With another record-breaking month, the 1.5-degree C warming target isn’t dead, but it’s on life support.
Splinter takes a look at efforts to address climate change: https://flip.it/Sxo7m9
With another record-breaking month, the 1.5-degree C warming target isn’t dead, but it’s on life support.
Splinter takes a look at efforts to address climate change: https://flip.it/Sxo7m9
How the prehistoric pterosaurs took flight has been a mystery. But new research shows that a lattice-like structure stopped pterosaurs' broad-ended tails fluttering like flags in the wind and instead, once stiffened, helped guide these flying reptiles into the sky. ScienceAlert explains: https://flip.it/MdbyGy
#Science #Animals #Reptiles #History #Biology
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Stunning though they may be, the auroras are making scientists increasingly nervous about the potential threats they pose to our electrical infrastructure. BBC Science Focus has more: https://flip.it/hZ-AC4
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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang. Live Science tells us how the observations could help scientists better understand how galaxies and supermassive black holes grew in the early universe. https://flip.it/Xlvd8Y
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The world’s first carbon capture-and-storage project sits 200 kilometers off Norway’s coast in the North Sea. It stores around 1 million metric tons of CO2 per year and is hailed as a success in cutting greenhouse gases emissions. But critics don’t see the technology, in its current form, shifting the world away from oil and gas. Writing for Knowable Magazine, Natasha Gilbert explains: https://flip.it/Fo-H2O
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Goodbye, "soy boys." Hello, swole vegans.
@grist reports on the "powerlifters and strongmen [who] are lifting heavier weights with a diet that's lighter on the planet."
#Vegan #Vegetarian #BodyBuilding #Health #Athlete #Food #Diet #ClimateChange #Green
Astronomers discover Earth’s closest black hole.
@popsci reports: "Omega Centauri contains an intermediate-mass black hole about 18,000 light years away."
Here's the original study from Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07511-z
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Animals use physics? Let us count the ways.
From @KnowableMag: "Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how."
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Lions' record-breaking swim across channel captured by drone camera.
@newscientist reports: "Two lions, one missing a leg, made a 1.5-kilometre swim through crocodile-infested waters in Uganda, probably in order to mate with females."
Hey, finally made it into an American news story! So far, SpaceX has not contacted the people in North Carolina who found SpaceX debris. Interesting. I hope that news stories like this will push them to take some responsibility here!
"Astronomers have homed in on a world they believe might have just the right conditions for a thick atmosphere and an ocean half the size of the Atlantic."
@Mashable reports: "The exoplanet — a world orbiting a star other than the sun — is LHS 1140 b, and it's about 48 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Cetus."
For similar stories, follow @news-straight-from-space-Mashable
Why cleaning up Canada’s building industry could be a big win for the economy and climate.
@NatObserver reports: "New net-zero building designs and decarbonizing retrofits could lay the foundation for a green building boom — but the challenges are formidable."
#ClimateChange #Climate #Canada #Architecture #Building #Design #NetZero #Green
Three animals that can detect disease in humans.
From @TheConversationUS: "Many species of animals – from the microscopic worm C elegans, to ants, mice and dogs – have all successfully demonstrated the ability to detect diseases in people and from biological samples during experiments."
Scientists say they have identified a root cause of lupus — one that could pave the way for new treatments.
NBC News reports: "An imbalance of T cells, which play a key role in the body’s immune response, could explain most cases of the disease, according to new research."
"Sip, return, repeat": How a California city is trying to normalize reusable cups.
@grist reports: "Restaurants in Petaluma are collaborating on a novel experiment to reduce plastic waste."
Four volunteers, 378 days: NASA completes first mission simulating astronaut life on Mars.
NBC News reports: "Kelly Haston, Ross Brockwell, Anca Selariu and Nathan Jones spent more than a year living in a 3D-printed habitat called the Mars Dune Alpha."
Ariane 6 Press Conference from the Jupiter Mission Control Room at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Late in the mission, the upper stage’s auxiliary power unit suffered an anomaly that caused a premature engine shutdown. Consequently, the two test re-entry capsules were not released, and the upper stage could not reenter the atmosphere as planned. It will enter the atmosphere in a few years as its orbit decays naturally.
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ship gets extra protection.
BBC News reports: https://flip.it/Kn_RLs
Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in everyday gadgets, electric vehicles, and to store renewable energy could be a growing source of the “forever chemicals” that pollute soil and waterways, @theverge reports:
https://www.theverge.com/24194493/forever-chemicals-pfas-lithium-ion-ev-rechargeable-batteries
#Lithium #Foreverchemicals #Lithiumionbatteries #Pollution #Cleanenergy
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