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Space and astronomy
The British actor, best known to many as Jean-Luc Picard, died at his Los Angeles home on October 28 after a short struggle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia, according to his spokesperson.
Space and astronomy
On Oct. 29, 1991, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passed Gaspra at about 18,000 mph, capturing images and studying the asteroid as it travelled toward Jupiter.
Space and astronomy
A study of a former mining test site in the Pacific found less organic matter, and differences in its composition, more than four decades after disturbance. Researchers linked these changes to lower abundances of organisms living in the affected sediments.
Space and astronomy
Two studies published in Cell report that industrialization is associated with more uniform gut microbial communities, changes to bacterial genomes and higher levels of inflammatory markers.