Untitled attachment

Notices where this attachment appears

1. Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 05:04:46 JST Flipboard Science Desk

   "Scientists have proposed a novel idea for the moon: As wild species are increasingly threatened by a quintuple whammy of habitat destruction, exploitation, invasive species takeovers, pollution, and relentless climate change, they want to capitalize on extremely frigid lunar environs to naturally cryopreserve animal cells — a difficult thing to artificially sustain on our world."

   @Mashable explains the idea for a lunar vault: https://flip.it/O5tTdQ

   Here's the original paper in BioScience journal: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae058/7715645?login=false

   #Moon #Space #Conservation #Science #ClimateChange #Biology