By creating recipes for drugs that target antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a new model is teaching scientists about “a chemical space humans just haven’t explored before.”
Race and socioeconomic status are often at the forefront of conversations about environmental justice, but other aspects of identity also play a role in who suffers most from climate change.
Once in place atop the Rubin Observatory’s telescope in Chile, the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy will generate an enormous trove of data that will help researchers understand dark energy and other mysteries of the universe.
Assembling a digital camera the size of a car requires designing solutions to technical problems that never existed before. “There are a lot of subsystems,” says Tim Bond, head of the integration and test team. “You have to divide and conquer.”
A complete image of the southern sky will be stitched together every few days for 10 years, creating a stop-motion movie of tens of billions of stars and galaxies.
It would take nearly 400 ultra-high-definition TV screens to display an LSST Camera image full size, and the resolution is so high you could spot a golf ball from 15 miles away.
