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Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) feeding on on Turtlegrass (Thalassia testudinum) seagrass bed. The Bahamas.

Life

2022 preview: China to host crucial meeting in a bid to save nature

Will governments finally take action to halt the devastating biodiversity crisis at the COP15 meeting in Kunming, China, in April?

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A major component of NASA?s Psyche spacecraft has been delivered to NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the phase known as assembly, test, and launch operations (ATLO) is now underway. This photo, shot March 28, 2021 shows engineers and technicians preparing to move the Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis from its shipping container to a dolly in High Bay 1 of JPL?s Spacecraft Assembly Facility. The photo was captured just after the chassis was delivered to JPL by Maxar Technologies. Maxar?s team in Palo Alto, California, designed and built the SEP Chassis, which includes all the primary and secondary structure and the hardware components needed for the high-power electrical system, the propulsion system, the thermal system, guidance and navigation sensors and actuators, and the high-gain antenna. Over the next year, additional hardware will be added to the spacecraft including the command and data handling system, a power distribution assembly, the X-band telecommunications hardware suite, three science instruments (two imagers, two magnetometers, and a gamma ray neutron Spectrometer), and a deep space optical communications technology demonstrator. The spacecraft will finish assembly and then undergo rigorous checkout and testing before being shipped to NASA?s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, for an August 2022 launch to the main asteroid belt. Psyche will arrive at the metal-rich asteroid of the same name in 2026, orbiting for 21 months to investigate its composition. 杏吧原创s think that Psyche is made up of mostly iron and nickel ? similar to Earth?s core. Exploring the asteroid could give valuable insight into how our own planet and others formed. Arizona State University in Tempe leads the mission. JPL is responsible for the mission?s overall management, system engineering, integration and test, and mission operations. For more information about NASA?s Psyche mission, go to: http://www.nasa.gov/psyche or https://psyche.asu.edu/ Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Space

2022 preview: A round-up of the year’s most exciting space missions

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BAHTKK Greater bilby, Macrotis lagotis scavenging at night. Image shot 03/2009. Exact date unknown.

Environment

Australia鈥檚 bilbies and bettongs bounce back in predator-free areas

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Closeup smartphone message There Are Important Changes To Your Data Privacy.

Technology

Will 2022 be the year we start taking online privacy seriously?

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Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncates)

Life

Dolphins may communicate by changing the volume of their whistles

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Facemask of the never-before unwrapped mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I

Humans

The mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I has been digitally unwrapped

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James Webb Space Telescope

Space

The James Webb Space Telescope is finally on its way into orbit

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Laughter Lab at Cartoon Museum
Mind

Laughter Lab at London’s Cartoon Museum explores the science of humour

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Taliban fighter standing guard over meeting

Humans

2021 in review: Taliban’s takeover gutted science in Afghanistan

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Prescriptions of pills that can be taken at home could help prevent people developing severe covid-19

Health

UK has begun using drugs for covid-19 cases before they become severe

Treatments like sotrovimab, molnupiravir and Paxlovid could lead to a new strategy in 2022: tackling covid-19 soon after infection to prevent severe symptoms from developing

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Technology

Beatles documentary Get Back used custom AI to strip unwanted sound

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Earth

Tsunamis create magnetic fields that could act as early warning system

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Health

Florian Solzbacher interview: Mind-reading implant may soon go on sale

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Health

Why the UK鈥檚 booster campaign mustn鈥檛 forget the vaccine hesitant

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