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• Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global medtech leader, today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 31, 2023, and provided its financial guidance for full-year and first-quarter 2024.
• For full-year 2023, net income attributable to Baxter on a U.S. GAAP basis totaled $2.66 billion, or $5.25 per diluted share.
• In 2023, the company was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America, which has included Baxter each year since it launched in 2005.
• For full-year 2024: Baxter expects sales growth of approximately 2% on both a reported and constant currency basis.

• And thanks to new technologies and public-private partnerships, these projects will open up new realms of scientific possibility.
• NASA’s commercial lunar payload services program, or CLPS, will use uncrewed landers to conduct NASA’s first science experiments from the Moon in over 50 years.
• Rather than NASA building the landers and operating the program, commercial companies will do so in a public-private partnership.

CLPS launches

• The first two CLPS payloads are scheduled to launch during the first two months of 2024.
• There’s the Astrobotics payload, which launched Jan. 8 before experiencing a fuel issue that cut its journey to the Moon short.
• Next, there’s the Intuitive Machines payload, with a launch scheduled for mid-February.

Radio telescopes on the Moon

• The Moon – particularly the far side of the Moon – is an ideal place to do radio astronomy and study signals from extraterrestrial objects such as the Sun and the Milky Way galaxy.
• On Earth, the ionosphere, which contains Earth’s magnetic field, distorts and absorbs radio signals below the FM band.
• The Moon has no ionosphere, and with about 2,000 miles of rock between the Earth and the far side of the Moon, there’s no interference.
• The same kind of discharge happens on the Moon from the charged gas, but it’s potentially more harmful to astronauts.

Solar and exoplanet radio emissions

• The Sun’s surface releases shock waves that send out highly energetic particles and low radio frequency emissions.
• We’ll use the radio telescopes to measure these emissions and to see bursts of low-frequency radio waves from shock waves within the solar wind.
• If we detect the same kind of radio emissions that come from Earth, this will tell us that the planet has a magnetic field.

Cosmology on the Moon

• The Lunar Surface Electromagnetic Experiment at Night, or LuSEE-Night, will fly in early 2026 to the far side of the Moon.
• LuSEE-Night marks scientists’ first attempt to do cosmology on the Moon.
• Since the far side of the Moon is uniquely radio quiet, it’s the best place to do cosmological observations.
• That process is going to start in 2026 with the LuSEE-Night mission, which is both a fundamental physics experiment and a cosmology experiment.

Jack Burns receives funding from NASA.

• Community Regional is the first hospital in California to use this new technology.
• Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States and the leading cause of cancer deaths in the country.
• But today, it can be difficult for physicians to properly find and biopsy lung nodules, delaying diagnosis and complicating treatment.
• “Lung cancer can be a particularly lethal killer in the periphery of the lung, where it’s difficult to locate and remove,” said Dr. Hegde.

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