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ScienceDesk

@ScienceDesk@flipboard.social

Flipboard's page for news about science including space, climate change and more — from trusted sources. All posts written by human editors, especially for Mastodon.

For more science coverage, follow Flipboard's federated Science Desk (@science).

Header photo: Students observe a solar eclipse on March 20, 2015, in London. Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images.

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ScienceDesk, to science
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@Flipboard has a variety of Magazines (topical collections) that you can easily follow on Mastodon. For science geeks, here are just a few you might consider:

Climate Change and Weather Misinformation by News Lit Project
@climate

Oceans by Bloomberg Green
@oceans

News Straight from Space by Mashable
@news

Physics by Science Alert
@physics

The Climate Exchange
@the

#FollowFriday #Science #ClimateChange

ScienceDesk, to Life
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For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism.

@popsci reports: "This incredibly rare event occurred between a type of abundant marine algae and a bacterium was observed in a lab setting."

https://flip.it/wmVVv-

ScienceDesk, (edited ) to ai
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Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel says AI will help scientists understand "most diseases" in three to five years.

@Semafor quotes the executive: “The reason we still have people dying of cancer, people suffering from Alzheimer's, is we do not understand the fundamental biology of those diseases.”

https://flip.it/DWzK4K

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An ancient snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton.

AP reports: "Fossils found near a coal mine revealed a snake that stretched an estimated 36 feet (11 meters) to 50 feet (15 meters). It’s comparable to the largest known snake at about 42 feet (13 meters) that once lived in what is now Colombia."

https://flip.it/HvVTqJ

For similar content, follow General Science News: @general

ScienceDesk, to Archaeology
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"Archaeologists have found evidence of human habitation within lava tubes for the first time, in the deserts of northern Saudi Arabia."

@newscientist reports the "underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert landscape."

https://flip.it/CD0ZVF

ScienceDesk, to space
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"The sun sits alone at the center of our solar system — but it was actually born in a giant cloud alongside thousands of other stars. So where did all those stars go?"

Astrophysicists Jeremy Webb and Natalie Price-Jones explain what may have happened to the sun's siblings in a comic series for @NPR

https://flip.it/dtnkDK

ScienceDesk, to Archaeology
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A puzzling mix of artifacts raises questions about Homo sapiens' travels to China.

Science News reports: "New analysis suggests Shiyu holds the oldest evidence of H. sapiens in northeast Asia."

https://flip.it/NkKB5B

ScienceDesk, to climate
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Climate change is shaping a mindset revolution -- powerfully driving innovation and progress. And young people are leading the transformation. This @Flipboard Storyboard focuses on the roles of those born since 1989, when recognition of children’s rights and the spike of global temperatures began to intersect, curated by The Christian Science Monitor:
https://flipboard.com/@csmonitor/the-climate-generation-born-into-crisis-building-solutions-vnm4s8i54r285sfs

ScienceDesk, to evolution
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500 million years ago, the world was a very different place. Basically all life lived in the water. One of these creatures was a group of predatory worms with throats covered in spines, hooks and teeth to trap their prey, NPR reports:
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1198909728/ancient-history-predatory-worm-evolution-cambrian-ordovician

ScienceDesk, to Futurology
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New brain scans from people with psychosis may confirm a long-standing theory as to why people experience these sudden breaks from reality, Live Science reports:
https://www.livescience.com/health/mind/ai-pinpoints-where-psychosis-originates-in-the-brain

ScienceDesk, to space
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NASA's $11 billion plan to robotically bring rock samples from Mars back to Earth is too expensive and will take too long, the agency's administrator said Monday, so officials are tasking government and private sector engineers to come up with a better plan, Ars Technica reports:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/nasa-says-it-needs-better-ideas-on-how-to-return-samples-from-mars/

ScienceDesk, (edited ) to Gold
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For centuries, goldsmiths have sought ways to flatten gold into ever finer forms. An approach based in modern chemistry has finally created a gold material that literally can't get any thinner, consisting of a single layer of atoms. Researchers have named this new two-dimensional material 'goldene', Science Alert reports:
https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-new-form-of-gold-exists-as-a-sheet-thats-just-one-atom-thick

#Gold #Atom #Newmaterial #MurakamisReagent

ScienceDesk, (edited ) to space
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A piece of metal that tore through a Florida home last month was space junk from the International Space Station, according to NASA. The 1.6-pound object was debris from a cargo pallet that had been intentionally released from the space station three years ago, NBC News reports:
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-space-station-debris-crashed-florida-home-rcna147990

ScienceDesk, to science
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One hurdle to driving an electric vehicle is range anxiety. The Indiana Department of Transportation and researchers from Purdue University are jointly addressing the fear of losing power on the road by installing underground copper coils on a stretch of highway. The coils will provide power to e-vehicles driving past. “Wouldn’t it really be something if we could just drive over the road and catch your charge for your vehicle as you drive across it?” INDOT’s Blake Dollier recently told Inside Climate News. Read their article on this test that could eventually put a dent in greenhouse gas emissions. https://flip.it/DH_d3j

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Can a vision test predict dementia long before diagnosis? A study based on over 8,000 healthy people in Norfolk, England, shows that problems with the eyes may be an early sign of cognitive decline. Researchers found that participants who developed dementia were slow to identify a triangle form in a field of moving dots during a visual sensitivity test. Read more about the study and other signs of dementia at Science Alert: https://flip.it/VEutw-

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Researchers have built a family tree for the world’s most popular type of coffee, known to scientists as Coffea arabica and to coffee lovers simply as “arabica.” Turns out your morning coffee may have been 600,000 years old. The AP tells us how a study aimed at protecting these coffee plants from climate change and pests also revealed more about how and when they came to be. https://flip.it/TkO9HC

ScienceDesk, (edited ) to science
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If you missed last week’s total solar eclipse, you’ll have seven opportunities over the next decade to bask in the shadow of the path of totality. You just might have to travel to get there. Live Science tells us what to know, from where to go, how long each will last, and more. https://flip.it/eKUvzt #Science #Eclipse #Sun #Moon #Earth

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Thanks, @kgw. Link is working now.

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In 2021, three out of 431 students who received ocean science doctorates in the U.S. were Black. The profession can be a lonely and frustrating place for people of color. So marine ecologist Tiara Moore launched the nonprofit Black In Marine Science two years after writing an article titled “The Only Black Person in the Room.” Scientific American highlights how Moore’s and other organizations are proving that the journey doesn’t have to be so long or lonely. https://flip.it/2yoDpv

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There is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe. Scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have triple-checked and confirmed that depending on where we look, the universe is expanding at bafflingly different rates. Live Science explains more, including how scientists are ruling out a measurement error as the cause of the “Hubble Tension.” https://flip.it/VDvM6g

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Scientists have documented five major mass extinction events in Earth’s history. Are we entering the sixth phase? Live Science has more on this unsettling notion, including why many researchers say yes. If you’re thinking of humans “clearing habitats, exterminating species and changing the climate,” you’re on the right path. https://flip.it/847-f0

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Planets directly influence one another, and the more massive they are, the larger their gravitational pull. Mars is a lot smaller than Earth, but new research says it has enough clout to create swirling vortices in our planet's oceans. Atlas Obscura explains: https://flip.it/R.5Vmk

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The universe is a vast, wondrous and strange place. What would happen if you traveled through it in a straight line forever? Could you return to your starting point? The key lies in understanding the expanding universe. Simple, right? Big Think unpacks it all in this head-spinning article by Ethan Siegel that will have you asking what the original question was.
https://flip.it/8r3P1l

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We blink thousands of times per day, mostly without even noticing it. Could the function improve our vision? A new study applied high-resolution tracking to investigate. Science Alert tells us what it revealed. https://flip.it/tLkkC4

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Astronomers think they’ve detected an extremely rare, luminous phenomenon known as “glory” in the hellish atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. The discovery would be the first time one of these rainbow-colored light shows has been seen outside of our solar system. Live Science reports: https://flip.it/RiSqJN

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