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Do you follow climate change scientists? Here are some @Flipboard Magazines that you might also want to follow:

"Environment & Energy" by The Conversation: @environment-energy-ConversationUS

"Environment" by ScienceAlert: @environment-ScienceAlert

"Green" by Euronews: @green-euronews

"Climate Change Science" by Bloomberg Green: @climate-change-science-BloombergGreen

"Environment" by The Christian Science Monitor: @environment-csmonitor

"Extreme Weather" by Axios: @extreme-weather-AxiosNews

"Climate Change" by Flipboard Science Desk: @climate-change-science

"Climate Change and You" by Flipboard Science Desk: @climate-change-and-you-science

#FollowFriday #ClimateChange #Climate #Environment

What is frontotemporal dementia, the syndrome affecting talk show host Wendy Williams and actor Bruce Willis?

@TheConversationUS has an explainer: https://flip.it/7go1qE

For more health news, follow The Latest Health News & Research: @the-latest-health-news-research-health

#Dementia #Health #Brain #Neurology #Neuroscience #Science #WendyWilliams #BruceWillis

Private lander makes first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years.

AP reports: "Intuitive Machines also became the first private business to pull off a lunar landing, a feat achieved by only five countries."

https://flip.it/oUBt0k

#Moon #MoonLanding #Space #IntuitiveMachines

We know how to save these beloved endangered whales. Yet we’re mindlessly killing them.

@Vox reports on the plight of the North Atlantic right whale: https://flip.it/hcDN0D

#Whales #Animals #Endangered #Ocean #Environment #Fishing

A "lost bird" not seen in 20 years is photographed for the first time.

@popsci reports on the magnificent yellow-crested helmetshrike found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

https://flip.it/uwe.O5

For more updates, follow General Science News @general-science-news-science

#Birds #BirdsofMastodon #Animals #Endangered #Congo #Africa

What is Alaskapox? A microbiologist explains the recently discovered virus that just claimed its first fatality.

From @TheConversationUS: https://flip.it/-IruCF

#Alaskapox #Disease #Microbiology #Alaska #Virus

Rising sea levels are a concern around the world. But the East Coast of the U.S. has another problem. It's sinking each year, NASA finds.

CBS News reports: https://flip.it/-iVq3k

#ClimateChange #Climate #Beach #Science #NASA

How do whales sing? Scientists point to a specialized voice box that other animals don’t have.

AP reports: "Experts say the discovery, while based on a study that is too tiny to be definitive, will direct future research into how whales communicate."

https://flip.it/S-BlBm

#Whales #Ocean #Animals #Science

Giant Antarctic sea spiders’ reproductive mystery solved after 140 years of confusion.

@popsci reports: "These large invertebrates are fairly devoted dads."

https://flip.it/QT5BSJ

#Ocean #Animals #Antarctica #Science #Evolution

A pacemaker for the brain helped a woman with crippling depression. It may soon offer hope to others.

AP reports: "Researchers are testing deep brain stimulation as a treatment for people with a severe form of depression."

https://flip.it/_8xK5z

#Brain #Depression #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #Health #Science

Scientists detect water on the surface of asteroids for the first time ever.

@Smithsonianmag reports on how researchers used data from a retired NASA mission to reach their conclusion.

https://flip.it/aYsl89

#Space #NASA #Asteroid

Scientists using frozen ovary technique may be able to delay menopause indefinitely. But should they?

Salon reports on new research by an ovarian biologist: https://flip.it/VY8Go9

#Menopause #Women #Health #Science

Could volcanoes power our planet?

@Smithsonianmag takes questions from readers: https://flip.it/ivCxQc

#Volcano #Energy #Science

It’s been more than 50 years since America has been to the moon, and a new private company is aiming to change that this week. The Houston company, called Intuitive Machines, hitched a lander called Odysseus to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is scheduled to land on the moon’s south pole this week. The mission hopes to shed light on the feasibility of using the moon as a base for further space exploration. Read more from NPR.

https://flip.it/y9X6Pa

#Space #Rocket #Moon

Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar that shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. Here's more on the quasar that the AP describes as a "cosmic hurricane." https://flip.it/BhCe4M
#Science #Space #Quasar #Astronomy

A chicken in Roman Britain laid an egg 1,700 years ago. Uneventful and mundane as it may seem, @Smithsonianmag@flipboard published an article about it this week. Why? The egg still contains liquid inside, making it the only known egg of its kind. https://flip.it/Q2gHJS
#Science #Chicken #History #Smithsonian

The total solar eclipse on April 8 is part of a repeating pattern of eclipses that last visited North America in 1970. Live Science explains why the same eclipse repeats every 54 years. https://flip.it/DgRlwI
#Science #SolarEclipse #Sun #Moon

You want your coffee. You need your coffee. And you don’t want climate change to get between you and your coffee. Phys.org has this story on a new genetic map of the arabica coffee plant that could help develop more climate-resistant brews.
https://flip.it/W2-JQ6
#Science #Coffee #Food #Drink #ClimateChange

French doctor Jacques Grill gets emotional when he remembers telling the parents of a 6-year-old Belgian boy that their son was going to die of brain cancer. Now, Lucas is 13 and there’s no trace of a remaining tumor. Science Alert has more on how Lucas “beat the odds” to become the first child in the world cured of brainstem glioma. https://flip.it/NNK7K2
#Science #Health #Cancer #Medicine