Notices by Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social), page 50

NASA created its Fission Surface Power Project to get power to lunar bases on the Moon. Live Science has more on how the agency’s plan that would put a nuclear reactor on the Moon is becoming more of a reality. https://flip.it/-mUbRI
#Science #Space #NASA #Moon #SpaceExploration

A 57-year-old Italian man who had his right hand amputated 37 years ago recently felt temperature via his prosthetic hand with the help of a small device. Live Science has more on one of the “final hurdles” scientists cleared in developing prosthetics with the full spectrum of senses in a human limb. https://flip.it/fv_Mdq
#Science #Health #Medicine #Prosthetics

After two decades of robotic exploration, NASA's Mars program faces technical and budgetary challenges. Writing for Big Think, Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Tony Reichhardt argue that the agency should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life. https://flip.it/PoWt05
#Science #Space #NASA #Mars #SpaceExploration

For Super Bowl weekend in the U.S., @KnowableMag has an interesting article on sports psychology research.

"Scientists are probing the head games that influence athletic performance, from coaching to coping with pressure."

https://flip.it/vHu9lt

#Psychology #Sports #Science

Astronauts from Turkey, Italy and Sweden return to Earth, ending private space station trip.

AP reports the three countries "financed the mission, paying roughly $55 million apiece. It was Axiom’s third private mission to the space station; the fourth is planned later this year."

https://flip.it/JJKGav

#Space #SpaceStation #ISS #Axiom #Turkey #Italy #Sweden

Countdown begins for April’s total solar eclipse. What to know about watch parties and safe viewing.

AP reports: https://flip.it/gk24Wu

#Space #Eclipse #Astronomy

California sea otters nearly went extinct. Now they're rescuing their coastal habitat.

@NPR reports: https://flip.it/FNFzkG

#Environment #Endangered #Animals #Otter #California

What to do when you’re completely overwhelmed by climate anxiety.

From @Vox: "How to act in service of the planet — and your values."

https://flip.it/aGj0zr

#ClimateChange #Climate #Anxiety #Environment #Green

Which dogs live the longest?

@Smithsonianmag reports on a new study of more than 500,000 dogs in the United Kingdom: https://flip.it/oZ7mDv

#Dogs #Animals #Pets #Science

Our blue planet is getting greener, and that's not a good thing.

@Vox explains: https://flip.it/EBN0VD

#Earth #ClimateChange #Climate #Environment #Science

Two new shark species that lived 325 million years ago have been discovered in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park and northern Alabama, LiveScience reports:
https://www.livescience.com/animals/sharks/325-million-year-old-shark-graveyard-discovered-deep-within-mammoth-cave-harbors-new-fossilized-species

#sharks #fossils #alabama #evolution #NewSpecies

Astronomers have found the best evidence yet of a vast, young ocean beneath the icy exterior of Saturn’s Death Star lookalike mini moon, APN News reports:
https://apnews.com/article/saturn-moon-ocean-mimas-death-star-c506e45170f047096aaa5d093d05594c

#astronomy #saturn #space #solarsystem

"After a decade spent monitoring the sky, an international team of astronomers have discovered a nursery of newborn stars, along with an entirely new type of elder star that has been hidden at the heart of our galaxy."

Salon reports on "a 10-year survey of hundreds of millions of stars conducted at the Cerro Paranal Observatory in the Chilean Andes."

https://flip.it/n9OKjb

#Space #Astronomy #Stars #Galaxy #Science

@RandomOxen It's "Io."

Rare fossil shows trees looked very different 350 million years ago.

@Smithsonianmag reports: "The newly discovered specimen looks like something from the imagination of Dr. Seuss, and it sheds light on a little-understood era of prehistory."

https://flip.it/bDQ2NQ

#Trees #Fossil #Paleontology #Evolution #Science

Three students have won a $700,000 prize after using AI to read a 2,000-year-old scroll burnt during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD, BBC News reports:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68221243

#ai #romanempire #juliuscaesar #mountvesuvius

After a recent rough landing, the damaged Ingenuity helicopter can't fly again. Now, NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted the grounded extraterrestrial chopper sitting alone in a valley on Mars, Mashable reports:
https://mashable.com/article/mars-ingenuity-helicopter-nasa-perseverance

#nasa #IngenuityMarsHelicopter #mars #universe #solarsystem

Heat trapped by fossil fuel emissions is making Earth's atmosphere 'huff and puff' with increasing fury. Some winds are now blowing so intensely that researchers propose adding an even more extreme category to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, Science Alert reports:
https://www.sciencealert.com/rise-in-storm-intensity-prompts-calls-for-a-whole-new-category-of-hurricane

#hurricane #ClimateChange #fossilfuels

"Peer review isn’t perfect. I know because I teach others how to do it and I’ve seen firsthand how it comes up short."

An essay from @TheConversationUS: https://flip.it/ODGwN3

#PeerReview #Research #Academia #Science

"Could a recently discovered 'super-Earth' have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life?"

ABC News reports: "The new exoplanet is situated 'fairly close to us' -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits within a 'habitable zone,' according to NASA."

https://flip.it/5hU3pQ

#Space #NASA #Astronomy #Science