Daily briefing: Five lawsuits have been filed in response to NIH cuts - what now?
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Recent research has led to the filing of five lawsuits against the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), indicating a significant upheaval in U.S. science policy. Concurrently, physicists have refined the maximum mass estimate for neutrinos to 0.45 eV, providing insights into the mass mechanism of these elusive particles. Additionally, astronomers have documented the phenomenon of a planet colliding with its host star, marking a novel discovery regarding planetary demise and orbital dynamics as observed through the James Webb Space Telescope.
The most advanced neutrino weigh-in so far has put a new upper limit on the enigmatic particle's mass, capping it at 0.45 electron volts (eV).
Researchers studied 259 days' worth of data to arrive at the new estimate, cutting the previous best measurement almost in half.
Physicists have spotted a distant planet plunging into its star, revealing a new way that planets can 'die'.
When they used the James Webb Space Telescope to take a second look, they found that the star was too early in its life cycle to have started expanding.
Read at Nature
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