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NASA wants to mine the Moon and asteroids, which could be worth trillions of dollars. But is it legal? Live Science unpacks this complicated question. https://flip.it/vfffzk
#NASA #Moon #Mining #Asteroid #Space

Looking for more science coverage on Mastodon? Check out these new @Flipboard Magazines that you can follow:

"Science News" by The Verge: @science-news-theverge

"Green" by Euronews: @green-euronews

"Innovation" by Smithsonian Magazine: @innovation-Smithsonianmag

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

"Space" by Science Alert: @space-ScienceAlert

"Ancient History" by The Collector: @ancient-history-thecollector

"Animals, Animals, Animals" by Mashable: @animals-animals-animals-Mashable

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

#Science #ClimateChange #FollowFriday

It’s a fake: Mysterious 280 million-year-old fossil is mostly just black paint.

@JenLucPiquant reports for @arstechnica on new research about the fossil, discovered 90 years ago in Italy.

https://flip.it/509Cnf

#Fossils #Paleontology #Italy #Science

It's time for a new look at our linguistic roots.

@KnowableMag reports: "Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where, and when, the first Indo-European languages were spoken, and what kind of lives those first speakers led. A controversial new analytic technique offers a fresh answer."

https://flip.it/zZ0efF

#Language #Linguistics #Archaeology #Human #Evolution

The ingredients for a tastier, stronger tea could be in the soil.

@popsci reports: "Plant biologists find that some microbial communities help grow better teas."

https://flip.it/Wyqre_

#Tea #Biology #Plants #Agriculture #Science

Newfound immune cells are responsible for long-lasting allergies.

Science News reports: "Knowing the cells’ identities might lead to new allergy treatments or cures."

https://flip.it/8v7U9v

#Science #Allergies #Health #Medicine

Looking for more science accounts to follow? Consider these publisher Magazines from @Flipboard

"Science News" from The Verge: @science-news-theverge

"Wildlife" from Bloomberg Green: @wildlife-BloombergGreen

"News Straight From Space" from Mashable: @news-straight-from-space-Mashable

"Getting Connected With Nature" from World Atlas: @getting-connected-with-nature-Worldatlascom

"Oceans" from Bloomberg Green: @oceans-BloombergGreen

#Science #Flipboard

Elon Musk's Neuralink isn't the only company experimenting with implanting chips in human brains.

Two professors unpack the ethical issues for @TheConversationUS: https://flip.it/DA_YTN

#Brain #Neuralink #Neuroscience #ElonMusk #Ethics

Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure may be at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

@popsci reports: "The team believes that Stone Age hunter-gatherers likely built it about 11,000 years ago to hunt reindeer."

https://flip.it/8Uhk6F

#Archaeology #BalticSea #StoneAge #Science

Greenland is turning green again for the first time since medieval times.

USA Today reports: "We may need to rethink that old expression 'Greenland is ice, Iceland is green.'"

https://flip.it/WXZKaW

#Greenland #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Climate

For over a decade, @Flipboard has been curating the best content around the clock. Today we're taking the next step to making all that excellent curation available to everyone in the Fediverse.

With the federation of @science you can now follow niche Flipboard Magazines here on Mastodon. To avoid confusion, we're renaming this flipboard.social account to "Flipboard Picks in Science." We recommend you follow both our Mastodon account and our newly federated Flipboard Magazines for the latest.

Here are just four great new Flipboard Magazines to follow:

Space news: @space-news-science

Archeology: @archeology-today-science

Deep dives in science: @deep-dives-in-science-science

General science news: @general-science-news-science

#Science #Mastodon #Fediverse

Much of the Northeastern U.S. is enduring a snow storm today. So let's take a look at the science of snow tires, courtesy of @popsci

https://flip.it/gdgRPv

#Snow #Weather #Science #Cars

The Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point. Once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows.

@TheConversationUS reports: https://flip.it/RpS4A5

#ClimateChange #Climate #AtlanticOcean #Ocean #Weather

Think scientists know how planets are formed? New simulations show large planets that form far away from their host stars start their lives more like a flattened disk — a shape called an oblate spheroid. Earth, we know, is not flat. But Jupiter may have once been. Here’s more from Science Alert on how the formation of planets might not always go the way we picture in our heads. https://flip.it/GP-ns6
#Science #Planets #Space #Jupiter

Ed Dwight was denied the opportunity to be the first Black astronaut. Now 90, Dwight is getting his due in a new National Geographic documentary “The Space Race.” Read more from the Associated Press. https://flip.it/kjAxvr
#Space #Science #NASA #NationalGeographic #Astronaut

The James Webb Space Telescope has been tracking the history of stars in the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte, a low-mass dwarf galaxy that neighbors the Milky Way. For Space.com, Robert Lea writes about how the JWST has allowed astronomers "to go back in time" and better understand how star formation rates have changed over the last 13 billion years. https://flip.it/_s2CAL
#Science #Space #JWST #Stars #Galaxies

Anyone who has injured cartilage knows how debilitating and enduring that injury can be. Now, an important step has been taken toward creating replacement tissue in a lab with the help of 3D printing. Phys.org has more. https://flip.it/vGV28f
#Science #Health #Injuries #Medicine

"A team of scientists on board an exploration vessel off the coast of South America have made a startling discovery: four previously unknown massive underwater mountains, ranging from 5,200 to 8,800 feet tall."

Futurism reports: "The discovery highlights just how little we know about the oceans covering much of our planet."

https://flip.it/IXWc.o

#Ocean #Earth #Science #SouthAmerica

Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline, UN report says.

AP reports: "Many songbirds, sea turtles, whales, sharks and other migratory animals move to different environments with changing seasons and are imperiled by habitat loss, illegal hunting and fishing, pollution and climate change."

https://flip.it/4Zyw_9

#ClimateChange #Climate #Animals #Environment

How do marine mammals sleep? They can’t just close their eyes and conk out because they need to rise to the surface to breathe. Live Science explains how these animals pull it off. https://flip.it/r6zb02
#Science #Ocean #Mammals #Animals