Notices tagged with science, page 5

You've been throwing a frisbee all wrong, new study finds.

From @sciencefocus: "Researchers at Berry College, Georgia, investigated professional and amateur disc golf players (yes… that’s a real sport) to explore the effect different thumb positions had on disc throwing."

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#Frisbee #Sports #Science

Frog habitats are drying up due to climate change, study finds.

From @Salon: "A new study finds up to one-third of frog habitats may be too arid for frog and toad survival by 2100."

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#Frogs #ClimateChange #Climate #Biology #Science

We love the Curious Kids series from @ConversationUS

This one is really fun (and informative): Could fungi actually cause a zombie apocalypse?

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#Fungi #Science #Education #Kids #Zombie #Plants

What it’s like to care for some of the most endangered animals on Earth, from @npr

"When Hurricane Douglas came barreling toward Oahu in 2020, David Sischo quickly packed up and drove to higher ground. But he wasn’t evacuating his family. He was evacuating snails."

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#Animals #Snail #ClimateChange #Ecology #Environment #Endangered #Hawaii #Science

Scientists feared this huge "ghost" fish in Cambodia was extinct. It was just seen after almost 20 years.

CNN reports that "scientists have long worried that the 'Mekong Ghost,' a critically endangered giant salmon carp that can measure up to four feet long, could have been quietly wiped out as years passed without a sighting."

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#Fish #Endangered #Animals #Cambodia #Conservation #Environment #Science

Wild animals can experience trauma and adversity too. Two ecologists came up with an index to track how it affects them.

From @ConversationUS: "Wild populations face many kinds of stressors. ... Given the widespread loss of biodiversity, understanding how animals react to and are harmed by these stressors can help conservation groups better protect them."

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#Animals #Conservation #Ecology #Wildlife #Environment #Science

A Kenyan farmer "planted blindly" in a changing climate. Then a weather app came to his rescue.

From @npr: "For years, [Stephen Nzioka] applied the lessons of his ancestors to his fields. He’d plant in the fall during the rainy season, and he’d harvest a few months later at the start of the dry season. But in the last five or six years, the weather patterns shifted, largely due to a changing climate. Nzioka had no way of knowing when it would rain." But now he gets weather information from a nonprofit called Tomorrow Now.

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#ClimateChange #Weather #Technology #Kenya #Agriculture #Science

Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on dwindling global biodiversity.

From @AssociatedPress: "The two-week United Nations Biodiversity Conference, or COP16, is a follow-up to the 2022 Montreal meetings where 196 countries signed a historic global treaty to protect biodiversity."

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#Biodiversity #COP16 #Environment #GlobalWarming #Animals #Science

It may have a way to go to catch the cheetah, but a new humanoid robot built by the Chinese company Robot Era can run at a top speed of just over 8 miles per hour. @LiveScience has more on the 5 feet 7, 143-pound STAR1 bipedal robot that is the speediest machine of its kind so far. https://flip.it/LWg0Zf
#Science #Robots #Humanoid #Robotics #Technology

An international team of astronomers has found that the progenitors of Type Ic supernovae aren't all hugely massive lone wolves, but typically less massive stars with a binary companion that helps shape the output of their fated explosion. "The more we investigate the massive stars the more complex they appear," group leader Michał Michałowski told @ScienceAlert. Read more: https://flip.it/N_oxpo
#Science #Space #Astronomy #SpaceExploration

The Nancy Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next next-generation telescope that will have a field of view 100 times larger than the Hubble’s, just passed a crucial spin test that mimics the elevated gravity conditions of a space mission. Read about it at @Spacecom.

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#Science #Space #NASA #Hubble #SpaceExploration

Is your cat a little too cool for you? Maybe it’s time to speak your pet’s language. Research from 2020 shows that you can connect with your cat by smiling at them more — but not how you would smile to a human. @ScienceAlert explains: https://flip.it/QR579H
#Caturday #Science #Pets #Cats #Biology

ADHD diagnoses have risen in recent years, most significantly among adults. It must be the prevalence of screens and phones, right? @sciencefocus explores the biggest questions around adult ADHD and why we need to improve how we view and treat it: https://flip.it/vsHxTs
#Science #Health #Humans #Psychology #ADHD #Adulting

Turns out our neighborhood of the universe is bigger than we thought. A lot bigger. A new study revealed that the intergalactic supercluster holding the Milky Way may be part of an even bigger "basin of attraction" that's up to 10 times larger than the one we currently call home. @LiveScience has more: https://flip.it/oFOYgB
#Science #Space #MilkyWay #Earth #Astronomy

Climate change will continue having a major impact on the planet, but here’s one sign of how a multi-pronged approach can take some of the heat off in the future: Selective bred corals show that it is possible to improve their heat tolerance even within a single generation. While not a panacea, selective breeding could be a tool for nature conservation. @ScienceAlert explains: https://flip.it/rePdLS
#Science #ClimateChange #MarineLife #Biology #Corals #GlobalWarming #Environment

A brown dwarf discovered 30 years ago is actually twins circling each other.

From @AssociatedPress: "Scientists have puzzled over the object known as Gliese 229B, the first known brown dwarf discovered 30 years ago. Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars because they’re lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant planets."

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Here's the original study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08064-x

#Space #Astronomy #Stars #Science

#PPOD: Hera’s Asteroid Framing Camera (AFC) captured this farewell image of Earth (bottom left) and the Moon (center) on 11 October from a distance of approximately 1.6 million km. Earth is oriented with north pointing upwards, with the Pacific Ocean illuminated by the Sun. Credit: ESA

#space #science #scicomm

New Nobel laureate Victor Ambros describes the scientific process of discovering MicroRNA.

The Conversation Weekly podcast caught up with Ambros from his lab at the UMass Chan Medical School to learn more about the Nobel-winning research and what comes next. Here are edited excerpts from @TheConversationUS: https://flip.it/oB-EhP

#Nobel #MicroRNA #Science #DNA #Biology

Nikon's annual Small World competition is a beautiful mashup of art and science, celebrating the best images taken through a light microscope. This year's winner shows mouse brain tumor cells and was taken by Bruno Cisterna, a faculty member at Augusta University's Medical College of Georgia. Take a look at it, and other winning images of an electrical arc between a pin and a wire, a cannabis plant leaf, and more.

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#Photography #Science #MicroPhotography #Culture #Photos #SmallWorld

Are neutrinos the key to communicating with aliens?

From MIT Press Reader: "While the odds are slim, neutrino technology may be the best — and perhaps only — way to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations."

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#Space #Aliens #Extraterrestrial #Science