know About the Blue Light and Accelerated Aging Study

Team Developing Oral Insulin Tablet Sees Breakthrough Results

Making Batteries Out of Crab Shells May Be a Great Idea

New Theory for Detection of Terahertz Electromagnetic Waves Gives Hope for Advances in IT And Medicine

Seahorse Fathers Give Birth in A Unique Way, New Research Shows

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(From the August 21, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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How to Watch the Artemis 1 Launch, NASA’s Return to the Moon

Zoom in on Webb Telescope’s Biggest Image Yet

Webb Telescope Just Detected Carbon Dioxide in a Distant World

Scientists Debunk Myth That Noise from NASA’s Powerful Saturn V Rocket Melted Concrete

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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:

The Artemis one system stack.

This is an exploded view of Orion

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Location of the three manikins aboard the Orion spacecraft.

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Computers and cubesats location
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The SLS ARTEMIS ONE ready for flight with the moon in the background.

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The Sands of Mars Are Green as Well as Red, Rover Perseverance Discovers

When Can We Be Bothered to Help Others? Scientists Pinpoint Brain Region Responsible for This Behavior

Your Dog Might Cry with Happiness When He Sees You, Study Finds

Why Do Dogs Get Dementia? Large Study Finds Similar Risk Factors To Humans

UK Scientists Create a Mouse Embryo from Stem Cells, No Sperm or Egg Required

Italian Man with Fever Learns He Has Monkeypox, Covid-19, and HIV All at Once

Sweeping Genetic Study of Ancient Eurasians Reveals Thousands of Years of History

Bilayer Tungsten Diselenide Transistors With ON-State Current Densities Over 1.5 Milliamperes Per Micrometer

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(From the August 21, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:

Inverse Square In Action!

You Have to Zoom in for a Full Minute to See the Galaxy in This Webb Telescope Video

Russia Now Wants to Build Its Own Space Station Before Leaving the ISS

Russian Cosmonaut Forced to Abandon Spacewalk Due to Spacesuit Power Malfunction

Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their View

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New Glucose Monitoring Device Only Analyses Breath, Much Easier to Use

An Implant Made from Pig Skin Restored 19 People’s Eyesight in Recent Trial

Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids Are Finally on the Way

Martian Explorers Could Produce Oxygen Using Plasmas

Grains Of Dust from Asteroid Ryugu Older Than Our Solar System

West Nile Virus Found in Record Number of NYC Mosquitos This Summer

Should I Get a Fourth Shot Now, Or Wait for An Omicron-Specific Booster?

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(From the August 14, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Gigantic Crowds Expected for Inaugural Launch of NASA’s Mega Rocket

Artemis 1 and the First Launch of NASA’s Megarocket: What to Know

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Making Oxygen with Magnets Could Help Astronauts Breathe Easy

(Here’s A More Technical Discussion About Magnetic Separation of Oxygen)

Intensifying Solar Storms, a Mounting Headache for Unprepared Satellite Operators

DARPA Wants to Build an ‘Internet’ of Connected Satellites in Low Earth Orbit

U.S. Officials Are Not Happy About Russia’s Supposed ‘Stalker’ Satellite

Paralysis-Causing Polio Has Been Detected in NYC Wastewater

‘Gigantic Jet’ That Shot into Space May Be the Most Powerful Lightning Bolt Ever Detected

Remember When North Korea Launched Its Massive ICBM? Well, They Probably Faked It

One of The Brightest Stars in The Sky Dimmed In 2019. Now We Know Why.

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(From the August 7, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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James Webb Space Telescope Depicts Cartwheel Galaxy in Stunning Detail

By The Way, How Can You Tell That This Image Came From The James Webb Space Telescope???

Here’s A Hint – This Image Was from Hubble

Expertise Ain’t Just 10,000 Hours of Practice – The 4 things it takes To Be an Expert

Planned Giant Telescope Gets a Huge Influx of Cash

Shaun the Sheep will join NASA’s Artemis 1 flight to the Moon

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Something is making the Earth spin faster and days shorter

Tuberculosis vaccine passes safety test

Experimental Earbuds Can Detect Ear Infections and Other Medical Conditions with a Chirp

Waterborne Legionnaires’ Disease Rears Its Head in California

Scientists Partially Revive Pig Organs an Hour After Death

U.S. Declares National Public Health Emergency Over Monkeypox as Cases Multiply

Smart Lighting System Based on Quantum Dots More Accurately Reproduces Daylight

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(From the July 31, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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USPS Will Start Selling James Webb Space Telescope Stamps on August 8th

China’s Out-of-Control Rocket Predicted to Crash on July 30

Russia Says It Will Pull Out of The International Space Station Sometime After 2024

Congress Sneaks NASA Authorization Bill Into CHIPS, Approves Moon-to-Mars Program

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Upgraded Covid-19 Boosters Could Arrive by Fall

Vaccine-Induced Immune Response to Omicron Wanes Substantially Over Time

Glowing Nighttime Clouds May Be an Unexpected Side Effect of Rocket Launches

Vitamin D Supplements Fail to Prevent Bone Fractures in Large Clinical Trial

Harm From Blue Light Exposure Increases with Age

The So-Called Murder Hornet Has a New Name

Deadly Tropical Bacteria Found in Continental U.S. Soil for the First Time

Pinpointing Consciousness in Animal Brains Using a Mouse ‘Brain Map’

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(From the July 24, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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NASA’s Artemis Era Could Officially Begin in Just 6 Weeks

Researchers Remeasure Gravitational Constant

Space Pebble That Hit Webb Telescope Caused Significant Damage, Scientists Say

Why Do All the Stars Have 8 Points in the James Webb Images?

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Synchron Says It’s The First to Implant a Human Brain-Computer Interface in the US

A Nasal Spray Seems to Help Clear Coronavirus in Clinical Trial

Ford Will Use New Battery Tech to Help It Build 600,000 EVs Per Year

A New Dark Matter Experiment Quashed Earlier Hints of New Particles

Got Brain Fog? So Do All These Animals

Physicists Devised a Way to See Elusive ‘Unruh Effect’ in the Lab

Quantum Theory of Consciousness Put in Doubt by Underground Experiment

Where Do Electrons Get Energy to Spin Around an Atom’s Nucleus?

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(From the July 17, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Electron Whirlpools Seen for the First Time – Fluid Flow Could Enable Next-Generation Electronics

Science and Mathematics Often Choose Terrible Names for Important Concepts – Imaginary Numbers Are Real [Part 1: Introduction]

See the First Full-Color Images from Webb Space Telescope

Deaths From Falling Rocket Debris Are Highly Unlikely—but That’s Changing

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Russia Sacks Dmitry Rogozin as Head of Russia’s Space Agency

Science Satellite Dodges Threatening Space Junk on Just 8 Hours’ Notice

Scientists zero in on genetic causes of Parkinson’s

Elephant genes could hold the key to avoiding cancers

American Men Are Sicker, Die Earlier Than Their Global Peers

Desperate Long Covid Patients Paying Thousands for Unproven Blood-Filtering Treatments: Report

Weirdly Slow Radio Burst in Space Is ‘Like a Heartbeat’

Head of Russian Space Agency Threatens to Withhold Access to New ISS Robotic Arm

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(From the July 10, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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NASA’s CAPSTONE Finally Phoned Home After Nerve-Wracking Silence

Taking Out the Trash on the International Space Station Just Got a Lot Easier

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UK Man Vomits for Months, Ends Up in Hospital After Vitamin D Overdose

Microbes May Hold the Secret to Creating More Powerful Rocket Fuel

Large Hadron Collider Physicists Discover Three New Exotic Particles

A Super-Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Just Booted Up

Your Cat or Dog Can Now Donate Their Poop to Science

Surprise – Again! Asteroid Bennu Reveals its Surface is Like a Plastic Ball Pit

Physicists Detect a New Type of Molecular Bond

Scientists Uncover Spectacular New Species of Giant Water Lily

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(From the July 3, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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A Mars Spacecraft Has Been Running on Windows 98 Era Software for 19 Years, But No More

First Webb Images Will Include Exoplanet Data and the Deepest-Ever Image of the Universe

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Some Good News: Scientists Are Testing a Universal Flu Vaccine in People

Scientists CRISPR’d Tomatoes to Make Them Full of Vitamin D

U.S. Orders Omicron-Specific Covid-19 Vaccine Shipment for Big Fall Push

The Flu Vaccine May Help Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay

Astronauts Can Suffer a Decade of Bone Loss During Months in Space, New Research Suggests

Samsung Wins Race to 3nm Chips, Promises Huge Performance and Efficiency Gains

We Should Be Banking Our Poop for Future Use, Scientists Argue

Physicists Confront the Neutron Lifetime Puzzle

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(From the June 26, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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NASA Declares Megarocket Rehearsal Complete, Setting Stage for Inaugural Launch

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Rolls Past Evidence of Ancient Water

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Don’t Take Vitamin E or Beta Carotene to Prevent Heart Disease or Cancer, Experts Say

The Mites That Live and Breed on Your Face Have Anuses, Genome Study Finds

Giant Bacteria Visible to the Naked Eye Discovered in Mangrove Swamp

Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce Food Without Sunshine

The Star That Survived a Supernova

Secrets Of Aging Revealed in Largest Study on Longevity, Aging in Reptiles and Amphibians

Entrepreneur Uses Baking Soda to Supercharge Antibiotic

Gravitational Waves from Merging Black-Hole ‘Atom’ Could Reveal New Particles

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(From the June 19, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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NASA Set for Latest Megarocket Launch Rehearsal—and the Pressure Is On

New Milky Way Visualizations Show the Dance of Millions of Stars in Incredible Detail

Elon Musk Picks Wildly Ambitious Target of Next Month for First Starship Orbital Launch

Europe’s Space Agency to Debut More Powerful Successor to Its Vega Rocket

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Healthy Brains Can Get as Hot as 105 Degrees, Study Finds

FDA Approves First Drug of Its Kind for Severe Alopecia

Experimental Transplant Procedure Allows 3 Kids to Live Without Immune-Suppressing Drugs

Google Places an Engineer on Leave After Claiming Its AI Is Sentient

New Strain of Extensively Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Appears in Austria

China Publishes, Then Deletes Report of Potential Alien Signals

Monkeypox Is Getting a New Name, WHO Announces

UK Study Confirms English Bulldogs Are a Genetic Tragedy

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(From the June 12, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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NASA’s Latest Plan to Fix Trojan Spacecraft’s Unlatched Solar Array Shows Signs of Promise

Mobile Launcher for NASA’s Megarocket Could Go $1 Billion Over Budget, Auditor Warns

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Remarkable Drug Trial Ends with All 18 Patients Cancer-Free

The Chicken (or the Egg) First Came from This Spot, Researchers Say

Russian Space Agency Plans to Space-Jack a German X-Ray Telescope

Monarch Butterfly Populations Are Thriving in North America

NASA Will Investigate UFOs, Er, ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’

Does Coffee Help You Live Longer? It’s Complicated

Weight Loss Surgery Reduces Cancer Risk, Study Finds

Researchers Observe Continuous Time Crystal

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(From the June 5, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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New Optical Illusion Makes 86% of People Feel Like They’re Falling into a Black Hole

NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Back in Business Following Near-Death Experience

Webb Space Telescope’s First Full-Color Images Are Just Weeks Away

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Study Confirms the Benefit of Supplements for Slowing Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Most People’s Livers Are Just 3 Years Old

‘Beam-Steering’ Technology Takes Mobile Communications Beyond 5G

Toyota’s Prototype ‘Cartridge’ Is A Way to Make Hydrogen Portable

In a First, Surgeons Transplant Human Liver Preserved Outside the Body for 3 Days

Experimental Gene Treatment May Have Helped Shrink a Woman’s Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

A Man’s ‘Eczema’ Was Actually Caterpillar Hairs

Studying Schizophrenia in Plants? Researchers Are Giving It a Shot

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(From the May 29, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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NASA Scientists Made a Martian ‘Soundscape’ Using Audio Recorded by Perseverance Rover

New Video Shows Helicopter Catching Rocket Booster in Midair

Space and Astronomy: Diffractive Solar Sails Could Outperform Reflective-Metal-Coated Sails

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Crookes’ Radiometer

Nichols’ Radiometer

How can a photon have momentum?

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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:

The Diffractive Solar Sailing Project

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This Smart Pacemaker Simply Dissolves Inside the Body When It’s No Longer Needed

Researchers Sequence Genome of Man Who Died at Pompeii

Latest on Monkeypox: Genetic Clues and How It Might Be Spreading

A UK Man’s Double Hand Transplant Is a World First

NASA Moves Ahead with Wild Solar Sail Concept

Secrets of Thymus Formation Revealed

How the Universe Got Its Magnetic Field

Fifth Force Could Explain Puzzling Orbits of Dwarf Galaxies

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(From the May 22, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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This “enhanced” image of “The Doorway On Mars” may explain why Musk said he was selling all his homes here on Earth:

Voyager 1 Space Probe Is Suddenly Sending NASA Wacky Data

New Video Shows Helicopter Catching Rocket Booster in Midair

Solar Orbiter Captures Dazzling Images of the Sun’s Chaotic Activity

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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:

Bob Hines KI5RQT and Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS, who are both NASA astronauts and hams, entered the Starliner. Inside the spacesuit is “Rosie the Rocketeer” the (Anthropometric manikin) that had sensors attached to help NASA get ready for the next Starliner mission with a human crew later this year.

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First Patient Dosed with Experimental Cancer-Killing Virus in New Trial

SIDS Is Still a Tragic Mystery, Despite Claims the ‘Cause’ Has Been Found

Vast Majority of Long Covid Patients Were Never Hospitalized, Report Finds

Pentagon Reveals 400 UFO Sightings, Aims to Eliminate Stigma Around Reporting Mysterious Objects

New Spin on Galaxy Rotation Saves Controversial Gravity Theory

Monkeypox Outbreaks: Where They Are and What We Know (Updated)

Famous ‘Alien’ Wow! Signal May Have Come from Distant, Sunlike Star

Number of Potential Mystery Hepatitis Cases in U.S. Jumps to 180

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(From the May 15, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Behold: The First Image of Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole

NASA Releases Ridiculously Sharp Webb Space Telescope Images

NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Huge Rumble on Mars

G-QRP Club 2020 Convention : The John VE3IPS – The Misunderstood Terminated Tilted Folded Dipole

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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:

Above is what the Starliner will look like this week as it approaches the Harmony module. Note the Dragon crew vehicle is already docked to another port on Harmony.

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This Year’s Weird Flu Season Just Got Even Weirder

SLAC’s Newest Laser Works Best When It’s Colder Than Outer Space

Planetary Scientists Suggest a Solution To The Fermi Paradox: Superlinear Scaling Leading To A Singularity

For the First Time in Decades, Congress Will Hold Public Hearings on UFOs

Flower Moon Lunar Eclipse Rises This Week. Here’s Everything You Need to Know.

Hope for Europe’s 23 million Acne Sufferers As Dermatologists Identify Possible Link Between Key Nutrient And Skin Condition

New Transistors Integrating High-k Perovskite Oxides And 2D Semiconductors

MIT’s ‘Sun-in-a-Box’ Uses Light as an Efficient Form of Energy

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(From the May 8, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Russian Motor Spontaneously Explodes in Orbit, Creating Debris Cloud

Rocket Lab Helicopter Catches Falling Rocket Booster, Then Drops It

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Experimental Weight-Loss Drug Shows Surgery-Like Results in New Trial

Team Behind First Black Hole Image Set to Announce ‘Groundbreaking’ Milky Way Discovery

A Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Observatory Is a Step Closer to Reality

Scientists Develop Powerful Family of 2D Materials

Dairy Products Linked to Increased Risk of Cancer

Dizzying Video Shows What It’s Like to Get Shot Out of a Centrifuge at 1,000 MPH

U.S. Surpasses 1 million Dead from Covid-19 as Number of New Cases Climbs

A Pig Virus May Have Killed First Recipient of Transplanted Pig Heart

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(From the May 1, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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“I used to think in terms of voltage and current. And I used to think that the energy in a circuit was in the voltage and current. But it’s not. The energy in the circuit is in the fields.”

– Rick Hartley
Printed Circuit Board Designer

Veritasium goes even deeper down the ‘rabbit hole’ to explain how energy is transferred, NOT via the flow of electrons, but by the electric field induced by the circuit!

How Electricity Actually Works

Here’s How Martian Explorers Could Best Produce Electricity on the Red Planet

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Spots Wreckage From Perseverance Landing

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The Mars Ingenuity helicopter took this picture of the parachute and the backshell that helped the Mars Perseverance rover land in Jezero crater last year on February 18, 2021.

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Say Goodbye to Incandescent Light Bulbs

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Probe Will Visit A Second Asteroid

The Large Hadron Collider Rebooted and Immediately Broke a World Record

Fort Worth Becomes First U.S. City to Mine Bitcoin in Texas Crypto Boom

This Two-Inch Diamond Disc Could Hold a Staggering Billion Blu-Ray’s Worth of Data

Cover Your Wall in MIT’s New Paper-Thin Speakers to Turn Your Bedroom Into a Noise Cancelling Oasis

China Hopes to Redirect a Nearby Asteroid Within the Next Four Years

This Bacteria Forces You to Make Snot, Then Eats It

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(From the April 24, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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The Science of Splitting Oreos

Debris That Fell From Sky Into India Could Be Part of Chinese Rocket

This Will Be The First US Spacecraft To Land On The Moon Since Apollo

What to Know About Crew-4, NASA’s Next Space Station Mission

“Back On The Air” A beautiful tribute to all the ham radio operators in the world. CQ, CQ, CQ!

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The Large Hadron Collider is smashing protons again after a three-year hiatus

Massive DNA study of human cancers offers new clues about their causes

Feds Say YouTuber-Pilot Intentionally Crashed Plane for Views

Renewable Energy Has Been Kicking Ass in the U.S. This Spring

Intermittent Fasting Not Better Than Regular Dieting, Year-Long Trial Finds

Fossil of Sick Pterosaur Crest Reveals Clues to Feather Color

Probing Uranus Is Top Priority This Decade, U.S. Science Advisors Say

Caribbean Sea Urchins Are Mysteriously Dying in Droves

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(From the April 17, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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NASA Will Test Gigantic Centrifuge for Hurling Objects Into Space

Perseverance Rover Breaks Distance Record Without Human Help

Concerns Raised as NASA Moves Ahead With ‘Modified’ Test of Megarocket

Hubble Confirms Huge Incoming Comet Has Largest Known Nucleus

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is Ready for Calibration After Chilling Out

Europe’s Space Agency Pulls Out of Russia’s Upcoming Moon Missions

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End Fed – Center Fed Dipole?

(QST May 2022 pp 30-32)

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The NASA HASP Balloon will launch 10 student groups experiments this summer. Ham equipment can be flown using HASP.

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1 in 7 People Have a Headache Right Now

More Efficient Transistor Poses Threat to Silicon’s Reign, Say, Engineers

Promising Data Suggests New Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Could Halt or Reverse Symptoms

Neptune Is Getting Colder, and We Don’t Know Why

Psilocybin Therapy Changes Brain Wiring in Depressed People, Study Finds

Thermophotovoltaic cell converts 40 percent of heat energy to electricity

Kids in the U.S. and Europe Are Coming Down with Mysterious Liver Damage

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(From the April 10, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Critical Test of NASA’s Megarocket Resumes After Lightning Strikes and Technical Glitches

Curiosity Rover Must Take Detour After Encountering ‘Gator Back’ Rocks on Mars

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You’ll Go Blind If You Keep Doing That: Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Linked to Serious Eye Problems

Covid-19 Raises Risk of Lingering and Serious Blood Clotting, Swedish Study Finds

Uranium Is Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water, Study Finds

Fungicide-Treated Fruits May Harbor Deadly Super-Yeast, Study Finds

How Dogs Evolved to Be So Cute: More Human-Like Facial Muscles

These Souped-Up X-rays Are Nearly Ready to Zap Stuff

‘Huh, That’s Funny’: Physicists Delighted by New Measurement for the W Boson

Scientists Have Spotted Farthest Galaxy on Record

Cosmic ‘Lighthouses’ That Beam Gamma Rays Could Reveal Gravitational Waves All Around Us

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(From the April 3, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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How Astronomers Spotted the Oldest Known Star

Why Do Dead Batteries Bounce? Chemistry, of Course!

Here’s A Video of Batteries Bouncing!

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Scientists Have Finally Mapped the Whole Human Genome

Scientists Are Inching Closer to Creating Truly Hypoallergenic Cats

Gas From the Big Bang May Be Trapped Inside Earth

A Beacon in the Galaxy: Scientists Update Humanity’s Message to Aliens

Infectious Fungus Wreaks Havoc on Crazy Ants—and Scientists Are Thrilled

Jupiter Twin Spotted 17,000 Light-Years Away

Pluto’s Huge Ice Volcanoes Are Stranger Than We Realized

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(From the March 27, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Kugelblitz!!!

SpaceX Will Have Competition on the Moon, as NASA Seeks a Second Lunar Lander

A Transformer Is Headed to the Moon

The Speed of Sound on Mars Is Kinda Funky, New Evidence Suggests

How to Test Vacuum Tubes

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Above is NASA astronaut Raja Char ( KI5LIU ) (left) and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer ( KI5KFH )(right) in their spacesuits before the EVA. About half of the astronauts and cosmonauts have their ham radio tickets.

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Scientists Found Microplastics in People’s Blood for the First Time

A Man’s Nonstop Hiccups Turned Out to Be a Brain Tumor Symptom

What to Know About the Artificial Sweetener and Cancer Study?

MIT’s new simulation reveals crucial insights into the birth of the universe

New Image of the Sun Is Unlike Anything Seen Before

RIP Comet Leonard, a Bright Visitor in a Dark Time

Cosmic Rays and Perturbed Boulders Suggest First People to Reach Americas Came by Coast

Physicists Defy Haters, Create Tetragonal Ice

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(From the March 20, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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The Decline of Roscosmos

Why Do We Split a Circle Into 360 Degrees? A Look at the Origins of 360

A Full Sine Curve is 360°, or 2π radials:

Latest Image Shows the Awesome Power of the Webb Space Telescope

Our First Views of NASA’s Long-Awaited Megarocket, Fully Stacked and on the Launch Pad

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Homeopathy ‘Research’ Seriously Sucks

Astronomer Spotted Asteroid Hours Before It Hit Earth

Baby Boy Undergoes First-of-Its-Kind Heart Transplant That Could Skirt Organ Rejection

Latest Search for the Elusive Planet Nine Falls Short

Mild Covid-19 Linked to Increased Inflammation in Cells Months Later, Study Finds

Researchers Could Lure Murder Hornets to Their Deaths with Sex

Mysterious Birds Dive in Sync During a Lunar Eclipse

An Emerging Virus Has Now Been Spotted in Georgia’s Ticks

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(From the March 13, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

(Never were truer words said…)

Hanlon’s Razor

Why Do We Keep Needing New “G”s?

A Mars Rock Appears to Be Stuck in Perseverance Rover’s Wheel

Astrolab Tests Its Flexible Moon Buggy Concept in California Desert

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The Ingenuity helicopter is still like new after 21 flights. NASA was hoping for 5 flights but so far they have flown 21 times.

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Half of Americans Exposed to IQ-Lowering Levels of Lead Growing Up, Study Finds

2 Billion Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Cleared for Release in California and Florida

This Year’s Flu Vaccine Was Basically Worthless

Over 18 Million People Have Died From the Pandemic, Large Study Estimates

Giant Spiders from Asia Are Poised to Invade the U.S. East Coast

Officials Deny Mystery Brain Illness Cluster in Canada, but Families Call for More Investigation

Your Brain Is Fooled into Feeling Shapes and Textures On This Temperature-Changing Touchscreen

Nano-antennas for Light Controlled Electrically

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(From the March 6, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Webb Telescope Brings a Star Into Focus as It Completes ‘Image Stacking’ Alignment Phase

Here is one of W2AEW’s excellent YouTube Videos – This one explores using a NanoVNA’s Smith Chart! – If anyone wants to discuss it on the TechNet, let me know – #349: Club Presentation: Smith Charts – the NanoVNA and your antenna – matching network design

NASA Begins Assembly of Europa Clipper Spacecraft

We’re Building Computers Wrong

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Russian Company Outsourced the Main Components in EV Chargers to A Ukrainian Company, Hilarity Ensues

Scientists Help Recover Gases from Moon Rock Time Capsule

Innovative New Magnet Could Facilitate Development of Fusion and Medical Devices

More Alcohol, Less Brain: Study Finds an Association That Begins with An Average of Just One Drink a Day

Last-Minute Defense Against an Asteroid That Could Obliterate It Before Impact

Potato Genome Decoded

Ultraprecise Atomic Clock Poised for New Physics Discoveries

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(From the February 27, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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NASA Outlines Final Steps Before Launch of Artemis 1, First in New Lunar Program

Chinese Rover Spots Unusual Glass Beads on Far Side of the Moon

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A TechNet participant’s VNA sweep of SWR

A TechNet participant’s TDR sweep of Impedance vs length

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Vaccines Cut Risk of Long Covid in Half, UK Scientists Find

Doctors Were Able to Study a Man’s Brain Activity as He Died

MIT Study Finds Neurons In Epilepsy Patients That Only Respond To Singing

Men Don’t Really Like Plant-Based Alternatives to Meat

Closest Fast Radio Burst Ever Seen Detected by Astronomers

A Dose of Viagra Might Help Dogs Who Can’t Keep Food Down

Funky Black Hole Is Spinning Tilted

The CDC Will Once Again Stop Asking People to Mask Up: Report

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(From the February 20, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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STARSHIP UPDATE 2022 – Presentation Breakdown – A Skeptical View

Unprecedented Image Captures Freakishly Large Solar Eruption

Rohde & Schwarz High Frequency (HF) Learning Center

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Wanna Play At Home?

This is a VNA sweep from a TechNet listener. The third gray vertical bar is the 2 Meter band of this sweep. The orange colored trace is from a mobile whip. The green colored trace is from a TRAM vertical? Hopefully we will try to make some sense of this on tonight’s TechNet.

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King Tut’s Meteorite Dagger Has a Mystery Origin Story

The U.S. Has Had a Million ‘Extra’ Deaths Since the Pandemic Began

The Nearly Extinct Polio Virus Just Resurfaced in Africa

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Way to Create Universal Donor Lungs

Uh Oh, There’s an STD Test Shortage

Astronomers Find ‘Weird’ Stars Covered in Burned-Up Helium

We’ve Got You Now, Ticks

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(From the February 13, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Spectacular Video Shows Starlink Satellite Disintegrating Over Puerto Rico After Geomagnetic Storm

Webb Space Telescope Captures Selfie as It Aligns Its Gold Mirrors

Is the Crypto Bubble Going to Burst?

Bob Heil, K9EID – Big Announcement from Heil Sound – Tuesdays with Tim and Jeff

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Covid-19 Survivors Face a Higher Risk of Future Heart Problems, Large Study Finds

Tylenol Could Increase the Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke in Some People

Asteroid Sample Brought to Earth Exposes Ryugu’s Hidden Interior

Astronomers Rally to Stop Starlink and Other Satellite Constellations from Ruining the Sky

SpaceX Loses 40 Starlink Satellites to a Geomagnetic Storm

Researchers Have Found a Way to Use Quantum Dots to Create Incredibly High-Res Camera Sensors

Engineers Reveal Cause of Key Sodium-Ion Battery Flaw

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(From the February 6, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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An Electrifying View of the Heart of the Milky Way

Rollout of NASA’s New Megarocket Delayed Until at Least March

Facebook’s Crypto Project Is Officially Dead

Webb Space Telescope Successfully Sees Its First Glimmer of Light

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Scientists Deliberately Infected People with Covid-19: Here’s What Happened to Them

NASA’s Asteroid Detector Was Upgraded to Scan the Entire Sky Every Day

New ‘Megaflash Lightning’ Records Are the Definition of Extreme

A Highly Virulent Variant of HIV Has Been Discovered in the Netherlands

Dog Vision: How Do Dogs See the World?

Pennsylvania May Have a Big Tick Problem on Its Hands

New Antarctic Expedition Aims to Locate Endurance—Ernest Shackleton’s Lost Ship

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(From the January 30, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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A SpaceX Rocket Is Going to Slam Into the Moon

Perseverance Rover Has Shaken Out the Pebbles Stuck in Its Sampling System

We Finally Know Why a Solar Array on NASA’s Asteroid Probe Failed to Open

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

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Strange Milky Way Object Sends Radio Bursts A Minute at A Time

What We Know About the New BA.2 Omicron Variant

Moderna Begins Early-Stage Trials of mRNA-Based HIV Vaccine

Does Covid-19 Trigger Diabetes in Children? Here’s What the Research Shows So Far

The Horrific Guinea Worm Is on the Run—Just 14 Cases Reported Worldwide Last Year

Frog’s Missing Leg Regrown with Chemical Cocktail, Scientists Claim

Physicists Spotted a Rare ‘X’ Particle from the Beginning of the Universe

Long-range Quantum Entanglement Measured at Last

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(From the January 23, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Webb Space Telescope’s Mirrors Are Fully Deployed

Anemia Could Make Space Travel to Mars a Challenge, Study Finds

James Webb Telescope Is FINALLY Proving Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Theory!

AT&T and Verizon delay 5G rollout at some airports after airlines warn of disruptions

5G-Interference-Assessment-Report

This Flat Lens Technology Could Eliminate Phone Screen Notches and Rear Camera Bumps

Jonathan Waldern (DigiLens): DigiLens Switchable Bragg Grating Waveguide Optics for AR Applications

LIMARC YouTube – Time Delay of Arrival Surveillance

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CIA Says Havana Syndrome Isn’t Caused by Russia or Other Foreign Adversary: Report

Many Fish Oil Supplements Are Rancid, Report Finds

Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Causing More Streaks to Appear in Space Images

Hacker Hijacks Military Numbers Station, Proceeds to Rickroll Everyone

These 5,000-Year-Old Drinking Straws Were Used to Sip Beer, Researchers Say

Binge-Watching TV Linked to Greater Risk of Serious Blood Clots

Scientists Tried to Quantum Entangle a Tardigrade

There Are 40,000,000,000,000,000,000+ Black Holes in the Observable Universe, Says New Estimate

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A Book Suggestion, from yours truly…

Attack of The 50 Foot Blockchain

Confused when ‘The Press’ or one of your kids talk about cryptocurrency, blockchains, or smart contracts? Well, Attack of The 50 Foot Blockchain is an easy 179 page read. You won’t have to deal with understanding the mathematic algorithms of hash codes, or blockchains that are its foundation, but this book is rather a skeptical evaluation of the claims of how this technology will revolutionize the world. If you are a true believer already you will, no doubt, not appreciate the skepticism, but for those not yet proselytized into The Church of the Blockchain, this may give you a good idea of what all the tumult is about regarding this 21st Century version of Snake Oil.

Just to give you a sense of the writer’s writing style, and some great advice, here’s the very last paragraph from his book:

Everything to do with cryptocurrencies and blockchains is the domain of fast-talking conmen. If anyone tries to sell you on either, kick them in the nuts and run.

<grin>

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(From the January 16, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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Webb Space Telescope Deploys Primary Mirror Without a Hitch

A Skeptical View of ‘The Father of Radio’ – History of Radio: How Lee De Forest, a Con Artist, Created Radio

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U.S. Ranks 59th Globally for Covid-19 Vaccinations, Just Behind Iran

No, Smoking Weed Won’t Help You Avoid Covid

Chinese Researchers Claim Electroculture Works as Theorized

1,000-Cycle Lithium-Sulfur Battery Could Quintuple Electric Vehicle Ranges

Epstein-Barr Virus Could Be the Leading Cause of Multiple Sclerosis, Large Study Finds

Scientists Observe a Red Supergiant Going Supernova for The First Time

Pig Heart: First-of-Its-Kind Transplant Was Patient’s Only Option for Survival

New Analysis of Famous Martian Meteorite Finds No Evidence of Alien Life

Sadly, ‘Covid Penis Is Real

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(From the January 9, 2022 edition of the TechNet:)

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NASA finishes deploying the James Webb Space Telescope

Webb Space Telescope Deploys Secondary Mirror as It Zooms Toward Final Destination

New Video Shows Webb Space Telescope’s Goodbye to Earth

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The completed JWST James Webb space telescope

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Below is what the telescope looked like right after launch on Christmas Day at 7:20 AM

Here’s what the telescope looks like today. It just needs to do a few more deployments to be complete

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