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Why a new method for growing food on Mars is also relevant for our own planet.

@grist reports: "Turns out growing crops on the Red Planet is a lot like growing food on a climate-ravaged Earth."

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#Mars #Earth #ClimateChange #Space #Climate #Agriculture

Human spaceflight’s new era is fraught with medical and ethical questions.

Science News reports: "Even short trips to space have lasting effects on the average human, private missions hint." Learn more about a new project known as the Space Omics and Medical Atlas, or SOMA.

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#Space #Astronaut #NASA #Science

"A study in 2013 showed that globally, livestock account for about 14.5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than all the world’s cars and trucks combined."

@KnowableMag reports on new efforts to combat global warming by cleaning up cow burps: https://flip.it/qONU0s

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Agriculture #Cows #Farming #Climate #Methane #Science

"Can a diet that's good for the planet also be good for your health? A new study is pointing to yes."

CBS News explains the Planetary Health Diet, as reported in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: https://flip.it/jVpdvK

Here's the original study: https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(24)00389-7/abstract

#ClimateChange #Diet #Health #Food #Nutrition #Environment

"A unanimous panel of [U.S.] federal drug advisers on Monday concluded that Eli Lilly's experimental Alzheimer's drug donanemab benefits patients with early stages of the disease and that its benefits outweigh its risks."

@AxiosNews reports: https://flip.it/7_GWD0

#Alzheimers #Disease #EliLilly #Drugs #Pharmaceuticals #Medicine #Health #Aging

"Bill Gates and his energy company are starting construction at their Wyoming [U.S.] site for a next-generation nuclear power plant he believes will 'revolutionize' how power is generated."

AP reports: "The co-founder of Microsoft is chairman of TerraPower. The company applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in March for a construction permit for an advanced nuclear reactor that uses sodium, not water, for cooling."

https://flip.it/vVmCjk

#BillGates #Nuclear #NuclearPower #Energy #ClimateChange #Environment

Elephants are more like humans than we realized, according to new research.

Vox reports: "A new study reveals elephants can call each other by name. What does that mean for the movement for their rights?"

https://flip.it/LANDew

#Elephant #Animals #Science #AnimalRights

The Northeast and Midwest U.S. are enduring what is, in some places, the worst outbreak of spongy moths on record.

@grist explains what's behind the caterpillar invasion: https://flip.it/Pbg.iG

#Moth #Insects #Entomology #Drought #InvasiveSpecies #Science

"Two pilots, a Turkish research astronaut and three private citizens rocketed to space and back Saturday aboard Virgin Galactic's Unity spaceplane, enjoying spectacular views of Earth and about three minutes of weightlessness before gliding back to touchdown in New Mexico."

CBS News reports: https://flip.it/c1wZ4M

#VirginGalactic #Space #BlueOrigin #Astronaut #NASA

The Hubble Telescope launched into orbit 34 years ago and is planned continue its journey around the planet until the mid-2030s. Then what? In 2022, billionaire Jared Isaacman announced a proposal to save the program, but NASA turned it down. Space.com tells us why: https://flip.it/ncqMk5
#Science #Space #HubbleTelescope #SpaceExploration #NASA

Cell biologist and biochemist Leonard Rome’s lab discovered an odd, abundant component of cells in the 1980s — and he’s still trying to figure out what it does. Could solving the cell’s biggest mystery help cancer patients someday? Science.org has more. https://flip.it/Y41lCe
#Science #Health #Cancer #Cells #Biology

Donald Dorff could hear the crowd roaring as he snatched the quarterback’s throw from the air. All that stood between him and the goal line was a 280-pound defender. “I decided to give him my shoulder,” he told National Geographic magazine in 1987. “When I came to, I was on the floor in my bedroom.” CNN describes how Dorff went from retired grocery manufacturer to the first patient to be diagnosed with a new sleep disorder. https://flip.it/C4pesM
#Science #Humans #Health #Sleep #SleepDisorders

William Anders, a NASA astronaut who was part of the 1968 Apollo 8 crew that was the first to orbit the moon, died Friday in a plane crash in Washington state, his son Gregory Anders confirmed. He was 90 years old. Anders took the famous "Earthrise" photo that showed our world with the lunar horizon in the foreground. NBC News has more on the crash and Anders’ life. https://flip.it/0sR1e7
#Science #NASA #Space #SpaceExploration

DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago for a period lasting 6,800 years, Live Science reports:
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/neanderthals-and-humans-interbred-47000-years-ago-for-nearly-7000-years-research-suggests

#DNA #Anthropology #Prehistoric #Neanderthals

In the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii, marine scientists have discovered animals humanity has never seen before: creatures who live very different lives, in the permanent darkness of the abyssopelagic.
https://www.sciencealert.com/alien-looking-species-seen-for-first-time-ever-in-oceans-darkest-depths, Science Alert reports:

#Ocean #Newspecies #Sealife #Biology

It’s #NewstodonFriday! It’s been another busy week for the many newsrooms who have an active presence in the #fediverse, and we’re highlighting their work in the thread below. If you like what you see, follow the profiles and boost their stories.

If you’re a journo or newsroom that we don’t know about or if there’s a newsroom you’d love to put on our radar, please let us know in the comments.
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#News #Newstodon #Media #Journalism #FollowFriday

Why fireflies are only spotted in summer and where lightning bugs live the rest of the year.

CBS News reports: "Their time aboveground before dying is brief, with fireflies actually spending the bulk of their lives living underground."

https://flip.it/dzsny4

#Firefly #Insects #Entomology #Science

D-Day shipwrecks were a WWII time capsule. Now they are home to rich ocean-floor life.

BBC reports on the 80-year-old sunken wrecks that line the coasts of Britain and France: https://flip.it/uAQ6F6

#Ocean #DDay #WWII #MarineBiology #Science

This is a wild headline from NPR: "A fungus is turning cicadas into horny zombies — but don’t panic."

"[The fungus] Massospora cicadina has been observed in cicadas in more than half a dozen states — both those belonging to Brood XIII, which emerges every 17 years and is concentrated in Illinois, and of Brood XIX, a 13-year group that is distributed across much of the southeast."

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#Cicadas #Insects #Bugs #Entomology #Science

SpaceX gets green light for fourth Starship test flight, to take place Thursday.

CNN reports: "The first two attempts to get Starship to orbital speeds in 2023 ended in explosions, with the spacecraft and booster erupting into flames before reaching their intended landing sites."

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#SpaceX #Starship #Space #NASA #ElonMusk