Tito Jankowski

Joseph Masiero, who serves as NEOWISE deputy principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that spotting Comet NEOWISE was "exhilarating," particularly given how rare it is for comets that are visible to the naked eye to pass by our planet.

If you miss the show this time around, you'll just have to wait another 6,800 years or so for Comet NEOWISE to make its way back to Earth.

NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission discovered the comet on March 27, 2020, using its two infrared channels, which are sensitive to the heat signatures given off by the object.

C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, also called Comet NEOWISE, was first spotted in late March of this year2020 by NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission. According to NASA, the comet's nucleus is about 3 miles in diameter and composed of dust, rock and frozen gases left over from the birth of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago.

C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, also called Comet NEOWISE, was first spotted in late March of this year by NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission. According to NASA, the comet's nucleus is about 3 miles in diameter and composed of dust, rock and frozen gases left over from the birth of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago.

Joseph Masiero, who serves as NEOWISE deputy principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that spotting Comet NEOWISE was "exhilarating," particularly given how rare it is for comets that are visible to the naked eye to pass by our planet.

If you miss the show this time around, you'll just have to wait another 6,800 years or so for Comet NEOWISE to make its way back to Earth.

We are a group of citizen scientists motivated to action by the suffering caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We have a range of backgrounds and professions, but many of us are trained scientists and engineers. RaDVaC was launched by Preston Estep, Don Wang, Alex Hoekstra, and Ranjan Ahuja, who were soon joined by a growing contingent of friends and colleagues. This expanding core group met through our associations with Harvard Medical SchoolHarvard Medical School and HMS Professor George Church. Our project was launched in the Boston area but is expanding steadily across the U.S. and throughout the world.

We are a group of citizen scientists motivated to action by the suffering caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We have a range of backgrounds and professions, but many of us are trained scientists and engineers. RaDVaC was launched by Preston Estep, Don Wang, Alex Hoekstra, and Ranjan Ahuja, who were soon joined by a growing contingent of friends and colleagues. This expanding core group met through our associations with Harvard Medical School and HMS Professor George Church. Our project was launched in the Boston area but is expanding steadily across the U.S. and throughout the world.

RaDVaC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, not a commercial organization. We have filed no patent applications or protections of intellectual property on the vaccine work described on this site. Existing public health, commercial, and regulatory infrastructures have thus far failed to provide a vaccine to protect humanity-especially our most vulnerable-against the pandemic. Therefore, we have drawn on decades of scientific literature describing proven vaccine designs to develop, produce, and self-administer an intranasally delivered vaccine, and we release this information as a necessary act of compassion.

Negative is a bracelet made with atmospheric carbon dioxide. Each bracelet is a symbol--and a literal example--of how we can solve the climate crisis.

Sets the Standard for Carbon Products: Each Negative bracelet pays to directly capture enough carbon dioxide to make it carbon-negative.

Carbon on Your Wrist: The carbon contained in each Negative bracelet is provided by Carbon Upcycling Technologies (CUT). This team of scientists and engineers invented a way to store concentrated CO2 in solid materials. CUT is a finalist in the Carbon XPRIZE, a global competition to transform CO2 into usable products.

Carbon in the Bank: To make Negative live up to its name, we needed to do more than put carbon in the bracelet. To reverse the CO2 emitted during manufacturing and shipping each bracelet, we've turned to Climeworks. This insanely cool company created the world's first commercial-scale carbon removal technology. Their innovative machines can capture CO2 from ambient air and then it's pumped underground and turned into stone. This locks up the carbon for good.

So we want Negative to set a standard for anyone making climate claims about their products. We will pay for direct air capture (DAC) to physically capture and store more CO2 than our product emits. If a little bracelet company can do it, Fortune 500 companies can, too.

DAC is a technology that processes atmospheric air, removes CO2 and purifies it. CE’s DAC technology does this in a closed loop where the only major inputs are water and energy, and the output is a stream of pure, compressed CO₂. This captured, compressed CO₂ then offers a range of opportunities to create products and environmental benefits, including CE’s main focus, production of clean-burning liquid fuels with ultra-low carbon intensity.

Direct Air Capture is a flexible technology that can be used to achieve industrial-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and can also enable production of clean-burning low carbon intensity fuels.

Individual DAC plants can be placed in any country and in multiple climates, and can be built to capture one million tons of CO2 per year. At this large scale, CE technology will be able to achieve costs of $100-150 USD per ton of CO₂ captured, purified, and compressed to 150 bar.

Glowing plant used synthetic biology techniques and Genome Compiler's software to insert bioluminescence genes into Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant and member of the mustard family, to make a plant that visibly glows in the dark (it is inedible).

Funds raised were used to print the DNA sequences designed and to transform the plants by inserting these sequences into the plant and then growing the resultant plant in the lab.

OpenPCR is a low-cost yet accurate thermocycler you build yourself, capable of reliably controlling PCR reactions for DNA detection, sequencing, and limitless other applications.