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@ministerofimpediments 😆

Here’s something to sip on during this annual period of indulgence. Soon after you drink, alcohol enters your bloodstream and travels to your brain. It might make you drowsy and fall asleep easily, but then you wake up at 3 a.m. Science Alert explains why. https://flip.it/QIydET
#Science #Brain #Alcohol #Sleep #REM

How does NASA get a turkey to space for holiday meals? It’s not just creating food that will survive the journey, but all sorts of logistical issues unique to dining in a state of near weightlessness arise. Figuring it all out is up to scientist Kimberly Glaus Läte and her team. Here’s more from Eater: https://flip.it/vwQ3FC
#Space #NASA #Science #Food #ISS

Scientists have warned that climate change would alter the prevalence and spread of disease in the U.S. Grist explains why researchers who follow the way climate change influences disease expect a continuation of a trend that will become more pronounced over time: https://flip.it/bQFqJf
#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarning #Health #Disease

From Live Science: Stunningly precise new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope threaten to upend the standard model of cosmology. https://flip.it/s87-zd
#Science #Space #JWST #BigBang

Nearly two years ago, the underwater Hunga volcano in the South Pacific experienced an eruption so strong its caldera collapsed completely. A small team of scientists has partly mapped the magmatic system under the volcano from both before and after the eruption. Phys.org has more on what they found: https://flip.it/nhwv-e #Earth #Volcano #Science

Have you ever thought that some planets look like they’re staring back at you? Planetary scientists know what you’re talking about. Science Alert explains: https://flip.it/Y5Y9vz #Science #Space #Planets #SpaceExploration

@tito_swineflu, @fosstodon The article states "just 20 years later."

Earth got hotter, disasters more costly, but the fight for the planet isn’t over. Here’s more on the Year in Climate Crisis, including the story of young activists in Montana who sued the state over their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment — and won. https://flip.it/kde4C5
#Science #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

Earth teemed with life about 530 million years ago in the aftermath of the Cambrian explosion. But something caused a mass extinction of sea life about 20 years later. Was it a lack of oxygen, as past research has suggested? Live Science explores what may have supercharged this “wave of death.” https://flip.it/YrLeW3 #Science #Earth #Oceans #Extinction

Recent findings show that thawing permafrost and carbon-rich runoff from Canada’s Mackenzie River force part of the Arctic Ocean to release more carbon that it absorbs. Here’s more from phys.org: https://flip.it/_N.uUA
#Science #ClimateChange #ArcticOcean #GlobalWarming

@ferricoxide Yes, hopefully this leads to a positive development on the treatment front.

Inflammation may play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. University of Washington-led research discovered microglia in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s were in a pre-inflammatory state more frequently. There's still more to learn, but the research could lead to advancements in treatment. Science Alert explains: https://flip.it/4q6YVg
#Science #Health #Brain #Alzheimers

An international astronaut will join U.S. astronauts on the moon by decade’s end under an agreement announced Wednesday by NASA and the White House, APN News reports:
https://apnews.com/article/moon-space-exploration-international-astronauts-a962284f95938df462aa036b1243dc10

#NASA #moon

A team of herpetologists from the United States and Indonesia were hiking through the rainforest when they came across leaves and mossy boulders several feet off the ground that were harboring glassy, black frog eggs, Science Alert reports:
https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-tiniest-fanged-frog-species-found-lurking-in-the-indonesian-jungle

#Frog #indonesia

A team of animal science specialists at Teikyo University of Science has found that most dogs have an eye color that is darker than their closet wolf relative, suggesting that darker eye color has evolved due to domestication, Phys.org reports:
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-domestication-dogs-darker-irises.html

#evolution #dogs #domestication

Five gray wolves have a new home in Colorado; state wildlife officials released them yesterday in a spectacular show of efforts to conserve the endangered species, The Verge reports:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/19/24007786/colorado-wild-wolves-release-video

#wildlife #colorado #wolves

Christmas tree growers and breeders have long prepared for a future of hotter weather that will change soil conditions, ABC News reports:
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/climate-warms-perfect-christmas-tree-depend-growers-ability-105782740

#ClimateChange #christmas

Research shows that the skeleton found in Cambridgeshire is of a man from a nomadic group known as Sarmatians. DNA sleuths have retraced his steps while shedding light on a key episode in the history of Roman Britain, BBC News reports:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67755415

#dna #roman #britain

At least 100 elephants have died in Zimbabwe’s largest national park in recent weeks because of drought, a grisly sign of what wildlife authorities and conservation groups say is the impact of climate change and the El Nino weather phenomenon, NBC News reports: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/100-elephants-die-drought-zimbabwe-park-rcna130416

#climatechange #zimbabwe #elephants