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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 21:21:20 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Familiar astronomical object may be two galaxies, not one.
Science Journal reports: "New perspective on Small Magellanic Cloud may boost odds its name, offensive to some astronomers, will be changed."
https://flip.it/.s95g5
#Space #Stars #Galaxy #Astronomy #Science
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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 05:31:21 JST Flipboard Science Desk

2023 was a wild year for killer whales, from sinking boats off southwestern Europe to hunting great white sharks near South Africa. NBC News explores what drove their headline-making behavior. https://flip.it/K0t-0j
#Science #Ocean #Orca #2023
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1. Killer whales seemed to wreak havoc this year. What drove their headline-making behavior?
  
  from NBCNews
  
  Orcas gained attention in 2023 for hunting great white sharks and “attacking” boats off Europe — behavior that has puzzled scientists.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 03:48:04 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Houston, we have an anomaly. Salon presents eight mind-bending stories that made us question reality in 2023, from dark stars to new laws of evolution. https://flip.it/M74ofs
#Science #2023 #Space #SpaceExploration #JWST
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  Best of 2023: These 8 mind-bending moments in science made us question reality
  
  from Rae Hodge
  
  From dark stars to new laws of evolution, the year was full of mind-blowing scientific research
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 09:28:25 JST Flipboard Science Desk

According to an analysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named HFLS3 is not a galaxy at all. It’s six galaxies undergoing a giant collision at the dawn of time. Science Alert explains: https://flip.it/wJugoM
#Science #Space #JWST #Galaxy #SpaceExploration
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1. Oversized Ancient Galaxy Isn't What Astronomers First Thought
  
  from @ScienceAlert
  
  The early Universe was a wild time.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 05:43:06 JST Flipboard Science Desk

From Big Think: For the first time, scientists have mapped the process of limb development in human embryos down to the individual cell — and the stunning result could help prevent a common type of birth defect in the future. https://flip.it/Ma.XU7
#Science #Health #Medicine #Research #Biology
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1. Stunning video reveals how our fingers form in the womb
  
  A first-of-its-kind map of human limb development could help prevent a common type of birth defect in the future.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 07:24:33 JST Flipboard Science Desk

With everything we know about the world, it's astonishing (to us at least) that new species are still being discovered.
The Messenger has chosen the most interesting new species found in 2023: https://flip.it/.wFtlC
#Species #Animals #Taxonomy #Earth #Science
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1. The Most Interesting New Species Discovered in 2023
  
  from Jonathan Lambert
  
  Eeach discovery of a new species helps scientists better understand just how many ways there are to make a living on planet Earth.
Plazi Species (plazi_species@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 05:46:40 JST Plazi Species

#NewSpecies
New coffee snake from #ecuador just sidled by:
Ninia guytudori
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/6A72861B-F4CF-465E-B73C-E11790A65DE8
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.7.112476
#EvolSystematics
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #reptiles #snakes
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3. A new species of Ninia (Serpentes, Colubridae) from western Ecuador and revalidation of N. schmidti
  
  from Kyle J. Harris
  
  We describe a new species of Ninia Baird & Girard, 1853 endemic to the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador. The new species has previously been confused with N. atrata (Hallowell, 1845) and N. teresitae (Angarita-Sierra and Lynch 2017) but is genetically most closely related to a third species of Ninia endemic to the Chocoan–Tumbesian transition area of western Ecuador. We revalidate the name N. schmidti (Jan, 1862), designate a neotype, and provide a diagnosis of the taxon and a description of its hemipenial morphology based on new material. The new and revalidated species can easily be identified from one another and from other trans-Andean South American Ninia based on ventral and subcaudal scale counts, hemipenial morphology, and coloration of the supralabials, throat, and belly. Finally, we remove N. atrata from the herpetofaunal list of Ecuador.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 02:56:30 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Human weather control is possible, but limited. Should it be deployed to stop climate change?
Salon reports: "Weather control is real, but not what some people think. Here's what we can do and why it's not a climate panacea."
https://flip.it/lRba.k
#ClimateChange #Climate #Weather #Environment #Science
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  Human weather control is possible, but limited. Should it be deployed to stop climate change?
  
  from Matthew Rozsa
  
  Weather control is real, but not what some people think. Here's what we can do and why it's not a climate panacea
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 07:21:51 JST Flipboard Science Desk
- The Conversation U.S.
From the Moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, several exciting space missions are slated for launch in 2024.
@TheConversationUS has the details: https://flip.it/HGMDRf
#Space #Astronomy #NASA #Science
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1. From the Moon's south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, several exciting space missions are slated for launch in 2024
  
  from @AliBramson
  
  Expect lots of space missions to launch this coming year, with exciting new science to follow.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 01:17:26 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Got 11 minutes to listen to NPR's Short Wave program?
Today they explore a year in the science of music: wonder, volume and animals that groove.
https://flip.it/U2S4Dn
#Music #Science #Audio #Podcast

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The Conversation U.S. (theconversationus@newsie.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 21:02:37 JST The Conversation U.S.

Five of Uranus’s moons might be ocean worlds − and if there’s water, there might be life. But we won’t know until we go looking.
https://theconversation.com/unwrapping-uranus-and-its-icy-secrets-what-nasa-would-learn-from-a-mission-to-a-wild-world-215219
#space #science #astronomy
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1. Unwrapping Uranus and its icy secrets: What NASA would learn from a mission to a wild world
  
  from @mikesori1
  
  Five of the Uranus moons might be ocean worlds − and if there’s water, there might be life.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 21:44:01 JST Flipboard Science Desk

The Endangered Species Act is turning 50. Has it succeeded?
Science News reports: "The law has kept many species from dying out — but few have made it off the 'endangered' list."
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#Animals #Endangered #Conservation #Science
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1. The Endangered Species Act is turning 50. Has it succeeded?
  
  from Macon Morehouse
  
  After 50 years, this landmark law has kept many species alive — but few wild populations have recovered enough to come off the “endangered” list.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 21:51:24 JST Flipboard Science Desk

What was it like when the first “polluted” stars formed?
BigThink reports: "The first stars in the Universe were made of pristine material: hydrogen and helium alone. Once they die, nothing escapes their pollution."
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#Space #Astronomy #Science #Stars
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1. What was it like when the first "polluted" stars formed?
  
  The first stars in the Universe were made of pristine material: hydrogen and helium alone. Once they die, nothing escapes their pollution.
Inkican (inkican@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 06:40:46 JST Inkican

House committee debates space mining
https://spacenews.com/house-committee-debates-space-mining/ #space #nasa #universe #astronomy #art #science #galaxy #moon #stars #spacex
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1. House committee debates space mining
  
  from Jeff Foust
  
  A House hearing on space mining turned into a partisan debate about the viability of the nascent field and the jurisdiction of the committee to examine it.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 02:08:49 JST Flipboard Science Desk

How NASA gets a turkey to space for holiday meals.
Eater reports: "It’s not just the challenge of creating food that will survive the journey, but all sorts of logistical issues unique to dining in a state of near weightlessness."
https://flip.it/9Qjl6_
#NASA #Space #Food #Christmas #Holidays #Turkey #Science
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1. Meet the Scientist Getting Holiday Feasts to the International Space Station
  
  from Kathy Adams
  
  Kimberly Glaus Läte is a scientist at Leidos, a NASA contractor that works with the NASA Space Food Systems Laboratory to prepare and package meals for the crew on the space station.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 00:05:39 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Just how big can a snowflake get? It depends on what you mean by "snowflake." ❄️
NPR reports: https://flip.it/HS_hOl
#Snow #Snowflake #Science #Weather
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1. Just how big can a snowflake get? It depends on what you mean by 'snowflake'
  
  The Guinness World Record folks would have us believe in a 19th century snowflake more than a foot wide, but some scientists are skeptical.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 05:03:17 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist who thinks civilization is on the path to break down, the Biden administration is clueless on climate, and that he might get fired from his job at NASA if he is arrested for a third time protesting what he views as downright madness: the continued use of fossil fuels. NBC News tells us how Kalmus copes with climate grief. https://flip.it/SXXBdt
#Science #ClimateChange #ClimateGrief
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1. A scientist reckons with climate grief
  
  from NBCNews
  
  Climate scientist Peter Kalmus visits a fossil-fuel-free homestead in Maine, looking not for solutions to climate change, but for a better way to survive it and make peace with his grief.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:44:05 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Mars experiences moments where its moons cast shadows on its surface. But "eclipses" on the Red Planet are very different from those on Earth, and the footage is surreal: More from Science Alert: https://flip.it/zWSO8l
#Science #Space #Mars #Eclipse
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1. Surreal NASA Footage Reveals What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like on Mars
  
  from @ScienceAlert
  
  Every now and again, a reminder comes along that our planet really is unusual in so many fabulous ways.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 08:52:34 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Here’s something to sip on during this annual period of indulgence. Soon after you drink, alcohol enters your bloodstream and travels to your brain. It might make you drowsy and fall asleep easily, but then you wake up at 3 a.m. Science Alert explains why. https://flip.it/QIydET
#Science #Brain #Alcohol #Sleep #REM
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1. Experts Reveal Why Drinking Alcohol at Night Wakes You Up at 3am
  
  from @ScienceAlert
  
  You've come home after a long day at work, you have dinner, put the kids to bed, and then you have your usual nightcap before drifting off to sleep.
Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 04:42:54 JST Flipboard Science Desk

How does NASA get a turkey to space for holiday meals? It’s not just creating food that will survive the journey, but all sorts of logistical issues unique to dining in a state of near weightlessness arise. Figuring it all out is up to scientist Kimberly Glaus Läte and her team. Here’s more from Eater: https://flip.it/vwQ3FC
#Space #NASA #Science #Food #ISS
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1. Meet the Scientist Getting Holiday Feasts to the International Space Station
  
  from Kathy Adams
  
  Kimberly Glaus Läte is a scientist at Leidos, a NASA contractor that works with the NASA Space Food Systems Laboratory to prepare and package meals for the crew on the space station.

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