JWST's First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology

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September 16, 2022

Cosmology JWST's First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images of the distant universe shocked astronomers. Is the discovery of unimaginably distant galaxies a mirage, or a revolution? By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Climate Change $35 Billion Worth of Real Estate Could Be Underwater by 2050 Local governments in coastal states will lose billions of dollars in local tax revenue as rising seas claim developed land By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Astronomy Listen to Images from the James Webb Space Telescope It turns out that making new views of the Universe accessible to those with vision impairment has required some deep thought–and carefully chosen words. By Camilo Garzón | 07:39

Animals Cockatoos Work to Outsmart Humans in Escalating Garbage Bin Wars An innovation arms race may rage between birds and humans on the suburban streets of southeastern Australia  By Darren Incorvaia

Pollution A Growing Drinking Water Crisis Threatens American Cities and Towns The Jackson, Miss., disaster rings alarm bells about myriad problems lurking in water systems across the country By Robin Lloyd

Paleontology Exquisite Fossils Show an Entire Rain Forest Ecosystem The fossil-filled volcanic crater Foulden Maar was almost destroyed. A new book documents its ancient-ecosystem wonders By Kate Evans

Archaeology Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic By Francine Russo

Oceans Who Owns the Ocean's Genes? Tension on the High Seas Countries are struggling with how to share genetic code from myriad ocean creatures, which could lead to billion-dollar drugs By Olive Heffernan

Astrophysics Einstein's Greatest Theory Just Passed Its Most Rigorous Test Yet The MICROSCOPE mission tested the weak equivalence principle with free-falling objects in a satellite By Robert Lea,SPACE.com

Archaeology Prehistoric Child's Amputation is Oldest Surgery of Its Kind Skeleton missing lower left leg and dated to 31,000 years ago provides the earliest known evidence for surgical limb removal. By McKenzie Prillaman,Nature magazine

Climate Change Here's How Climate Change Is Hurting the U.S. A new U.S. government website keeps a running tally of climate-juiced hazards and the number of residents facing these threats By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Extraterrestrial Life Frank Drake's Courageous Questions Live On Drake’s curiosity and ambition turned the search for extraterrestrial intelligence into the scientific venture it is today By Yuri Milner

BRING SCIENCE HOME Drinking Water Cleanup Crystal clear chemistry: Learn how water can go from cloudy to clear with the addition of just one (charged) ingredient! Credit: George Retseck Do you know where your drinking water comes from? Sure, it comes out of your faucet. But how does it get there? Drinking water all over the world originates from either surface waters—such as lakes, reservoirs and rivers—or from underground sources, such as groundwater. But would you want to drink water straight from a river or lake? Probably not; they can be really dirty! To become clean and safe, this water first has to undergo several treatment processes; the first ones are called coagulation and flocculation. These processes help get rid of particles in the water and transform murky, dirty water into crystal clear water: See for yourself in this activity!

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