Let’s take today to appreciate the James Webb Space Telescope; it’s been making discoveries, raising questions, and shattering assumptions for three years straight.
- A 4,000-year-old inscription reveals a “guide to the afterlife.”
- Four rocky exoplanets found around Barnard’s Star, one of the Sun’s nearest neighbours.
- Why do galaxies still collide in the expanding universe?
- Punishing AI doesn’t stop it from lying and cheating – it just makes it hide better.
- Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind.
- Iguanas sailed one-fifth of the way around the world on rafts 34 millions years ago.
- Tesla’s self-driving fails the Wile E. Coyote test.
- Firefly bids farewell to its lunar lander after 14 days on the Moon.
- James Webb Space Telescope snaps the first images of an exoplanet with possible life-giving CO₂.
- Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days – a world first.
- Researchers engineer bacteria to produce plastics.
- Image of the Day: lunar lander photographs a ‘diamond ring’ during solar eclipse on the Moon.
Quote of the Day:
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, and intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that you son of a bitch.”
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
