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The article provides an overview of NASA's Lucy mission, which aims to explore the Trojan asteroids located in Jupiter's orbit. The spacecraft, also named Lucy, has encountered some challenges, but power is not a concern. Lucy has already made a close flyby of Earth and discovered a moon around an asteroid. The mission will contribute to our understanding of the Solar System's origins and asteroid formation. While the article provides limited details, it suggests the possibility of extending the mission beyond its initial visits to the Trojan asteroids. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses getting rock sample from Mars by the year 2030. Topics discussed including primary goal was to finding metabolic traces of life on the Martian surface, performing microanalyses impossible to do with even the most sophisticated robotic laboratories, and the risk of accidentally coming down on top of Perseverance.

But there is another part of the story A few years earlier, in 1970, a storm eroded a mudbank on the Makah Reservation, near the far northwestern tip of Washington state, revealing ruins of an ancient village that had been buried by a mudslide. On 26 January 1700, a giant earthquake somewhere between magnitudes 8.7 and 9.2, struck the coast, creating a tsunami that wreaked havoc all the way from British Columbia to Northern California. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that the International Astronomical Union's definition of a planet, adopted controversially demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet. It mentions that interlopers forced into the solar system by an interaction with a passing star. It states that planet Nine wouldn't have completed an orbit since woolly mammoths roamed Earth.

The article reports that South Pacific volcano called Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai exploded on 15 January 2022, in the Kingdom ofTonga., and produced a giant thump heard at least as far away as Fiji, picked up worldwide by instruments designed to monitor for nuclear tests. Topics include Vulcanologists rate eruptions on an eight-point explosivity index in which each one-point increase in power; and lava was blown out of the water and into a giant plume of volcanic ash, remained underwater.

The article reports that scientists appears to apply to a popular class of traffic safety messages intended to reduce accidents by warning drivers about the inherent dangers of driving. Topics include driving on the freeway and traffic fatality message teamed up with Jonathan Hall, an economist at the University of Toronto; and messages to appear on dynamic message signs such as advising about road construction, traffic delays with warnings from Texas Department of Transportation.

The article presents the discussion on sensitive issues, disinformation, and misinformation focusing on reacting to COVID and vaccines.

The article offers information on the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft that is designed to approach the binary asteroid Dimorphos, which is scheduled to occur on September 26, 2022, to test whether it is possible to deflect an asteroid from its path by smashing a spacecraft into it. Topics covered include the scientific objectives of DART, and images that DART is expected to return.

The article informs that U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) successful InSight mission to send a craft to another planet. It is noted that InSight was conceived as a billion-dollar project to put a seismometer on the surface of Mars to use the Red Planet's occasional marsquakes to probe its interior. It is noted that solar panels of InSight had been getting dusty, and dust devils had come along to scrub them clean for the solar-powered Spirit and Opportunity rovers.

The article reports on the views expressed by the scientists on the reports that animals exercise and are able to escape predators and manage feats of endurance and mentions that Barnacle geese develop strongerhearts, bigger flight muscles just by sitting around. The impact of seasonal changes on the animals are also discussed.

The article focuses on European space telescope Gaia uses the Earth's orbit to provide a long baseline to triangulate on stars and relies on making very accurate measurements of positions. It mentions that Gaia data suggest that the first of galaxy collisions might have been responsible for the birth of the Sun.

The article discusses Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022. Topics include Beijing Olympics was the second Olympic event after Covid-19 which was organized without spectators; strict covid protocols and need for safety measures, including testing, masks and sanitization was followed; lack of crowd alters the experience of everyone including players, television spectators and organizers.

The article focuses on the idea of sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) in biomass approach to lessen the effect of global warming. It highlights the proposal of atmospheric scientist Ning Zeng on the potential of burying half of the wood that grows each year to alleviate the amount of carbon from the atmosphere. However, critics of Zeng's proposal point out that the carbon locked up in forests will only be kept out of the atmosphere for as long as the tree is alive.

The article discusses some of the misconceptions people have about the importance of eating breakfast and the effect that glucose has on the brain. The author explains that although glucose is important for brain function, the process is complex and requires the completion of certain steps before the brain can fully benefit from the glucose derived from carbohydrates.

This article focuses on the health aspects of aspartame. Aspartame, also known in Europe as E951, is the artificial sweetener people love to hate. Since it was approved for food use 25 years ago it has been linked to pretty much every health scare going, from brain tumours to insomnia and mood swings. In 2005 a group of scientists at the European Ramazzini Foundation in Bentivoglio, near Bologna in Italy, published some new findings. When the foundation's researchers added aspartame to the diet of 1500 rats, they saw an increase in the incidence of leukaemias and lymphomas, cancers of the blood and lymphatic systems, particularly among females. Notably, cancer incidence rose even in rats fed the equivalent of half the World Health Organization's acceptable daily intake of 40 milligrams of aspartame per kilogram of body weight.

The article discusses consumption and harmful effects of caffeine. Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive substance on earth, prized by almost every human culture for its ability to perk people up and keep them awake. In North America, around 90 per cent of adults report using caffeine every day. Caffeine bashing started in earnest in the mid-1970s when several major studies linked it with heart disease and bladder cancer. Perhaps the most notorious study came in 1980 when Thomas Collins of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) linked caffeine to birth defects in rats. The study sent shock waves through the drinks industry and led the FDA to warn pregnant women to cut down on coffee and tea. INSET: Caffeine cheats?.

The article discusses issues related to the freezing of the crater of Mount Saint Helens, Washington. Adventurer Charlie Anderson has been in the crater of Mount St Helens more times than anyone else. He was one of the few people who weren't surprised when geologists announced that in the time since its 1980 eruption, North America's most famous volcano has grown a full-fledged glacier in its crater. Anderson predicted in 1982, that a glacier would grow beneath those shady slopes. But in its early years, the crater was rocked by eruptions that gradually created a 270-metre-high lava dome in its centre.

The article presents interviews with American volunteers Chris Sanford, Robert Shaler, and Bretwood Higman, who have worked in the immediate aftermath of the most catastrophic events of recent years. Sanford, a doctor at the University of Washington Travel Clinic in Seattle, Washington, volunteered to help in New Orleans, Louisiana, after hurricane Katrina struck last year. Shaler is a forensics expert responsible for identifying victims of the 9/11 attack on New York City. Higman is a geologist who witnessed the destruction wrought by the Asian tsunami.

Bees might be able to tell us Bees might be able to tell us bees on thistle plants in the cityCredit: horstgerlach / Getty Images It was, of course, a problem for the beekeeper (themaraschino honey reportedly tasted awful), but yearslater, Slavin and other researchers got to wondering ifit might be possible to take advantage of the foragingbehavior of bees to use them to probe urban environmentsin ways not previously possible. [Extracted from the article]

That's because there are a lot of pesticides -- morethan 1,000 different chemicals according to the World HealthOrganization, and more than 17,000 'pesticide products'according to US environmental group Pesticide ActionNetwork. Chemicals are ubiquitous - finding a simple and cheaptechnique to identify them is important. [Extracted from the article]

"Basically, we are taking a technology to capture carbon dioxide from exhaust fumes and then repurpose that carbon dioxide into materials that would be usable, such that you can pay for the capture", he says. Scientists in the U.S. are working on a scheme to remove carbon dioxide from powerplant emissions and sequester it with no net cost to the powerplant. [Extracted from the article]

Other acoustics engineers are looking at how to use ourbodies' own sounds to monitor our health, without need fora doctor's visit, using sounds that range from theresonances of our coughs to the sometimes more dramaticnoises we make each morning on the toilet. The math was complex, but theresults not so much so: a pneumonia-induced cough has adistinctive signature that can be teased out of whateverroom acoustics you happen to be in when you cough with anaccuracy of 97.5 percent, which for a passive, remote-monitoring diagnostic is very good. [Extracted from the article]

Originally published by Cosmos as Animal mobility mighthold the key to improved human movement European honey bees need to get the varroa mite off theirbacks / Credit: David Mark (Pixabay) Footage from Nils Tack demonstrating shrimp leg movement. Weekly Physicists study how shrimp swim, fruit flies smelland design robots that can be put in the blood Nils Tack, a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University(US) is fascinated by shrimp. [Extracted from the article]

That's where volcanoes and glaciers enter the picture,because one of the things Mix's cores reveal is anextended low-oxygen event at the end of the last Ice Age,roughly 17,000 to 10,000 years ago. What really matters, Mix and Du say, is what the new findteaches about oceans, global warming, and the potentialunintended consequences of possible efforts to protectthe planet. Earth Proposals to offset climate change via seabed ironfertilisation might capture vast amounts of carbondioxide from the air, but it might kill the ocean. [Extracted from the article]

Earth Fires create their own weather: both nearby, and in distantplaces. We have a good understanding howthings like the El Nino/La Nina cycle impact drought,extreme precipitation, and severe weather. But it'salso an illustration of how weather patterns across theglobe are interconnected, much like the old children'sditty about how the "toe bone's connected to the footbone", and the "foot bone's connected to the ankle bone,"until you get all the way up to the head and realize thateverything ultimately connected to everything else. [Extracted from the article]

PHOTO (COLOR): When the team conducted an occultation study of Pluto in Western Australia last June, their telescopes were scattered as far north as Indonesia. Buie has been studying occultations for years, but since 2018, his focus has been on the five asteroids (and three asteroid moons) to be visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, starting in 2027. Buie hopes his work with Lucy's asteroids will pave the way to applying his methods on a larger scale. [Extracted from the article]

Heymsfield's and Adams-Selin's work is part of a much larger initiative to learn more about hail and hailstorms, on which research has been lagging for many years. "In a hailstorm, only a few select hailstones become the largest", says Andrew Heymsfield, a hail researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who also spoke at the Colorado workshop. These hailstones often have strange-looking lobes that make them look more like pinwheels than the spherical shapes normally associated with hailstones. [Extracted from the article]

It wasn't just at the World Championships, he adds,because the U.S. Olympic Trials held the previous year, inthe same stadium and with the same timing equipment,also had a large number of false starts. Depending on how you set thethreshold, Pain says, that could add at least another 25msonto lab-measured reaction times, bumping the fastest-possibleblock-measured response time up to comfortablyabove 100ms. And in the 2010 Commonwealth Games inDelhi, Australian sprinter Sally Pearson left the stadium intears after being charged with a false start in the 100m. [Extracted from the article]

"Reaction force under the hands always precedes [thatmeasured by] the blocks."Professor Andrew Harrison, University of Limerick What to do about this is an open question. It wasn't just at the World Championships, he adds,because the U.S. Olympic Trials held the previous year,in the same stadium and with the same timing equipment,also had a large number of false starts. Depending on how you setthe threshold, Pain says, that could add at least another25ms onto lab-measured reaction times, bumping thefastest-possible block-measured response time up tocomfortably above 100ms. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the increase use of the approved method for monitoring the purity of the popular dietary supplement ingredient chondroitin sulfate, wherein according to Darryl Sullivan, director of scientific and regulatory affairs at Covance Laboratories its the major step forward for the industry. It also noted that AOAC is under the contract with the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health.

The article discusses the six dietary ingredients, considered priority ingredients, selected by nonprofit scientific association AOAC International for review to ensure regulatory compliance, safety and quality. Dietary ingredients under evaluation include aloe vera, protein, vitamins K1 and K2 as well as vitamin B12, ginger, and free amino acids. Also discussed is the analytic process of the review.