Notices tagged with science, page 51

From The Conversation: If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband wrapped around its ears, covering large portions of Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia. Now, the forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward. Here’s more: https://flip.it/3Uy8e9
#Science #ClimateChange #BorealForest #Arctic

How bison could become climate heroes - BBC Future
#Bison #Ecology #Science #Environment #Grasslands
https://apple.news/AF2TuMfsLS56iagh8vbyXKw

For those who are over age 60 and looking for a way to boost cognitive function, there might be something about wasabi. Science Alert has more: https://flip.it/RQkVMd
#Science #Health #Food

Inspired by the enhanced visual system of butterflies, a team of researchers has developed an imaging sensor capable of "seeing" into the UV range that human eyes can't access and can even differentiate between cancer cells and normal cells with 99% confidence. Phys.org reports: https://flip.it/nqjs.t
#Science #Health #Cancer #Research

Why are millions of sterile fruit flies are about to be dropped on Los Angeles? Smithsonian Magazine has the answer. https://flip.it/ECPH2W
#Science #Insects #InvasiveSpecies

Next #SETILive - Defending the Planet: DART and Future Missions
TODAY, Nov 02, 2:30 PM PDT

Join communications specialist Beth Johnson as she chats with scientist Dawn Graninger from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory about DART, follow-up mission Hera, and the future of saving the planet from near-Earth objects.

WATCH LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/live/rfA08LvWPek?si=cOI3j5R9UaXJEcCf

#planetarydefense #space #science #scicomm

A powerful explosion from the sun carved a 60,000-mile-long “canyon of fire” on Halloween night. Live Science calls the event “a striking reminder that the sun is fast approaching its explosive peak." https://flip.it/TlWpyb
#Science #Space #Sun #SolarSystem

It might be a little late for Halloween, but NASA has compiled a bunch of eerie sonifications that you can listen to on their website. Here’s more from Science Alert: https://flip.it/8DK8XH
#Science #Space #NASA

Cancer has many faces: 5 counterintuitive ways scientists are approaching disease research to improve treatment and prevention.

From @TheConversationUS https://flip.it/LlVldT

#Cancer #Health #Medicine #Disease #Science

In early 2029, Earth will likely lock into breaching key warming threshold, scientists calculate.

AP reports: "The study moves three years closer the date when the world will eventually hit a critical climate threshold, which is an increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 1800s."

https://flip.it/qgny0Q

#ClimateChange #Climate #GlobalWarming #Environment #Science

From the BBC: We’ve been searching the heavens for some time for signs of alien life. But what if they’ve been looking back at us the whole time? https://flip.it/4UHvYl
#Science #Space #SpaceExploration #Aliens

Scientists have detected a surprising amount of helium-3 in volcanic rocks on Canada’s Baffin Island, supporting to the theory that the noble gas is leaking from Earth’s core — and has been for a very long time. CNN reports: https://flip.it/OVUnYL
#Science #Earth #Helium #BaffinIsland

@arstechnica I am fascinated by cell biology, are there good folks to follow to keep informed? #cell #biology #science #sciencemastodon #sciencenews

Gravitational wave observatories in Louisiana and Washington state have undergone a round of updates that allow them to hear at least 60 percent more than ever before. Here’s how, from Popular Science: https://flip.it/YisANI
#Science #GravitationalWaves #Space #SpaceExploration #BlackHoles

Two cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station recently experienced a spacewalk they may never forget. While examining the site of a leak, they encountered a “blob” of deadly ammonia coolant. Futurism has more, including what forced one cosmonaut to disconnect his tether that attached him to the station. https://flip.it/5Q_ot3
#Science #Space #SpaceExploration #ISS #InternationalSpaceStation #Cosmonauts

Huge life-saving breakthrough: The first Malaria vaccine has cut #Malaria deaths in kids under 5 by 13%. The results of this huge trial (hundreds of thousands vaccinated already) could mean that more than 60,000 children could be saved per year in sub-Saharan Africa alone.

[Thanks, @delfuego , for helping me correct my initial hasty post.]

#vaccines #science #medicine

https://www.science.org/content/article/first-malaria-vaccine-slashes-early-childhood-deaths

All over the world, all sorts of spiders seem to be vanishing.

@KnowableMag reports: "Our collective arachnid aversion could be causing us to overlook something even scarier: Spiders may be disappearing."

https://flip.it/hWSywR

#Spider #Biology #Animals #Science

Asteroids in the solar system could contain undiscovered, superheavy elements.

A report from @TheConversationUS: https://flip.it/luBWlW

#Space #Asteroid #Physics #Science

Roosters may have passed the self-recognition test.

Phys.org reports: "Prior research has suggested that very few animal species have the type of self-awareness known as self-recognition—where they see and understand that an image in a mirror is of themselves rather than another member of the same species."

https://flip.it/99rRte

#Animals #Chickens #Science #Zoology #Ornithology

Space rocks and asteroid dust are pricey, but these aren’t the most expensive materials used in science.

An astronomy professor explores the significance of the asteroid Bennu samples for @TheConversationUS

https://flip.it/LejJFy

#Astronomy #Asteroid #Bennu #NASA #Space #Meteorite #Science