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#US panel votes to exempt #GulfOfMexico #drilling from #EndangeredSpeciesAct

The committee — nicknamed the “God Squad” for its ability to decide the fate of #species — voted to exempt #oil & #gas firms from federal #wildlife protections, citing the #IranWar.

#Trump #law #EnvironmentalLaw #science #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #MarineLife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth
washingtonpost.com/climate-env…

🪐🥔 #Astronaut Don Pettit cultivated purple #potatoes using a hydroponic system on the #ISS.

The sprouts grew in multiple directions due to the absence of gravity and created a shape that resembled a purple lifeform with tentacles.

👉 sciencealert.com/purple-lifefo…

#space #nasa #botany #science #microgravity #gardening #hydroponics #biology #agriculture #exploration

Purple Lifeform Photographed Sprouting 'Tentacles' on The ISS : ScienceAlert

A grotesque purple lifeform was photographed sprouting 'tentacles' on the International Space Station (ISS), causing a stir online.

^{Carly Cassella (ScienceAlert)}

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area.

AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C
newscientist.com/article/25212…

#datacentre #AI #climate #science

AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C

^{Chris Stokel-Walker (New Scientist)}

Latest comic: The Wellness Charlatan's Guide to Longevity

#healthcare #science #health #medicine #healthinsurance #EconomicInequality #SocialMedia #influencers

Folks, this is a perfectly accurate description of getting a PhD studying space.

#space #academicchatter #phd #astrophysics #Astronomy #Astrodon #science

After the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl’s Reactor Four, many presumed the land would be biologically dead for generations. “The pine forests closest to the plant absorbed such intense radiation that their needles turned an orange-red and died, creating what became known as the Red Forest,” author Katie Stacey writes. Today, some truly weird wildlife are getting by, if not thriving. Read more from @sciencefocus:

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#Science #Chernobyl #Wildlife #Animals

🏛️🧬 Researchers found that the Durotriges tribe of ancient #Dorset practiced a social system called matrilocality.

Their analysis of 50 ancient genomes shows that women stayed within their home communities while men moved to join their wives' families. The discovery supports historical accounts of powerful British queens and implies that land and status were inherited through maternal lines.

👉 historyhit.com/were-iron-age-w…

💁🏻‍♀️✨ BBC Knowledge Explainer: DNA seethis.tv/post/bbc-knowledge-…

#history #archaeology #genetics #science #ironage #britain #education #dna #research #sociology

Were Iron Age Women the True Rulers of Britain?

For centuries, our vision of Iron Age Britain was forged in a “Celtic” trope of hyper-masculine warrior elites ruling from the ramparts...

^{Amy Irvine (History Hit)}

Scientists documented whales in a group assisting in the birth

No cetaceans needed, they got video

scientificamerican.com/article…

#Marine #Science #Nature #Whales #Cetaceans

Sperm whales help one another give birth, new study finds

Sperm whales are known to socialize, but scientists were stunned when they saw a group of sperm whales gather as one of them gave birth

^{Jackie Flynn Mogensen (Scientific American)}

Sperm whales are among the most social animals on the planet. And until recently, just four births were recorded over a 60-year period. Then in July 2023, scientists who were conducting field work in the Caribbean Sea dropped what they were doing and recorded two sperm whale family groups come together to assist with the birth of a newborn calf. @ScienceAlert has more:

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#Science #Animals #Whales #Birth #Nature #Ocean

Incredible Video Shows Sperm Whales Come Together to Birth a Calf : ScienceAlert

The beautiful moment when an entire group of sperm whales came together to support the birth of a calf has, for the first time, been recorded in unprecedented detail.

^{Michelle Starr (ScienceAlert)}

🛰️ 'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft

｢ The lost spacecraft had been "tumbling" when an ESA team in Spain "saw that some sunlight is actually hitting the solar panels," Aschbacher explained.
They seized the chance, using this small amount of power to re-establish a connection.
The spacecraft's solar panel is now facing the sun, allowing it to charge its batteries ｣

phys.org/news/2026-03-miracle-…

#science #space #esa

'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft

The European Space Agency announced Thursday it has re-established communication with a spacecraft that is part of its Proba-3 mission, after losing contact with the satellite a month ago.

^{Science X (Phys.org)}

Idea for a different way of doing project grants. Make decisions about which projects to fund based only on the questions asked, and then require successful grantees to go through a multi round post decision review process to sharpen up the methods and make sure they can answer the question.

One of the main reasons I find grant proposals and reviews unsatisfactory is the incentives are there for applicants to hide methodological issues which limits the collaborative value of the review. In this version, once you get the funding you want to bare all to get the best feedback to improve.

#metaresearch #academicchatter #science

No worries RFK Jr. has you covered!

"New COVID variant with immune escape potential confirmed in US, 22 other countries "

#Covid #Medicine #Science #Disease #Mask #News #WHO #CDC

cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-co…

New COVID variant with immune escape potential confirmed in US, 22 other countries

BA.3.2 represents a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2, genetically distinct from the JN.1 lineages that have circulated in the US since January 2024.

^{Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy}

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look.

They have identified just under 50 rocky worlds most likely to be habitable out of the more than 6,000 exoplanets discovered so far.

Their research, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, would be useful in a scenario portrayed in the newly released Hollywood blockbuster Project Hail Mary.

Learn more: ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/resea…

#space #science #projecthailmary

The best places to look for alien life: Scientists identify 45 Earth-like worlds to explore for a 'Project Hail Mary'

drupal-media[data-view-mode=half_page_width] { display: inline-block; width: 50%; } If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpoint...

^{The Royal Astronomical Society}

Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission

Image captured 6 hours ago.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4844 #CuriosityRover #space #science

I keep seeing versions of this post, which imply a bizarre misunderstanding of how we know the world.

Do people imagine that if we'd never observed galaxies or neutrinos or exoplanets or the cosmic microwave background, we could have *imagined* these things & that would be just as real?

Or that we've magically reached the point, just now, where we no longer need to observe the world?

#science #nature #technology