---
title: "This Week in Science: Sept 22-28"
description: "Miss the science news this week? We've got you. Here's your weekly digest about robotic asteroid landers and lab-grown human egg cells."
date: "2018-09-28"
modified: "2018-09-28"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/week-science-sept-22-28"
categories:
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "antibiotics"
  - "nuclear power"
  - "robot moon landers"
  - "ryugu"
  - "SpaceX"
  - "This Week in Science"
  - "twis"
---

# This Week in Science: Sept 22-28

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TWIS1.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Tag Hartman-Simkins\</em\>*

This week, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) landed a pair of tiny hopping robots to the asteroid called Ryugu, and they've got the mind-blowing photos to prove it. Meanwhile, SpaceX is officially gearing up to send a Japanese rover to the surface of the Moon around 2020. *Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto.*

[Here Are the First Photos Japan’s Robot Landers Sent Back From an Asteroid.](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/ryugu-robots-asteroid-images>) Japan's asteroid-exploring robots have officially landed on Ryugu and are now transmitting data and photos of the rocky small planet.

Scientists Just Took A "Spectacular Step" Towards Lab-Grown Human Egg Cells. Researchers have come closer than ever before to producing lab-grown human egg cells using just the blood of a person.

[Electrical Stimulation Helped A Man With Paralyzed Legs Walk Again.](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/paralysis-electrical-stimulation-walking>) With the help of electrical stimulation and physical therapy, a 29-year-old man diagnosed with total lower body paralysis can now take steps on his own.

[SpaceX Will Send Another Company’s Robots to the Moon in 2021.](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-company-robots-moon>) Japanese space exploration company ispace is teaming up with SpaceX on two lunar missions, one in mid-2020 and the other in mid-2021.

[Pet Store Puppies Are Spreading Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-puppies>) CDC officials have traced an outbreak of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria *Campylobacter jejuni* to pet-store puppies unnecessarily prescribed antibiotics.

[Nuclear Power Used to Seem Like the Future. Now Its Fate in the US Is in Question.](<https://futurism.com/nuclear-energy-future>) If we still need nuclear plants as a stopgap to moving away from fossil fuels, fine. But overall, atomic power no longer feels like the future.

***More on science:*** [***This Week in Science: Sept 15-21***](<https://futurism.com/week-science-sept-15-21>)

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

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