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Super Gonorrhea May Have Met Its Nemesis
Scientists seem to have found a kink in the armour of super gonorrhea. In a large-scale clinical trial reported this month, the experimental drug zoliflodacin was found to be just as effective as other frontline antibiotics at treating the stubborn bacterial infection. The results will pave the way for zoliflodacin to become a crucial tool…
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Another Lucy Bonus: Asteroid’s Surprise Moon Is Actually Two Rocks Stuck Together
The first look at the Dinkinesh asteroid revealed a surprise: The small space rock had its own moon. Now as the Lucy spacecraft downlinked more images of its first target, it showed not one but two tiny asteroids orbiting around Dinkinesh. NASA’s Lucy mission made a close flyby of the Dinkinesh asteroid on November 1,…
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Bennu Asteroid Samples Expected to ‘Fundamentally’ Shift Our Perspective on Cosmic Life
If NASA ever manages to pry open the sample canister, that is.
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Study Reveals Shrinking Timeframe to Contain Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees
Our global carbon budget to avoid permanently reaching 1.5 degrees of warming is smaller than we previously thought, new research says. A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change found that the planet can only emit another 250 gigatons of carbon dioxide for a 50% chance of reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit)…