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Underwater robots took more than 700,000 images of the wreck of the Titanic, 2.36 miles (3.8km) below the surface of the Atlantic, to create a full-sized digital scan. Analysts have now studied this scan to determine a little more about what happened in the vessel's final hours. It's helped them […]

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Do insects feel pain? Bugs are everywhere in farming and research — but insect welfare is just catching up. An ethics professor explores the issue in an essay for @ConversationUS: https://flip.it/_1Ow1u #Insects #Ethics #Science #Research #Animals

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Blood tests are being heralded as a new, less invasive and time-consuming way to determine risk and aid in an earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. @CNN reports on the latest research: https://flip.it/1tupOT #Alzheimer #Brain #Neurology #Science #Aging

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Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf. @AssociatedPress reports the species went extinct more than 10,000 years ago. https://flip.it/x6yhsK #Animals #Extinction #Science #Genetics #Wolf

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Colon cancer survivors who exercise regularly live longer, according to research. @npr reports: "When it comes to colon cancer, the good news is that overall, death rates have been falling thanks to improvements in screening and treatment." https://flip.it/OwZcaR #Cancer #Health #Exercise […]

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Super Rat: the record-setting rodent sniffing out landmines and saving lives. From @CNN: "Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that." https://flip.it/oyPvly #Animals #Rat #Landmines #Science #Cambodia

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What should you do if you're outdoors and caught in a lightning storm? In the past, the recommendation was to crouch. @PopularScience reports on new advice from the National Lightning Safety Council: https://flip.it/D1LnC8 #Lightning #Weather #Storm #Safety #Science

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The start-up Colossal Biosciences aims to use gene-editing technology to bring back the woolly mammoth and other extinct species. But is this a good idea? An editorial in @ArsTechnica argues that it isn't: https://flip.it/TwacwC #Extinction #Science #Animals #Genetics #DNA

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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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