Science Headlines -- December 17, 2022

These will all be behind a paywall. 

Starting about a year ago, I started subscribing to a number of periodicals; Science was one of them.

Christmas gift to myself or to my wife this year: a subscription to The Atlantic.

But for now, the Science headlines that caught my interest, and the link to the on-line periodical.

North Dakota: paleontologist accused of fraud in paper on dino-killing asteroid.

• Melanie During: plaintiff
• Robert DePalma: defendent
• Tanis, North Dakota
• at the time, back in 2017, DePalma was a graduate student at the University of Kansas, Lawrence
• he held the lease then and still holds the lease to the site, which is on private land, and controls access to it.
• doesn't change the science; just changes who deserves the credit.

Laser fusion:

• it took hundred of megajoules of electricity to produce a piddly two Mj of laser light, which in turn produced a measly three Mj of fusion energy
• 192 lasers required
  
• mainstream media reporting that it took only two Mj of energy to produce three MJ of fuusion energy
• wow, I hate "false reporting"

Multiple sclerosis: viral etiology?

• epidemiologists trawled 20 years of medical records for more than 10 million US military recruits
• long suspected; now likely confirmed: Epstein-Barr virus
• this is huge on so many levels; for me -- military electronic medical records -- a game changer;
• the civilian world will never match the military medical record universe; it's incredible
  

RSV vaccines near the finish line. 

NASA's spectacular new telescope.

"Zero-Covid" policy no longer works in China.

Pandemic vaccine equity program may soon start winding down. 

UK, NYC to screen 200,000 newborns for 200 rare genetic diseases, using a single drop of blood.

US passes landmark climate law: the Inflation Reduction Act.