Japan’s SLIM moon lander surprisingly survived a second lunar night pred 4 urami in 27 minutami The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon spacecraft has sent back images after surviving its second lunar night – generally these periods are so cold they destroy spacecraft electronics(New Scientist)
Could bone marrow transplants transmit Alzheimer's disease? pred 5 urami in 41 minutami The mainstream view is that Alzheimer's starts in the brain, but researchers were able to transfer the condition in mice by injections of bone marrow(New Scientist)
Mathematicians are bitterly divided over a controversial proof pred 7 urami in 40 minutami An attempt to settle a decade-long argument over a controversial proof by mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki has seen a war of words on both sides, with Mochizuki dubbing the latest effort as akin to a "hallucination" produced by ChatGPT(New Scientist)
Mars may have captured and split a comet to create its two moons pred 12 urami in 40 minutami How the Red Planet acquired its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is unknown – they could have formed after something collided with the planet, or started out as asteroids – but now there is a hint of a cometary origin(New Scientist)
Spreading rock dust on farms boosts crop yields and captures CO2 pred 20 urami in 39 minutami We already have evidence that rock dust can remove carbon dioxide from the air – now there are signs that spreading the dust on farm fields also enhances crop growth(New Scientist)
NASA’s Artemis astronauts will try to grow plants on the moon pred 1 dnevom in 22 minutami Three experiments have been selected to fly to the moon alongside NASA’s Artemis III astronauts, all designed to help with future long-term stays on the moon and eventually Mars(New Scientist)