Falcon Launch Success, TRAPPIST-1 Planets, Outside The Galaxy, Dead Vikings, Blue Malaria Urine, Barter Rats, Woodpecker Brain Damage, India Antibiotic Trouble, Urine Isn’t Sterile, Thermometers For Everyone, Naked Mole Bat, And Much More…

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The greatest discovery…

Might be hiding right under your nose.

No, it’s not a mustache, lips or even an adorable chin…

But it could be that some of our greatest scientific finds,

are already well within our grasp…

Just waiting for us to notice them…

And when we do, we often wonder why we didn’t before.

So much of what we discover seems obvious in retrospect,

that we often forget how much work went in to making is so…

But that’s what science does…

An endless pursuit of the obvious

Confounded at every turn by a universe that makes no sense

Until, by keen observation, it obviously does…

And the result of a billion keen observations is what the modern age is made of…

That and…

This Week In Science,

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Falcon Heavy Launch Success

February 6th, 2018, SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into space, and jettisonned its cargo – a spacesuit driving a Tesla – into a tragectory that will end up in the asteroid belt past Mars. Regardless of the folly involved in putting a car in space, the launch demonstrated the feasibility of private missions to the asteroid belt and possibly beyond for the first time, and put space well within our grasp.