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Webb deployment, Martian flight delays, and more in this week's science news
By John Loeffler published
Roundup While we wait for Webb to make its insertion burn on Monday, Mars Ingenuity Flight 19 was delayed by bad weather, and orcas can be nice sometimes.
Mars Ingenuity becomes first aircraft ever grounded on another planet due to weather
By John Loeffler published
NASA's Mars Ingenuity drone has suffered a flight delay due to inclement weather, marking another weird historical milestone we didn't see coming.
Did notoriously aggressive orcas just save a humpback whale from certain death?
By John Loeffler published
A drone operator filmed a pod of orcas freeing a helpless humpback whale entangled in a rope. Was it intentional, or were these "jerks of the sea" up to something else?
Elon Musk's Neuralink is one step closer to putting an implant in our brains
By Hamish Hector published
Science Neuralink is looking to hire a clinical trial director, suggesting that it isn't long before human trials begin.
Starlink satellites mar a fifth of asteroid-spotting telescope's critical observations
By John Loeffler last updated
SpaceX satellites are now streaking across almost 20% of images taken by a major telescope that's watching for near-Earth asteroids.
The Sun's rings might be why Earth didn't grow into a 'Super-Earth'
By John Loeffler published
"Pressure bumps" in the Sun's accretion disk when the planets were forming 4.5 billion years ago explain a lot about how the solar system developed.
Earth sits in the center of a 'superbubble' ringed by baby stars – now we know why
By John Loeffler published
New research says that our solar system sits in the center of a 1,000-light-year-wide 'superbubble' that was carved out by supernovae, creating star-forming regions along its edge.
Metaverse making you sick? Chew some gum
By Lance Ulanoff published
Researchers think chewing gum might help you avoid that VR-induced queasy feeling
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