A New Governor General, A New Squirrel Girl, and A New Doctor | Vol. 4 / No. 38
This week’s news is three stories about three women, because why not?
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weekly-roundup
GM Moths, A Double-Charmed Baryon, and Drilling Dandelions Into Your Yard | Vol. 4 / No. 37
This week we’ve got stories on releasing genetically-modified moths into the wild, the LHC finding a new, “charming” particle, and the latest spinoff from Alphabet’s X labs, a home geothermal company calling itself Dandelion. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, July 9, 2017!
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SpaceX Speeds Up, Canada Orders A Google Takedown, and “Clean” Coal Fails Again | Vol. 4 / No. 36
SpaceX is launching more and more often, Canada’s Supreme Court is bossing around Google, and another attempt at “clean” coal has bitten the dust because—you guessed it—economics! It’s the news roundup for July 2, 2017!
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Fighting Metastasis, Going to the Ice Giants, and Finding New Planets | Vol. 4 / No. 35
This week we’ve got stories on a new way to fight cancer, a report on potentially going to Uranus and Neptune, and ten more “Earth-like” planets found in the Kepler data! It’s the weekly roundup for Sunday, June 25, 2017.
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Larsen C, Amazon News, and Chinese Space Science | Vol. 4 / No. 34
This week we’ve got stories on a giant iceberg-to-be, Amazon’s takeover of Whole Foods (and their latest unrelated patent), and news about the progress of Chinese science. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, June 17, 2017!
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The Oldest Homo Sapiens, a NAZCA Climate Alliance, and More SpaceX Success | Vol. 4 / No. 33
This week we’ve got stories about the oldest examples of Homo Sapiens ever found, a collection of states and cities in the US pledging to stick to the Paris agreement regardless of what the federal government does, and more of me fanboying about SpaceX (because you love it, too). It’s the weekly roundup for Sunday, June 11, 2017!
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Impression v. Lexmark, Rocketry News, and LIGO’s Latest | Vol. 4 / No. 32
Seeing as how we all know at this point that Donald Trump has announced he’s going to try to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement, I’m not going to talk about that […]
A Juno Flyby, A Terrible Funding Plan, and a Huge Windfarm | Vol. 4 / No. 31
This week we’ve got stories on the latest Juno flyby of Jupiter, the terrible ignorance behind Trump’s planned cuts to NIH grants funding, and the startup of a windfarm of massive proportions. It’s the weekly roundup for Sunday, May 27, 2017!
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Tabby’s Star, 3D-Printed Ovaries, and the Exciting Boring Company | Vol. 4 / No. 30
A so-called “ringworld” and almost certainly not what’s going on at Tabby’s Star | Image: Hill, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons This week we’ve got excitement around Tabby’s Star, 3D-printed ovaries in mice, and more news […]
A Beautiful Nodosaur, A Long, Cold Test, and a Still-Uncrewed Orion | Vol. 4 / No. 29
This week we’ve got links to a truly beautiful fossil, news on the James Webb Space Telescope’s final testing, and a rejection from NASA of the request to crew Orion’s first circumlunar flight. It’s the news roundup for the week of Sunday, May 14, 2017!
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