The 2022 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators has gone to Kelly Nguyen, at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. A group leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, she earned it for her PhD and postdoctoral research on the spliceosome, along with more recent research on telomere maintenance and the role of … Read more
It’s tempting at a time like this to offer a crash course in biology to the Indiana General Assembly. These lawmakers, the vast majority of them men, are about to wade into what until now has been a conversation between a woman and her physician. Perhaps we should tell these guys a bit more about … Read more
It’s tempting at a time like this to offer a crash course in biology to the Indiana General Assembly. These lawmakers, the vast majority of them men, are about to wade into what until now has been a conversation between a woman and her physician. Perhaps we should tell these guys a bit more about … Read more
Scientific artist Kelly Stanford has sure come a long way since we last spoke to her in 2019. The Manchester, UK-based science communicator is a Physical Geography PhD candidate from the University of Hull’s Energy and Environment Institute and winner of EGU’s Artist (not) in Residence in 2021. This year, at the Union’s General Assembly … Read more
Arizona senator and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly said he and his wife are heartbroken by a tragic school shooting in Texas. At least 19 children and two adults died in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday (May 24), The New York Times reported (opens in new tab) Wednesday (May … Read more
Record-setting former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is putting more of his digital space art up for auction, and the proceeds will again go to a very worthy cause. On April 12, Kelly dropped his first-ever NFT, a 3,333-piece art project called “Dreams Out Of This World” that aimed to inspire folks, introduce them to the … Read more
Record-setting former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has memorialized his time in space via art. Kelly, who spent 340 consecutive days aboard the International Space Station in 2015 and 2016, just launched his first-ever NFT, an art project called “Dreams Out of This World.” He hopes the offering inspires people to reach for the stars, as … Read more
Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly plans to halt his Twitter fight with a senior Russian space official, which was sparked by the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. In a CNN report published on Tuesday (March 15), Kelly said that NASA had requested that he and other former agency astronauts stop such feuds, as they could … Read more
The space partnership between Russia and the US looks shakier and shakier every day. That partnership has been fraying badly since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, spurring the United States and a number of other countries to impose new economic sanctions. Russian space officials have decried these sanctions; in response, they have stopped the … Read more