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Zambia relies on rain for its food, energy and economy. The southern African nation hasn’t received enough this year and may not in the future, either. Inside Climate Science explains how Zambians have become a victim of a climate crisis it didn’t cause. https://flip.it/zp1zzu
#Science #ClimateChange #Africa #Zambia

Millions of viewers across North America are witnessing a historic total solar eclipse, and images and videos are coming in. Check out some of the best at Live Science: https://flip.it/42UTWX
#Science #Space #Eclipse #Sun #Moon

The same moon that will block the sun over large swaths of North America today also turned inside out billions of years ago, scientists reveal. Science Alert explains: https://flip.it/uV9LkM
#Science #Sun #Moon #Eclipse #Space

A new generation of solar eclipse research

On the cover, a composite of 25 images showing the east limb of the Sun during the total solar eclipse of 1 August 2008, observed from Mongolia.

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/459/issues/7248

How does a solar eclipse affect animals?

CBS News spoke to veterinarians, who share pet safety tips: https://flip.it/pH_7Xz

#Eclipse #SolarEclipse #Animals #Science

Scientists have been busy developing breakthroughs in many areas, yet they’ve received little recognition for the last couple of years as the world focused on vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. The Week underscores 13 recent breakthroughs you may have missed, from the first pig kidney transplant to slowing Alzheimer’s. https://flip.it/R7_KbG
#Science #Health #Medicine #Cancer #Alzheimers #Vaccines

Taxonomists have a long history of cataloging everything they could find. Worldwide expeditions, museums and universities have all committed to classifying specimens. Yet no single, unified list of all the species on Earth exists. Some scientists want to change that. Popular Science explains. https://flip.it/ram4oV
#Science #Animals #Species #Taxonomy #Earth

Would you take deep, consecutive breaths to the point of hyperventilation, then hold your breath until you felt the urge to breathe again? Experts weigh in on the Wim Hof Method, a cold-water immersion practice that claims to increase willpower and reduce fat, among other benefits. More from Live Science: https://flip.it/1Ut78Y
#Science #Health #Biology #Cold

New map calculations of the total solar eclipse that will pass across the skies of North America on Monday have raised concerns that the path of totality is narrower than earlier estimates. CNN has more: https://flip.it/ZZ9gPh
#Science #Eclipse #Earth #PathOfTotality

How can we protect foods we love as climate impacts hit?

Context from the Thomson Reuters Foundation curated a collection of articles from their Rerooted series. Included are stories on the future of tomatoes, rice, coffee and more.

https://flip.it/35OAsl

#ClimateChange #Food #Agriculture #Climate #Environment

Why solar eclipses are a breeding ground for conspiracy theories.

Salon explains "why astronomical events are frequently fraught with conspiracy theories and magical thinking."

https://flip.it/WbZXG9

#Eclipse #SolarEclipse #ConspiracyTheories #Astronomy #Misinformation

@bodhipaksa Aw, thanks!

In the path of Monday's North American solar eclipse?

AP has an early weather forecast: https://flip.it/ENDTXC

For more coverage, follow our Solar Eclipse 2024 Magazine: @solar-eclipse-2024-science

#Eclipse #SolarEclipse #Science #Astronomy

Scientists discovered dark energy over two decades ago and since then have been studying what they thought was an invisible substance that appeared to be pulling the universe apart. But a large 3D map may have highlighted a major flaw — dark energy might not even be a substance. "If this is true,” one scientist said, “this just turns cosmology upside down." And quell some of those fears about the destruction of the universe. Space.com has more: https://flip.it/-xfySS
#Science #Universe #Space #DarkMatter

We all need to vent after a bad day, right? It’s the equivalent of releasing steam from a pressure cooker, it’s long been believed. Researchers at Ohio State University, however, found “not a shred of scientific evidence” to support catharsis theory, as it’s called. In fact, venting might increase anger. Science Alert has more, including effective methods of managing your rage.
https://flip.it/2GK2Gq
#Science #Health #Anger #AngerManagement #Behavior #Humans

@LinearSky 😆

If this real-life horror story doesn’t get people to close the toilet lid, we don’t know what will. A man in Canada found a rat lurking in his toilet bowl and was hospitalized with a serious bacterial infection after the critter bit two of his fingers. Live Science has more: https://flip.it/8cFufY
#Science #Health #Infection #Bacteria #Rats

One scientist been chasing solar eclipses for three decades. What’s she after?

Vox reports: "She’s trying to solve a mystery that could help protect Earth."

https://flip.it/IJjiMm

#Eclipse #SolarEclipse #Science #Astronomy #Physics

Why NASA is launching rockets into the solar eclipse path.

CNN reports the U.S. space agency "will launch sounding rockets and WB-57 high-altitude planes to conduct research on aspects of the sun and Earth that‘s only possible during an eclipse. The efforts are part of a long history of attempts to gather invaluable data and observations when the moon temporarily blocks the sun’s light."

https://flip.it/Fe_Y9q

For more stories like this, follow Space News: @space-news-science

#Eclipse #SolarEclipse #NASA #Astronomy #Sun #Science

President Joe Biden is expected to have a tense call today with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

CNN analyzes the political predicament of the two leaders and "a glaring contradiction in U.S. policy toward the war in Gaza."

https://flip.it/j9oQUD

#Biden #Netanyahu #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Hamas