February 22, 2022 updates Posted on February 22, 2022February 28, 2022 by Doug Loss Understanding planetary context to enable life detection on exoplanets and test the Copernican principle https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01579-7 Multifunctional metasails for self-stabilized beam-riding and optical communication https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2022/na/d1na00747e Muon-catalyzed fusion and annihilation energy generation will supersede non-sustainable T + D nuclear fusion https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13705-022-00338-4 Diurnal variations in the stratosphere of the ultrahot giant exoplanet WASP-121b https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01592-w The atmospheres of rocky exoplanets – II. Influence of surface composition on the diversity of cloud condensates https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa41636-21/aa41636-21.html A New Perspective on the Interiors of Ice-rich Planets: Ice–Rock Mixture Instead of Ice on Top of Rock https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac458c ExoMiner: A Highly Accurate and Explainable Deep Learning Classifier That Validates 301 New Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac4399 Evaluating the Impact of Optical Axis Stability on Exoplanet Detection https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/ac3df1 Euclid-Roman joint microlensing survey: early mass measurement, free floating planets and exomoons https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09475 TESS discovery of a sub-Neptune orbiting a mid-M dwarf TOI-2136 https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10024 Detecting and Monitoring Tidal Dissipation of Hot Jupiters in the Era of SiTian https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10031 Validation and atmospheric exploration of the sub-Neptune TOI-2136b around a nearby M3 dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10182