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3 science stories from the last week that you might have missed 🧪: 😖 Chronic stress inhibits brain circuits that promote flexible decision making while boosting circuits for inflexible habits 🏔️ Mountain ranges could be treasure trove of natural hydrogen 🧠 Gut microbiome linked to MS

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3 science stories from the last week that you might have missed 🧪 ☁️ Solar-powered device captures CO2 and converts it into fuel 🧠 Mitochondria help shape our memories by helping connections form between neurons 🪰 Fly larvae have evolved fake termite faces on their butts to infiltrate their nests

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Very excited by this article from Science - when asked to draw a scientists, around a third of kids now draw women! 🧪✨ www.science.org/content/arti...

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Have you heard of the Matilda Effect? When the work of female scientists is credited to a man🧪 Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, so here are five victims of the Matilda effect: (Add your favourite forgotten #womeninSTEM to this list!👩‍🔬)

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You’ve heard of Ada Lovelace, but have you heard of her tutor, Mary Somerville - described in her obituary as the Queen of Science 🧪

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3 science stories from the last week that you might have missed 🧪 ☄️ Asteroid dust contains ingredients for life, including “letters” of DNA 🦴 Scientists create bone marrow on a chip to study how it responds to chemotherapy 🐻‍❄️ Polar bear fur doesn’t get icy because it is so greasy

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3 science stories from the last week that you might have missed: 🧪 Bacteria found to eat (some) forever chemicals 🩸 Neanderthals’ blood type may have contributed to their demise 👶🏻 Molecular timer behind preterm birth uncovered #sciencesky

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I’m personally very excited about NASA’s upcoming Pandora Mission 🛰️ The Pandora Mission is due to launch in fall 2025 and will help James Webb in the search for potentially habitable planets outside of our solar system.

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So, turns out US readers don't necessarily know what 'tiddler' means... Which is why i'm now banned from doing headlines for the time being.

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3 science stories from the last week that you might have missed: 👧 Kids learn even when they seem like they aren’t paying attention 🍵 Green tea could protect brain in older age 🍬 Specific gut bacteria may influence our sugar intake

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Here's the latest #sciencenews from @livescience.com this week, courtesy of @pandoradewan.bsky.social www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

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Scientists have finally figured out how spiders smell 🕷️ Male wasp spiders were found to have thousands of tiny hair-like projections on their upper legs (but not females) And these projections could detect female pheromones In other words male spiders smell with their legs to track down females

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Crows don’t forget a face - and they can also hold a grudge They even teach their friends and family about humans they don’t like (Saw these outside the window this morning…what have we done to offend them 😳)

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Volcanoes can turn the sun blue 🌋 Aerosols in the eruption plume affect the scattering and absorption of light in the atmosphere, resulting in the sun appearing blue, purple or green www.livescience.com/planet-earth... by Patrick Pester

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Mount Everest is still growing Not far from its base is a river - scientists believe this was once 2 separate rivers that merged 89K years ago The increase in water flow accelerated erosion of the bedrock, making the earths crust lighter and causing the surrounding land to rise -including Everest

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Today’s fact: winter’s on Neptune last around 40 Earth years! Having said that, average temperatures on the planet through the 165 year orbit are about -220C, so summers aren’t exactly balmy 🪐

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Want to know what's happened this week in the world of #sciencenews? Our news editor @pandoradewan.bsky.social has you covered 🧪 It's a regular feature that we run on @livescience.com, so check it out if this is your vibe www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

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Ants vs humans - who is faster at problem solving? 🐜 In a new study, scientists set ants and humans the same geometric puzzle (albeit at a different scale). Individually the humans were way faster than the ants. But once they were put into groups things looked very different…

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There are fish that can breath air and live on land for years at a time Lungfish evolved nearly 400 million years ago and have a primitive sort of lung that allows them to extract oxygen from air When water dries up they burrow into mud, surround themselves in mucus and enter a state of dormancy

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One of my 2025 goals is to share a daily fun fact, so here’s day 1 England has more tornadoes per square km than any other country From 1980-2012, it had 2.2 tornadoes per year per 10,000 square km. By comparison, the entire USA (which has most tornadoes overall) had 1.3 annually per the same area

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3 #science stories from the last week that you might have missed: ☕️Social solitude (like reading a book in a cafe) boosts energy and connectedness 🧫CO2-eating bacteria could recycle carbon into things like fuel at its source 😴Breathing coordinates memory consolidating brain waves during sleep

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