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2026-03-25 12:54:25 UTC

Antimatter traveled by truck for the first time.
From Science News: "Scientists at CERN transported 92 antiprotons eight kilometers across the lab grounds."
https://flip.it/nj5b0C
#Physics #CERN #Science #Antimatter

2026-03-24 13:23:41 UTC

How realistic is the new movie "Project Hail Mary?"
Two Science News journalists analyze the film adaptation of a book by science fiction author Andy Weir.
Spoilers ahead: https://flip.it/vaA1mm
#Science #Film #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Movies

2026-03-23 22:21:10 UTC

Do we really need magnesium supplements? The super mineral is feted on TikTok for its ability to cure "insomnia, constipation and existential dread," but we may be better off just eating our greens. Here's more from [@TheWeek](https://flipboard.com/@TheWeek ).
https://flip.it/jf_gfJ
#Magnesium #Nutrition #Diet #Healt

2026-03-20 19:34:38 UTC

Given enough time and exposure to a hazard, life has shown a remarkable ability to adapt to all sorts of wild conditions — from extreme heat to complete lack of oxygen to dangerous radiation levels. But for a group of people living high in the Argentinian Andes, an unusual genetic advantage has given them the ability to consume drinking water containing the highly toxic chemical element arsenic. [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ) tells us more about how scientists remain puzzled by their ability "to shrug off dangerously high arsenic levels."
https://flip.it/kifydJ
#Science #Humans #Argentina #Health #SouthAmerica

2026-03-20 18:08:39 UTC

Are scientists funny? In a survey of more than 500 presentations at biology meetings, two-thirds of attempts at humor drew polite chuckles or none at all, and only 9 percent prompted enthusiastic laughter. Almost 60% of talks included at least one attempt at humor. "That's higher than I would have thought. Good for the biologists," says Taylor Soderborg, a physician-scientist and scientific comms professional who was not involved in the study. Here's more from Nature, plus a link to the full study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Do you regularly give speeches and presentations? What's your approach to trying to add humor?
https://flip.it/Kd4zFr
https://flip.it/9fSMqZ
#Science #Humor #Research #PublicSpeaking

2026-03-19 20:15:29 UTC

Americans are getting less information about climate change through the media than at any point in the last decade. Could dance music bridge the gap? [@InsideClimate](https://flipboard.com/@InsideClimate ) has more on what climate communicators could learn from Bad Bunny:
https://flip.it/.ZpcbZ
#Science #ClimateChange #BadBunny #GlobalWarming

2026-03-19 15:59:35 UTC

Why can’t we simulate the human body the way we simulate a car or a plane?
@npub13m9…22yu has a fascinating story: How Your Virtual Twin Could One Day Save Your Life.
https://flip.it/pg8Gg8
#Science #Medicine #3DPrinting #Technology

2026-03-19 14:25:36 UTC

Inventor Beulah Louise Henry’s unstoppable rise to becoming "Lady Edison."
From @npub1dvm…weag: "With 49 patents and over 100 inventions, Henry built an empire catering to women and children."
https://flip.it/iLkz90
#Science #History #WomensHistoryMonth #Inventions

2026-03-17 12:53:58 UTC

Wild monkeys invaded Florida. Should people protect them?
Science News reports: "Without intervention, the vervets of Dania Beach could go extinct within the next century."
https://flip.it/U9jcBc
#Monkeys #Animals #Florida #Science

2026-03-16 22:48:57 UTC

Potentially good news for people with osteoporosis. Scientists from the University of Leipzig in Germany and Shandong University in China identified the cell receptor GPR133 (also known as ADGRD1) as being crucial to bone density. [@ScienceAlert](https://flipboard.com/@ScienceAlert ) shares what they discovered after running some tests on mice:
https://flip.it/uWjGo-
#Science #Health #Osteoporosis #Humans #Research

2026-03-13 18:23:07 UTC

There was a time when scientists thought that once the intensity of hurricanes, wildfires and droughts spiked enough, people would wake up to the threat of climate change. “Analogously, this great pot known as Earth is now coming to a rolling boil, yet many people remain oblivious to the pending disaster,” social sciences reporter Sujata Gupta writes. Gupta shares her experience living in northern Vermont, where trucks were once driven across Lake Champlain in the winter, and why people are slow to accept the reality of warming, for ScienceNews.com:
https://flip.it/HE5Bzm
#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateScience

2026-03-11 15:48:29 UTC

For particle physicists working with neutrinos, almost nothing is everything.
From @npub1tgp…5gaf: "Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles."
https://flip.it/WcWG4a
#Physics #Science #Neutrinos #Research

2026-03-10 18:55:51 UTC

The annual Ig Nobels, the awards for odd and funny scientific achievement, will be held outside the United States for the first time in its 36 years because of concerns about attendees' safety. The 2026 ceremony, which takes place in September ahead of the Nobel Prizes, will be held in Zurich. “We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the USA this year," Marc Abrahams, editor of event organizers the Annals of Improbable Research, told [@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ).
https://flip.it/XUTUGr
#Science #IgNobels #IgNobelPrize #TrumpAdministration #USPolitics

2026-03-06 15:09:50 UTC

No chance asteroid will slam into the moon in 2032, NASA says.
[@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ) reports: https://flip.it/x.L_Qc
#Moon #Space #NASA #Asteroid #Science

2026-03-02 22:17:31 UTC

Skywatchers across North America, Australia and Asia will be in for a treat in the dark hours of March 3 — a total lunar eclipse. @Space.com@flipboard.com has a list of the best viewing times:
https://flip.it/EnuJlg
#Science #Space #TotalEclipse #BloodRedMoon

2026-02-18 14:13:35 UTC

Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s near-freezing deep.
NBC News reports: "Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica."
https://flip.it/.I4Rse
#Sharks #Ocean #Antarctica #Science #ClimateChange

2026-02-17 15:53:37 UTC

NASA Mars rover finds new clues pointing to past life on Mars.
[@USAToday](https://flipboard.com/@USAToday ) reports: "Nearly a year ago, Curiosity came across a rock that contained signs of organic material known as fatty acids that on Earth are most often produced by living organisms."
https://flip.it/5YYdKp
#Mars #NASA #Space #Science #Life

2026-02-16 20:40:37 UTC

Dementia may seem like it hits out of nowhere, but it’s not simply absent one day and fully present the next. In fact, new science is uncovering how Alzheimer’s could be detected decades before symptoms strike. [@sciencefocus](https://flipboard.com/@sciencefocus ) has more:
https://flip.it/uB7_.8
#Science #Health #Brain #Dementia #Neurology

2026-02-11 15:13:51 UTC

Even paleontology can't escape the Jeffrey Epstein mess.
From The Daily Beast: "DinoCon banned experts named in the files, as well as executives at organizations who had not protected their members.'”
Gift link: https://flip.it/BdDiIJ
#Dinosaurs #Paleontology #JeffreyEpstein #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #DinoCon

2026-02-04 18:20:06 UTC

"Inoculation" doesn't just work to protect you against diseases. You can also psychologically prime people against persuasive attacks from media — for example, by explaining to people how deepfakes work. Here's more from @npub1gpe…88e5.
https://flip.it/HuORk4
#Psychology #Science #SocialScience #Deepfakes

2026-02-02 19:43:57 UTC

The idea that empathy is bad or dangerous is gaining popularity in conservative circles. [@cbcnews](https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews ) takes a look at if there's any scientific basis to that, and how the pandemic might have affected our ability to feel empathy.
https://flip.it/Sdmb1M
#Empathy #Science #Conservatism #USPolitics

2026-01-30 20:02:42 UTC

When massive stars die, they don’t go quietly. For years, astronomers have been able to watch these stars tear themselves apart in a bright explosion. Now they can also detect something new: radio waves. Read more from Earth.com:
https://flip.it/wx3WeC
#Science #Space #Stars #SpaceExploration

2026-01-29 20:03:24 UTC

Wouldn't it be cool to say that your home was heated by the Large Hadron Collider? A new blogpost on CERN's website says that is exactly what's happening in the French town of Ferney-Voltaire. Here's how it works.
https://flip.it/o9j30C
#CERN #Science #Technology #LargeHadronCollider #France

2026-01-21 17:05:36 UTC

The swinging sex lives of Alaska’s beluga whales.
From @npub1dvm…weag: "To survive, this isolated population of only 2,000 whales needs to be smart about mates."
https://flip.it/c8x7ar
#Whales #Animals #Science #Ecology

2026-01-20 23:58:54 UTC

A year of Trump has devastated science funding in the U.S. Nature breaks it down in this series of graphics.
https://flip.it/eN8Rix
#Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #USNews #USPolitics

2026-01-19 23:29:01 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/115923603355235745
Veronika the cow fans, here's the full text of Antonio J. Osuna-Mascaró and Alice M.I. Auersperg article for Cell Biology entitled: "Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow."
"Her behavior was systematic: the broom end served for upper, thick-skinned areas and the stick end for softer ones, showing sensitivity to the mechanical affordances of each task," wrote the authors, who conclude: "She did not fashion tools like the cow in Gary Larson’s cartoon, but she selected, adjusted, and used one with notable dexterity and flexibility. Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist."
https://flip.it/BkUYtR
#Science #Animals #Biology #Cognition #Cows
#note15vn…dw2t

2026-01-19 20:16:50 UTC

Amidst the onslaught of news, find time to watch this video of Veronika the cow, who developed the ability to use tools to scratch herself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAk4PFEuWKQ
#Science #Animals #Biology #Cognition #Cows

2026-01-14 14:31:32 UTC

Could Botox be used to treat snakebites?
From Science News: "Botulinum toxin is dangerously potent, but it may dampen inflammation from viper venom."
Free registration may be required: https://flip.it/ej7VHy
#Snake #Science #Medicine #Botox

2026-01-12 18:51:05 UTC

“What we found shows that same-sex [sexual behavior] is not like something bizarre, aberrant or rare. It’s everywhere, it’s very useful, it’s very important,” says Vincent Savolainen, co-author of a new study that shows 59 nonhuman primate species take part in same-sex sexual activities. Here's more from NBC.
https://flip.it/5HTw_4
#Science #Research #Primates #Evolution #LGBTQ

2026-01-09 16:21:42 UTC

An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance.
@npub1saa…543z has a multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries: https://flip.it/1RRCy4
#Science #Trump #USPolitics #News

2026-01-05 15:24:13 UTC

6 science milestones turning 40 this year, from @npub1dvm…weag.
"In 1986, we had huge leaps forward, tragic steps back, and life-changing innovations."
https://flip.it/oaqEki
#Science #Milestones #Tech

2025-12-09 14:15:04 UTC

The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras.
From [@NewScientist](https://flipboard.com/@NewScientist ): "How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis from scratch – and may have ended up creating something even more intriguing."
https://flip.it/HxPvcI
#NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #Space #Science #Astronomy

2025-12-07 22:56:26 UTC

Scientists thought they may have stumbled upon a positive result from climate change: plants growing faster when CO2 levels increase could result in more food. The hope was short-lived. Read more from @npub1dsv…3u3r:
https://flip.it/3PGA.v
#Science #ClimateChange #Food #FoodInsecurity #Earth

2025-12-05 22:11:31 UTC

Why do we have two small nostrils instead of one big one? Here's @popsci@flipboard.com with the answer.
https://flip.it/jn0.W_
#Science #Health #Anatomy #Biology

2025-12-04 21:06:52 UTC

Here's a superb seasonal science Storyboard from our friends at @npub1tgp…5gaf, with stories on everything from how snowflakes grow to why being a Grinch is bad for your health.
https://flipboard.com/@knowablemag/science-stories-for-the-holiday-season-t4qg7p5qa2i3j792
#Science #Christmas #Winter #Bears #Mistletoe #Champagne #Snowflakes

2025-12-01 20:55:09 UTC

Today is World AIDS Day. Andrea Teagle writes for @npub1tgp…5gaf about the two trials that suggest "functional cures" may be within reach.
https://flip.it/LD3prk
#WorldAIDSDay #Medicine #Health #HIV #Research #Science

2025-11-27 19:42:31 UTC

Australia is on course to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035, thanks to the HPV vaccination program, which launched there in 2007 for girls, and in 2013 for boys. In 2021, there were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women under 25. Here's more from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
https://flip.it/z3epaP
#Health #Science #Vaccination #CervicalCancer #Australia

2025-11-18 17:00:45 UTC

Flying with whales: How drones are remaking marine mammal research.
From @npub1tgp…5gaf: "From collecting whale snot to capturing surprising behaviors, aerial drones are giving scientists a new view of life at sea."
https://flip.it/f6e9oA
#Whales #Ocean #Science #MarineBiology #Animals

2025-11-14 21:40:38 UTC

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Oh, does mixed-handed mean uses right for some purposes and left for others?

2025-11-14 21:15:07 UTC

Only 10 to 15 percent of people are left-handed. @popsci@flipboard.com explains the science behind it. Does the fediverse mirror the world? Vote in our poll!
https://flip.it/TdSpII
#Science #Biology #Evolution #Handedness #Genetics

2025-11-03 20:10:26 UTC

Did Bill Gates add fuel to climate deniers by arguing for more funding for global health and putting less focus on reversing climate change? France24's program The Debate explores the topic in this episode:
https://flip.it/3-ss3B
#Science #ClimateChange #BillGates #Cop30 #GlobalWarming

2025-10-31 15:35:22 UTC

Animals that eat poisons and don’t die.
From @npub1tgp…5gaf: "Critters consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way."
https://flip.it/snbVxA
#Animals #Science #Zoology #Evolution

2025-10-30 15:51:50 UTC

Scientists need a positive vision for AI, say two scholars from Harvard University in an article for @npub13m9…22yu.
They argue: "It’s time to lead reform, block harm, and advance the public good."
https://flip.it/8Hd-RR
#AI #Science #ArtificialIntelligence #Ethics #Tech

2025-10-23 23:08:20 UTC

Postpartum depression is one of the most common complications of childbirth — about one in eight people experience it after giving birth. @npub1tgp…5gaf reports on a new blood test that can predict pregnant people's risk for the condition so they can take steps to reduce the likelihood of its onset.
https://flip.it/x6ZYxE
#Health #Medicine #WomensHealth #Pregnancy #MentalHealth #PostPartumDepression

2025-10-23 16:02:06 UTC

AI is changing our understanding of earthquakes.
From @npub1tgp…5gaf: "Machine learning is expanding scientists’ catalogs of quakes and refining maps of underground faults. It also promises to improve quake forecasts."
https://flip.it/e1gpNZ
#Earthquake #AI #Science #ArtificialIntelligence #Seismology

2025-10-22 20:04:06 UTC

More good news on the vaccine front! New research published in Nature indicates that the COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved millions of lives may also help the immune system fight cancer. Two of the scientists involved in the study break things down for @npub1gpe…88e5. At the second link, find the original paper.
https://flip.it/FFpWrq
https://flip.it/vx6Omk
#Vaccination #Vaccines #COVID19 #MRNA #Health #Science #Medicine #Cancer #Immunology

2025-10-22 12:51:28 UTC

How worried should we be about noxious chemicals from dead satellites?
[@NewScientist](https://flipboard.com/@NewScientist ) explores the question: https://flip.it/bjYI38
#Space #Pollution #Science

2025-10-10 17:52:25 UTC

Have you ever marveled at the way insects tuck away their wings or stretch their necks to many times their body length? @npub1tgp…5gaf explains animal origami, and how it might inspire human innovation.
https://flip.it/xKOG9_
#Nature #Biology #Entomology #Insects #Science

2025-10-01 18:10:51 UTC

Jane Goodall, the primatologist and conservationist, has died at age 91. Here's more from NBC.
https://flip.it/gtshQ9
#JaneGoodall #Primatology #Conservation #Chimpanzees #Biology #Zoology #RIP #InMemoriam

2025-09-27 19:05:23 UTC

The giant trees of the Amazon are fighting back. The rainforest’s largest trees are multiplying and growing even bigger while continuing to play a major role in mitigating the impacts of climate change. Read more from NBC News:
https://flip.it/w1PSGT
#Science #ClimateChange #Amazon #Trees #GlobalWarming

2025-09-24 20:41:24 UTC

Will nobody think of the anti-vaxxers? Groups like Georgia Coalition for Vaccine Choice and Children's Health Defence (CHD) aren't sure what to make of Trump and Kennedy's announcement in which they blamed Tylenol for the rise of autism, and touted folinic acid as a potential treatment for it. "We didn’t wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer," Georgia Coalition for Vaccine Choice wrote on Facebook in a post that appears to have been deleted. Here's more from @npub15wh…e9hw.
https://flip.it/KM8-tw
#Tylenol #Autism #Antivaxxers #Vaccines #MMR #Health #Medicine

2025-09-22 21:17:23 UTC

AI needs massive amounts of computing power to run its large language models. Data centers need massive amounts of electricity. Put it all together and it’s fair to ask: Is AI throwing our climate under the bus? Listen in as editors and reporters at Inside Climate News discuss the prospects for big tech and clean energy under the Trump administration, and more:
https://flip.it/lsrZCx
#Science #ClimateChange #Tech #AI #Environment #GlobalWarming

2025-09-21 22:58:01 UTC

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has accused China of funding lawsuits in order to cripple U.S. oil and gas producers. Does Cruz have evidence? Read more from [@npr](https://flipboard.com/@npr ):
https://flip.it/VY.Rsi
#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #China #TedCruz #Politics

2025-09-15 21:50:09 UTC

Just how dire is the immunization situation in the U.S.? Childhood vaccination rates in fewer than four in 10 counties where data is collected meet the threshold to prevent disease outbreaks. Use NBC's map to determine how protected your community is.
https://flip.it/MEht9r
#Health #Science #Vaccination #Immunization #USPolitics #MAHA #RobertFKennedyJr #RFK

2025-09-10 15:46:25 UTC

Are "SwiftQuakes" a real thing? Seismologists investigate the impact of Taylor Swift concerts.
@npub1dvm…weag reports: https://flip.it/w657tW
#Earthquake #TaylorSwift #Seismology #Science #Music #PopCulture

2025-09-08 12:58:46 UTC

A sixth mass extinction? Not so fast, some scientists say.
From Science News: "A new analysis suggests recent extinctions have been rare, limited to islands and slowing."
https://flip.it/h.BcEa
#Extinction #Evolution #Science #Ecology #ClimateChange

2025-09-04 14:38:37 UTC

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying before the Senate today.
How his misguided science on mRNA vaccines is shaping policy. A vaccine expert examines the false claims for @npub1gpe…88e5.
https://flip.it/hrRRLP
#RFKJr #Vaccines #Health #Science #USPolitics

2025-09-03 18:10:58 UTC

Florida's surgeon general has announced that the state will eliminate all vaccine mandates, describing them as "immoral." “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," he said during a press conference.
https://flip.it/xFWPfY
#Health #Science #Vaccines #AntiVaxxers #Florida #MAHA

2025-09-02 20:56:11 UTC

Elizabeth Finkel, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University, Australia, looks at the Trump administration's constant, baseless skepticism, philosopher Karl Popper's definition of science as the search for truth, and how the scientific method — gathering and testing of facts — is the basis for democratic institutions. "The history of authoritarian regimes tells us when ideologues take over science, it does not end well," writes Finkel for @npub16pq…dujn. "It was the Nazi takeover of German universities that saw the likes of Einstein seek refuge in the US — and turned America into a scientific superpower."
https://flip.it/MpQzWe
#Science #ScientificMethod #TrumpAdministration #Kennedy #Trump #Philosophy

2025-09-01 22:05:07 UTC

Climate change acknowledged on Fox News? Yes, it’s true. Why GOP lawmakers should reclaim (enter?) the climate discussion.
https://flip.it/FD55gh
#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Politics

2025-09-01 19:08:06 UTC

Music isn’t only meant to be listened to. It evokes genuine feelings of companionship by sparking social imagination. A new study out of Sydney has shown for the first time empirically that music can indeed keep you company by facilitating imagined social interactions. Read more from neurosciencenews.com: https://flip.it/fMVcnb
#Science #Music #Health #Mentalhealth #Friendship #Psychology #Neuroscience

2025-08-29 22:40:39 UTC

A new psychological study published in the Journal of Personality says that people who report favorable views of President Donald Trump tend to score higher than those with other views on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits, and lower on empathy and compassion. The study started as a result of the 2016 election and was conducted via two large surveys of over 9,000 participants from the United States. Here's a report from science news site PsyPost, plus the original study at the second link.
https://flip.it/CKxKkq
https://flip.it/Zhh7WM
#Science #Medicine #Psychology #Research #DonaldTrump #MAGA

2025-08-28 23:21:10 UTC

Hundreds of former and current staffers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and private citizens are rallying outside the agency's headquarters to show respect for director Susan Monarez and several members of staff who resigned in protest at her ousting. The White House has appointed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s deputy, Jim O'Neill, as the new acting CDC director. Monarez's lawyers told NBC News that she has not been lawfully fired, since the only person with authority to do that is President Trump. In an interview today, Dr. Debra Houry, the CDC's chief medical officer and one of the people who resigned yesterday said, "We reached our tipping point...America's public health is significantly in danger."
https://flip.it/DYCT0o
#CDC #CentersForDiseaseControl #Health #Medicine #Science #TrumpAdministration #RFKJr #USNews #Vaccines #AntiVax

2025-08-27 22:49:15 UTC

The U.S. FDA has approved COVID-19 shots for fall, but with new restrictions that make affect what insurers cover. Here's more from NBC.
https://flip.it/AGRH6z
#USNews #Health #Science #Medicine #COVID19 #Covid #Vaccination

2025-08-19 23:13:41 UTC

Walking can be good for your health, but how much you do of it isn't necessarily down to motivation. A new study of more than 5,400 people demonstrated that the design of the place you live affects the number of steps you take. Those who live in walkable places take on average 1,100 steps a day more than people in locations that are designed for getting around by car. Dr. Laura Rosella, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Toronto, told @cbc@flipboard.com that several high-quality studies point to decreased risk of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and pre-diabetes as well as mental health benefits from more walkable cities.
https://flip.it/T3wrjv
#Health #Science #Medicine #Walkability #UrbanPlanning #Design

2025-08-14 14:38:40 UTC

When the U.S. almost nuked Alaska — on purpose.
From @npub1dvm…weag: "Project Chariot intended to detonate six bombs to build a harbor."
https://flip.it/1gxPSr
#Alaska #Nuclear #History #Science

2025-08-11 18:59:08 UTC

A pancreatic cancer vaccine is showing promise in early trials, NBC News reports. Currently, the five-year survival rate in the disease is about 13%, and about 80% of cancers may come back. This vaccine targets one of the most common genetic drivers of cancer, KRAS gene mutations, and is designed to teach immune cells to recognize and attack cells with those mutations. The trial included 20 people with pancreatic cancer and five with colorectal cancer (KRAS mutations are also a common driver of those) who had already been treated with surgery and chemotherapy, but still had cancer cells. About 85% of the participants mounted an immune response to the KRAS mutations, and about two-thirds of those had an immune response that appears to be robust enough to tackle lingering cancer cells.
https://flip.it/fIK5AY
#Science #Medicine #Cancer #PancreaticCancer #Research #Health

2025-08-04 19:09:50 UTC

A team of researchers on the U.S. west coast has identified a bacteria that has killed more than six billion sea stars since 2013. Evidence points to climate change. Read more from InsideClimateNews.com: https://flip.it/twOJxA
#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Ocean #Animals

2025-08-01 19:07:45 UTC

There's a narrative in some circles that COVID-19 restrictions went too far — and some of those people look to Sweden's "let it rip" approach to support their arguments, including the authors of a new book, "In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us." Ryan Cooper explains why the Swedish example is a faulty one, because of the country's household structures, world-class public health care and high-trust population, and the fact that the country did actually implement some fairly strict COVID-19 measures. "We already know what happened when COVID was allowed to run wild in a country without any of Sweden’s advantages," Cooper writes. "That was what unfolded in Peru, a weak state with a rickety hospital system that was unable to implement its attempted lockdown. It was a charnel house, with about 220,000 official COVID deaths — almost three times the rate of Sweden, or more than seven times that of New Zealand — and that is almost certainly a large underestimate."
https://flip.it/Y1Onzt
#Health #Medicine #COVID #Sweden #Books #Science #BadScience @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-07-27 21:58:26 UTC

Svalbard, Norway, is the world’s most northern town. It’s not as cold as it used to be, which has climate scientists wondering “if we’ve been too cautious with our climate warnings." Read more from [@404media](https://flipboard.com/@404media ):
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#Science #ClimateChagne #GlobalWarming #Norway

2025-07-21 22:09:02 UTC

When we read the headline of this story, we thought it meant the robot could “run” — like sprinting or jogging. However, a robot that can change its own battery is, as [@LiveScience](https://flipboard.com/@LiveScience ) says, “unsettling” and worth posting. Read about the 5-foot-3, 95-pound Walker S2 and watch video of its uniquely flexible shoulders in action:
https://flip.it/GFa1X2
#Science #Robots #ScienceNews #Robotics

2025-07-19 22:56:43 UTC

The rapid rise in rocket launches may be slowing the recovery of the ozone layer, a scientist warns. Read more from phys.org:
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#Science #Space #Rockets #Ozone

2025-07-13 19:23:56 UTC

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth is going up for auction this week and is expected to fetch $2 million to $4 million (Oh, the things money can buy you). The 54-pound rock is believed to have been blown off the Red Planet’s surface in an asteroid strike and was found in Niger in 2023. [@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress ) has more:
https://flip.it/sEG38_
#Science #Earth #ScienceNews #Mars

2025-07-11 14:50:56 UTC

Should you keep eggs in the fridge? Europeans and Americans have different answers. But what does the science say?
@npub1dvm…weag takes a look: https://flip.it/7AGM-Y
#Eggs #Food #Science #Groceries

2025-07-09 12:48:30 UTC

Why it’s so hard to warn people about flash floods.
From @npub1j30…tme2: "People usually only have hours of notice in advance. The disaster in Texas was a worst-case scenario."
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#TexasFloods #Texas #CampMystic #Weather #Flood #News

2025-07-02 21:47:59 UTC

Humans are natural problem solvers, which is why so many people love gaming. Jeff Yoshimi, author of "Gaming Cancer," argues that building and playing video games could help advance scientific discovery — and that it's already happening. "An EteRNA Eterna challenge (the “OpenVaccine Challenge”) from a few years ago asked game players to help design RNA molecules for Covid vaccines that do not require ultra-cold storage, allowing for easier storage and transport, which is especially crucial in developing parts of the world< he writes for MIT Press Reader. "Although attribution is tricky, the challenge was a success; vaccines today are more stable at room temperature than they were before."
https://flip.it/m6dNPp
#Science #VideoGames #Technology #Tech #CitizenScience #Books @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-06-26 23:41:56 UTC

An anti-vaccine activist gave a presentation at the CDC's vaccine advisory committee today about the supposed risks of thimerosal. Lynn Redwood, a nurse practitioner who is president emerita of Children's Health Defense, claimed that the preservative is linked to brain inflammation, which she said was "one of the hallmarks we see in autism." Any association between thimerosal and autism has been widely debunked. Nevertheless, after her presentation, the committee voted 5-1 to recommend that children, adults and pregnant people get thimerosal-free flu vaccines. Here's NBC News's story about it. At the second link, find @npub1gpe…88e5's story by a pharmacist and drug safety expert.
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#Health #Science #Vaccines #AntiVaxx #Thimerosal #Pharmaceuticals #Vaccination

2025-06-18 21:33:53 UTC

On June 9, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and two days later, announced eight new members including public health contrarians and anti-vaxxers. The fired experts have now written an editorial for JAMA. "We are deeply concerned that these destabilizing decisions, made without clear rationale, may roll back the achievements of US immunization policy, impact people’s access to lifesaving vaccines, and ultimately put US families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses," they wrote. Here's @npub15wh…e9hw's story about it; at the second link, find the JAMA article.
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#Health #Science #Vaccines #AntiVaxx #RFKJr #RobertFKennedyJr #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration

2025-06-17 20:22:18 UTC

Alaska has just issued its first heat advisory, which finishes today, warning of temperatures as high as 88 deg F (31 deg C). That might not see like much if you live in areas that typically experience warm weather, but, as @npub1pzp…etfp explains, Alaska's long hours of sunlight and an infrastructure designed for a cold climate mean it presents real health challenges.
https://flip.it/5T623i
#Science #Climate #Weather #Alaska #USA #WeatherWarning #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

2025-06-16 21:24:09 UTC

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired or let go hundreds of climate and weather scientists during his second term. E&E News by Politico tells us how Trump is crippling the government's ability to research climate change:
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#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump

2025-06-11 22:11:06 UTC

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named eight new members to a government panel of vaccine advisors after firing the previous committee. These include Dr. Robert Malone, a physician who has propagated COVID-19 misinformation, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a biostatistician and epidemiologist who was dismissed from Harvard Medical School after blasting the university's handling of the pandemic, and Vicky Pebsworth, who has a PhD in public health and serves on the board of The National Vaccine Information Center, widely regarded as an anti-vaccine group. Here's more from CNBC.
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#Health #Science #Vaccines #AntiVaxxers #Vaccination #RFKJr #RobertFKennedy

2025-06-10 11:56:42 UTC

What happens when our brain goes blank.
@npub1dvm…weag reports: "Humans experience an empty mind up to 20 percent of the time."
https://flip.it/oa2Urg
#Brain #Neuroscience #Science

2025-06-06 22:21:55 UTC

The NB.1.8.1 variant of COVID-19 — dubbed "razor-blade throat" — is circulating. Julia Doubleday has broken down the most important information you need to know about mitigating its spread this summer, from the proportion of infections that are asymptomatic to the accuracy rate of rapid antigen tests.
https://flip.it/WFlFjP
#COVID19 #COVID #Health #Science #COVIDSymptoms #Coronavirus #Vaccines #Masks

2025-06-05 22:10:54 UTC

The largest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observing program has finalized its release of what it discovered in the area it mapped — 780,000 galaxies. Big Think's resident astrophysicist, Ethan Siegel, breaks down what that might mean.
https://flip.it/Y3jIYi
#Science #Astrophysics #Space #JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #COSMOSWeb

2025-06-03 21:32:54 UTC

The modern era has its chemtrails and anti-vax conspiracies. In the 17th-20th centuries, one of the nonsense theories circulating was spontaneous human combustion. Torsos would be found burnt to a crisp, with their extremities and surroundings untouched — this would often be characterized as a punishment for vices. @npub1dvm…weag looks at possible science behind the phenomenon — something called the "wick effect" — and how they became "Enlightenment-era clickbait."
https://flip.it/1cF_4O
#Science #Clickbait #SpontaneousCombustion #ConspiracyTheories

2025-05-22 16:46:26 UTC

The lifecycle of a research grant in the U.S. @npub1gpe…88e5 goes behind the scenes of the system that funds science.
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#Science #Research #NIH #NSF

2025-05-12 21:42:20 UTC

What can we learn from a 1985 Salmonella outbreak caused by contaminated milk that killed at least 12 people?
From @npub1gpe…88e5: "Revisiting this investigation and its outcome provides lessons on how food safety inspections go hand in hand with consumer protection and public health, especially as hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses rise."
https://flip.it/EAr8XU
#Salmonella #FoodSafety #Disease #PublicHealth #Science

2025-05-09 16:58:06 UTC

Progress in science and medicine isn't the only thing threatened by President Trump's budget cuts, Also at stake is ethical oversight. Without federal dollars, society’s health and safety are at risk, argue two professors.
From @npub1gpe…88e5: https://flip.it/Vq3yQe
#Science #Medicine #Ethics #Trump #USPolitics

2025-05-06 21:39:18 UTC

"A sea culture tradition spanning generations may have given the people of an isolated South Korean island a unique set of genetic 'superpowers'," DW reports. Here's their story about the Haenyeo — literally "sea women" — of Jeju Island, 53 miles south of the South Korean mainland. From adolescence these women learn to deep dive to harvest food from the seabed. Researchers believe that they are now genetically adapted to dive longer than other humans, have lower blood pressure and enhanced cold-water tolerance. Here's a look at how that knowledge might be applied to develop new medical therapies.
https://flip.it/1xSkEn
#Science #Medicine #SouthKorea #JejuIsland #Diving #Genes #Darwin #GeneticAdaptation

2025-04-30 22:02:33 UTC

What does it feel like to be a science journalist — or any kind of journalist — in the USA right now? Talia Lavin talked to Deborah Blum, director of the Knight Science Journalism Center at MIT, a specialist in toxicology, and the woman who literally wrote the book on the history of U.S. food regulations. "As a country, we tend to suffer from what I think of as regulatory memory failure. We don't have a sense of what things were like before regulations went into play. Most Americans don't really have a sense of what the environmental landscape of the United States looked like before the EPA, for instance," says Blum. "Instead, we demonize regulation, when often we're really talking about consumer protection. And when we're talking consumer protection, we're talking about protection for every American citizen. But until you have those kinds of universal standards in place, the people who suffer the most are going to be the people who can't afford the good stuff."
https://flip.it/EEAN0S
#Journalism #ScienceJournalism #Media #FoodSafety #RFK #EPA #Regulation #USA #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #Food

2025-04-30 19:13:24 UTC

A dead Soviet space probe from 1972 is falling back to Earth.
@npub1dvm…weag reports: "Kosmos 482 poses small risks 'similar to that of a meteorite impact.'"
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For similar stories, follow [@jaw-dropping-space-stuff-PopularScience](https://flipboard.com/@popularscience/jaw-dropping-space-stuff-gstrlh0lz ).
#Space #Soviet #Russia #Science

2025-04-24 17:31:17 UTC

Can the legal system catch up with climate science?
From @npub15wh…e9hw: "Dartmouth's Christopher Callahan and Justin Mankin ... argue that we can now assign monetary values to the damage caused by emissions that can be traced back to individual companies."
https://flip.it/f2yyZb
#ClimateChange #Climate #FossilFuels #Science #Law

2025-04-15 13:51:04 UTC

Could Spinosaurus swim? The fierce dinosaur ignites debate.
From Science News (registration may be required): https://flip.it/8TqW7M
#Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Science

2025-04-14 13:55:09 UTC

Blue Origin completes space trip featuring all-female crew.
NBC News reports: "Today’s female-only spaceflight was the first since 1963, when Valentina Tereshkova of the former Soviet Union became the first woman in space."
https://flip.it/trsIsU
#BlueOrigin #Space #Astronaut #Women

2025-04-11 23:01:35 UTC

In contrast to the popular idea of black holes constantly "gobbling up" matter, they can spend long periods of time in a dormant, inactive phase. But sometimes, they pop back to life. Such was the case with the black hole at the center of an unremarkable galaxy some 300 light-years away. The gravitational monster "suddenly lit up and recently began producing unprecedented flashes of X-ray light.” Read about it from phys.org:
https://flip.it/_0u79-
#Science #Space #BlackHoles #BackYardAstronomy

2025-04-09 19:17:24 UTC

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to bolster the country’s declining coal industry, relaxing restrictions on coal mining, leasing and exports in what the White House said was an effort to meet the energy-intensive needs of artificial intelligence data centers. NBC News reports:
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/trump-signs-executive-order-boost-us-coal-industry-part-fuel-artificia-rcna200269
#Trump #Coal #AI #Mining #WhiteHouse #Energy

2025-04-08 17:22:34 UTC

Do insects feel pain? Bugs are everywhere in farming and research — but insect welfare is just catching up.
An ethics professor explores the issue in an essay for [@ConversationUS](https://flipboard.com/@ConversationUS ): https://flip.it/_1Ow1u
#Insects #Ethics #Science #Research #Animals

2025-04-06 22:32:11 UTC

After another explosive start to tornado season, twisters are cropping up in unexpected places around the United States. In a 48-hour period earlier this month, 31 tornadoes were reported across the country. Scientists are baffled. Read more from [@sciencefocus](https://flipboard.com/@sciencefocus ):
https://flip.it/DS6_YH
#Science #Earth #Storms #Weather #USA

2025-04-03 17:08:16 UTC

3-year-old discovers 3,800-year-old treasure during a family outing in Israel.
From NBC News: "Experts identified the find as a Canaanite seal or scarab."
https://flip.it/hi8xFf
#Archaeology #History #MiddleEast

2025-03-27 20:49:27 UTC

McKenna Oxenden is her own best advocate. She learned this after years of excruciating pain, popping ibuprofen like candy, and doctors dismissing her pain as normal, nothing to worry about. Finally after three years, she got a diagnosis — endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease that impacts 6.5 million women in the United States alone. Oxenden writes about her experience for Houston Landing, shedding light on why a diagnosis can take so long:
https://flip.it/__CWBb
#Science #Health #Disease #Endometreosis