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For most people, their hair naturally loses pigment as they age. A 2021 study showed that stress can also turn hair gray. The question is whether hair can reclaim its natural color. Science Alert has more: https://flip.it/bod-RY
#Science #Health #Hair #Humans

After the warmest autumn ever, experts are certain that 2023 will be the warmest year in recorded history. Several factors are having an impact, but the biggest is human-caused climate change. Live Science explains: https://flip.it/9kO.0T
#Science #ClimateChange #Earth #Climate

What's at stake at COP28?

The Council on Foreign Relations has curated this collection of analysis and background articles: https://flip.it/98cGhL

#COP28 #ClimateChange #Climate #CFR

As climate chaos accelerates, which countries are polluting the most?

CNN reports: "The top 20 global climate polluters were responsible for 83% of emissions in 2022."

https://flip.it/OgW7.P

#ClimateChange #Climate #GlobalWarming #COP28

How scientists are tracking mosquitoes that could be carrying deadly diseases.

ABC News reports: "More than 1 million people worldwide die from mosquito-borne diseases every year."

https://flip.it/_RFAVA

#Mosquito #Insects #Entomology #Disease #PublicHealth #Malaria #Science

Citizen science projects tend to attract white, affluent, well-educated volunteers. Here’s how one team of researchers recruited a more diverse group to identify lead pipes in homes.

From @TheConversationUS: https://flip.it/EGGN1b

#Science #CitizenScience #Research #Academia #DEI

The number of delegates at this year's UN climate talks who are also linked to fossil fuel producers has quadrupled since last year, campaigners say.

BBC reports: https://flip.it/eENw5q

#COP28 #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Climate #UN

A fight over the future of fossil fuels has been thrust into the global spotlight at the COP28 climate summit.

CNBC reports: "Many gathering in Dubai believe the talks can only be considered a success if they result in a deal to “phase out” all fossil fuels."

https://flip.it/9PVPMm

#COP28 #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Climate #GlobalWarming

Scientists discover star system so perfect that it seems like art.

Futurism reports: https://flip.it/AKmalZ

And the original study from Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06692-3

#Space #Stars #Astronomy

These 10 scientists are on the cusp of changing the world.

@popsci honors 10 early-career researchers who’ve gotten a head start.

https://flip.it/1jr8Zt

#Science #Scientists #Innovation #Research

Why isn’t there any sound in space? 🚀 👂

An astronomer explains why in space no one can hear you scream for the Curious Kids section @TheConversationUS

https://flip.it/l_qkOx

#Space #Sound #Science

COP28 chair says "no science" comments were "misinterpreted."

Semafor reports from Dubai: https://flip.it/-lKYE0

#COP28 #Dubai #ClimateChange #Climate #Science

7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate and feed a rapidly growing world.

@TheConversationUS reports: "More than 130 countries signed a declaration on Dec. 1, committing to make their food systems – everything from production to consumption – a focal point in national strategies to address climate change."

https://flip.it/5zcOEx

#ClimateChange #Climate #COP28 #Agriculture #Food

Penguin parents sleep for just a few seconds at a time to guard newborns, study shows.

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

#Penguins #Birds #Science

The U.S. military's elusive X-37B space plane has postponed its next launch to Dec. 10. X-37B will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida. From Live Science, here’s why the secretive spacecraft is likely launching farther than ever before. https://flip.it/tTFOOL
#Science #Space #SpaceX #X37B

Is Earth a “Goldilocks planet in a just-right Goldilocks universe?” The Dispatch’s Marvin Olasky writes about how quantum physics can push us to look up, in "desperate puzzlement." https://flip.it/Cy8d3D
#Earth #Universe #QuantumPhysics

Snopes investigates: Did researchers genetically modify cats to glow in the dark? https://flip.it/Sk6GuR
#Science #Cats #Caturday

The discovery of an ancient supermassive black hole that existed early in the life of the universe has some questioning the legitimacy of the Big Bang Theory. This is a hasty conclusion, says Don Lincoln, writing for Big Think. https://flip.it/ghz5R2
#Science #Space #Universe #BigBangTheory

As King Charles warned that time was running out on climate change, more than 130 world leaders at the COP28 climate summit promised to tackle the huge responsibility that food and agriculture have in the warming planet. BBC News reports: https://flip.it/.XvQpH
#Science #ClimateChange #COP28

The ghostly object that first appeared in ground-based telescopes before completely vanishing has returned. This time as a faint, yet distinct galaxy in an image from the James Webb Space Telescope. "This thing is a real monster," said Jed McKinney, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Texas at Austin. Phys.org has more: https://flip.it/.CtHdG
#Science #Space #Galaxy #JWST