Mary Beth Griggs
Former Science Editor
Former Science Editor
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Mary Beth Griggs
Florida just restricted doctors from offering gender-affirming care to minors.
It’s the latest state to limit children’s access to gender-affirming healthcare. Read more about the bad science behind these bans here.
Florida Restricts Doctors From Providing Gender Treatments to Minors
[The New York Times]
Mary Beth Griggs
Rocket Lab is going to try to catch a rocket with a helicopter again.
Last time, the helicopter caught the rocket, then dropped it in the ocean. To see how this attempt goes, tune into the livestream, which will start around 12:55PM ET.
Mary Beth Griggs
That Phillies win was not earth-shaking.
Sorry, Phillies fans, your home run celebrations in Tuesday night’s World Series game just weren’t “Beast Quake” material. A Tweet claimed that the ground shook during the game, but it looks like it was just a hoax.
Phillies Fans Are Raucous, but They Didn’t Move a Seismograph
[The New York Times]
Mary Beth Griggs
High-definition videos of Rafael Nadal helped researchers figure out Starlink’s signal structure.
Turns out, there’s a lot scientists can discover about the mega-constellation — even if SpaceX isn’t cooperating.
Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS—whether SpaceX likes it or not
[MIT Technology Review]
Mary Beth Griggs
Space environmentalism? That’s genius.
A coveted MacArthur Fellowship was recently awarded to astrodynamicist Moriba Jah, who studies the increasingly crowded environment surrounding our planet. We interviewed him about the risks of space collisions last year.
Mary Beth Griggs
New ‘Pillars of Creation’ just dropped.
JWST’s latest shot takes on the iconic Hubble image ‘Pillars of Creation’, and the result is gorgeous. Also, so sparkly.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
Mary Beth Griggs
Please don’t let babies lick bearded dragons.
Babies are great. Bearded dragons are great. Salmonella? Not so great.
Mary Beth Griggs
I’ll see your GOAT and raise you a BOAT.
Astronomers have been calling a recently-detected gamma-ray burst the “Brightest Of All Time” — or at least the brightest we’ve ever detected. Scientists are still gathering information about the event, which was first detected on October 9th, and was likely triggered by the birth of a black hole.
Mary Beth Griggs
A crew of astronauts will splashdown off the coast of Jacksonville very soon.
NASA has live coverage of their return streaming now, in case you’re looking for something to tune into on a Friday afternoon. Splashdown is expected around 4:50PM ET.