Notices tagged with science, page 59

Are the aliens messing with us? The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a photo of what appears to be a question mark among the stars in outer space. But there’s a perfectly good explanation, NPR reports: https://flip.it/XeoENi
#Science #Space #Galaxies #JamesWebbTelescope

The #science of what action has to happen to solve #ClimateChange

Quickly reducing anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GGE)

Urgently:

1. End the burning of carbon based fuels (wood, coal, gas, crude oil derivatives such as kerosene, diesel & petrol) as burning carbon emits harmful (AKA toxic) air pollution.

2. A global ecological restoration project (#rewilding ) will sequester historic, present & future GGE & massively reduce the methane emissions caused by grazing farm animals.

It was just a large, strange rock used to prop open a shed door on a farm in Michigan. But, as one geologist puts it now, “It’s the most valuable specimen I have ever held in my life, monetarily and scientifically.” More from Science Alert: https://flip.it/V3LljI
#Science #Space #Earth

Big cats — like lions, tigers and pumas — are the attention-grabbing celebrities of the feline world. But of the 41 species of wild felines, the vast majority are about the size of a housecat. And the few evolutionary changes the domestic cat has made have been the right ones to wangle their way into people’s hearts and homes. How did they do it?
https://flip.it/TFK7j1
#Science #Caturday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

How do climate scientists handle grief and despair over our current situation?

From Nature: "Researchers must find personal ways to cope with impending losses — one way is by taking small solutions-oriented actions, says Kimberley R. Miner."

https://flip.it/KD11xe

#ClimateChange #Climate #Scientist #Grief #Science #Green

I’ve fought over 350 BC coastal wildfires from 1981-93 and I’ve never seen anything like what’s happening now in our country with the current wildfire behaviour, prevalence, areas covered and consistency.
Canada is burning. #globalwarming #travel #canada #fossilfuels #science

"Oetzi the Iceman has a new look. Decades after the famous glacier mummy was discovered in the Italian Alps, scientists have dug back into his DNA to paint a better picture of the ancient hunter."

The AP reports: https://flip.it/y5MDXD

#Anthropology #Italy #Turkey #Science #DNA

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to launch AI-science moonshot.

Semafor reports: "Schmidt wants the new nonprofit to become a big draw for top talent in science and AI, two areas that are converging to potentially create breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to material sciences."

https://flip.it/HrR7IG

#AI #Science #Google #Tech

I adore this comic by @elisegravel.

“So, yeah, YOU can be a scientist, too!” #science #art #education

Without hands, some birds wing it with their feet.

Science Journal reports on new research about "an evolutionary compromise."

https://flip.it/fP4IN8

#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Evolution #Science

Researchers previously thought that humans arrived in the Americas 13,000 years ago. But discoveries in recent years puts the number as high as 31,000 to 33,000 years ago. Live Science has more: https://flip.it/WCPcpB
#Science #TheAmericas #Humans

Hotter than the Sun? A brown dwarf orbiting a star 1,400 light-years away has temperatures exceeding a blistering 7,727 degrees. More from Science Alert: https://flip.it/bveuy-
#Science #Space #Sun #Stars #Planets

Chemists from Bath University in the UK have made pain relievers like acetaminophen and Ibuprofen out of the waste product from the forestry and paper industries. That’s right, pine trees. Here’s more from Big Think: https://flip.it/2Ki-Fy
#Science #Medicine #Chemistry #Trees

A survey of hundreds of frogs in South America shows that far more frogs are biofluorescent than previously thought. Could it be that the ghostly colors may have a role in the way they communicate with members of the same species? Science News dives in.
https://flip.it/y6-tTk
#Science #Frog #Biofluorescence

In 2022, China achieved the highest share score in the Nature Index for natural sciences. Nature.com explains what this could mean for global research: https://flip.it/Guzqwb
#Science #China #NaturalScience #Nature

Today, climate change affects our world more than ever before. One group making big moves in the environmental world is Science Moms, an organization of scientists and moms who are on a mission to break down climate change in a way that’s simple and relevant: More from Scary Mommy: https://flip.it/sz-6WP
#Science #ClimateChange #ScienceMoms

Archaeologists in Poland have unearthed a 400-year-old skeleton of a young child. Live Science tells us more, including why they think the "vampire child" had an iron padlock on one foot. https://flip.it/VpSpf_
#Science #Archaeology #Skeleton

This article from Phys.org might change the way we react the next time we face a “long” two- or three-day rainstorm. Saturn has megastorms that aren’t unlike Earth’s hurricanes. Only these weather events are much bigger and can go on for decades and decades. What causes such massive climatological anomalies is a mystery. https://flip.it/HZaNkr
#Science #Space #Weather

America’s forests, excluding Alaska, will start releasing more carbon than they store by 2070, a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture states. Science Alert tells us how planting new forests could help, and why that won't be so easy. https://flip.it/bs.E_K
#Science #ClimateChange #Forests #Trees