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COVID-19 – Finally an explanation of why this virus is scary, worse than than any other virus to date.
Finally an explanation of why this virus is scary, worse than than any other virus to date. Please...
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Inovio, based in San Diego, Calif., is no stranger to such viruses. A different novel coronavirus had emerged in 2012. It, too, caused potentially deadly infections. This disease would come to be known as MERS. (That’s short for Middle East respiratory syndrome.) Inovio became one of the first companies to develop a vaccine against MERS. (That vaccine is still experimental.)
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Could you grow a temporary runway somewhere by seeding bacteria in sand and gelatin?
From ‘living’ cement to medicine-delivering biofilms, biologists remake the material...
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Brain-juicing cocktails want to give the sober curious a buzz.
The aughts generation, fueled by the mixologist creations of cocktail culture institutions like Death & Co. has grown up, and we can’t (and don’t want to) hold our liquor like we used to. “Sober curiosity” and health trends like“Dry January”
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You can glimpse the eerie depths of the planet’s most threatening glacier
It’s OK to be nervous about the Thwaites Glacier. If this Florida-sized Antarctic glacier collapsed, it could ultimately unleash enough ice to boost sea levels by ten feet. Thwaites is already dumping “huge amounts of ice into the ocean,” and in 2019, Antarctic researchers located a cavity two-thirds the size of Manhattan near the bottom of Thwaites. And it’s here, at the bottom, where Thwaites’ destiny lies.
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The kids’ climate lawsuit just got thrown out
The kids just got some bad news.
Twenty-one children, adolescents, and young adults — all between the ages of 11 and 23 (as of June 2019) — sued the federal government in an unprecedented climate lawsuit in 2015. The youth argued that the U.S., by supporting an energy system that emits potent heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, infringed upon their constitutional rights to a stable future.
But on Friday, their lawsuit got tossed out.
The case bounced around the labyrinthine legal system, even making appearances in the Supreme Court. At one point, the Trump administration asked that the case be tossed out. Now, a powerful federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Oregon ruled that the case, Juliana v. United States, will not be allowed to proceed. The case, had it not been thrown out, would have essentially put climate science on trial. Read more…
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NASA’s new video is grim
NASA has some unsettling news.
In 140 years of modern record-keeping, 2019 was the second hottest year on record, which means that 19 of the last 20 years are now the warmest in recorded history.
In a video just over one-minute long, NASA gives a succinct rundown of climate trends since 1880. In 2019, Earth, relentlessly warming, was more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit (just over 1 degree Celsius) warmer than it was in the late 1800s. As the space agency pointed out, this warming resulted in 2019’s unprecedented fires and the ramped-up melting of Greenland’s vast ice sheet.
“We crossed over into more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit warming territory in 2015 and we are unlikely to go back,” Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in a statement. “This shows that what’s happening is persistent, not a fluke due to some weather phenomenon: We know that the long-term trends are being driven by the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” Read more…
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Researchers put 3D glasses on cuttlefish for…science
It may seem like that cuttlefish is prepping to see The Rise of Skywalker but no, it’s actually part of a research experiment.
A team at the University of Minnesota put 3D glasses on cuttlefish in order to learn more about their eyes and brains, specifically how both organs work together to catch prey. Like humans, cuttlefish utilize stereopsis, the scientific term for depth perception. Unlike humans, cuttlefish still hunt their prey — and stereopsis helps them do it. The cuttlefish strikes at its prey and must correctly guess how far away it is. If it’s too close when it strikes, the prey will get spooked and move away; too far away, and it won’t reach. Read more…
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Satellites show Australia’s massive smoke plume looming over the Pacific Ocean
At one point, the smoke plume was well over four times the size of Alaska. Read more…
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Thousands told to jump into the ocean as Australia’s raging fires approached
The sun didn’t rise on New Year’s Eve. The summer morning in a small beach town on the east coast of Australia looked like a winter’s night.
That black sky soon gave way to a blazing, eerie orange as the flames approached. At least 4,000 people were told to jump into the ocean. Gas cylinders could be heard popping like fireworks as they exploded.
The town of Mallacoota looked apocalyptic on Tuesday local time as it became the latest victim of Australia’s out-of-control bushfires.
It was too late to evacuate.
“We are one road in, one road out. That road’s been blocked for hours and hours and hours,” Francesca Winterson from Mallacoota Community Radio told News Breakfast, a national TV broadcast. Read more…
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Incredible photos capture ‘Ring of Fire’ in the final solar eclipse of 2019
Break out the Johnny Cash and your best paper sunglasses for the final solar eclipse of the year, and the decade.
An annular solar eclipse traveled over Indonesia and surrounding regions on Dec. 26, visible in areas stretching from Saudi Arabia to Guam.
The phenomenon is also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse — occurring when the moon doesn’t completely cover the sun’s disk, meaning that instead of a total blackout, the slightly smaller shadow is surrounded by a bright circle of light when it’s centered.
You can see the path of the moon’s shadow across Asia in the below tweet from NOAA:
A rare #Annular, or #RingOfFire, #SolarEclipse happened on Dec. 26, which lasted 3 min and 40 sec. It was visible from most of #Asia and the #MiddleEast. See the imagery of the #SolarEclipse2019, captured by #Japan‘s #Himawari8 #satellite here: https://t.co/G8TFeh1dM2 pic.twitter.com/TtZZ2X717k
— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) December 26, 2019 Read more…
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Hubble offers the most perfect view of a gorgeous spiral galaxy
Put it on a postcard.
We can’t guarantee a perfect photo opp from our fixed vantage point of the floating space rock called Earth. Space is vast, and three-dimensional. Things don’t always line up as well as NGC 5468 does in this image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Li et al.
Acknowledgements: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
The spiral galaxy that NASA highlighted in a Friday post is situated over 130 million light-years away from the point in space we call home. Our face-on look at NGC 5468 makes it easier to spot the massive explosion created collapsing stars, or supernovae. Read more…
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