Notices tagged with science, page 39

After two decades of robotic exploration, NASA's Mars program faces technical and budgetary challenges. Writing for Big Think, Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Tony Reichhardt argue that the agency should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life. https://flip.it/PoWt05
#Science #Space #NASA #Mars #SpaceExploration

Accurate. The resurgence of a disease we got rid of lays squarely on the shoulders of idiots. #antivax #antivaxxers #stupid #stupidity #science #education #sheeple

I'm tired of sitting through #science talks where all plots are properly credited but artist's impressions and photographs aren't.

As a researcher and astrophotographer who works with super talented artists, this attitude really bothers me.

You study galaxies at the dawn of time. You look for biomarkers in the atmospheres of distant planets. You can most definitely find who made that cool image you just pasted in your slides.

To those who do credit #art : you're awesome 🤗

For Super Bowl weekend in the U.S., @KnowableMag has an interesting article on sports psychology research.

"Scientists are probing the head games that influence athletic performance, from coaching to coping with pressure."

https://flip.it/vHu9lt

#Psychology #Sports #Science

One of Saturn’s smallest moons has a secret ocean

✍️ by Ashley Strickland for CNN

📷 an artist's illustration of Mimas in orbit around Saturn. The small moon resembles Star Wars' Death Star, thanks to a massive crater. Credit: Frédéric Durillon/Animea Studio/Observatoire de Paris - PSL, IMCCE

➡️ https://us.cnn.com/2024/02/07/world/mimas-hidden-ocean-moon-nasa-scn/index.html

#mimas #ocean #saturn #moon #nasa #cassini #geology #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #discovery #news #STEM #observatoire #paris #starwars #deathstar

Which dogs live the longest?

@Smithsonianmag reports on a new study of more than 500,000 dogs in the United Kingdom: https://flip.it/oZ7mDv

#Dogs #Animals #Pets #Science

Our blue planet is getting greener, and that's not a good thing.

@Vox explains: https://flip.it/EBN0VD

#Earth #ClimateChange #Climate #Environment #Science

"After a decade spent monitoring the sky, an international team of astronomers have discovered a nursery of newborn stars, along with an entirely new type of elder star that has been hidden at the heart of our galaxy."

Salon reports on "a 10-year survey of hundreds of millions of stars conducted at the Cerro Paranal Observatory in the Chilean Andes."

https://flip.it/n9OKjb

#Space #Astronomy #Stars #Galaxy #Science

Rare fossil shows trees looked very different 350 million years ago.

@Smithsonianmag reports: "The newly discovered specimen looks like something from the imagination of Dr. Seuss, and it sheds light on a little-understood era of prehistory."

https://flip.it/bDQ2NQ

#Trees #Fossil #Paleontology #Evolution #Science

"Peer review isn’t perfect. I know because I teach others how to do it and I’ve seen firsthand how it comes up short."

An essay from @TheConversationUS: https://flip.it/ODGwN3

#PeerReview #Research #Academia #Science

"Could a recently discovered 'super-Earth' have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life?"

ABC News reports: "The new exoplanet is situated 'fairly close to us' -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits within a 'habitable zone,' according to NASA."

https://flip.it/5hU3pQ

#Space #NASA #Astronomy #Science

Stone age people used this 35,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk tool to make rope, researchers say.

@Smithsonianmag reports: https://flip.it/KeCNkl

#Archaeology #StoneAge #Human #Science

The internet is freaking out about reheated rice.

Mashable explores the science of food poisoning and B. cereus: https://flip.it/JYgXTd

#Rice #Food #Science

Meet "Dr. Tatiana," the professor getting people on TikTok excited about physics.

@NPR reports: "Videos of her theatrical demonstrations have racked up hundreds of millions of views across TikTok and other social media platforms."

https://flip.it/Qmewko

#Physics #Science #College #TikTok #Education

Many countries have passed laws designed to protect sharks. But new evidence shows that such legislation may not be helping — and could be making the situation worse. Here’s more from The Week: https://flip.it/umn5IL
#Science #Sharks #MarineLife #Ocean

Could potassium-enriched salt offer a solution to high blood pressure? New research shows that potassium chloride looks the same and tastes very similar to sodium chloride, but it also reduces sodium intake while increasing potassium intake. Science Alert has more: https://flip.it/0Jcx4x
#Science #Health #HighBloodPressure #Food

From Live Science: Scientists using the eROSITA X-ray telescope have released a trove of data that reveals more than 900,000 objects in space, including 700,000 supermassive black holes and other "exotic" objects.
https://flip.it/Y9IMb1
#Science #Space #BlackHoles #SpaceExploration

After a brief awakening, Japan’s unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM) is out of action again but will resume its mission if it survives the incredibly cold two-week lunar night. The Japan Times has more on SLIM’s odyssey to the Moon. https://flip.it/s_.zWH
#Science #Space #SpaceExploration #Moon #SLIM

Have you followed the science publishers recently federated by @Flipboard? Check them out:

@ScienceAlert (Latest news)

@Smithsonianmag (Science, culture and more)

@mental_floss (Science, history and more)

@ConversationUS (A little bit of everything!)

#FollowFriday #Fediverse #Mastodon #Science

Indigenous languages are founts of environmental knowledge.

@KnowableMag reports: "Peoples who live close to nature have a rich lore of plants, animals and landscapes embedded in their mother tongues — which may hold vital clues to protecting biodiversity."

https://flip.it/54wnsY

#Biodiversity #Indigenous #Environment #ClimateChange #Language #Science