The first glow-in-the-dark animals may have been ancient corals deep in the ocean.
AP quotes a new study's author: "Light signaling is one of the earliest forms of communication that we know of — it’s very important in deep waters.”
The first glow-in-the-dark animals may have been ancient corals deep in the ocean.
AP quotes a new study's author: "Light signaling is one of the earliest forms of communication that we know of — it’s very important in deep waters.”
Greetings, Earth! NASA can understand Voyager 1 again.
@popsci reports: "The 46-year-old space probe is making sense for the first time in five months after remote repairs."
Can wind and solar solve climate change? Foreign Policy magazine reviews a new book that "unwittingly makes the case that they can’t."
Here's their review of Brett Christophers’s "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet."
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The idea that matter is mostly empty space is mostly wrong.
From Big Think: "Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so... solid?"
"Forget about red hot. A new color-coded heat warning system relies on magenta to alert Americans to the most dangerous conditions they may see this summer."
AP reports on a new online heat risk system from the U.S. National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: https://flip.it/3-YkpL
The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. CNN explores one place where a lot of it ends up: the Western coast of Java in Indonesia.
The package includes amazing (and alarming) photos: https://flip.it/HY-fvr
#Plastic #Pollution #EarthDay #Environment #Ocean #PlasticPollution #Indonesia
In honor of Earth Day, Vox launched a special Home Planet package. Here's the entire collection, which includes fascinating stories on giving up meat, fostering pigeons and the "Squirrel Census."
Today is the 54th Earth Day. New Scientist explores the origins of the event and much more in a curated collection of stories. Topics include climate change, life on earth and the origins of life.
"Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity."
AP reports: https://flip.it/.b.S57
Is life capable of spreading from planet to planet? A pair of astronomers recently proposed a detection strategy based on the concept of panspermia, the idea that life can start on one planet and spread to others by hitching rides on meteorites. More from Live Science: https://flip.it/ef13Z0
#Science #Life #Aliens #Space #Meteorites
Drugs like Ozempic are very effective at helping people lose weight. But will the weight come back after they stop taking them? Yes, for most people, it will. Science Alert looks into whether these medications are just another (expensive) form of yo-yo dieting. https://flip.it/.7L1q2
#Science #Health #Dieting #WeightLoss #Ozempic
With the world generating twice as much plastic in the past two decades, plastic waste has been showing up just about everywhere. In this storyboard, Bloomberg Green investigates the growing crisis, makes the case for a legally binding global treaty, reveals the messy truth about recycling, and more. https://flip.it/RdkuUk
#Science #Earth #Recycling #Plastic #Pollution
Lampreys look like something out of a horror movie, with their sucky mouths chock full of teeth, eel-like bodies and parasitic behaviors. And, it appears the water creatures off clues to the origin of our fight-or-flight instinct. More from Popular Science. https://flip.it/E1UeWQ
#Science #MarineBiology #Ocean #Animals
@Flipboard has a variety of Magazines (topical collections) that you can easily follow on Mastodon. For science geeks, here are just a few you might consider:
Climate Change and Weather Misinformation by News Lit Project
@climate-change-and-weather-misinformation-NewsLitProject
Oceans by Bloomberg Green
@oceans-BloombergGreen
News Straight from Space by Mashable
@news-straight-from-space-Mashable
Physics by Science Alert
@physics-ScienceAlert
The Climate Exchange
@the-climate-exchange-science
For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism.
@popsci reports: "This incredibly rare event occurred between a type of abundant marine algae and a bacterium was observed in a lab setting."
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel says AI will help scientists understand "most diseases" in three to five years.
@Semafor quotes the executive: “The reason we still have people dying of cancer, people suffering from Alzheimers, is we do not understand the fundamental biology of those diseases.”
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Disease #Cancer #Health #Science #Biology #Tech
An ancient snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton.
AP reports: "Fossils found near a coal mine revealed a snake that stretched an estimated 36 feet (11 meters) to 50 feet (15 meters). It’s comparable to the largest known snake at about 42 feet (13 meters) that once lived in what is now Colombia."
For similar content, follow General Science News: @general-science-news-science
"The sun sits alone at the center of our solar system — but it was actually born in a giant cloud alongside thousands of other stars. So where did all those stars go?"
Astrophysicists Jeremy Webb and Natalie Price-Jones explain what may have happened to the sun's siblings in a comic series for @NPR
@StanWonn @KnowableMag Thanks for sharing your story. It's important to remember that these drugs aren't just for vanity-inspired weight loss.
"Archaeologists have found evidence of human habitation within lava tubes for the first time, in the deserts of northern Saudi Arabia."
@newscientist reports the "underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert landscape."
We curate the latest science news, including climate change, space exploration, health and more. All posts are written by Flipboard’s editorial team.Boosts do not imply endorsement, but are used to highlight posts we think the community might find interesting.#Science #ClimateChange #SpaceHeader photo: Students observe a solar eclipse on March 20, 2015, in London. Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images.
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