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"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."

https://flip.it/e7n46l

#Recycling #Plastic #Waste #Environment #Green #Reuse

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."

https://flip.it/GB1ad_

#NASA #Mars #Space #Astronaut #Science

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0n_0sviFkA
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Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ship gets extra protection.

BBC News reports: https://flip.it/Kn_RLs

#Shipwreck #Shackleton #History #Exploration

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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For diabetes patients, GLP-1 drugs linked to lower cancer risks compared to insulin, Ars Technica reports:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/new-weight-loss-and-diabetes-drugs-linked-to-lower-risk-of-10-cancers/

#Diabetes #Cancer #GLP1 #Insulin #Weightlossdrugs

An exoplanet the size of Jupiter has long intrigued astronomers because of its scorching temperatures, screaming winds and sideways rain made of glass, CNN reports:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/08/science/exoplanet-sulfur-rotten-eggs/index.html

#Space #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #Exoplanet #Molecule #Webb

Researchers have discovered a deep-sea hydrothermal vent field near Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago within the Arctic Circle. The area was previously assumed to be geologically inactive, Live Science reports:
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/dragon-and-tree-of-life-hydrothermal-vents-discovered-in-arctic-region-scientists-thought-was-geologically-dead

#Arctic #Ocean #Hydrothermal #Norway #Undergroundriver

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that the Jupiter-sized planet HD 189733 b, one of the closest “hot Jupiter” planets to Earth, stinks like rotten eggs. If you guessed sulfur was somehow involved, you were right. Read more from Space.com: https://flip.it/7vU_SM
#Science #Space #Earth #JWST

One of the most detailed studies yet has cemented the link between autism and the microbiome in the gut, a development could provide new ways of detecting and understanding the neurological disorder. "What is exciting about this study is that it opens up the possibility of investigating specific biochemical pathways and their impact on different autistic features," says neuroscientist Bhismadev Chakrabarti of the University of Reading in the UK, who was not associated with the research. ScienceAlert has more: https://flip.it/tiXh9D
#Science #Health #Brain #Autism #Disabilities

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A cancer treatment's success hinges on its capacity to damage cancer cells enough to kill them or stop them from growing. However, some cancer cells can change their molecular makeup to either mitigate or cancel out the therapy's effect. It’s no easy task. But scientists have developed a way to turn tumor cells against their neighbors, forcing the cancer to cooperate with treatment. Live Science explains: https://flip.it/ijB6_9
#Science #Health #Cancer #Disease #Human #Medicine

The first generation of stars formed in a more innocent time, before the Universe became littered with dust and dirt and adulterated with heavy elements. The James Webb Space Telescope is helping us understand some of the secrets of the Universe’s formation, when the cosmos was simple and clean, and, as a result, star formation was much, much more difficult. Read more from Science Focus: https://flip.it/L86jNC
#Science #Space #JWST #SpaceExploration

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What will the climate be like where you live in the future? More than half of our planet is predicted to shift into new climate zones by the end of the century. A new interactive map shows how your home will be impacted. ScienceAlert explains: https://flip.it/J9RCs7
#Science #ClimateChange #Weather #Future

For more stories about impacts on the environment, follow @environment-ScienceAlert

Astronauts and cosmonauts have continuously occupied the International Space Station since 2000, creating a floating laboratory for scientific experimentation and more. But someday it will have to be destroyed. Science Focus tells us how NASA intends to do it: https://flip.it/BrsFtX
#Science #Space #ISS #NASA

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One of North America’s largest ice fields is melting out and could soon reach a tipping point, new research concludes. Like many Alaskan glaciers, the Juneau Icefield is top-heavy, with lots of ice and snow at high altitudes. As temperatures rise, more snow and ice gets exposed to sunshine and higher temperatures, a troubling pattern across the globe. Read more from Ars Technica: https://flip.it/4GzKMi
#Science #ClimateChange #Glaciers #GlobalWarming

If future you met present you, how would that conversation go? “Hey, thanks for investing so wisely!” Or, “Was all that beer worth it?” BBC’s Science Focus ponders time travel and a world in which you could run into yourself without even knowing it. https://flip.it/49vuQ8

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Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, with as many as 150 of its 400 active volcanoes erupting at any given time. ScienceAlert tells us more about what a glorious hot mess Io is. https://flip.it/__TwSn
#Science #Space #Jupiter #SolarSystem #SpaceExploration

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning image of a very young object in the process of becoming a star. The telescope used its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) to zoom in on the 100,000-year-old protostar named L1527 that gives us a spectacular display. “As the star's gravitational power draws material nearer, the material is compressed and heats up. More energy comes from shockwaves generated by incoming material that collides with existing gas,” Evan Gough writes. Read more from ScienceAlert: https://flip.it/DyDLrJ
#Science #NASA #Space #JWST #SpaceExploration

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ResearchResearch teams from Tianjin University and Southern University of Science and Technology have devised a robot that is controlled by a real-life brain that has been cultured in vitro and created for the purpose of research. To control the robot, researchers use the organism to make a so-called “brain-on-chip.” Science Focus explains what that is and more: https://flip.it/KEWx0r
#Science #Robots #Technology #Brains #Human

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