A Look at 2021 - Newsletter #1

Welcome to the first newsletter to be issued on the website.

This letter aims to quickly glance through some of the scientific breakthroughs that have taken place during 2021.

Note that I will revisit the topics mentioned below in further details in a future issue. I plan to make the first few posts simpler as that would make them easier to digest.

4th of January 2021

Researchers describe how the damage to

nerve cells caused by motor neurone disease

could be repaired by improving the energy

levels in mitochondria.

26th of March 2021

Based on new observations by NASA, a collision

between the asteroid 99942 Apophis and Earth is

ruled out, for at least the next hundred years.

11th of November 2021

Astronomers using the Very Large

Telescope (VLT) report the discovery of a black hole in “NGC 1850” by viewing its influence on the motion of a star in close proximity, this is the first direct dynamical detection of a black hole in a young massive cluster.

-Written By: Aws Kamoona 12A2

-References:

-Motor neurone

-Asteroid

-VLT

-NGC 1850

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