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Recent earthquakes in Colombia, Japan and Venezuela have offered ...

2026-10-15T19:12:38Z

Recent earthquakes in Colombia, Japan and Venezuela have offered stark reminders of the importance of being as well prepared as possible for potential earthquakes. A new study shows that forecast models could alert people living in quake-prone areas. Read more from Phys.org:

https://flip.it/CwiK8q

#Science #Geology #Earthquake

Helen Branswell, whose reporting for ...

2026-10-13T21:10:52Z

Helen Branswell, whose reporting for [@STATnews](https://flipboard.com/@STATnews ) in the pandemic made her a vital source of information for the public, has died at age 69 due to complications of cancer. Here's her colleague, Andrew Joseph, with a tribute to her. “Hopefully this is nothing out of the ordinary. But a @ProMED_mail posting about ‘unexplained pneumonias’ in China is giving me SARS flashbacks,” she famously tweeted on Dec. 31, 2019. “Not liking the look of this,” she added a few days later.

https://flip.it/vCQEJd

#Science #Journalism #HelenBranswell

Popular accounts of the discovery of the structure of DNA suggest ...

2026-10-05T20:18:19Z

Popular accounts of the discovery of the structure of DNA suggest that Rosalind Franklin missed the significance of the photo she famously produced, and that the flash of insight was James Watson's alone. A new paper by science historian Alistair Sponsel and crystallographer Brian Sutton argues that's not true — and the evidence is right there in Franklin's notes. Here's more from Science magazine.

https://flip.it/N59d6R

#Science #RosalindFranklin #ScienceHistory

The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded ...

2026-10-05T15:20:26Z

The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists for their work developing a technique to decode the inner workings of the brain.

[@CNN](https://flipboard.com/@CNN ) reports: https://flip.it/WPbA-5

#NobelPrize #Medicine #Science

SpaceX’s supersized Starship launches into orbit for the first ...

2026-09-28T15:16:29Z

SpaceX’s supersized Starship launches into orbit for the first time but flight ending early.

[@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ) reports: https://flip.it/8DgLKv

#Space #SpaceX #Science

The 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year awards have been ...

2026-09-22T14:10:01Z

The 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year awards have been announced, with the top prize going to a photo of a northern gannet dramatically breaking the surface of the ocean.

Popular Science (npub1dvm…weag) has the pics: https://flip.it/hfwB_x

#Birds #Photography #Science

71% of Americans say they're completely exhausted. Duh. ...

2026-09-18T18:47:27Z

71% of Americans say they're completely exhausted. Duh. Here's more from [@Gizmodo](https://flipboard.com/@Gizmodo ).

https://flip.it/yjdF8h

#News #Research #Science

This meteorological summer (June through August in the contiguous ...

2026-09-17T18:42:15Z

This meteorological summer (June through August in the contiguous U.S.) was the hottest on record. Europe has suffered heatwave after heatwave, killing more than 25,000 people. Here's [@Grist](https://flipboard.com/@Grist ) with more on the "mind-boggling" numbers.

https://flip.it/ZBwFoE

#Science #Climate #ClimateCrisis

The Indian and Pacific Oceans have been climatologically linked ...

2026-09-13T22:32:04Z

The Indian and Pacific Oceans have been climatologically linked for centuries. But human-caused climate change may force a breakdown in the relationship. Read more from Science Daily:

https://flip.it/ZsRzAb

#Science #ClimateChange #Ocean

Chimp convalescence, ant amputation: Inside the wild world of ...

2026-09-11T13:54:43Z

Chimp convalescence, ant amputation: Inside the wild world of animal doctors.

Listen to this 13-minute audio report from [@npr](https://flipboard.com/@npr ): https://flip.it/j6380A

#Animals #Medicine #Science

NASA rovers Curiosity and Perseverance have photographed some ...

2026-08-31T22:29:07Z

NASA rovers Curiosity and Perseverance have photographed some pretty strange objects on Mars. Why not one more? [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ) explains:

https://flip.it/cKjARY

#Science #Space #NASA

U.S. federal agencies such as the U.S. Geological Survey and NOAA ...

2026-08-28T18:08:57Z

U.S. federal agencies such as the U.S. Geological Survey and NOAA are now required to call Lake Ontario "Lake America" on official documents. Tech Times explains the complicated chain that this nomenclature nonsense has kicked off.

https://flip.it/zVCXxP

#Canada #TrumpAdministration #LakeOntario

For snails, slime is a "multipurpose tool whose texture can ...

2026-08-28T12:56:39Z

For snails, slime is a "multipurpose tool whose texture can be tweaked to be slippery, sticky, foamy or even hard depending on the needs of the mucus master."

From [@Smithsonianmag](https://flipboard.com/@Smithsonianmag ): https://flip.it/_jHgKE

#Snails #Animals #Science

Around 55 million people worldwide live with dementia, and that ...

2026-08-27T18:41:35Z

Around 55 million people worldwide live with dementia, and that figure is expected to climb to nearly 140 million by 2050. Does a shingles vaccine offer some hope in the fight against this neurological disease? Read more from [@sciencefocus](https://flipboard.com/@sciencefocus ):

https://flip.it/rdxphg

#Dementia #Health #BrainHealth

Deadly Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in the ...

2026-08-27T12:50:32Z

Deadly Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in the warming Himalayas.

[@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ) reports the recent flood "was likely caused by a huge chunk of a glacier that broke off and temporarily dammed a river, according to preliminary investigations by scientists."

https://flip.it/zqWVT6

#ClimateChange #Nepal #Science

The U.S. FDA has approved a drug that could extend the survival ...

2026-08-26T17:54:00Z

The U.S. FDA has approved a drug that could extend the survival of people with metastatic pancreatic cancer. In a clinical trial, median overall survival doubled to more than 13 months compared to chemotherapy. Here's more from [@abc](https://flipboard.com/@abc ).

https://flip.it/Rs6uDl

#Science #Medicine #Cancer

One of the first facts of human life: When you’re born, you get ...

2026-08-24T19:44:04Z

One of the first facts of human life: When you’re born, you get a name. Do animals name each other, too? Not all scientists agree. Read more from [@LiveScience](https://flipboard.com/@LiveScience ):

https://flip.it/Ai5HVb

#Science #Animals #Language

Artificial intelligence boosts automated biolabs. From ...

2026-08-24T13:09:15Z

Artificial intelligence boosts automated biolabs.

From Knowable Magazine (npub1tgp…5gaf): "AI and machine learning are kicking synthetic biology up to new levels of innovation. Researchers see huge potential for novel drugs and other chemicals; some also see risks."

https://flip.it/suChRL

#AI #Biology #Science

Want to keep enjoying those bowls of Honey Nut Cheerios every ...

2026-08-21T22:09:11Z

Want to keep enjoying those bowls of Honey Nut Cheerios every morning? It could cost you. Phys.org tells us why the price of wheat may triple thanks to climate change.

https://flip.it/ruiAdN

#Science #ClimateChange #Food

Another mRNA-based vaccine is showing promising results — this ...

2026-08-19T17:13:32Z

Another mRNA-based vaccine is showing promising results — this time for preventing the return or spread of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, in high-risk patients. Here's more from NBC.

https://flip.it/vYolj3

#Science #Health #Cancer

In 1926, a Russian biologist tried to create a human-chimpanzee ...

2026-08-18T14:51:26Z

In 1926, a Russian biologist tried to create a human-chimpanzee hybrid.

Popular Science (npub1dvm…weag) reports on this odd bit of history: https://flip.it/JVONw4

#Human #Science #History

A five-man team of Russian soldiers were confident that Ukrainian ...

2026-08-17T23:12:41Z

A five-man team of Russian soldiers were confident that Ukrainian forces were unaware of their presence when they snuck behind enemy lines. But opposing soldiers weren’t the Russians’ problem. It was the unmanned aerial and ground vehicles that killed them. [@sciencefocus](https://flipboard.com/@sciencefocus ) has more on the drones, robots and remote-controlled instruments revolutionising warfare:

https://flip.it/PURqv3

#Science #Technology #War

Joint pain is one of the true joys of aging (sarcasm detected). ...

2026-08-17T20:48:00Z

Joint pain is one of the true joys of aging (sarcasm detected). And for years the consensus has been that once cartilage wears out, it’s not coming back. But scientists at Stanford University are offering some hope after tracing the loss of cartilage to a single protein. Read more from [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ):

https://flip.it/IMeezU

#Science #Health #Aging

RE: https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/117072001739318131 ...

2026-08-10T20:52:09Z

RE: https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/117072001739318131

Update: Trump has signed an executive order calling for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations to be given separately. Here's more from @apnews@flipboard.com.

https://flip.it/WBdzv7

#Science #Health #TrumpAdministration

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The White House is drafting an executive order on the disproven link between vaccines and autism, which could be issued as soon as this week. According to Ars Technica (npub15wh…e9hw), efforts come directly from Trump, who reportedly wants to be remembered as the president who "cured autism."

https://flip.it/XJ_g1D

#Science #Health #TrumpAdministration

Why are rivers so mathematical? Natalie Wolchover writes for ...

2026-08-10T18:45:03Z

Why are rivers so mathematical? Natalie Wolchover writes for Quanta about Hack's law — that any stream has a length that’s proportional to its drainage area raised to the power of 0.6 — and the explanations that underly it.

https://flip.it/EIqEbO

#Rivers #Science #Mathematics

The White House is drafting an executive order on the disproven ...

2026-08-10T15:49:39Z

The White House is drafting an executive order on the disproven link between vaccines and autism, which could be issued as soon as this week. According to Ars Technica (npub15wh…e9hw), efforts come directly from Trump, who reportedly wants to be remembered as the president who "cured autism."

https://flip.it/XJ_g1D

#Science #Health #TrumpAdministration

If you’re a cyclist, mountain biker, runner or an overall ...

2026-08-07T23:24:45Z

If you’re a cyclist, mountain biker, runner or an overall fitness buff, you’ve undoubtedly heard of, if not used, Strava, the app that lets you track workouts and see and compare yourself to other users’ progress. But what happened when a guy rigged his pet hamster’s wheel and uploaded to the app? Mollie logged some serious mileage. Read more from [@RunnersWorldUK](https://flipboard.com/@RunnersWorldUK ):

https://flip.it/3J5O6_

#Science #Fitness #Animals

Dinosaurs died out within hours, new study suggests. From ...

2026-07-30T12:40:32Z

Dinosaurs died out within hours, new study suggests.

From Popular Science (npub1dvm…weag): "The Chicxulub asteroid impact may have set our whole planet on fire."

https://flip.it/Md8DQP

#Dinosaurs #Science #Paleontology

We humans rely on working memory – the brain’s ability to ...

2026-07-26T19:54:40Z

We humans rely on working memory – the brain’s ability to store and manipulate important information – to complete everyday tasks, like driving to the store and completing household chores in the near future. But how do distractions interfere with our working memory – and completing these tasks? Phys.org takes a look:

https://flip.it/r5ru-1

#Science #Brain #NeuroScience

For a lot of you, the world has probably become an incredibly ...

2026-07-24T17:34:33Z

For a lot of you, the world has probably become an incredibly hectic place with little let up from day to day. (How do you even have time to read this?!?!) And if you find it all overwhelming, science backs it up. The daily pressure is outpacing our bodies and minds, leading to significant mental and physical health problems. Read more on this “evolutionary mismatch” from [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ):

https://flip.it/MuBZTK

#Science #Health #Humans

The land beneath most solar farms is mostly left as gravel or ...

2026-07-15T16:20:52Z

The land beneath most solar farms is mostly left as gravel or turf. But the teams at two sites in Minnesota decided to do things differently, seeding the ground with native grasses and flowering plants. Five years later, that land is home to many types of insect, with a 20-fold increase in bees that have begun pollinating the crops in neighboring fields. Here's more from The Pulse.

https://flip.it/ta7SMV

#Environment #Solar #Ecology

In a sweet discovery, astronomers find sugar lurking in the space ...

2026-07-14T11:58:52Z

In a sweet discovery, astronomers find sugar lurking in the space between stars.

[@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ) reports: "Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries and self-tanners."

https://flip.it/hLobDB

#Space #Astronomy #Science

Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat’s last theorem. From ...

2026-07-13T13:19:43Z

Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat’s last theorem.

From [@NewScientist](https://flipboard.com/@NewScientist ) (registration may be required): https://flip.it/_V6E9W

#Mathematics #Math #AI

Last year, the U.S. CDC made tracking the cyclospora parasite ...

2026-07-10T21:26:21Z

Last year, the U.S. CDC made tracking the cyclospora parasite optional. Now, nearly 3,000 people are sick with a bug called cyclosporiasis, which is caused by cyclospora and leads to intense diarrhea. Here's NBC with more.

https://flip.it/mOXpi7

#Health #USNews #Cyclosporiasis

It’s hot out there this summer. So make sure you stay hydrated. ...

2026-07-10T17:11:19Z

It’s hot out there this summer. So make sure you stay hydrated. But a lot of get hydration wrong, from not knowing how much water to drink to whether we should add electrolytes or even table salt (blech!) to our water. Fear not, [@sciencefocus](https://flipboard.com/@sciencefocus ) helps us out with these six hydration guidelines:

https://flip.it/e64fVz

#Science #Health #Hydration

Ebola death toll in Congo reaches 600, as new cases suspected in ...

2026-07-10T13:46:17Z

Ebola death toll in Congo reaches 600, as new cases suspected in previously unaffected provinces.

[@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ) reports: https://flip.it/phFx_y

#Ebola #Congo #Science

Finding the remains of a prehistoric animal can often be an ...

2026-07-09T20:40:48Z

Finding the remains of a prehistoric animal can often be an exercise in patience. That patience paid off recently when a team of paleontologists found a single vertebra in a fossil bed in Thailand. The result was a whole new species of giant dinosaur. Read more from [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ):

https://flip.it/a.8ZP-

#Science #Animals #Dinosaurs

Artemis II astronauts reunite with their moonship 3 months after ...

2026-07-09T13:04:47Z

Artemis II astronauts reunite with their moonship 3 months after record-breaking flight.

From [@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ): https://flip.it/.1TiD5

#NASA #Space #Science

Tech startup Colossal is working on bringing Tasmanian tigers ...

2026-07-06T16:54:42Z

Tech startup Colossal is working on bringing Tasmanian tigers (they look like a mix of dogs, zebras and kangaroos), which went extinct in 1936, back to life. MIT Press Reader looks at the ethical debate over de-extinction and its role as a radical conservation effort.

https://flip.it/mftX_P

#Science #DeExtinction #Ethics

Ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...

2026-07-04T19:42:16Z

Ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in 1986, many kinds of life-forms moved in and thrived. One in particular stands out. [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ) has more on the wall-clinging black fungus that seems to be living its best life:

https://flip.it/IaTtz7

#Science #Chernobyl #Nature

Wake up folks, a new conspiracy theory just dropped! IFL Science ...

2026-07-02T19:39:17Z

Wake up folks, a new conspiracy theory just dropped! IFL Science reports on the people who think the shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on June 29 has caused an alteration in how we experience time.

https://flip.it/N3S1A1

#Science #CERN #ConspiracyTheory

Technology is often looked to for providing solutions to climate ...

2026-06-27T21:04:18Z

Technology is often looked to for providing solutions to climate change. One idea is to capture carbon pollution from the air and bury it underground forever. But according to this report from [@ProPublica](https://flipboard.com/@ProPublica ), there is no way it will ever work:

https://flip.it/Z.2XaN

#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

Algae blooming in your pond? Don't reach for the hydrogen ...

2026-06-25T19:18:13Z

Algae blooming in your pond? Don't reach for the hydrogen peroxide! Eric Palkovacs writes for The Conversation U.S. (npub1gpe…88e5) about why Donald Trump might need to get fleas.

https://flip.it/ZOs9gR

#Science #ReflectingPool #Algae

In response to Trump's 2025 "Restoring Gold Standard ...

2026-06-24T23:17:34Z

In response to Trump's 2025 "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order, the NOAA shut down the Climate.gov website. Former staffers have now set up a nonprofit to provide reliable climate information in its stead. Here's more.

https://flip.it/mNCHRu

#TrumpAdministration #Climate #Science

The U.S. CDC's Acting Director Jay Bhattacharya blocked a ...

2026-06-23T20:47:36Z

The U.S. CDC's Acting Director Jay Bhattacharya blocked a study on COVID-19 vaccines from publication. Today, it came out in a different journal. The study shows that vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness by about half among adults last fall and winter. Here's more from NBC.

https://flip.it/3EoTk0

#COVID #USPolitics #Health

"A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't ...

2026-06-23T16:13:47Z

"A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than monosyllables in years began initiating conversation after a single dose of psilocybin."

[@NewScientist](https://flipboard.com/@NewScientist ) reports (registration may be required): https://flip.it/m8QoRk

#Alzheimer #Science #Mushrooms

The New World screwworm has returned to the U.S. Now what? From ...

2026-06-23T12:28:09Z

The New World screwworm has returned to the U.S. Now what?

From Science News (registration may be required): https://flip.it/LuuL8F

#Screwworm #Science #Animals

Returning wolves to Yellowstone National Park has been hailed as ...

2026-06-22T18:30:26Z

Returning wolves to Yellowstone National Park has been hailed as a remarkable success in reviving the park’s forests. But a team of biologists and geographers say that claim may have been overstated. [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ) walks us through the debate and how these back-and-forths refine our understanding of science:

https://flip.it/.V6vle

#Science #Animals #Nature

Confirmed Ebola cases in Congo outbreak top 1,000 with 254 ...

2026-06-22T12:56:27Z

Confirmed Ebola cases in Congo outbreak top 1,000 with 254 deaths, authorities say.

[@abc](https://flipboard.com/@abc ) reports: https://flip.it/DJ_DfK

#Ebola #Congo #Disease

It's been 20 years since Al Gore's Oscar-winning ...

2026-06-18T23:14:08Z

It's been 20 years since Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" was released. Have the documentary's predictions about climate change held up? "The scientists were dead right on all the important elements of it, and it really is insane that we are continuing to use the sky as an open sewer and we're trapping so much heat every day it's equal to the amount that would be released by 800,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every day on the earth," Gore says. Read more of [@abc](https://flipboard.com/@abc )'s interview with the former U.S. vice president:

https://flip.it/kVZfNR

#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

England began vaccinating school-age girls against HPV, the major ...

2026-06-18T16:35:39Z

England began vaccinating school-age girls against HPV, the major cause of cervical cancer, in 2008. It's working. A new study shows that between 2020 and 2024, zero cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24 in England. Here's more from [@BBCNews](https://flipboard.com/@BBCNews ).

https://flip.it/dncV3r

#Health #CervicalCancer #Vaccination

Interoception is your ability to detect and make sense of ...

2026-06-12T23:27:37Z

Interoception is your ability to detect and make sense of sensations from inside your body: Your stomach growling when you're hungry; the awareness that your bladder being full and you need to pee. MIT Technology Review discusses the science of how we feel.

https://flip.it/cC3Ddo

#Science #Health #Interoception

Melting glaciers and shrinking ice sheets are commonly understood ...

2026-06-08T22:19:20Z

Melting glaciers and shrinking ice sheets are commonly understood to contribute to sea levels, but the primary driver might not be what you think. Read more from [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ):

https://flip.it/E6SVNO

#Science #Ocean #Environment

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated. From Science ...

2026-06-08T12:58:01Z

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated.

From Science News: "Vaccines that target invertebrates’ innate immune systems could be a major boon for agriculture."

https://flip.it/WDPZKJ

#Animals #Science #Vaccines #Agriculture

Physicists say they just achieved "perfect randomness" ...

2026-06-03T14:25:16Z

Physicists say they just achieved "perfect randomness" for the first time.

From [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ): "One of the hardest things to do in physics is to generate true, provably unpredictable randomness."

https://flip.it/E59rIc

#Physics #Science #Mathematics

In the 1950s, during the Cold War, the U.S. Navy created the ...

2026-06-01T16:38:05Z

In the 1950s, during the Cold War, the U.S. Navy created the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), an array of hydrophones in the depths of the oceans. The intention was to listen for enemy submarines, but the system also captured other mysterious sounds. The MIT Press Reader explains how the SOSUS came to become one of science's most useful methods for learning about whales.

https://flip.it/FY.M2C

#Science #History #Whales

Teams from Blue Origin, the U.S. Space Force and NASA are working ...

2026-05-29T19:35:51Z

Teams from Blue Origin, the U.S. Space Force and NASA are working to find out what caused Thursday night’s detonation of the New Glenn rocket that produced a spectacular fireball over Florida. SpaceX has had several launch failures, too, but [@ArsTechnica](https://flipboard.com/@ArsTechnica ) tells us why this one rings a little different:

https://flip.it/Ayi_Ws

#BlueOrigin #SpaceX #Science

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope never ceases to amaze, this ...

2026-05-28T22:23:51Z

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope never ceases to amaze, this time capturing a supermassive black hole beaming with light shining from its center. [@sciencefocus](https://flipboard.com/@sciencefocus ) has more on this space spectacle for which “supermassive” is barely an adequate description:

https://flip.it/GgeRjr

#Science #Space #NASA

A decade ago, Spain was one of Europe's more expensive power ...

2026-05-26T18:18:24Z

A decade ago, Spain was one of Europe's more expensive power markets, and critics said it was investing too much in solar energy. Now, the average wholesale price for electricity in the country is one of the lowest in Europe. Oxford professor and energy policy advisor Jan Rosenow writes for his newsletter about how that happened.

https://flip.it/bIwOpR

#Renewables #Environment #Spain

In the U.S., plastic bags generally don’t go in the recycling ...

2026-05-26T12:57:22Z

In the U.S., plastic bags generally don’t go in the recycling bin. What should you do instead?

From [@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ): "Over 3 million tons of plastic bags, sacks and wraps in the United States went to landfills in 2018, according to the Environmental Protection Agency."

https://flip.it/NP9jeb

#Recycling #Plastic #Environment

The Sen̓áḵw development in Vancouver, B.C. is notable for ...

2026-05-25T17:48:58Z

The Sen̓áḵw development in Vancouver, B.C. is notable for lots of reasons, but one of them is easy to miss — it's literally buried. When the complex of 6,000 apartments is complete, it will be heated by sewage. Here's more from [@BeGiant2026](https://flipboard.com/@BeGiant2026 ).

https://flip.it/Kxb7E6

#Science #Environment #Engineering

A de-extinction company says it has hatched live chicks from an ...

2026-05-19T15:30:11Z

A de-extinction company says it has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell.

[@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ) reports the development "was met with mixed reviews from scientists and critics of its de-extinction mission."

https://flip.it/JJ82X2

#Animals #Extinction #Science

Alcohol is perhaps the world's deadliest drug, causing ...

2026-05-13T19:37:04Z

Alcohol is perhaps the world's deadliest drug, causing millions of deaths, destroying lives and families. Yet in the U.S., at least, it's not seen as a public health emergency. STAT (npub1saa…543z) has created this Flipboard (npub13fk…z5hw) Storyboard about the booze epidemic, and how mass death and sickening of Americans due to drinking is a generational failure of health, industry and government systems, not an inevitability.

https://flipboard.com/@statnews/the-deadliest-drug-mabl491dckoj6hvi?from=share&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=share

#Health #Science #Alcohol #USGovernment

The secret to perfect espresso? It’s physics. From Science ...

2026-05-05T13:03:31Z

The secret to perfect espresso? It’s physics.

From Science News: "The key is tight control of the interaction between water and coffee grounds."

https://flip.it/8SLLtd

#Coffee #Physics #Science #Food #Espresso

It might be time to dust off your old solar system mnemonics. ...

2026-04-29T23:15:00Z

It might be time to dust off your old solar system mnemonics. NASA chief Jared Isaacman says he wants to make Pluto a planet again. Space.com has more. Share your mnemonics below (we're "My Very Early Morning Jam Sandwich Usually Nauseates People").

https://flip.it/gaWuiI

#Space #SolarSystem #Pluto

France has released its "roadmap" to wean the country off ...

2026-04-29T18:24:30Z

France has released its "roadmap" to wean the country off fossil fuels by 2050. Analysts say its the most clear and comprehensive plan released by any country. AFP summarizes the 14-page document and some of the reactions to it.

https://flip.it/bgZ9E2

#Environment #FossilFuels #France

Tiny organs are about to hit the big time. ...

2026-04-28T22:43:11Z

Tiny organs are about to hit the big time. [@BeGiant2026](https://flipboard.com/@BeGiant2026 ) talks to Professor Milica Radisic, who leads a lab that creates microscopic hearts, kidneys and lungs that can then be used to test new drugs.

https://flip.it/TE0jF9

#Health #Science #Medicine

Henry Greely specializes in the ethical, legal, and social ...

2026-04-26T19:26:28Z

Henry Greely specializes in the ethical, legal, and social implications of new biomedical technologies and has a viewpoint that may have crossed your mind: People will continue to have sex for years to come. But that comes with this plot twist — sex may become a lesser-used method for having babies in the future. Greely explains in this article for
[@sciencefocus](https://flipboard.com/@sciencefocus ):

https://flip.it/Lr4.MK

#Science #Health #Sex #Future

A "staggering" number of people believe unproven claims ...

2026-04-22T17:18:01Z

A "staggering" number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more, according to a survey of 16,000 people across 16 countries conducted by the Edelman Trust Institute in New York. Here's more from Nature.

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#Science #Health #Vaccines #Misinformation

Can we just stash CO2 in the sea? From @npub1tgp…5gaf: ...

2026-04-20T13:37:22Z

Can we just stash CO2 in the sea?

From Knowable Magazine (npub1tgp…5gaf): "Keeping global warming to manageable levels will require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it somewhere else. The world’s oceans may be a promising option."

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#ClimateChange #Climate #GlobalWarming #Environment #Science #Ocean

Transplants save lives, but there just aren't enough organs ...

2026-04-17T19:00:16Z

Transplants save lives, but there just aren't enough organs to help the 100,000 patients waiting in the U.S. Joshua D. Mezrich, a transplant surgeon, writes for MIT Press about how pigs and CRISPR gene editing could change everything.

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#Science #Genetics #Health #Medicine

One in three people will get shingles in their lifetime, and it ...

2026-04-13T17:37:40Z

One in three people will get shingles in their lifetime, and it can be an agonizing experience with potentially serious consequences. [@WIRED](https://flipboard.com/@WIRED ) takes a look into it, and encourages everyone eligible to get vaccinated.

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#Health #Shingles #Science

See the first close-up photos of the moon from NASA's Artemis ...

2026-04-07T13:24:06Z

See the first close-up photos of the moon from NASA's Artemis II mission.

From NBC News: "The crew spent about seven hours circling the moon, taking photographs and making observations of never-before-seen features."

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#Artemis #Artemis2 #Moon #NASA #Space #Science

‘"Project Hail Mary" demonstrates how intellectual ...

2026-04-06T14:48:22Z

‘"Project Hail Mary" demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts.

From The Conversation U.S. (npub1gpe…88e5): An anthropologist explores the hit film.

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#Science #Space #ProjectHailMary #Film #Anthropology

Antimatter traveled by truck for the first time. From Science ...

2026-03-25T12:54:25Z

Antimatter traveled by truck for the first time.

From Science News: "Scientists at CERN transported 92 antiprotons eight kilometers across the lab grounds."

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#Physics #CERN #Science #Antimatter

How realistic is the new movie "Project Hail Mary?" Two ...

2026-03-24T13:23:41Z

How realistic is the new movie "Project Hail Mary?"

Two Science News journalists analyze the film adaptation of a book by science fiction author Andy Weir.

Spoilers ahead: https://flip.it/vaA1mm

#Science #Film #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Movies

Do we really need magnesium supplements? The super mineral is ...

2026-03-23T22:21:10Z

Do we really need magnesium supplements? The super mineral is feted on TikTok for its ability to cure "insomnia, constipation and existential dread," but we may be better off just eating our greens. Here's more from [@TheWeek](https://flipboard.com/@TheWeek ).

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#Magnesium #Nutrition #Diet #Healt

Given enough time and exposure to a hazard, life has shown a ...

2026-03-20T19:34:38Z

Given enough time and exposure to a hazard, life has shown a remarkable ability to adapt to all sorts of wild conditions — from extreme heat to complete lack of oxygen to dangerous radiation levels. But for a group of people living high in the Argentinian Andes, an unusual genetic advantage has given them the ability to consume drinking water containing the highly toxic chemical element arsenic. [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ) tells us more about how scientists remain puzzled by their ability "to shrug off dangerously high arsenic levels."

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#Science #Humans #Argentina #Health #SouthAmerica

Are scientists funny? In a survey of more than 500 presentations ...

2026-03-20T18:08:39Z

Are scientists funny? In a survey of more than 500 presentations at biology meetings, two-thirds of attempts at humor drew polite chuckles or none at all, and only 9 percent prompted enthusiastic laughter. Almost 60% of talks included at least one attempt at humor. "That's higher than I would have thought. Good for the biologists," says Taylor Soderborg, a physician-scientist and scientific comms professional who was not involved in the study. Here's more from Nature, plus a link to the full study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Do you regularly give speeches and presentations? What's your approach to trying to add humor?

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#Science #Humor #Research #PublicSpeaking

Americans are getting less information about climate change ...

2026-03-19T20:15:29Z

Americans are getting less information about climate change through the media than at any point in the last decade. Could dance music bridge the gap? [@InsideClimate](https://flipboard.com/@InsideClimate ) has more on what climate communicators could learn from Bad Bunny:

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#Science #ClimateChange #BadBunny #GlobalWarming

Why can’t we simulate the human body the way we simulate a car ...

2026-03-19T15:59:35Z

Why can’t we simulate the human body the way we simulate a car or a plane?

IEEE Spectrum (npub13m9…22yu) has a fascinating story: How Your Virtual Twin Could One Day Save Your Life.

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#Science #Medicine #3DPrinting #Technology

Inventor Beulah Louise Henry’s unstoppable rise to becoming ...

2026-03-19T14:25:36Z

Inventor Beulah Louise Henry’s unstoppable rise to becoming "Lady Edison."

From Popular Science (npub1dvm…weag): "With 49 patents and over 100 inventions, Henry built an empire catering to women and children."

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#Science #History #WomensHistoryMonth #Inventions

Wild monkeys invaded Florida. Should people protect them? Science ...

2026-03-17T12:53:58Z

Wild monkeys invaded Florida. Should people protect them?

Science News reports: "Without intervention, the vervets of Dania Beach could go extinct within the next century."

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#Monkeys #Animals #Florida #Science

Potentially good news for people with osteoporosis. Scientists ...

2026-03-16T22:48:57Z

Potentially good news for people with osteoporosis. Scientists from the University of Leipzig in Germany and Shandong University in China identified the cell receptor GPR133 (also known as ADGRD1) as being crucial to bone density. [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ) shares what they discovered after running some tests on mice:

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#Science #Health #Osteoporosis #Humans #Research

There was a time when scientists thought that once the intensity ...

2026-03-13T18:23:07Z

There was a time when scientists thought that once the intensity of hurricanes, wildfires and droughts spiked enough, people would wake up to the threat of climate change. “Analogously, this great pot known as Earth is now coming to a rolling boil, yet many people remain oblivious to the pending disaster,” social sciences reporter Sujata Gupta writes. Gupta shares her experience living in northern Vermont, where trucks were once driven across Lake Champlain in the winter, and why people are slow to accept the reality of warming, for ScienceNews.com:

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#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateScience

For particle physicists working with neutrinos, almost nothing is ...

2026-03-11T15:48:29Z

For particle physicists working with neutrinos, almost nothing is everything.

From Knowable Magazine (npub1tgp…5gaf): "Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles."

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#Physics #Science #Neutrinos #Research

The annual Ig Nobels, the awards for odd and funny scientific ...

2026-03-10T18:55:51Z

The annual Ig Nobels, the awards for odd and funny scientific achievement, will be held outside the United States for the first time in its 36 years because of concerns about attendees' safety. The 2026 ceremony, which takes place in September ahead of the Nobel Prizes, will be held in Zurich. “We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the USA this year," Marc Abrahams, editor of event organizers the Annals of Improbable Research, told [@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ).

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#Science #IgNobels #IgNobelPrize #TrumpAdministration #USPolitics

No chance asteroid will slam into the moon in 2032, NASA says. ...

2026-03-06T15:09:50Z

No chance asteroid will slam into the moon in 2032, NASA says.

[@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ) reports: https://flip.it/x.L_Qc

#Moon #Space #NASA #Asteroid #Science

Skywatchers across North America, Australia and Asia will be in ...

2026-03-02T22:17:31Z

Skywatchers across North America, Australia and Asia will be in for a treat in the dark hours of March 3 — a total lunar eclipse. @Space.com@flipboard.com has a list of the best viewing times:

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#Science #Space #TotalEclipse #BloodRedMoon

Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s ...

2026-02-18T14:13:35Z

Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s near-freezing deep.

NBC News reports: "Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica."

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#Sharks #Ocean #Antarctica #Science #ClimateChange

NASA Mars rover finds new clues pointing to past life on Mars. ...

2026-02-17T15:53:37Z

NASA Mars rover finds new clues pointing to past life on Mars.

[@USAToday](https://flipboard.com/@USAToday ) reports: "Nearly a year ago, Curiosity came across a rock that contained signs of organic material known as fatty acids that on Earth are most often produced by living organisms."

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#Mars #NASA #Space #Science #Life

Dementia may seem like it hits out of nowhere, but it’s not ...

2026-02-16T20:40:37Z

Dementia may seem like it hits out of nowhere, but it’s not simply absent one day and fully present the next. In fact, new science is uncovering how Alzheimer’s could be detected decades before symptoms strike. [@sciencefocus](https://flipboard.com/@sciencefocus ) has more:

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#Science #Health #Brain #Dementia #Neurology

Even paleontology can't escape the Jeffrey Epstein mess. From ...

2026-02-11T15:13:51Z

Even paleontology can't escape the Jeffrey Epstein mess.

From The Daily Beast: "DinoCon banned experts named in the files, as well as executives at organizations who had not protected their members.'”

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#Dinosaurs #Paleontology #JeffreyEpstein #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #DinoCon

"Inoculation" doesn't just work to protect you ...

2026-02-04T18:20:06Z

"Inoculation" doesn't just work to protect you against diseases. You can also psychologically prime people against persuasive attacks from media — for example, by explaining to people how deepfakes work. Here's more from The Conversation U.S. (npub1gpe…88e5).

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#Psychology #Science #SocialScience #Deepfakes

The idea that empathy is bad or dangerous is gaining popularity ...

2026-02-02T19:43:57Z

The idea that empathy is bad or dangerous is gaining popularity in conservative circles. [@cbcnews](https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews ) takes a look at if there's any scientific basis to that, and how the pandemic might have affected our ability to feel empathy.

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#Empathy #Science #Conservatism #USPolitics

When massive stars die, they don’t go quietly. For years, ...

2026-01-30T20:02:42Z

When massive stars die, they don’t go quietly. For years, astronomers have been able to watch these stars tear themselves apart in a bright explosion. Now they can also detect something new: radio waves. Read more from Earth.com:

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#Science #Space #Stars #SpaceExploration

Wouldn't it be cool to say that your home was heated by the ...

2026-01-29T20:03:24Z

Wouldn't it be cool to say that your home was heated by the Large Hadron Collider? A new blogpost on CERN's website says that is exactly what's happening in the French town of Ferney-Voltaire. Here's how it works.

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#CERN #Science #Technology #LargeHadronCollider #France

The swinging sex lives of Alaska’s beluga whales. From ...

2026-01-21T17:05:36Z

The swinging sex lives of Alaska’s beluga whales.

From Popular Science (npub1dvm…weag): "To survive, this isolated population of only 2,000 whales needs to be smart about mates."

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#Whales #Animals #Science #Ecology

A year of Trump has devastated science funding in the U.S. Nature ...

2026-01-20T23:58:54Z

A year of Trump has devastated science funding in the U.S. Nature breaks it down in this series of graphics.

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#Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #USNews #USPolitics

RE: https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/115923603355235745 ...

2026-01-19T23:29:01Z

RE: https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/115923603355235745

Veronika the cow fans, here's the full text of Antonio J. Osuna-Mascaró and Alice M.I. Auersperg article for Cell Biology entitled: "Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow."

"Her behavior was systematic: the broom end served for upper, thick-skinned areas and the stick end for softer ones, showing sensitivity to the mechanical affordances of each task," wrote the authors, who conclude: "She did not fashion tools like the cow in Gary Larson’s cartoon, but she selected, adjusted, and used one with notable dexterity and flexibility. Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist."

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#Science #Animals #Biology #Cognition #Cows
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