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Ah-HA, here’s the paper we’ve all been waiting for - the USDA’s analysis of the H5N1 outbreak in cattle. TLDR: they say it was a single spillover, probably in December 2023, with up to 4 months of undetected local transmission before the first official reports. (More to follow, still reading.) 🧪

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We’ve all heard of the five tastes our tongues can detect—sweet, sour, bitter, savory-umami, and salty. But the real number is actually six, because we have two separate salt-taste systems. 🧪

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A paper in Nature reports on the discovery of the oldest known facial bones from a hominin from Western Europe, approximately 1.4–1.1 million years old. https://go.nature.com/3R4ZMaJ 🏺 🧪

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🧪 “People who take the popular sports supplement creatine and lift weights do not build muscle any faster than those who do resistance training without the supplement, new research shows.” www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

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“There’s this widespread misunderstanding that the only major threat — or the biggest threat by far — to sharks is the trade in shark fins and shark fin soup, and that hasn’t been true since the ’90s,” says David Shiffman, a marine conservation biologist who wrote the book “Why Sharks Matter.” 🌎🦑🧪

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Mediterranean Gull 3VA2 was ringed as a chick on De Kreupel in 2017 and has since bounced back and forth across the Southern Bight and English Channel. I saw it in Southend-on-Sea on Monday, sporting a nice hood! #EssexBirding 🧪🌍

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The large increase in sea surface temperatures in 2023-24 was anomalous, but not completely unexpected when applying climate models, according to research in Nature. https://go.nature.com/3R5Hmqk 🧪 🌊

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C'est quand même sacrément hypnotique, la Lune...

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Martian robot spinning her turret! A video sequence captured by the Perseverance rover using her Right Mastcam-Z science Camera on Jan. 27, 2024 (Sol 1044). The full sequence, accelerated here, actually took 3 minutes. Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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Perseverance has been going down the slopes of the crater today, getting closer to the edge of the rim. Images captured 13 hours ago #Mars Feb. 28, 2025 (Sol 1431) Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

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Continuing to paint all the #2025mmm contestants. Today is the tayra (an omnivorous, arboreal mustelid with a South and Central American distribution) facing the spotted-necked otter, an aquatic carnivore found in Africa! This might be a really close match! 🦊🧪🐡 #watercolor #mammalart #wildlifeart

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Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

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A close-up view of Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot Credit| NASA

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Wow. I don't think we've seen any images from an X-37B* flight before. *secretive military mini-space shuttle

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Here's today's #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism story: Wisdom, the oldest-known albatross, just had another chick! I believe I posted about her laying an egg, it has now hatched! 🧪🦑🌎 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

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Some excellent info to be familar with, e.g., “Insurance costs are rising dramatically faster than mortgage payments. From 2013 to 2022, insurance as a percentage of mortgage payments more than doubled, rising from 7-8% to over 20% of mortgage costs.” firststreet.org/research-lib...

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By far the most informative and nuanced take you will get on today’s quantum computer announcement from Microsoft, by @castelvecchi.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... ⚛️🧪

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Blanket dismissals, like blanket pardons, are generally not good ideas. In industry I saw profitable locations shuttered but it took years to see the bulk of the outcomes.

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#China approved funding for a #deep-sea station in South China Sea. They expect the station should be running by 2030. Not enough people are talking about this 🌊🪨🧪 sc.mp/pdtqq

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The 'S' in IoT stands for security. The 'P' in AI stands for privacy.

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See that bright, glowing object with a tail? That's not a comet. That's the planet Mercury.

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Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

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Mimas, one of Saturn’s moons

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Peering at the Sun Through the Earth www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/peering-at...

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NIAAA has launched a new web-based resource called "NativeAIR" to help American Indian/Alaska Native & other Indigenous communities select evidence-based interventions to prevent and address alcohol-related problems. Learn more -> niaaa.nih.gov/health-profe...

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Great NYT piece featuring the work of @csldf.org in preparing for a repeat of the government-wide assault on science that occurred during the first Trump term. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/c...

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Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

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From air and sea surface temperatures, to greenhouse gas concentrations, sea ice cover and heat stress, explore and download the charts of the Global Climate Highlights 2024 easily from our gallery: climate.copernicus.eu/graphics-gal...

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Earth set a new record for atmospheric moisture in 2024: about 7% more than in 2000. This extra moisture contributed to some extreme rainfall damage, like the $79 billion cost of Hurricane Helene, $20 billion cost of Storm Boris in Europe, and $22 billion seasonal floods in China.

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