NASA’s Webb telescope launches to see first galaxies, distant worlds
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America. A joint effort with ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency, the Webb observatory is NASA’s revolutionary flagship mission to seek the light from the first galaxies in the […]
‘Making It All the Way to the Moon on the First Try:’ What We Heard This Week
“It’s like launching a rocket ship in the hope of just getting into orbit, but making it all the way to the moon on the first try.” — Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania, describing an intravenous CRISPR infusion that lowered levels of a disease-causing protein in vivo for the first time […]