Notices by Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social), page 54

Could humans learn a thing or two about teamwork from fire ants? A video from National Geographic’s “A Real Bug’s Life” shows how a colony formed a living life raft when faced with the prospect of drowning in a swimming pool. Live Science has more, including the clip. https://flip.it/Z1Chi0
#Science #Insects #Biodiversity #Ants

Why can we humans see more colors than our pets? It all comes down to one molecule. Science Alert reports: https://flip.it/uCcYyk
#Science #Humans #Pets #Vision #Biology

Science vs. social media: Why climate change denial still thrives online.

USA Today reports on "a review of climate-related conversations on social media platforms by the public interest research organization Advance Democracy."

https://flip.it/WUFUjn

#ClimateChange #Climate #Science #SocialMedia #Misinformation

Have you followed the science publishers recently federated by @Flipboard? Check them out:

@ScienceAlert

@Smithsonianmag

@ConversationUS

#FollowFriday #Fediverse #Science #SocialMedia #Mastodon

A new evolutionary theory could explain the mystery of shrinking animals.

@popsci reports: "A long-disputed rule in biology says bigger is better, but a new computer model illuminates why that’s not necessarily true."

https://flip.it/apQtXN

#Animals #Evolution #Biology #Science

Japan became the fifth country to land on the moon with JAXA’s SLIM lunar lander Friday.

CNBC reports: "Engineers were checking the status of the spacecraft shortly after its landing."

https://flip.it/KWAAz9

#Japan #Moon #Lunar #Space

Israeli company gets green light to make world's first cultivated beef steaks.

ABC News reports: "The beef will be grown from cells derived from a fertilized egg from a Black Angus cow named Lucy living on a California farm."

https://flip.it/MYUwae

#Food #Beef #Agriculture #Tech

Long COVID-19 explanation in new study possibly paves way for tests and treatments.

@nbcnews reports: "Scientists have identified a persistent change in a handful of blood proteins in people with long Covid that indicates that an important part of their immune system remains on high alert for months after an acute infection."

https://flip.it/s9_5Kq

The original study from Science Journal: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg7942

#COVID #COVID19 #LongCovid #Pandemic #Health

AI “Black Box” placed in more hospital operating rooms to improve safety.

@arstechnica reports the new technology "offers a trove of useful surgical data."

https://flip.it/oZ6OSB

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Health #Medicine

Astronomers spotted something perplexing near the beginning of time.

@Vox reports on "a potential challenge to the story scientists have painstakingly constructed about the formative years of our universe."

https://flip.it/PP_ch_

#Astronomy #Space #BigBang #Universe #JWST #Science

New cloned monkey species highlights limits of cloning.

CNN reports on the research in China: https://flip.it/QdV6Lg

#Monkeys #Cloning #Science

Astronomers have accidentally found an entire galaxy that appears to have plenty of gas — but no visible stars to speak of.

Futurism reports on the findings presented at the American Astronomy Society: https://flip.it/gIcVs1

#Astronomy #Space #Galaxy #Stars

What happened to the extinct woolly dog?

@Smithsonianmag reports: "Researchers studying the 160-year-old fur of a dog named Mutton in the Smithsonian collections found that the Indigenous breed existed for at least 5,000 years before European colonizers eradicated it."

https://flip.it/0RSPFP

#Dogs #Evolution #Extinct #Science

"Amid the discovery of a lost city in the Amazon rainforest, scientists are uncovering a different kind of relic underground — one that's still being used today."

BBC reports on the "'dark earth' revealing the Amazon's secrets."

https://flip.it/3cyCqq

#Amazon #Rainforest #Archaeology #Bolivia #SouthAmerica

Japan's "Moon Sniper" spacecraft will attempt a historic touchdown on the lunar surface this weekend using pinpoint technology the country hopes will lead to success where many have failed.

Phys.org reports: https://flip.it/J.aloM

#Moon #Space #Lunar #Japan #Science

A new map shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur in the U.S.

Phys.org reports: "Nearly 75% of the U.S. could experience damaging earthquake shaking."

https://flip.it/aqQVWJ

#Earthquake #Seismology #Geology  

Your fingerprint is actually 3D. Research into holograms could improve forensic fingerprint analysis.

@TheConversationUS reports on "a 3D structure called a fingermark."

https://flip.it/riBk9Q

#Fingerprint #3D #Science #Crime #Tech

"An undersea plateau in the Pacific Ocean that is bigger than Idaho first started forming with volcanic eruptions during the Cretaceous period (145 to 66 million years ago), and it is still growing today."

Live Science reports on the new research: https://flip.it/Hs6INU

Here's the original study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X23005605

#Ocean #Pacific #Fiji #Geology

The controversial Peregrine lunar lander will be deliberately crashed into Earth by Jan. 18 after failing in its mission to reach the moon. The lander launched last week with a payload that included human remains, an act that the Navajo Nation president said was "tantamount to desecration of this sacred space." Live Science has more: https://flip.it/BySWV3
#Science #Space #Moon #PeregrineLander #SpaceExploration #NavajoNation

The pattern of lines and whorls on each human fingerprint is unduplicated by any other finger, right? A team of researchers is casting some doubt on that long-held belief. Science Alert has more: https://flip.it/iTAS_T
#Science #Humans #Fingerprints #Biology