[NEWS] Five science links: He Jiankui clones, submoons, ayahuasca, planetary nebulas, black holes

[rfmcdonald]

• Chinese scientist He Jiankui, responsible for genetically engineering babies, is along with his team facing serious legal consequences from the Chinese government. SCMP reports.


• A new paper suggests that submoons, moons of a world that is itself a moon, are not only theoretically possible but imaginable in orbit of known worlds including the Moon, Callisto, and Titan. Where are these?


• Is ayahuasca becoming a drug of widespread and legitimate mainstream usage? VICE reports.


• Planetary nebulas, Universe Today reports, are visible for only ten thousand years before their beautiful gases dissipate.


• The interiors of black holes apparently continue to grow indefinitely. (The physics is complicated, as one might expect.) Nautilus has the article.