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By James Cutmore\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 31 January 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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2022 is now well underway, with the last of the Christmas leftovers but a distant memory.<\/p>\n

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas returned this year, after being an all-virtual event in 2021. CES is traditionally one of the biggest events on the technology calendar, and although attendance was down this year on 2020, there were still many highlights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as the James Webb Space Telescope was successfully unfolded and moved into position, the anticipation of what spectacular\u00a0images we might see later on this year starts to build. You will see them all on Sciencefocus.com as soon as they drop.<\/p>\n

Pink drink<\/h2>\n
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Aerial view of rosy salt lake on 2 January 2022 in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province of China. Photo by Liu Bao Cheng\/VCG\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Biting the hand that provides batteries<\/h2>\n
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An attendee places a finger inside the mouth of Yukai Engineering\u2019s Amagami Ham Ham cat robot, during the Consumer Electronics Show on 3 January 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world\u2019s largest trade fairs, returned to Las Vegas under a newly resurgent pandemic.\u00a0Photo by Patrick T Fallon\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Startling starlings<\/h2>\n
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A murmuration of starlings fly in the sky at sunset in Rome on 3 January 2022. Photo by Tiziana Fabi\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Stop right now<\/h2>\n
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A vehicle with Luminar LIDAR based Proactive Safety pre-collision braking crash avoidance technology stops to avoid a child-sized test dummy as it is demonstrated on a test track at the Las Vegas Convention Center ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show on 4 January 2022 in Las Vegas, USA. Photo by Patrick T Fallon\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Wish you were here?<\/h2>\n
\""Mars\"<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>
The China National Space Administration published a stunning Martian selfie captured by the Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter above the Red Planet on 4 January 2022 after releasing a small camera and beaming photos via WiFi to mission control. The photographs show the orbiter flying around the Red Planet in an orbit, the ice cover on Mars\u2019s north pole, and a scene of a barren Martian plain. Photo by CNSA\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Training day<\/h2>\n
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The tmsuk Pedia-Roid ER training robot for healthcare worker training on paediatric patients is demonstrated during the Consumer Electronics Show on 5 January 2022 in Las Vegas, USA. Photo by Patrick T Fallon\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Race for autonomy<\/h2>\n
\""Autonomous\"<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>
The TUM Autonomous Motorsport race car from the Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen drives during the Indy Autonomous Challenge. The challenge took place during the Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on 7 January 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.\u00a0Members of Italian-American team PoliMOVE cheered as their car, nicknamed \u2018Minerva\u2019, repeatedly passed a rival entered by South Korean team Kaist. Photo by Patrick T Fallon\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Webb unfurled<\/h2>\n
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Engineering teams at NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> Mission Operations Center at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore monitor progress as the observatory\u2019s second primary mirror wing rotates into position, on 8 January 2022 in Baltimore, USA. The infrared telescope with a 6.5-metre primary mirror was folded up for launch and underwent an unprecedented deployment process to unfold in space. As NASA\u2019s next flagship observatory, JWST will study every phase of cosmic history from within our Solar System to the most distant observable galaxies in the early Universe. Photo by Bill Ingalls\/NASA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Mr Fog<\/h2>\n
\""Buildings\"<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>
This aerial view shows Kuwait City\u2019s al-Hamra tower (right), the headquarters of The National Bank of Kuwait (centre) and the al-Rayah tower (left), caught in heavy fog early on 13 January 2022. Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Northern Lights<\/h2>\n
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An aurora borealis, also known as Northern Lights, illuminates the night sky above the Kellostapuli Fell in Kolari, Finnish Lapland, early on 15 January 2022. Photo by Irene Stachon\/Lehtikuva\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Loose cannon<\/h2>\n
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A \u2018cannon\u2019 that uses soundwaves to push toxic particles higher into the atmosphere to allow residents to breathe cleaner air is pictured in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland, on 19 January 2022. In a battle against Poland\u2019s constant smog, scientists are testing out the experimental device that uses soundwaves to push toxic particles higher into the atmosphere in order to to chase the smog from Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, which like many Polish towns and cities faces the problem every winter when residents fire up highly polluting heating systems. Photo by Bartosz Siedlik\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

On the move<\/h2>\n
\""ISS\"<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>
An instrument dubbed the \u2018space storm hunter\u2019 hangs out in its new location outside the International Space Station in this image taken by on of the station\u2019s external cameras on 21 January 2022.\u00a0The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, or ASIM for short, measures electric events in Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere with cameras, photometers, X-rays and gamma-ray detectors. Photo by ESA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Colombian bushfires<\/h2>\n
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A man fights a bushfire in Guatavita, near Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, on 22 January 2022. The bushfire has destroyed dozen of hectares of native vegetation and is out of control according to local authorities. Photo by Daniel Munoz\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

What goes boom<\/h2>\n
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This colourised schlieren image, released on the January 2022, shows a small-scale model of NASA\u2019s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST)<\/a> airplane inside NASA Glenn Research Center\u2019s Supersonic Wind Tunnel during a recent boom test. The multiple-week campaign produced data sets and shockwave visuals that engineers from the agency\u2019s Commercial Supersonic Technology project will use to validate boom-reducing technologies and sonic boom-predicting capabilities. Photo by NASA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

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