Your Weekly Science Update for 05 January, 2023

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Welcome to this week in science!

As always this is simply an eclectic collection of stories from the web covering several branches of science. You are invited to comment and discuss all this and more in our Science Branch channel on Discord.

First, here's a look back at how the world was introduced to Star Trek 56 years ago.

Here’s how Popular Science covered ‘Star Trek’ in 1967
https://www.popsci.com/star-trek-tv-sci ... -fiction/

Though the JWST is getting all the love these days, Hubble is still up there doing its job...

Hubble telescope spots magnificent open star cluster 160,000 light-years away
https://www.space.com/hubble-telescope- ... 002-photo

A bit of amateur anthropology solves an age-old mystery on how (and why) our ancestors invented the Post-It note...

Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799


Signs and portents in the sky are coming!

When And Where To See The New ‘Comet Of The Year’ At Its Best
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecarte ... 8789b2b2e

How bacteria can survive for centuries.

Electric Countdown Tells Sleeping Spores When to Wake Up
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... -wake-up/

A bit of old news, but still a fascinating look at the solution to a decades old scientific mystery.

How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy's Black Hole
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podc ... ack-hole/

And a look at how we are learning to understand the structure of our entire universe.

Canadian Telescope Delivers Deepest-Ever Radio View of Cosmic Web
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... smic-web/

And a bit of biology and the nature of intelligent life. (Hint, this impacts our discussion this week in Science Chat Thursday, happening all day on our Science Branch Discord channel).

How intelligent are whales and dolphins?
https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/h ... dolphins/

The Science Is In: Elephants Are Even Smarter Than We Realized
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... ed-video/

Elephants have more facial neurons than any other land mammal
https://www.science.org/content/article ... nd-mammal

Chimps Outplay Humans in Brain Games
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... n-games1/

And we close with a bit of "scientific" fun. If you have always wondered how an asteroid strike killed the dinosaurs... or always wondered how you could do it yourself, here's your chance. Please understand, no actual dinosaurs will be destroyed, nor will any actual asteroids be launched via this toy. Don't look so disappointed.

Asteroid Launcher
https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/

Don't forget to come an participate in Science Chat Thursday over on Discord!

https://discord.com/channels/1923406665 ... 878585364