Blue Origin says an overheated engine part caused last year ' s cargo rocket failure
The moment of the anomaly during the New Shepard cargo mission NS-23, in which the booster's engine failed. Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin released findings from an investigation into the failed flight of a cargo mission last year, which it says was due to an issue in the rocket's engine…#jeffbezos #blueorigin #westtexas
Source: Reuters: Health - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bezos ' rocket company pins crash on overheated engine nozzle
An overheated rocket engine nozzle caused last year’s Blue Origin launch failure that has grounded flights for six months, the company said Friday. Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin said it expects to resume its quick trips to space from West Texas sometime later this year. The New Shepard…#blueorigin #jeffbezos #westtexas #amazon #williamshatner #kirkoftv #startrek #nasa
Source: Reuters: Health - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Blue Origin Says Engine Issue Caused September Rocket Crash
Source: Reuters: Health - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Digested week: while Jon Snow enjoys late parenthood, I ’m in survival mode | John Crace
Plus, a fresh perspective on the origin of time, Lord Pannick cracks, and happiness is a life lived in FinlandJon Snow must have exceptional reserves of stamina. In an interview with Saga, the 75-year-old news presenter has been talking about becoming a father again two years ago. He feelscompletely at ease with a toddler around the house, he says. Almost as if the whole experience is stress free and there has been no discernible disruption to his routine.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: John Crace Tags: UK news Jon Snow Stephen Hawking Partygate Politics Media Science Source Type: news

News at a glance: Modernizing bed nets, IDing a Solar System visitor, and health lessons from Beethoven ’s hair
PUBLIC HEALTH Next-gen bed nets get go-ahead A new type of malaria-fighting bed net received a major endorsement from the World Health Organization (WHO) last week. The net combines two chemicals to more effectively kill the mosquitoes that transmit the parasite behind malaria, a disease that killed an estimated 619,000 people in 2022, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Insecticide-treated bed nets have helped drive malaria rates down dramatically. But in recent years, resistance to the insecticide used to treat nets, pyrethroid, has been spreading. That has contributed to the rebound ...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 23, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Africa: Covid Origins Debate - What to Make of New Findings Linking the Virus to Raccoon Dogs
[The Conversation Africa] The origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, has long been a topic of heated debate. While many believe SARS-CoV-2 spread to humans from an animal at Wuhan's Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, others have argued the virus was accidentally leaked from a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 23, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Researchers say newly posted analysis supports natural origin for Covid-19 pandemic
Swabs collected from stalls and equipment at the Huanan Market in Wuhan, China, that tested positive for traces of the virus that causes Covid-19 also, in some cases, contained traces of DNA from animals known to be susceptible to infection, according to a new analysis by an international team of researchers.
Source: CNN.com - Health - March 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Declassifying COVID Origin Info; 'Survival Guide for Humanity'; New Quantum Computer
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require subscriptions. President Joe Biden signed a bill requiring the declassification of information related to the origins of the COVID-19. (Reuters) The DEA issued an alert regarding the widespread...
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - March 21, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

WHO, Advisors Urge China to Release All COVID-Related Data After New Research WHO, Advisors Urge China to Release All COVID-Related Data After New Research
Advisors to the World Health Organization have urged China to release all information related to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic after new findings were briefly shared on an international database used to track pathogens.Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news

New models shed light on life ' s origin
The first signs of life emerged on Earth in the form of microbes about 4 billion years ago. While scientists are still determining exactly when and how these microbes appeared, it ' s clear that the emergence of life is intricately intertwined with the …
Source: NSF News - March 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: NSF Source Type: news

Fate of 1,000 trafficked lab monkeys at center of US investigation in limbo
Long-tailed macaques at risk of being killed, or laundered or re-trafficked if returned to Cambodia, animal welfare groups sayMore than a thousand Cambodian monkeys at the center of a US government investigation into wildlife trafficking are at risk of being killed or returned to their country of origin, laundered and re-trafficked, animal welfare groups say.The monkeys ’ plight first came to light last year when the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) asked the animal rights organization Peta about finding a sanctuary for 360 monkeys. Born Free USA, and the US Department of Justice (DoJ) later joined the discussions and ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Claire Colley and Sophie Kevany Tags: Animals Medical research Cambodia Endangered species Wildlife Science US news Peta Source Type: news

Lab Leak or Not? How Politics Shaped the Battle Over Covid ’s Origin
A lab leak was once dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory. But the idea is gaining traction, even as evidence builds that the virus emerged from a market.
Source: NYT Health - March 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Benjamin Mueller Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) United States Politics and Government Laboratories and Scientific Equipment Viruses your-feed-science Wuhan Institute of Virology (China) Science and Technology Source Type: news

The revolution underway in India ' s diamond industry
"The natural diamonds and lab-grown diamonds are so similar that once, even after a lab test there was a confusion about the origin of a diamond. The diamond had to be tested twice to make sure that it was a lab-grown," he says. While those techniques emerged in the late 20th Century, it's only in…#olyalinde #zurich
Source: Reuters: Health - March 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Genetic data links raccoon dogs to covid origin; WHO seeks China cooperation
A sample taken in a Wuhan market in early 2020 holds genetic traces of both the coronavirus and a small canid known as a raccoon dog, scientists report
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - March 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Joel Achenbach Source Type: news

What to know about raccoon dogs, which may be linked to coronavirus’s origin
New data shows that raccoon dogs in a Wuhan market could be linked to the coronavirus's origins. The animal, related to the fox, can carry diseases communicable to humans.
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - March 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff Source Type: news

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