<p><a href="/tags/newspecies/" rel="tag">#NewSpecies</a>!<br>New springtail from the <a href="/tags/caucasus/" rel="tag">#caucasus</a> just sprang in:</p><p>Ceratophysella dobrolyubovae</p><p>Treatment: <a href="https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038187EB-FFD6-603A-FF03-FE9AD588FC72" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="treatment.plazi.org/id/038187EB-FFD6-603A-FF03-FE9AD588FC72"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">treatment.plazi.org/id/038187E</span><span class="invisible">B-FFD6-603A-FF03-FE9AD588FC72</span></a><br>Publication: <a href="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.3.4" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.3.4"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.</span><span class="invisible">3.4</span></a><br><a href="/tags/zootaxa/" rel="tag">#Zootaxa</a> <a href="/tags/ceratophyselladobrolyubovae/" rel="tag">#CeratophysellaDobrolyubovae</a></p><p><a href="/tags/fairdata/" rel="tag">#FAIRdata</a><br><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/oa/" rel="tag">#OA</a> <a href="/tags/openaccess/" rel="tag">#openaccess</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#biology</a> <a href="/tags/taxonomy/" rel="tag">#taxonomy</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/wildlife/" rel="tag">#wildlife</a> <a href="/tags/conservation/" rel="tag">#conservation</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/invertebrates/" rel="tag">#invertebrates</a> <a href="/tags/collembola/" rel="tag">#collembola</a> <a href="/tags/springtails/" rel="tag">#springtails</a></p>
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<p>A research group looked at results for over 97,000,000 people, and found</p><p><p>COVID-19 was associated with a 49% increased risk of new-onset autoimmune-related diseases </p></p><p>and flat out:</p><p><p>SARS-CoV-2 infection increases the risk of autoimmune diseases, particularly those affecting vascular and connective tissue. Risk is amplified by severe infection and attenuated by vaccination</p></p><p>and it's hard to imagine a stronger proof - most countries don't have 97 million people in them!</p><p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41452424/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41452424/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/414524</span><span class="invisible">24/</span></a></p><p>(via AJ Leonardi quoting Hannah Davis)</p><p><a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#COVID</a> <a href="/tags/covid19/" rel="tag">#COVID19</a> <a href="/tags/sarscov2/" rel="tag">#SARSCoV2</a> <a href="/tags/longcovid/" rel="tag">#LongCOVID</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>
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<p>Glad UC Riverside still has a scientific glassblower. Fewer and fewer US campuses do.</p><p><a href="https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/uc-people-stephen-lepore-scientific-glassblower/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/uc-people-stephen-lepore-scientific-glassblower/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ucnet.universityofcalifornia.e</span><span class="invisible">du/employee-news/uc-people-stephen-lepore-scientific-glassblower/</span></a> <a href="/tags/chemistry/" rel="tag">#Chemistry</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#Biology</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/glassblowing/" rel="tag">#Glassblowing</a> <a href="/tags/craft/" rel="tag">#Craft</a></p>
<p>Dogs In Chornobyl are Mysteriously Turning Blue, But Radiation Is Not to Blame. Via @discover.magazine <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑🔬<br><br><a href="https://www.discovermagazine.com/dogs-in-chornobyl-are-mysteriously-turning-blue-but-radiation-is-not-to-blame-48205" rel="nofollow">Dogs In Chornobyl are Mysterio...</a></p>
<p>Great white sharks are perhaps the most feared predators in the ocean. But what might they fear? Probably orcas. In the Gulf of California, the killer whales have been spotted hunting young great whites by flipping them over before eating their energy-filled liver. Blech. It’s wild out there. <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@CBSNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CBSNews</span></a></span> has the story:</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/qTaoHP" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/qTaoHP</a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/greatwhitesharks/" rel="tag">#GreatWhiteSharks</a> <a href="/tags/orcas/" rel="tag">#Orcas</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#Animals</a> <a href="/tags/ocean/" rel="tag">#Ocean</a></p>
<p>Three Chinese astronauts who have been living on China's Tiangong space station since April 24 were set to return to Earth Wednesday when a piece of suspected “space junk” struck their return capsule — just hours ahead of departure. Looks like they’re going to be there for a while. Read more from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@LiveScience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>LiveScience</span></a></span>:</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/SGZBwV" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/SGZBwV</a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#Space</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#China</a> <a href="/tags/spaceexploration/" rel="tag">#SpaceExploration</a></p>
<p>1) Why do you love plants and how do you interact with plants in your life (intentionally/background)?</p><p>2) What makes learning about plants/ecology accessible/inaccessible to you (ie compare with birding)?</p><p>3) Do you prefer a formal or informal teaching environment, and why?</p><p>4) What are some subtopics relating to native plants that are of interest to you?</p><p>5) Would you prefer to learn to ID plants with or without phone apps?</p><p>6) How many plants would you be comfortable learning to ID in a 1 hour session?</p><p><a href="/tags/plants/" rel="tag">#Plants</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#Ecology</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/gardening/" rel="tag">#Gardening</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> <a href="/tags/conservation/" rel="tag">#Conservation</a> <a href="/tags/teaching/" rel="tag">#Teaching</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a></p>
<p>Rotational symmetry in physics.</p><p>- from Guido Tonelli's 'Genesis: the Story of How Everything Began'</p><p><a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a></p>
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<p>Robots are cool and all, but have you tried shooting squishy humans into space so that they can use their eyeballs to appreciate the features on the surface of the Moon with more nuance??</p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116359651867951775" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116359651867951775"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1</span><span class="invisible">16359651867951775</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/artemisii/" rel="tag">#ArtemisII</a> <a href="/tags/moon/" rel="tag">#moon</a> <a href="/tags/humans/" rel="tag">#humans</a> <a href="/tags/robots/" rel="tag">#robots</a></p>
<p>Next time you catch yourself saying: 'Fuck. That was stupid. Why did I do that?'</p><p>--- rewrite it: ---</p><p>'Fuck. That was thoughtless. Why did I do that?'</p><p>Then it becomes a problem you can work on vs. a reprimand from a shitty boss. </p><p>Be kind to yourself.</p><p><a href="/tags/kindness/" rel="tag">#kindness</a> <a href="/tags/selfcare/" rel="tag">#selfcare</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#mentalhealth</a> <a href="/tags/psychology/" rel="tag">#psychology</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#alttext</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a></p>
<p>Finally joined mastodon in search of a sane online space! Where are my scientists at? <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#biology</a> <a href="/tags/engineering/" rel="tag">#engineering</a></p>
<p>Still blown away by Veronika, the tool-using cow. <a href="/tags/cows/" rel="tag">#cows</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/science/20</span><span class="invisible">26/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence</span></a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>
<p>Fascinating <a href="/tags/documentary/" rel="tag">#documentary</a> on the <a href="/tags/challenger/" rel="tag">#Challenger</a> space shuttle <a href="/tags/disaster/" rel="tag">#disaster</a>. Apparently <a href="/tags/nasa/" rel="tag">#NASA</a> withheld quite a bit of <a href="/tags/information/" rel="tag">#information</a> from the <a href="/tags/public/" rel="tag">#public</a> for decades.</p><p>While it was true the rubber O rings failed due to subfreezing temperatures, NASA ignored engineers warnings and proceeded with the launch. What isn't true is the <a href="/tags/astronauts/" rel="tag">#astronauts</a> vaporizing due to the <a href="/tags/explosion/" rel="tag">#explosion</a>. Withheld <a href="/tags/evidence/" rel="tag">#evidence</a> showed not only were they aware, they activated <a href="/tags/emergency/" rel="tag">#emergency</a> air tanks and were passengers trapped in a cabin on a <a href="/tags/terrifying/" rel="tag">#terrifying</a> high speed freefall which slammed into the ocean.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjwDA9euytQ" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjwDA9euytQ"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjwDA9</span><span class="invisible">euytQ</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="/tags/launch/" rel="tag">#launch</a> <a href="/tags/failure/" rel="tag">#failure</a> <a href="/tags/death/" rel="tag">#death</a> <a href="/tags/investigation/" rel="tag">#investigation</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/wow/" rel="tag">#wow</a></p>
<p>Last month, we released Rx Inspector, a groundbreaking tool that lets you find the factories where your generic drugs were manufactured.</p><p>See the never-before-released data that ties everything together.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-generic-drugs-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-generic-drugs-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rx-</span><span class="invisible">inspector-generic-drugs-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/fda/" rel="tag">#FDA</a> <a href="/tags/drugs/" rel="tag">#Drugs</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>
<p>'The most incredible display of aurora I've ever seen in my 20 years of flying'. </p><p>Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) </p><p><a href="https://www.space.com/stargazing/auroras/the-most-incredible-display-of-aurora-ive-ever-seen-in-my-20-years-of-flying-pilot-captures-historic-northern-lights-show-from-37-000-feet-photos" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.space.com/stargazing/auroras/the-most-incredible-display-of-aurora-ive-ever-seen-in-my-20-years-of-flying-pilot-captures-historic-northern-lights-show-from-37-000-feet-photos"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.space.com/stargazing/auror</span><span class="invisible">as/the-most-incredible-display-of-aurora-ive-ever-seen-in-my-20-years-of-flying-pilot-captures-historic-northern-lights-show-from-37-000-feet-photos</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/aurora/" rel="tag">#aurora</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a></p>
<p>Rx Inspector, our free, searchable tool, allows you to look up where your generic prescription drug was made.</p><p>From patients and doctors to researchers, it is already reshaping how people make decisions. “This is a godsend,” one professor told us.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-reshaping-decisions-generic-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-reshaping-decisions-generic-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rx-</span><span class="invisible">inspector-reshaping-decisions-generic-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/pharmacy/" rel="tag">#Pharmacy</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/drugs/" rel="tag">#Drugs</a></p>
<p>"I would say keep your options open…or move to Canada or France or England. Right now, it looks like America is getting out of this business." <a href="/tags/nasa/" rel="tag">#NASA</a> <a href="/tags/spaceexploration/" rel="tag">#SpaceExploration</a> <a href="/tags/planetaryscience/" rel="tag">#PlanetaryScience</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/astrodon/" rel="tag">#Astrodon</a> @space <a href="https://www.planetary.org/articles/4000-gone-inside-nasas-brain-drain" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.planetary.org/articles/4000-gone-inside-nasas-brain-drain"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.planetary.org/articles/400</span><span class="invisible">0-gone-inside-nasas-brain-drain</span></a></p>
<p>Galera pedi a <span class="h-card"><a href="https://transverso.org/@isadora" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>isadora</span></a></span> para criar um canal só para ciência, no protocolo XMPP, vamos lá se empolguem e vamos dialogar. Segue o link abaixo<br>xmpp:ciencia@conference.isacloud.cc?join</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mato.social/@josemurilo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>josemurilo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bolha.us/@OG" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>OG</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://ursal.zone/@biloti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>biloti</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bolha.us/@rogawa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rogawa</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://novaparis.art.br/users/rony" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rony</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bertha.social/@labdciencia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>labdciencia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@henriqueffcustodio" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>henriqueffcustodio</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://pynews.com.br/@melissawm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>melissawm</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bolha.us/@tiagojferreira" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tiagojferreira</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tubedu.org/c/numerico/videos', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tubedu.org/c/numerico', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tubedu.org/video-channels/numerico', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>numerico</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/ciencia/" rel="tag">#ciencia</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/xmpp/" rel="tag">#xmpp</a></p>
<p>What I’ve been reading (watching, and listening to) this week ending 25 January 2026 <a href="https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-25-january-2026-9c368055fb96" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-25-january-2026-9c368055fb96"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee</span><span class="invisible">n-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-25-january-2026-9c368055fb96</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/lean/" rel="tag">#Lean</a> <a href="/tags/depression/" rel="tag">#Depression</a> <a href="/tags/softwareengineering/" rel="tag">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#Economics</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/productmanagement/" rel="tag">#ProductManagement</a></p>
I wonder whether the digital age has led to a decline in the use of atlases, which in turn might be expected to imbue a false sense of increasing objectivity as scientific practitioners of become less acquainted with analog methods.<br><br><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/philosophyofscience/" rel="tag">#PhilosophyOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/objectivity/" rel="tag">#objectivity</a> <a href="/tags/digital/" rel="tag">#digital</a><br>
<p>It's strange and frustrating that most AI researchers don't seem interested in natural intelligence.</p><p>In the early days, when "neural networks" were seen as models of brains, many people seemed at least superficially interested in neuroscience. It's not like that now. I'm sure some folks would say "yeah, and aerospace engineers don't worry about bird flight, either!" but that feels wrong to me.</p><p>If all you care about is moving cargo, then sure, flight is solved, and who cares if our designs are "biologically realistic". Similarly, if all you care about is recognizing images, playing video games, and generating slop, then AI is solved. We'll just make the current solutions better.</p><p>But I think we've barely scratched the surface of what intelligence actually is! Current AI is so narrow and so shallow by comparison, yet I think people don't even notice that because they haven't actually thought about how intelligent living things are, and in how many different ways!</p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/intelligence/" rel="tag">#intelligence</a></p>
<p>🧵As AI systems grow in sophistication, some people are supposing chatbots are moving toward being conscious entities.</p><p>This is incorrect, but we should be more precise about what consciousness and perception are.</p><p>If we are, we realize that minds do not create experience; experience is what creates minds. <a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">plus.flux.community/p/its-like</span><span class="invisible">-this-why-your-perception</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a> <a href="/tags/cognitivescience/" rel="tag">#cognitivescience</a> <a href="/tags/cogsci/" rel="tag">#cogsci</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#chatgpt</a></p>
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<p>A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science.</p><p>It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/federal-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fed</span><span class="invisible">eral-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/republicans/" rel="tag">#Republicans</a></p>
<p>Yes, you may be killed by falling human made space junk, but the odds remain small(ish) that will occur. The (almost inevitable) <a href="/tags/kesslersyndrome/" rel="tag">#KesslerSyndrome</a> may also prevent future <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> flights if all those <a href="/tags/satellites/" rel="tag">#satellites</a> in Low Earth Orbit start colliding, creating countless debris.</p><p>However, we *ALL* have to worry about the ‘chemical problem’ being created by SpaceX et al in the upper atmosphere. I have been banging on about this for a while and the attached article summarises the science in an easy to understand way - I have pasted the bit about the ‘chemical problem’ below because we *ALL* need to understand what the billionaires are doing to the planet while we are watching.</p><p>—————<br>Quote:</p><p>Debris on the ground attracts immediate attention, but atmospheric scientists are tracking a slower process with potentially larger consequences. When satellites vaporize in the mesosphere, 50 to 80 kilometers above Earth, they release clouds of vaporized metals that condense into aerosol particles. Those particles descend into the stratosphere, where Earth’s protective ozone layer resides.</p><p>Aluminum is the element of greatest concern. Upon reentry, aluminum oxidizes into aluminum oxide nanoparticles. A single 250 kilogram satellite generates roughly 30 kilograms of these particles. Unlike chlorofluorocarbons, which directly destroy ozone, aluminum oxide acts as a catalyst. One particle can facilitate chemical reactions that destroy thousands of ozone molecules over decades without being consumed.</p><p>Researchers from the University of Southern California’s Department of Astronautical Engineering documented an eightfold increase in atmospheric aluminum oxides between 2016 and 2022, directly correlating with the proliferation of satellite constellations, a finding reported in detail by CNET. In 2022 alone, reentering satellites released an estimated 41.7 metric tons of aluminum, approximately 30 percent more than the natural input from micrometeoroids.</p><p>Projections based on current deployment schedules suggest annual aluminum oxide emissions could reach 360 metric tons, a 646 percent increase over natural background levels, according to research highlighted by Popular Mechanics. Because these particles take 20 to 30 years to descend into the ozone layer, the atmospheric chemistry of today’s satellite fleet will not manifest as measurable ozone loss until the 2040s. By then, the upper atmosphere could already be saturated with catalysts.</p><p>NASA high altitude sampling flights over Alaska in 2023 detected the signature of this process. At approximately 60,000 feet, instruments found that 10 percent of stratospheric sulfuric acid particles larger than 120 nanometers contained aluminum and other metals traceable to spacecraft reentries, according to data presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting that year. The atmosphere now bears a permanent chemical marker of human activity in space.<br>—————<br><a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/thebillionairesarekillingusall/" rel="tag">#TheBillionairesAreKillingUsAll</a></p><p><a href="https://indiandefencereview.com/starlink-satellites-falling-nonstop-to-earth-risk/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="indiandefencereview.com/starlink-satellites-falling-nonstop-to-earth-risk/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">indiandefencereview.com/starli</span><span class="invisible">nk-satellites-falling-nonstop-to-earth-risk/</span></a></p>
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<p>NewScientist: "Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments" </p><p><p>This is both so logical and yet absurdly like a science fiction story ... </p></p><p><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516079-paediatricians-blood-used-to-make-new-treatments-for-rsv-and-colds/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.newscientist.com/article/2516079-paediatricians-blood-used-to-make-new-treatments-for-rsv-and-colds/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.newscientist.com/article/2</span><span class="invisible">516079-paediatricians-blood-used-to-make-new-treatments-for-rsv-and-colds/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a></p>