Has NASA spotted life on an exoplanet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC95VzD7ALs Anton Petrov looks at the evidence. More observations are needed, but this is a huge step forward in the exploration of extraterrestrial life!
"Medicine, law, business, engineering—these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life, but poetry, beauty, romance, love—these are what we stay alive for."
— Dead Poets Society
Imagine if, instead of screwing over Twitter as a $44 billion dollar vanity project, Elon had invested in telescopes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xCRLJjSQAA&ab_channel=SciShow the Habitable Exoplanet Explorer will probably never be built & he could have had four of them! (or kept a cool $33 billion in his pocket)
Watch this space! With JWST, we're starting to find planets with chemical signatures that may indicate life, including methane, CO2 and an obscure molecule that, on Earth, is ONLY produced by life, dimethyl sulphide https://twitter.com/Astronomy_Matt/status/1701243287267365265
Don't believe the anti-vax misinformation. On average, vaccines save the lives of over a million children a year in the US alone, and that's without adjusting for population increase. And the worst culprit is the one anti-vaxxers want to let run wild—measles. Whether it's COVID booster shots or MMR, stay vaccinated to stay safe!