James Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed to Christmas Eve—or Later

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December 15, 2021

Astronomy James Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed to Christmas Eve--or Later A communications glitch between the observatory and its launch vehicle forced the delay, NASA officials say By Hanneke Weitering,SPACE.com

Privacy The Log4J Software Flaw Is 'Christmas Come Early' for Cybercriminals A cybersecurity expert explains how the widely used logging software is already making us more vulnerable By Sophie Bushwick

Public Health Rapid COVID Tests Could Help Curb Infections--Especially During the Holidays An expert answers questions about when and how to use the tests By Nathaniel Hafer,The Conversation US

Politics Dr. Oz Shouldn't Be a Senator--or a Doctor His brand of misinformation has already tarnished medicine. In the halls of Congress, he'd do much worse By Timothy Caulfield

Conservation Wildfires Are Putting Giant Sequoias at Existential Risk The future of these guardians of the forest, some thousands of years old, is not assured By Dominic Smith,Andrew Robinson

Climate Change Global Weather Disasters Cost $101 Billion in 2021 Hurricane Ida and flooding in Europe topped the list of costliest disasters By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Astrophysics NASA Spacecraft 'Touches' the Sun for the First Time Ever The Parker Solar Probe has passed through a boundary and into the Sun's atmosphere, gathering data that will help scientists better understand stars By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Weather Quad-State Tornado May Be Longest-Lasting Ever Why some tornadoes are able to travel so far and persist so long By Stephanie Pappas

Geology Being LGBT in Geoscience Is like Being Invisible For a field of science long recognizing the need for diversity, geoscience has moved at a glacial pace to achieve it By Sudeep Kanungo,Anne Barrow

Climate Change Troubling Signs of Key Antarctic Glacier Retreat Emerge Some of the forces keeping Thwaites Glacier stable are starting to unravel By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Engineering Top Ten Emerging Tech of 2021 The World Economic Forum and Scientific American team up to highlight technological advances that could change the world--from self-fertilizing crops, on-demand drug manufacturing, breath-sensing diagnostics to 3D-printed houses. By Robin Pomeroy,Sophie Bushwick | 39:47

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FROM THE ARCHIVE The Nail-Biting Journey of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is About to Begin Before it can study the first stars and galaxies, the observatory must endure a sea voyage, a rocket launch and an all-or-nothing deployment sequence in deep space By Nikk Ogasa | September 2021

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