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After another explosive start to tornado season, twisters are cropping up in unexpected places around the United States. In a 48-hour period earlier this month, 31 tornadoes were reported across the country. Scientists are baffled. Read more from @sciencefocus: https://flip.it/DS6_YH #Science […]

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Never too late. A roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a male of the same age at the Philadelphia Zoo. Read about it @LiveScience: https://flip.it/KIn6oC #Science #Animals #Reptiles #Turtles

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My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

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A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food. Located over 12 million light-years from Earth, a spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 is blowing powerful winds of material from the supermassive black hole located at its core. @LiveScience has […]

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Protein intake dominates fitness advice, but does adding it really enhance the nutrition of your food? @ScienceAlert shares more: https://flip.it/6Fy_9i #Science #Health #Nutrition #Food #Foodstodon

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Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen. @ArsTechnica reports: "300 aspects of each call were cataloged, letting researchers estimate meaning." https://flip.it/Sm8kwW #Animals #Primates #Anthropology #Language #Science #Evolution

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75% of U.S. scientists who answered @NatureNewsteam poll consider leaving the country. Many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada. https://flip.it/T8.pW_ #Science #Trump #USPolitics #Research

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The brain remembers what gave you food poisoning. @PopularScience reports on a new study about food aversion: https://flip.it/FVSg8f #Food #Brain #Neuroscience #Health #Science

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Everything you need to know about bird flu, from @KnowableMag https://flip.it/1GV8XI Plus, @CBSNews reports on the FDA firing its bird flu leadership: https://flip.it/3IYlnx #BirdFlu #Disease #Birds #FDA #Science

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In March 2025, Arctic sea ice hit its lowest annual peak on record. At the other end of the globe, Antarctic sea ice cover was the second-lowest on record that month. That means that, overall, Earth’s sea ice reached a new record low in 2025 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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3-year-old discovers 3,800-year-old treasure during a family outing in Israel. From NBC News: "Experts identified the find as a Canaanite seal or scarab." https://flip.it/hi8xFf #Archaeology #History #MiddleEast

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This is what forecasters mean when they talk about a 100-year flood. From @AssociatedPress: "Here’s what to know about how scientists determine how extreme a flood is and how common these extreme events are becoming." https://flip.it/fH4N8U #Weather #Meteorology #Science #Flood #ClimateChange

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NASA’s Webb telescope captures photos of the asteroid that won’t hit Earth in 2032. @AssociatedPress reports on the asteroid 2024 YR4: https://flip.it/6O2d.1 #Space #Asteroid #NASA #Science #2024yr4

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Ok, time for a thread on what I've been getting lots of interviews about. I've dropped some hints and shared some info, but here's the story! Remember this document I posted a while ago? https://www.starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_Satellite_Demisability.pdf It casually mentions […]

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More than 1,900 scientists and engineers have signed a letter saying they “see real danger in this moment” as the Trump administration slashes federal support for scientific research. @theverge reports: https://flip.it/N8Gw4v #Science #Trump #Research #USPolitics

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Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought. @ArsTechnica interviews NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams about the dicey docking: https://flip.it/ULXi0A #Space #NASA #Starliner #Astronauts #Boeing

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"Another mind-blowing change": New data suggests mysterious dark energy is evolving. @CNN reports on the work of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration, known as DESI. https://flip.it/HlBvhK #Space #Physics #Science #Astrophysics

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Quicksand-like physics exacerbated the Myanmar earthquake’s destruction. Science News reports on the 7.7-magnitude quake that killed at least 2,700 people. Registration may be required: https://flip.it/IVb_ot #Earthquake #Myanmar #Physics #Geology

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Physicists have confirmed a new mismatch between matter and antimatter. Science News reports: "Charge-parity violation occurs in a class of particles called baryons." https://flip.it/pBCY1- #Physics #Science #Research

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The atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider’s successor will be 56 miles wide. @PopularScience reports on plans for the Future Circular Collider: https://flip.it/aqT-_U #Physics #Science #CERN #Europe

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How near-death experiences arise in the brain. @SciAm reports: "Researchers put forward a comprehensive model outlining the conditions that may give rise to the vivid mental phenomena that some people experience as they near death." https://flip.it/qAYIGR #Brain #Neuroscience #Death #Science

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NASA astronauts open up about being "stuck" in space for nine months. NBC News reports on Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who spent 286 days on the International Space Station after their week-long mission was met with technical issues. https://flip.it/soqrW0 #NASA #Space #Astronaut #Boeing […]

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U.S. scientists lost $3 billion in NIH grants since Trump took office. @ArsTechnica has the details: https://flip.it/yeWxGK Original article from @WashPost (paywalled): https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/28/trump-administration-science-research-cuts/ #Science #Trump #Research […]

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Archeologists find surprise signs of British rule in Florida. From @Independent: "City archaeologists in St. Augustine uncovered a dry moat belonging to a British redoubt, a fortified military outpost, dating back to 1781." https://flip.it/fHTVCE #History #Archaeology #Florida #Science

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Pursuing the electrical fluid: How scientists discovered the electron, from @KnowableMag. https://flip.it/B1imNR #Physics #Science #Quantum #History

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Scientists from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland are arguing that the massive and mysterious tubelike fossils known as "prototaxites" deserve their own life form classification because, basically, they're too weird to belong to any other. @Futurism has more, including why prototaxites […]

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In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. Her memory of the murder was relatively fresh at just one year. But the murder happened 20 years earlier. According to the prosecution, Eileen repressed her […]

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From @LiveScience: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has spotted a strange object out of the corner of its "eye": a mysterious rock that resembles a cluster of hundreds of spider eggs. https://flip.it/M_P1tj #Space #Science #Mars #NASA

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NASA is keeping an eye on a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: “a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa,” writes Peter Dockrill. While it doesn’t have much impact to life on this planet, NASA […]

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And here’s a shot of today’s partial #SolarEclipse in #Göttingen as seen by our #heliotrope. Enjoy! #Sonnenfinsternis #AstronomieTag #TagderRaumfahrt @thegoecampus

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Let's talk about cars 🚕 🚕 🚕 🚕 Every year, 80 million new cars are built, the steel equivalent of more than 10,000 Eiffel Towers. In total, the automotive industry accounts for around 15 per cent of global steel flows, three-quarters of which is produced from coal - 1 billion tonnes in all. In […]

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Have earth's oceans always been blue? 🌊 🔵 @PopularScience reports on research suggesting the sea might have glimmered with green hues for over 2 billion years. https://flip.it/sgB8.j #Ocean #Science #Biology #Evolution

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Osprey pair embroiled in love triangle https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0jl2g15ddo

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"Demonic" sea lion reports spark concerns about toxic algae on California coast. @abc reports: "The sea lions are likely being poisoned by domoic acid, a neurotoxin within the algae blooms, which they ingest through the fish they eat, according to marine experts." https://flip.it/Zc299Q […]

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A Venus flytrap wasp? Scientists uncover an ancient insect preserved in amber that snatched its prey. From @AssociatedPress: https://flip.it/s4_N_c #Insects #Entomology #Science #Amber

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Magnitude-7.7 earthquake hits Myanmar, with tremors felt across neighboring Thailand. @CNN has a live blog with the latest updates and death toll: https://flip.it/Igv6kq #Myanmar #Thailand #Earthquake #Bangkok #News

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At last, auroras have been spotted on every planet in the solar system, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST’s powerful near-infrared spectrometer recently revealed Neptune’s elusive aurora in all its gently glowing glory. @ScienceAlert has more: https://flip.it/I_JI9r #Science […]

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McKenna Oxenden is her own best advocate. She learned this after years of excruciating pain, popping ibuprofen like candy, and doctors dismissing her pain as normal, nothing to worry about. Finally after three years, she got a diagnosis — endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease that […]

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Shocker: This tropical tree thrives after being struck by lightning. From @SciMag: "The almendro withstands thunderbolts that blast away parasitic vines." https://flip.it/.X3QEd #Trees #Plants #Botany #Science #Ecology

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Honey bee colonies in the U.S. are projected to decline by up to 70% in 2025, entomologists at Washington State University said on Tuesday. @NBCNews reports: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/scientists-warn-severe-honey-bee-losses-2025-rcna198141 #HoneyBee #Apiculture #Pollinators #Ecology […]

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Late Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that David Geier has been hired as a "data analyst" by the Department of Health and Human Services, which is now headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent and fervent anti-vaccine advocate. Kennedy and Geier have both long touted the false claim that […]

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A rare new species of two-clawed dinosaur has been discovered by scientists in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. @BBCNews reports: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7v3eln56no.amp #Dinosaurs #NewSpecies #Mongolia #Archaeology

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Get ready for a partial solar eclipse across Europe and parts of North America and Africa. @AssociatedPress reports: "The eclipse will be visible Saturday." https://flip.it/7WJfb2 #Eclipse #Astronomy #Space #Science

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Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, research finds. From @CNN: The study, currently under peer review, "found chewing just one piece can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva." https://flip.it/YQf8rb #Microplastics #Science #Health #Food

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Nearly four years ago, NASA announced that its Artemis III mission would include a lot of firsts: it would be the first to land on the moon since the end of the Apollo era, the first to touch down near the moon's rugged south pole and the first to put both a woman and a person of color on the […]

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Researchers from the University of Surrey in the UK ran an experiment involving 36 volunteers aged 60 or over, testing their response to two-hour-long sessions of blue and regular white light twice a day over several weeks. They have discovered that a morning dose of blue light might help older […]

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A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, has uncovered evidence of far-reaching ecosystem consequences following the disappearance of great white sharks from False Bay, South Africa. Phys.org reports […]

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A mix of science and tradition helps restore relics in China’s Forbidden City. @AssociatedPress reports 150 workers oversee 1.8 million relics in the museum’s collection. "They include scroll paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics — and, somewhat unexpectedly, ornate antique clocks that were […]

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Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing to a growing library of compounds that could be a vital clue about the history of life on the red planet. @ScienceAlert reports […]

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