Category: Science
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Lake of lava found on Io that is as ‘smooth as glass’
NASA says it has discovered a lake of lava on Io’s surface. The lake was discovered using data from Juno’s most recent flyby of the volcanic moon. This week, NASA even released an animation of an artist’s concept showcasing what… Continue Reading News Source: bgr.com
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What have I learned from 20 years of parenting? Never to underestimate how wrong I can be | Emma Beddington
How alike are parents and kids? Quite, right? Surely we all play that game. I, for example, am competitive like my dad (but without a shred of his energy); my sister got my mother’s compassion and I got her lust for crispy potato products and… Continue Reading News Source: www.theguardian.com
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The Mysterious ‘Dark’ Energy That Permeates the Universe Is Slowly Eroding
Beyond DESI, a slew of new instruments are coming online in the coming years, including the 8.4-meter Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission. “Our data in… Continue Reading News Source: www.wired.com
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We must learn the lessons of Covid before another deadly disease strikes | Infectious diseases
Robin McKie’s article rings alarm bells for global health and our failure to control airborne pathogens (“What virus will cause the next pandemic? It’s flu, say scientists”). We are rightly looking with concern at the spread of H5N1 and… Continue Reading News Source: www.theguardian.com
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‘Plasma was called liquid gold’: the true story of the UK infected blood scandal | Contaminated blood scandal
On a former slave owner’s cotton plantation in Arkansas, the sprawling Cummins state farm prison covers 6,700 hectares (16,500 acres) and can house nearly 1,900 inmates. It is a working farm with vegetable crops, a dairy and livestock, but for… Continue Reading News Source: www.theguardian.com
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‘We live in a golden time of exploration’: astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger on the hunt for signs of extraterrestrial life | Alien life
Staring into the abyss… Am I really reaching anyone out there?” Lisa Kaltenegger is laughing about the unsatisfactory experience of teaching astrophysics over Zoom during Covid lockdowns, but she could be talking about her vocation: trying to… Continue Reading News Source: www.theguardian.com
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Like father, like son? The complex factors that shape a parent’s influence on their child | Parents and parenting
The eternal mystery of how much we are shaped by our parents – or how much we shape our children – was stirred again last week with the publication of a study that suggests that we are less like our parents than we had previously thought. Led… Continue Reading News Source: www.theguardian.com
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Brutally hot U.S. summer expected this year, NOAA warns
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a stark warning, claiming that we are in for a brutally hot U.S. summer, with several states seeing record-breaking days of heat. This increased heat index could lead… Continue Reading News Source: bgr.com
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‘Is it aliens?’: how a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life | Alien life
It is our galaxy’s strangest star, a flickering globe of light whose sporadic and unpredictable output has baffled astronomers for years. But now the study of Boyajian’s star is being promoted as a research model that could help in one of the… Continue Reading News Source: www.theguardian.com
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1 in 3 Americans Live in Areas With Dangerous Air Pollution
For Gaddy, who is African American, the report’s findings confirm what she and her neighbors in Newark’s predominantly Black South Ward have experienced for years. Gaddy and her three children were all diagnosed with asthma; her eldest child… Continue Reading News Source: www.wired.com