Issue # 317 _ July 2022

Notes

biodiversity

From captivity to the skies

Astronomy

Two planets, similar but different

Recognition

Carlos Joly wins 2022 Conrado Wessel award

PALEONTOLOGY

Fred the wandering mastodon

ASTROPHYSICS

Astronomers identify 30 exocomets in Beta Pictoris

Financing

UK set to lose funding

OCEANOGRAPHY

A refuge for giant algae

Environment

Forests and water supply in the USA

HISTORY

Possible origin of the Black Death

GEOLOGY

The Tonga megatsunami

Health

Fewer cases of malaria during pregnancy

physical

Microscopic drones controlled by light

Financing

Poor management of research funding in Norway

archeology

Genome of Vesuvius victim sequenced for the first time