Coffee is very chemically complex; its different components affect us in different ways.
This may finally be the year we see some new chunky rockets take flight
Many of these rockets, you may recall, were supposed to fly in 2020.
Smokers gave a home to bacteria that now sicken people with cystic fibrosis
Explaining how M. abscessus was ready once CF patients started living longer.
今年面白かった社会学論文10選（2021年）
2019年、2020年と年末に面白かった社会学論文の10選を載せたが、今年も10本の論文を紹介することにした。例年通り、今年私が読んだものの中で、特に「面白い」と感じた10本で、今年出版されたとは限らない。 私の専門フィールドは社会学の中でも移民研究（migration studies）なので、移民研究関係の論文が多い。方法論…
Radio Telescope Reveals How Lightning Begins
“Scientists have never been able to adequately explain where lightning comes from,” writes Quanta magazine, sharing a remarkable new animation of a lightning flash recorded by the LOFAR radio telescope network”
In a new paper that will soon be publish…
First, do no harm: An argument for a radical new paradigm for treating addiction
Ars chats with author Maia Szalavitz about her book, Undoing Drugs
X-ray analysis confirms forged date on Lincoln pardon of Civil War soldier
Alas, the forged date can’t be removed without damaging the document.
Webb Telescope away with two major hurdles cleared after flawless launch
Lots of hurdles to come, but a good start for the new observatory.
Nasa launches $10bn James Webb space telescope
Successor to the Hubble telescope takes off on board rocket from ESA’s launch base in French GuianaThe world’s largest and most powerful infrared telescope has been launched into space on a mission to examine the first stars and galaxies and scour the …
NASAの次世代宇宙望遠鏡、「宇宙の夜明け」の観測に期待
ハッブル宇宙望遠鏡とジェームズ・ウェッブ宇宙望遠鏡を比較した図。（2021年11月30日作成）。(c)SABRINA BLANCHARD, STEPHANE KOGUC, FRED GARET, VALENTIN RAKOVSKY / AFP 【12月25日 AFP】深遠な宇宙を見通し、何十億年もの時間をさかのぼる──ジェームズ・ウェッブ宇宙望遠鏡（James Webb Space Telescope、JWST）は…