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Scientists recently tested whether the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in China could detect potential alien technosignatures in space. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #astronomy #astrobiology #technosignatures sciworthy.com/could-scientis…
"3I-ATLAS noirlab2532b" by International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Bolin is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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Scientists in Australia identified a group of chemical compounds that can disrupt the communication system used by the drug-resistant bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. New article by @ChisomHalimat! #science #sciencenews #scicomm sciworthy.com/scientists-fou…
"Pseudomonas aeruginosa" from Microbe World is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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Pine seedlings with soil fungi growing on their roots are better equipped to survive heat stress! #Science #sciencenews #scicomm sciworthy.com/fungi-help-pin…
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Scientists at Arizona State University simulated 164 stars and their planetary systems to assess which are most likely to host habitable exoplanets. #science #sciencenews #astronomy #habitableworlds #astrobiology #exoplanets sciworthy.com/where-to-look-…

The search for habitable worlds – Sciworthy

Scientists identified 47 near-Earth stars as the most likely to have rocky planets with ideal surface temperatures for life.

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Scientists from China developed needle-shaped electrodes that can generate electricity from raindrops! #science #sciencenews #scicomm #hydropower sciworthy.com/needles-turn-r…
Raindrops hitting a window. Photo by Max van den Oetelaar on Unsplash

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Jacob Haqq Misra@haqqmisraOct 12
A fun conversation with @jmgeventhorizon about the end of the world! youtube.com/watch?v=zzhp0jUE…

What Earth’s Final Biosphere Will Look Like | Jacob Haqq Misra

We invite you to join the Blue Marble Space Supporters Circle. Your...

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Members of the Perseverance rover team compared Raman spectra from Martian organics with spectra of complex carbon on Earth. Their results can't rule out a biological origin, but they can't prove one either! #sciencenews #scicomm #mars #astrobiology sciworthy.com/could-organics…

Are Martian organics remnants of ancient life? – Sciworthy

Scientists found that organic molecules in Jezero Crater on Mars are similar to both biological and non-biological organic matter on Earth.

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Astronomers in Canada and the USA modeled more than 14,000 stars to determine how the Milky Way got its carbon. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #astronomy sciworthy.com/where-does-car…
Subgiant star Eta Canis Majoris by Sephirohq is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

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Researchers from Minnesota determined the genetic mechanisms behind one bacterium’s unique ability to withstand heavy metals from EV batteries. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #EV sciworthy.com/how-do-bacteri…

How do bacteria adapt to toxic metal waste? – Sciworthy

Scientists identified a gene in the bacterium Shewanella oneidensis that helps it tolerate heavy metal waste from EV batteries.

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Researchers from Stanford University developed a new method using seismic data to test whether heavy storms in 2023 replenished groundwater in Southern California after nearly 20 years of drought. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #groundwater sciworthy.com/using-seismic-…
"Atmospheric River Soaks California" from NOAA Satellites is licensed under PDM 1.0

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Scientists from Canada recently studied ancient uranium deposits to determine how similar radioactive waste might behave in deep geological repositories underground. #geology #science #sciencenews #radioactive #scicomm sciworthy.com/is-nuclear-was…
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NASA researchers recently tested whether they could distinguish living worlds from nonliving ones based solely on the complexity of light patterns reflected from their surfaces. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #astrobiology sciworthy.com/finding-alien-…
"Forest planet" by Pablo Carlos Budassi is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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How do waterfalls form? New on Sciworthy! #science #sciencenews #scicomm #watefalls sciworthy.com/bedrock-fractu…
Waterfall, photo by Jeffrey Workman on Unsplash

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Researchers from China designed a new type of food packaging that uses sunlight to eliminate bacteria. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #sustainability sciworthy.com/harnessing-sun…
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Scientists recently tested four strategies to reduce the risk of earthquakes triggered by drilling for geothermal energy. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #geothermal sciworthy.com/reducing-earth…
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Jacob Haqq Misra@haqqmisraSep 8
I just released an open access ethics textbook! "Ethics in Science and Society" is a one-semester introduction to moral philosophy for scientists, students, and anyone who wants to reason more carefully about right and wrong. ethics.bluemarblespace.org/

Ethics in Science and Society

Ethics in Science and Society An Introduction

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Astronomers discovered a new type of substellar object in a star-forming region of the Milky Way using observational data from JWST. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #astronomy sciworthy.com/objects-at-the…
Image Credit: "Brown Dwarf Illustration" by NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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New insights into how the upper continental crust was formed! #science #sciencenews #scicomm sciworthy.com/why-is-earths-…
Zircon by Parent Géry is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

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Scientists found that neurons in three neurodegenerative diseases share the same pattern of DNA mutations despite having different symptoms and underlying causes. #scicomm #science #sciencenews sciworthy.com/common-dna-dam…
"Brain Inflammation from Alzheimer's Disease" by NIH is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

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