Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old (apnews.com)
That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old....
Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times size of sun (www.theguardian.com)
BH3 spotted when scientists chanced upon star in Aquila constellation ‘wobbling’ under its gravitational force...
There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky Way (piped.privacydev.net)
Rural areas in the US tend to be conservative electoral strongholds. However, it wasn't always the case. The shift happened in when technological changes brought agribusiness who favored Republicans. (www.cambridge.org)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2668759...
Coral bleaching: Fourth global mass stress episode underway - US scientists (www.bbc.com)
Coral around the world is turning white and even dying as recent record ocean heat takes a devastating toll....
What Makes Tiny Tardigrades Nearly Radiation Proof (www.nytimes.com)
New research finds that the microscopic “water bears" are remarkably good at repairing their DNA after a huge blast of radiation....
The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton (www.wired.com)
Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI (aeon.co)
Types of tornadoes (lemmy.world)
First observational evidence linking black holes to dark energy (www.ifa.hawaii.edu)
Sounds promising. can’t say I understand all the details.
Sign of aging reversed by simple exercise (www.newsweek.com)
Scientists have identified a new sign of biological aging that may be reversible through simple exercise....
Writing Down and Throwing Away Your Anger May Help Reduce It, According to New Study (www.404media.co)
https://www.404media.co/content/images/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-12.14.01-PM.png...
Almost half of US prisons are likely contaminated by dangerous ‘forever chemicals,’ new Northeastern research shows (news.northeastern.edu)
In prisons, where health care is already poor, the danger posed by PFAS exposure is even greater, says Phil Brown, a Northeastern professor of sociology and health sciences....
Scientists are grasping at straws while trying to protect infant corals from hungry fish (apnews.com)
South Florida researchers trying to prevent predatory fish from devouring laboratory-grown coral are grasping at biodegradable straws in an effort to restore what some call the rainforest of the sea....
Why Birds Survived, and Dinosaurs Went Extinct, After an Asteroid Hit Earth (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Genetic variations help explain the link between cognitive ability and liberalism (www.psypost.org)
Mapping the world's salted soils: A leap forward in combating land degradation (phys.org)
A team of researchers has developed an approach that maps the soil salt content around the world with an exceptional detail of 10 meters. This advance tackles the pressing need for accurate assessments of soil salinity, a formidable challenge that jeopardizes agricultural productivity and soil vitality on a global scale....
The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change (www.theguardian.com)
Long COVID leaves telltale traces in the blood, finds new study (medicalxpress.com)
Findings from the largest UK study of patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 infection show that long COVID leads to ongoing inflammation which can be detected in the blood....
Study sheds light on the white dwarf star, likely destroyer of our solar system (www.theguardian.com)
Huge gravity of these dense stars, which have burned all their own fuel, rips apart smaller planetary bodies...
Pregnancy may speed up biological ageing, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Each pregnancy is linked with an additional two to three months of biological ageing, researchers say...
Impact of eclipse on US electric grid solar production, prices, and load in different regions (www.gridstatus.io)
Why some animals get agitated during a solar eclipse (www.bbc.com)
Humans experience awe in the face of solar eclipses – but how do the other members of the animal kingdom feel when the day briefly turns to night?...
2024 Solar Eclipse: Live Updates (apnews.com)
A total solar eclipse is crossing North America today. It will slice a diagonal line from the southwest to the northeast, briefly plunging communities in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada along the track into darkness.
When a black hole and a neutron star merge (news.ycombinator.com)
Or directly, news item link: mpg.de/…/0404-grav-mysterious-object-in-the-gap-1…