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Antimatter traveled by truck for the first time. From Science ...

2026-03-25T12:54:25Z

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

How realistic is the new movie "Project Hail Mary?" Two ...

2026-03-24T13:23:41Z

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

Do we really need magnesium supplements? The super mineral is ...

2026-03-23T22:21:10Z

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

Given enough time and exposure to a hazard, life has shown a ...

2026-03-20T19:34:38Z

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

Are scientists funny? In a survey of more than 500 presentations ...

2026-03-20T18:08:39Z

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

Americans are getting less information about climate change ...

2026-03-19T20:15:29Z

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

Why can’t we simulate the human body the way we simulate a car ...

2026-03-19T15:59:35Z

Why can’t we simulate the human body the way we simulate a car or a plane?

IEEE Spectrum (npub13m9…22yu) has a fascinating story: How Your Virtual Twin Could One Day Save Your Life.

https://flip.it/pg8Gg8

#Science #Medicine #3DPrinting #Technology

Inventor Beulah Louise Henry’s unstoppable rise to becoming ...

2026-03-19T14:25:36Z

Inventor Beulah Louise Henry’s unstoppable rise to becoming "Lady Edison."

From Popular Science (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

Wild monkeys invaded Florida. Should people protect them? Science ...

2026-03-17T12:53:58Z

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

Potentially good news for people with osteoporosis. Scientists ...

2026-03-16T22:48:57Z

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

There was a time when scientists thought that once the intensity ...

2026-03-13T18:23:07Z

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

For particle physicists working with neutrinos, almost nothing is ...

2026-03-11T15:48:29Z

For particle physicists working with neutrinos, almost nothing is everything.

From Knowable Magazine (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

The annual Ig Nobels, the awards for odd and funny scientific ...

2026-03-10T18:55:51Z

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

No chance asteroid will slam into the moon in 2032, NASA says. ...

2026-03-06T15:09:50Z

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

Skywatchers across North America, Australia and Asia will be in ...

2026-03-02T22:17:31Z

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

Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s ...

2026-02-18T14:13:35Z

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

NASA Mars rover finds new clues pointing to past life on Mars. ...

2026-02-17T15:53:37Z

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

Dementia may seem like it hits out of nowhere, but it’s not ...

2026-02-16T20:40:37Z

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

Even paleontology can't escape the Jeffrey Epstein mess. From ...

2026-02-11T15:13:51Z

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

"Inoculation" doesn't just work to protect you ...

2026-02-04T18:20:06Z

"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 The Conversation U.S. (npub1gpe…88e5).

https://flip.it/HuORk4

#Psychology #Science #SocialScience #Deepfakes

The idea that empathy is bad or dangerous is gaining popularity ...

2026-02-02T19:43:57Z

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

When massive stars die, they don’t go quietly. For years, ...

2026-01-30T20:02:42Z

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

Wouldn't it be cool to say that your home was heated by the ...

2026-01-29T20:03:24Z

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

The swinging sex lives of Alaska’s beluga whales. From ...

2026-01-21T17:05:36Z

The swinging sex lives of Alaska’s beluga whales.

From Popular Science (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

A year of Trump has devastated science funding in the U.S. Nature ...

2026-01-20T23:58:54Z

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

RE: https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/115923603355235745 ...

2026-01-19T23:29:01Z

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

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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

Amidst the onslaught of news, find time to watch this video of ...

2026-01-19T20:16:50Z

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

Could Botox be used to treat snakebites? From Science News: ...

2026-01-14T14:31:32Z

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

“What we found shows that same-sex [sexual behavior] is not ...

2026-01-12T18:51:05Z

“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

An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal ...

2026-01-09T16:21:42Z

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.

STAT (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

6 science milestones turning 40 this year, from @npub1dvm…weag. ...

2026-01-05T15:24:13Z

6 science milestones turning 40 this year, from Popular Science (npub1dvm…weag).

"In 1986, we had huge leaps forward, tragic steps back, and life-changing innovations."

https://flip.it/oaqEki

#Science #Milestones #Tech

The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras. ...

2025-12-09T14:15:04Z

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

Scientists thought they may have stumbled upon a positive result ...

2025-12-07T22:56:26Z

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 The Conversation Climate News (npub1dsv…3u3r):

https://flip.it/3PGA.v

#Science #ClimateChange #Food #FoodInsecurity #Earth

Why do we have two small nostrils instead of one big one? ...

2025-12-05T22:11:31Z

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

Here's a superb seasonal science Storyboard from our friends ...

2025-12-04T21:06:52Z

Here's a superb seasonal science Storyboard from our friends at Knowable Magazine (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

Today is World AIDS Day. Andrea Teagle writes for ...

2025-12-01T20:55:09Z

Today is World AIDS Day. Andrea Teagle writes for Knowable Magazine (npub1tgp…5gaf) about the two trials that suggest "functional cures" may be within reach.

https://flip.it/LD3prk

#WorldAIDSDay #Medicine #Health #HIV #Research #Science

Australia is on course to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035, ...

2025-11-27T19:42:31Z

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

Flying with whales: How drones are remaking marine mammal ...

2025-11-18T17:00:45Z

Flying with whales: How drones are remaking marine mammal research.

From Knowable Magazine (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

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

2025-11-14T21:40:38Z

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

Only 10 to 15 percent of people are left-handed. ...

2025-11-14T21:15:07Z

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

Did Bill Gates add fuel to climate deniers by arguing for more ...

2025-11-03T20:10:26Z

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:

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#Science #ClimateChange #BillGates #Cop30 #GlobalWarming

Animals that eat poisons and don’t die. From @npub1tgp…5gaf: ...

2025-10-31T15:35:22Z

Animals that eat poisons and don’t die.

From Knowable Magazine (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

Scientists need a positive vision for AI, say two scholars from ...

2025-10-30T15:51:50Z

Scientists need a positive vision for AI, say two scholars from Harvard University in an article for IEEE Spectrum (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

Postpartum depression is one of the most common complications of ...

2025-10-23T23:08:20Z

Postpartum depression is one of the most common complications of childbirth — about one in eight people experience it after giving birth. Knowable Magazine (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

AI is changing our understanding of earthquakes. From ...

2025-10-23T16:02:06Z

AI is changing our understanding of earthquakes.

From Knowable Magazine (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

More good news on the vaccine front! New research published in ...

2025-10-22T20:04:06Z

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 The Conversation U.S. (npub1gpe…88e5). At the second link, find the original paper.

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#Vaccination #Vaccines #COVID19 #MRNA #Health #Science #Medicine #Cancer #Immunology

How worried should we be about noxious chemicals from dead ...

2025-10-22T12:51:28Z

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

Have you ever marveled at the way insects tuck away their wings ...

2025-10-10T17:52:25Z

Have you ever marveled at the way insects tuck away their wings or stretch their necks to many times their body length? Knowable Magazine (npub1tgp…5gaf) explains animal origami, and how it might inspire human innovation.

https://flip.it/xKOG9_

#Nature #Biology #Entomology #Insects #Science

Jane Goodall, the primatologist and conservationist, has died at ...

2025-10-01T18:10:51Z

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

The giant trees of the Amazon are fighting back. The ...

2025-09-27T19:05:23Z

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

Will nobody think of the anti-vaxxers? Groups like Georgia ...

2025-09-24T20:41:24Z

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 Ars Technica (npub15wh…e9hw).

https://flip.it/KM8-tw

#Tylenol #Autism #Antivaxxers #Vaccines #MMR #Health #Medicine

AI needs massive amounts of computing power to run its large ...

2025-09-22T21:17:23Z

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

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has accused China of funding lawsuits in ...

2025-09-21T22:58:01Z

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

Just how dire is the immunization situation in the U.S.? ...

2025-09-15T21:50:09Z

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

Are "SwiftQuakes" a real thing? Seismologists investigate ...

2025-09-10T15:46:25Z

Are "SwiftQuakes" a real thing? Seismologists investigate the impact of Taylor Swift concerts.

Popular Science (npub1dvm…weag) reports: https://flip.it/w657tW

#Earthquake #TaylorSwift #Seismology #Science #Music #PopCulture

A sixth mass extinction? Not so fast, some scientists say. From ...

2025-09-08T12:58:46Z

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

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ...

2025-09-04T14:38:37Z

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 The Conversation U.S. (npub1gpe…88e5).

https://flip.it/hrRRLP

#RFKJr #Vaccines #Health #Science #USPolitics

Florida's surgeon general has announced that the state will ...

2025-09-03T18:10:58Z

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

Elizabeth Finkel, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe ...

2025-09-02T20:56:11Z

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 The Conversation AU + NZ (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

Climate change acknowledged on Fox News? Yes, it’s true. Why ...

2025-09-01T22:05:07Z

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

Music isn’t only meant to be listened to. It evokes genuine ...

2025-09-01T19:08:06Z

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

A new psychological study published in the Journal of Personality ...

2025-08-29T22:40:39Z

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

Hundreds of former and current staffers from the U.S. Centers for ...

2025-08-28T23:21:10Z

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

The U.S. FDA has approved COVID-19 shots for fall, but with new ...

2025-08-27T22:49:15Z

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

Walking can be good for your health, but how much you do of it ...

2025-08-19T23:13:41Z

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.

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#Health #Science #Medicine #Walkability #UrbanPlanning #Design

When the U.S. almost nuked Alaska — on purpose. From ...

2025-08-14T14:38:40Z

When the U.S. almost nuked Alaska — on purpose.

From Popular Science (npub1dvm…weag): "Project Chariot intended to detonate six bombs to build a harbor."

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#Alaska #Nuclear #History #Science

A pancreatic cancer vaccine is showing promise in early trials, ...

2025-08-11T18:59:08Z

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.

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#Science #Medicine #Cancer #PancreaticCancer #Research #Health

A team of researchers on the U.S. west coast has identified a ...

2025-08-04T19:09:50Z

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

There's a narrative in some circles that COVID-19 ...

2025-08-01T19:07:45Z

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."

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#Health #Medicine #COVID #Sweden #Books #Science #BadScience bookstodon group (npub1ny7…uv57)

Svalbard, Norway, is the world’s most northern town. It’s not ...

2025-07-27T21:58:26Z

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

When we read the headline of this story, we thought it meant the ...

2025-07-21T22:09:02Z

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:

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#Science #Robots #ScienceNews #Robotics

The rapid rise in rocket launches may be slowing the recovery of ...

2025-07-19T22:56:43Z

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

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth is going up for ...

2025-07-13T19:23:56Z

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:

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#Science #Earth #ScienceNews #Mars

Should you keep eggs in the fridge? Europeans and Americans have ...

2025-07-11T14:50:56Z

Should you keep eggs in the fridge? Europeans and Americans have different answers. But what does the science say?

Popular Science (npub1dvm…weag) takes a look: https://flip.it/7AGM-Y

#Eggs #Food #Science #Groceries

Why it’s so hard to warn people about flash floods. From ...

2025-07-09T12:48:30Z

Why it’s so hard to warn people about flash floods.

From theverge (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

Humans are natural problem solvers, which is why so many people ...

2025-07-02T21:47:59Z

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."

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#Science #VideoGames #Technology #Tech #CitizenScience #Books bookstodon group (npub1ny7…uv57)

An anti-vaccine activist gave a presentation at the CDC's ...

2025-06-26T23:41:56Z

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 The Conversation U.S. (npub1gpe…88e5)'s story by a pharmacist and drug safety expert.

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#Health #Science #Vaccines #AntiVaxx #Thimerosal #Pharmaceuticals #Vaccination

On June 9, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. ...

2025-06-18T21:33:53Z

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 Ars Technica (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

Alaska has just issued its first heat advisory, which finishes ...

2025-06-17T20:22:18Z

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 Grist (npub1pzp…etfp) explains, Alaska's long hours of sunlight and an infrastructure designed for a cold climate mean it presents real health challenges.

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#Science #Climate #Weather #Alaska #USA #WeatherWarning #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired or let go hundreds of ...

2025-06-16T21:24:09Z

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

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...

2025-06-11T22:11:06Z

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

What happens when our brain goes blank. @npub1dvm…weag reports: ...

2025-06-10T11:56:42Z

What happens when our brain goes blank.

Popular Science (npub1dvm…weag) reports: "Humans experience an empty mind up to 20 percent of the time."

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#Brain #Neuroscience #Science

The NB.1.8.1 variant of COVID-19 — dubbed "razor-blade ...

2025-06-06T22:21:55Z

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.

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#COVID19 #COVID #Health #Science #COVIDSymptoms #Coronavirus #Vaccines #Masks

The largest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observing program ...

2025-06-05T22:10:54Z

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.

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#Science #Astrophysics #Space #JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #COSMOSWeb

The modern era has its chemtrails and anti-vax conspiracies. In ...

2025-06-03T21:32:54Z

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. Popular Science (npub1dvm…weag) looks at possible science behind the phenomenon — something called the "wick effect" — and how they became "Enlightenment-era clickbait."

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#Science #Clickbait #SpontaneousCombustion #ConspiracyTheories

The lifecycle of a research grant in the U.S. @npub1gpe…88e5 ...

2025-05-22T16:46:26Z

The lifecycle of a research grant in the U.S. The Conversation U.S. (npub1gpe…88e5) goes behind the scenes of the system that funds science.

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#Science #Research #NIH #NSF

What can we learn from a 1985 Salmonella outbreak caused by ...

2025-05-12T21:42:20Z

What can we learn from a 1985 Salmonella outbreak caused by contaminated milk that killed at least 12 people?

From The Conversation U.S. (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

Progress in science and medicine isn't the only thing ...

2025-05-09T16:58:06Z

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 The Conversation U.S. (npub1gpe…88e5): https://flip.it/Vq3yQe

#Science #Medicine #Ethics #Trump #USPolitics

"A sea culture tradition spanning generations may have given ...

2025-05-06T21:39:18Z

"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.

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#Science #Medicine #SouthKorea #JejuIsland #Diving #Genes #Darwin #GeneticAdaptation

What does it feel like to be a science journalist — or any kind ...

2025-04-30T22:02:33Z

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

A dead Soviet space probe from 1972 is falling back to Earth. ...

2025-04-30T19:13:24Z

A dead Soviet space probe from 1972 is falling back to Earth.

Popular Science (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

Can the legal system catch up with climate science? From ...

2025-04-24T17:31:17Z

Can the legal system catch up with climate science?

From Ars Technica (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."

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#ClimateChange #Climate #FossilFuels #Science #Law

Could Spinosaurus swim? The fierce dinosaur ignites debate. From ...

2025-04-15T13:51:04Z

Could Spinosaurus swim? The fierce dinosaur ignites debate.

From Science News (registration may be required): https://flip.it/8TqW7M

#Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Science

Blue Origin completes space trip featuring all-female crew. NBC ...

2025-04-14T13:55:09Z

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

In contrast to the popular idea of black holes constantly ...

2025-04-11T23:01:35Z

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:

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#Science #Space #BlackHoles #BackYardAstronomy

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to bolster ...

2025-04-09T19:17:24Z

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

Do insects feel pain? Bugs are everywhere in farming and research ...

2025-04-08T17:22:34Z

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

After another explosive start to tornado season, twisters are ...

2025-04-06T22:32:11Z

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 ):

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#Science #Earth #Storms #Weather #USA

3-year-old discovers 3,800-year-old treasure during a family ...

2025-04-03T17:08:16Z

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

McKenna Oxenden is her own best advocate. She learned this after ...

2025-03-27T20:49:27Z

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:

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#Science #Health #Disease #Endometreosis