Notices tagged with science, page 38

Spy satellite images offer insights into historical ecosystem changes https://phys.org/news/2024-02-spy-satellite-images-insights-historical.html #science

Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar that shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. Here's more on the quasar that the AP describes as a "cosmic hurricane." https://flip.it/BhCe4M
#Science #Space #Quasar #Astronomy

A chicken in Roman Britain laid an egg 1,700 years ago. Uneventful and mundane as it may seem, @Smithsonianmag@flipboard published an article about it this week. Why? The egg still contains liquid inside, making it the only known egg of its kind. https://flip.it/Q2gHJS
#Science #Chicken #History #Smithsonian

The total solar eclipse on April 8 is part of a repeating pattern of eclipses that last visited North America in 1970. Live Science explains why the same eclipse repeats every 54 years. https://flip.it/DgRlwI
#Science #SolarEclipse #Sun #Moon

You want your coffee. You need your coffee. And you don’t want climate change to get between you and your coffee. Phys.org has this story on a new genetic map of the arabica coffee plant that could help develop more climate-resistant brews.
https://flip.it/W2-JQ6
#Science #Coffee #Food #Drink #ClimateChange

French doctor Jacques Grill gets emotional when he remembers telling the parents of a 6-year-old Belgian boy that their son was going to die of brain cancer. Now, Lucas is 13 and there’s no trace of a remaining tumor. Science Alert has more on how Lucas “beat the odds” to become the first child in the world cured of brainstem glioma. https://flip.it/NNK7K2
#Science #Health #Cancer #Medicine

It’s a fake: Mysterious 280 million-year-old fossil is mostly just black paint.

@JenLucPiquant reports for @arstechnica on new research about the fossil, discovered 90 years ago in Italy.

https://flip.it/509Cnf

#Fossils #Paleontology #Italy #Science

The ingredients for a tastier, stronger tea could be in the soil.

@popsci reports: "Plant biologists find that some microbial communities help grow better teas."

https://flip.it/Wyqre_

#Tea #Biology #Plants #Agriculture #Science

Looking for more science accounts to follow? Consider these publisher Magazines from @Flipboard

"Science News" from The Verge: @science-news-theverge

"Wildlife" from Bloomberg Green: @wildlife-BloombergGreen

"News Straight From Space" from Mashable: @news-straight-from-space-Mashable

"Getting Connected With Nature" from World Atlas: @getting-connected-with-nature-Worldatlascom

"Oceans" from Bloomberg Green: @oceans-BloombergGreen

#Science #Flipboard

Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure may be at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

@popsci reports: "The team believes that Stone Age hunter-gatherers likely built it about 11,000 years ago to hunt reindeer."

https://flip.it/8Uhk6F

#Archaeology #BalticSea #StoneAge #Science

For over a decade, @Flipboard has been curating the best content around the clock. Today we're taking the next step to making all that excellent curation available to everyone in the Fediverse.

With the federation of @science you can now follow niche Flipboard Magazines here on Mastodon. To avoid confusion, we're renaming this flipboard.social account to "Flipboard Picks in Science." We recommend you follow both our Mastodon account and our newly federated Flipboard Magazines for the latest.

Here are just four great new Flipboard Magazines to follow:

Space news: @space-news-science

Archeology: @archeology-today-science

Deep dives in science: @deep-dives-in-science-science

General science news: @general-science-news-science

#Science #Mastodon #Fediverse

Much of the Northeastern U.S. is enduring a snow storm today. So let's take a look at the science of snow tires, courtesy of @popsci

https://flip.it/gdgRPv

#Snow #Weather #Science #Cars

Think scientists know how planets are formed? New simulations show large planets that form far away from their host stars start their lives more like a flattened disk — a shape called an oblate spheroid. Earth, we know, is not flat. But Jupiter may have once been. Here’s more from Science Alert on how the formation of planets might not always go the way we picture in our heads. https://flip.it/GP-ns6
#Science #Planets #Space #Jupiter

Ed Dwight was denied the opportunity to be the first Black astronaut. Now 90, Dwight is getting his due in a new National Geographic documentary “The Space Race.” Read more from the Associated Press. https://flip.it/kjAxvr
#Space #Science #NASA #NationalGeographic #Astronaut

The James Webb Space Telescope has been tracking the history of stars in the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte, a low-mass dwarf galaxy that neighbors the Milky Way. For Space.com, Robert Lea writes about how the JWST has allowed astronomers "to go back in time" and better understand how star formation rates have changed over the last 13 billion years. https://flip.it/_s2CAL
#Science #Space #JWST #Stars #Galaxies

Anyone who has injured cartilage knows how debilitating and enduring that injury can be. Now, an important step has been taken toward creating replacement tissue in a lab with the help of 3D printing. Phys.org has more. https://flip.it/vGV28f
#Science #Health #Injuries #Medicine

"A team of scientists on board an exploration vessel off the coast of South America have made a startling discovery: four previously unknown massive underwater mountains, ranging from 5,200 to 8,800 feet tall."

Futurism reports: "The discovery highlights just how little we know about the oceans covering much of our planet."

https://flip.it/IXWc.o

#Ocean #Earth #Science #SouthAmerica

How do marine mammals sleep? They can’t just close their eyes and conk out because they need to rise to the surface to breathe. Live Science explains how these animals pull it off. https://flip.it/r6zb02
#Science #Ocean #Mammals #Animals

NASA created its Fission Surface Power Project to get power to lunar bases on the Moon. Live Science has more on how the agency’s plan that would put a nuclear reactor on the Moon is becoming more of a reality. https://flip.it/-mUbRI
#Science #Space #NASA #Moon #SpaceExploration

A 57-year-old Italian man who had his right hand amputated 37 years ago recently felt temperature via his prosthetic hand with the help of a small device. Live Science has more on one of the “final hurdles” scientists cleared in developing prosthetics with the full spectrum of senses in a human limb. https://flip.it/fv_Mdq
#Science #Health #Medicine #Prosthetics