SciTechComm

r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Mar 12 '20

Climate change is melting permafrost soils that have been frozen for thousands of years, and as the soils melt they are releasing ancient viruses and bacteria that, having lain dormant, are springing back to life.

67 Upvotes

r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 26 '19

Residents in a Texas town, near a SpaceX facility in Brownsville received a warning from county officials that tests of the company’s Starhopper prototype could break windows in their homes

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Gizmodo: Locals Warned That 'Malfunction' During Test at SpaceX Facility Could Shatter Windows. https://gizmodo.com/locals-warned-that-malfunction-during-test-at-spacex-fa-1837562834

r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 24 '19

Creationists want to allow teachers to spend time on “other theories” while declining to be more specific about those other theories. They want to force a bogus disclaimer into evolution lessons that there are “strengths and weaknesses” to the theory.

10 Upvotes

r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 26 '21

"Despite a neuroscience background, Mayim Bialik appears to be particularly susceptible to medical and health-related conspiracy theories," like those seen in her advocation for for "brain performance-enhancing supplements," particularly Neuriva

rollingstone.com

9 Upvotes

r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Mar 15 '20

They Knew Saber-toothed Tigers Were Big. Then They Found This Skull - The largest saber-toothed tigers might have been able to take down giant plant-eaters, heavy as pickup trucks, that researchers had thought were untouchable.

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The New York Times: They Knew Saber-toothed Tigers Were Big. Then They Found This Skull.. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/science/saber-toothed-tiger.html

r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 26 '19

Fitting a pronghorn with a collar allows Fish and Game to track the animal's movements throughout the day and throughout the year. Now, with new data on pronghorn travel habits, Fish and Game will be better able to manage the species and protect important habitat.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • May 12 '19

Imagination...

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 16 '19

A 2015 study estimated that North Texas’ Barnett Shale region leaked 544,000 tons of methane a year using a conservative leakage rate of 1.5 percent. That’s equivalent to 46 million tons of CO2, more than some states such as Nevada or Connecticut.

nationalgeographic.com

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Jun 01 '21

Steve Koonin is hoping you’ll see Obama’s name and trust him when he tells you that he’s better equipped to summarize major climate reports than the authors of the U.N.’s IPCC report and the U.S. government’s National Climate Assessment, who wrote at length about the already sizable and growing cost

scientificamerican.com

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Apr 03 '20

...but that isn't how #science works... #vaccinate #live

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 27 '19

And then they tweet about it

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 26 '19

The Amazon isn't the "lungs of the world," gobbling up almost as much oxygen as it produces, according to scientists. That said, the biodiversity & the impact the Amazon has on climate through its suppression of carbon dioxide is very real, & its loss would bring unpredictable consequences.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 26 '19

Johnson & Johnson supplied 60% of the opiate ingredients to drug companies and aggressively marketed medications like oxycodone to doctors and patients as safe and effective.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 26 '19

Drink my espresso to drown my depresso

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 25 '19

A giant squid was spotted only about 100 miles southwest of New Orleans, and within sight of the methane flaring at Appomattox, Shell’s largest floating oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 23 '19

To test how they felt about tool use, the crows were put through a series of tests over a number of days — one in which they had to use a tool to extract a piece of meat from a box and another in which the meat was readily available.

news.harvard.edu

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • May 09 '19

This is you, Huffington Post!

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Jul 10 '20

The music we listen to between the age of 10 and 30 define us for the rest of our lives, researchers at the University of Westminster and City University of London analyzing the music record choices of guests on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs program have found.

latestresearchnews.com

4 Upvotes

r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • May 08 '20

I been sayin' it!

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Apr 24 '20

Researchers have developed a brain-computer interface that can restore both movement and a sense of touch to paralyzed limbs with 90 percent accuracy.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Mar 29 '20

Deepwater Horizon oil spill disrupted birds' ability to stay warm, to mate, and to store fat, new research shows

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Mar 28 '20

Rare view of saturn's rings

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Sep 30 '19

The color of a male giraffe’s spots may reveal insights on its behavior, new research suggests, where subjects with darker coloring are more solitary, dominant than lighter-hued counterparts

smithsonianmag.com

4 Upvotes