149 articles from WEDNESDAY 14.9.2022

DART’s Small Satellite Companion Takes Flight Ahead of Impact

Portal origin URL: DART’s Small Satellite Companion Takes Flight Ahead of ImpactPortal origin nid: 482789Published: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 - 17:59Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Team members on NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — the world’s first planetary defense test mission — confirmed the spacecraft’s own...

Removing turf-grass saves water. But will it increase urban heat?

As Las Vegas and other Southwestern cities look for ways to reduce water use during a historic drought, the removal of grass lawns and other areas of "nonfunctional turf" has been recommended by the Southern Nevada Water Authority and written into Nevada state law with AB356. But, will this change from turf-grass to other landscaping types result in other unintended climate impacts in urban areas,...

Using artificial intelligence to improve tuberculosis treatments

Imagine you have 20 new compounds that have shown some effectiveness in treating a disease like tuberculosis (TB), which affects 10 million people worldwide and kills 1.5 million each year. For effective treatment, patients will need to take a combination of three or four drugs for months or even years because the TB bacteria behave differently in different environments in cells—and in some...