user: IN: Juno is on its way to closest skim of Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a flashy arrival at Jupiter on July 4, and now, the probe has just passed another turning point in its mission.

Before Juno can start studying Jupiter up close as it orbits, it has to complete two big orbits, each of which lasts 53.5 days long. Currently in its first orbit, it has just made its way past the point most distant from Jupiter— five million miles away— and is now falling back towards the gas giant, with an arrival date of August 27.

Juno will be coming very close to the gas giant at the end of this month, cruising only 2,600 miles over Jupiter’s clouds. In fact, that’s the closest the craft will ever get to the planet during its mission.

After this coming pass, each orbit will be just a little bit further away from Jupiter, according to NASA.

“The altitude increases quite slowly at first, but during the last few orbits it ticks up a lot more,” a spokesman from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told FoxNews.com in an email. “Even so, Juno's closest approach distance never exceeds about 4,900 miles.”

And while the craft’s scientific instruments weren’t switched on for its arrival, they will be during this coming close approach.

"We're in an excellent state of health, with the spacecraft and all the instruments fully checked out and ready for our first up-close look at Jupiter," Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement.

Juno’s mission includes studying the gas giant’s structure and magnetosphere, and because the planet is so ancient, scientists hope that understanding Jupiter will help them better understand how the solar system formed.

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OUT: NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a flashy arrival at Jupiter on July 4, and now, the probe has just passed another turning point in its mission.


IN: Senator Mike Lee Unloads on Why He Can’t Embrace Donald Trump
Donald J. Trump has asked Republicans who do not have anything nice to say about him to not say anything at all.

But Senator Mike Lee, the Republican from Utah, could not help himself.

Mr. Lee, a close friend of Mr. Trump’s former primary opponent, Senator Ted Cruz, let his true feelings be known on Wednesday night in an interview with Newsmax when he was asked why he had not endorsed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Faced with the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency, how could he not?

“Well, we can get into that if you want,” Mr. Lee said. “I mean we can get into the fact that he accused my best friend’s father of conspiring to kill J.F.K.”

The comment was a reference to Mr. Trump’s insinuation that Mr. Cruz’s father was involved with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Not finished, Mr. Lee went on to express concern about things that Mr. Trump has said about Muslims and how that turns off voters in his state, which has a large Mormon population.

“We can go through the fact that he has made some statements that some have identified correctly as religiously intolerant,” Mr. Lee said.

He added: “We can get into the fact that he is so unpopular because my state consists of members who were a religious minority church — a people who were ordered exterminated by the governor of Missouri in 1839, and statements like that make them nervous.”

The remarks from Mr. Lee reflect the raw feelings among some Republicans toward Mr. Trump that are lingering after a primary race that devolved into ugly personal attacks and conspiracy theories dished out by the Manhattan businessman. That, combined with Mr. Trump’s vague and shifting mix of positions on issues that are held dear by conservatives, have left many Republicans in a tough spot.

Mr. Lee said that he was still open to backing Mr. Trump and that he would not vote for Hillary Clinton. But he remains concerned about Mr. Trump’s faith in facts and uncertain about where he stands.

“I would like some assurances that he is going to be a vigorous defender of the U.S. Constitution, that he is not going to be an autocrat, that he is not going to be an authoritarian,” Mr. Lee said. “That is not an unreasonable demand.”
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OUT: The remarks from the Utah senator reflect the raw feelings among some Republicans toward Mr. Trump that are lingering after an unpleasant primary race.


IN: New fertility discovery could give hope to thousands of women trying to conceive
Medical breakthroughs could mean new hopes for women wanting to conceive.

A breakthrough in fertility research by a team of Australian scientists at the University of Adelaide could help thousands of women attempting to have children.

The team at the university’s Robinson Research Institute run by Dr Hannah Brown found haemoglobin played a fundamental role in the fertility of an egg, the Herald Sun reports.

The team discovered haemoglobin was present in good eggs but was missing from bad eggs.

“The haemoglobin inside the eggs made them more efficient and looks like it alters the way the egg uses energy and the amount (it) needs to use,” Dr Brown said about the discovery.

It is illegal in Australia to run trials on humans, but the team have run successful trials on mice.

“When we added the haemoglobin to bad eggs and then fertilised those eggs (via IVF) we got more healthy embryos,” Dr Brown said.

“We improved the quality of the eggs.”

Trials have now begun on humans in Belgium where it is legal for women to donate eggs for scientific tests.

The next step for the Adelaide team is to trial the process on larger animals such as pigs or cows where they can “test the safety and ethics and make sure there are no problems with the offspring”, Dr Brown said.

If the trials are successful Dr Brown said she hopes the process will become available to the public within five years.

“We know fertility starts declining at 32, and between 37 and 42 your eggs are in dramatic decline and the ones you have left are of poor quality,” Dr Brown said, claiming she wants this new process to provide hope and new opportunities to those women.

Dr Brown won this year’s 2015 Women’s and Children’s Hospital Foundation Young Investigator Award, which aims to recognise excellence in science.
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assistant: A breakthrough in fertility research by a team of Australian scientists at the University of Adelaide could help thousands of women attempting to have children.&nbsp;