#TheConversation #Science #Tech #auspol Sand-sized fossils hold secrets to the history of climate change Read more…https://theconversation.com/sand-sized-fossils-hold-secrets-to-the-history-of-climate-change-250928

They're finally back! Two astronauts who were on an eight-day mission ended up spending nine months in space.

@AssociatedPress has the details on their SpaceX capsule splashdown: https://flip.it/Jq.SWF

After researchers at an Antarctic base accused one of their team members of becoming violent and unstable, South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment says the situation is now “under control.” Read more about the case from @CBSNews
https://flip.it/C8mtnk
#Antarctica #Research #SouthAfrica #Science #Environment

US disruptions to science could transform global research landscape

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00824-7

Paywall Free: http://archive.today/tqSJG

#BlueGhost

A Lunar Sunset Video capturing the horizon glow. The NASA science team is excited to analyze these images further and share more on the findings soon!

Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qSJJfR

#BlueGhost

Sunset on the Moon captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander. With Earth and Venus on top of that!

Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qSHJA7

Life imitating art.

A blogger by the name #AdamMastroianni wrote a very interesting post "By myself? I'd rather die" that looks at the #evolutionary elements of #conformity.

#science #psychology #sociology

https://www.carlsetzer.com/2025/03/18/be-myself-id-rather-die/

Brilliant essay, in my opinion...
Legacy of the angels

When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics

The use of supernatural intelligences such as angels and demons to think through physics stuck around long after the actual belief in the existence of these beings had dissipated. It seems that this imaginative framework resounds in the actual structure of how our thought operates. By virtue of this, angelology lay the groundwork for thinking through the nature of place, time and motion in quite complex ways. Did angels and demons carve a conceptual space for the invisible forces that physics would later come to discover? Though it may seem that the scientific and the demonic are at polar ends of the spectrum when it comes to explaining the natural world, angels and demons have actually shaped modern scientific explanation as we know it today.

#physics #angels #demons #science

https://aeon.co/essays/why-physics-today-stands-on-the-wings-of-angels-and-demons

The evolving neurobiology of early-life stress. Research reveals how childhood adversity shapes the brain and behavior. https://www.byteseu.com/840882/ #Science

First US Outbreak of H7N9 Bird Flu Since 2017 Spurs Health Worry Over Flocks Already Ravaged by H5N1 https://www.byteseu.com/840878/ #EverythingScience #Science

#Space #Science

When astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore return to Earth Tuesday after spending nine months on the International Space Station, their bodies will have undergone significant changes.

This nine-month sojourn will have made them taller, weaker and maybe given them vision trouble, according to medical studies of previous astronauts.

Webb telescope images of exoplanets "stunned researchers" directly observing the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time.

From @CBSNews: https://flip.it/HVrgO5

Scientists in China have developed a new cancer treatment by engineering tumors to mimic pork, triggering the body's immune system to attack them with precision. Using a genetically modified virus, they disguise cancer cells as foreign pig tissue, leading to a hyperacute immune rejection response that attacks the tumors while leaving healthy cells intact. The study was published in the journal Cell on January 18, 2025.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3302422/chinese-scientists-turn-tumours-pork-radical-cancer-treatment

You couldn't write a dystopian novel with a grimmer plot than what we are witnessing in reality.

Here's how the story goes: Capitalism cuts down all the forests in search of profits, strip-mines the Earth in search of profits, pollutes our air and our water in search of profits... and now, what's left?

Oh, wait, say the capitalists, we haven't dug down into the deep sea yet in search of profits, er, um, minerals. And guess what, we can pretend we're doing that for the sake of the climate and environment!

Yeah, that's the idea. We need those minerals to make electric cars. So it's a win-win. We'll make billions more in profits, AND we'll make ourselves look good by promoting Green Growth!
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LEARN MORE https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/mar/12/as-countries-scramble-for-minerals-the-seabed-beckons-will-mining-it-be-a-disaster-visual-explainer

Curiosity rover updates: three new posts by Deborah Padgett, Sharon Wilson Purdy, and Ashley Stroupe:

Even the Best-Laid Plans https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4475-4476-even-the-best-laid-plans/
Bumping Back to Business https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4477-4478-bumping-back-to-business/
What IS That Lumpy, Bumpy Rock? https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4479-4480-what-is-that-lumpy-bumpy-rock/

Narwhals may use their iconic tusks to play.

Science News reports on research showing "the Arctic whales poked and prodded a fish that isn't usually a part of their diet."

https://flip.it/GM..Nj

Curiosity Rover in Gale crater: A drive of ~33 meters during Sol 4483 (March 17, 2025). The drive direction was southwest with a small detour to check out a rock formation, the rover climbed 2.2 meters during the ~59 minute drive. Post drive L-NavCam, the drive data extracted from JPL's waypoint JSON, and a couple of traverse maps (different scales). Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

"More scholars must push back. The idea that #scientists can keep doing what they know must be done to incorporate #DEI into their work while adjusting terms to fit the demands of bigoted autocrats bent on hobbling #science is to whistle loudly past a graveyard of avoidable error, continued financial cuts and #censorship. That #diversity matters to science is a truth — albeit one that has only recently begun to be accepted and applied."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00791-z