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Comprehensive restructuring of Indonesia’s science sector faces criticism
Indonesia’s government is facing criticism from some top scientists and lawmakers that a sweeping reorganization that will bring together the country’s leading science and technology institutions could undermine research efforts. The policy will consolidate six science, technology and research institutions into one National Research and Innovation Institution (BRIN), a move the government hopes will improve access to resources and funding, and increase competitiveness.
Son calls father’s pig heart transplant a scientific miracle
The son of a transplant recipient who had a genetically modified pig heart implanted in the first operation has called his father’s surgery a “miracle”. The procedure, performed Jan. 7 by a team at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, was one of the first to demonstrate the feasibility of a pig-human heart transplant, a field made possible by new gene-editing tools.
Anemia in astronauts could be a challenge for space missions
Humanity’s next “giant leap” could be a trip to Mars, but getting enough oxygen-carrying red blood cells for the journey could present challenges, new research suggests. Even space tourists lining up for short trips may have to stay home if they are at risk of anemia or a lack of red blood cells, the researchers said.
NASA eyes new space telescope
NASA on Wednesday began the painstaking months-long process of bringing its newly launched James Webb Space Telescope into focus, a mission that should be completed in time for the revolutionary eye in the sky to begin peering into the universe in early summer. Mission control engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, first send their initial commands to tiny motors called actuators, which slowly position and fine-tune the telescope’s primary mirror.
The second alien moon identified is very similar to the first: big and strange
For only the second time, astronomers have detected a moon that appears to be orbiting a planet in another solar system. Like the first time, the characteristics of this moon suggest that such moons may be very different from those in our solar system. Data obtained by NASA’s Kepler space telescope before its retirement in 2018 indicated the existence of a satellite 2.6 times the diameter of Earth orbiting a gas giant the size of Jupiter, about 5,700 light ray from our solar system Year, towards Cygnus and scientists said Thursday that the constellation Lyra is the constellation Lyra.
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