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How the health community deals with diabetes in the next two decades will shape population health and life expectancy for the next 80 years. The world has failed to understand the social nature of diabetes and underestimated the true scale and threat the disease poses.

Three approaches that aim to cut the harms of agriculture — land sharing, rewilding and organic farming — risk driving up food imports and causing environmental damage overseas. An alternative approach is both effective and cheaper.

Scientists have long wondered how volcanoes formed in central Anatolia despite being far from tectonic plate borders—now they've found evidence of a hot plume of magma flowing from East Africa.

Earth's thermosphere recently hit a near 20-year temperature peak after soaking up energy from geomagnetic storms that bashed Earth this year. The temperature in the second-highest layer of the atmosphere will likely continue to climb over the next few years as the sun's activity ramps up, which could impact Earth-orbiting satellites, experts warn.

The thermosphere extends from the top of the mesosphere, at around 53 miles (85 kilometers) above ground, to the bottom of the exosphere, which begins at around 372 miles (600 km) above the ground, according to NASA. Beyond the exosphere is outer space.

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Women in the History of Science brings together primary sources that highlight women’s involvement in scientific knowledge production around the world. Drawing on texts, images and objects, each primary source is accompanied by an explanatory text, questions to prompt discussion, and a bibliography to aid further research. Arranged by time period, covering 1200 BCE to the twenty-first century, and across 12 inclusive and far-reaching themes, this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture.While women are too often excluded from traditional narratives of the history of science, this book centres on the voices and experiences of women across a range of domains of knowledge. By questioning our understanding of what science is, where it happens, and who produces scientific knowledge, this book is an aid to liberating the curriculum within schools and universities.

"A study reports data from the first phase of the Chinese Pangenome Consortium including 116 de novo assemblies from 58 core samples representing 36 minority Chinese ethnic groups."

In a time where the CPP is constantly pushing the narrative of China as a united ethnostate, it is important to acknowledge the minority groups that are actively discriminated against under their regime.

TL;DR: Zhejiang Uni lab engineered succ & inject hydrogels + microneedles for drug delivery

Why is this published in Science: I think it's partly because of the novel engineering efforts of the hydrogel, and also because it's otherwise difficult to have precise drug deliveries to specific tissues

Article should be fully open access. If not, plz let me know

The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, a potentially controversial new study suggests.

This rethinking of the cosmos also suggests solutions for the puzzles of dark energy and dark matter, which scientists believe account for around 95% of the total energy and matter in the universe but remain shrouded in mystery.

The novel new approach is detailed in a paper published June 2 in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, by University of Geneva professor of theoretical physics Lucas Lombriser.

The mysterious 57,000-year-old designs open up a new window into the lives and culture of our ancestors.

Swallowed-up seamounts play pivotal role at subduction zones

Euclid Telescope Set to Launch on July 1, 2023: Unveiling the Dark Matter - The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid Telescope mission is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the universe by investigating two profound cosmic mysteries: dark matter and dark energy. Scheduled for launch on July 1, 2023, Euclid represents a cutting-edge space observatory designed to probe the depths of the universe, unravel its enigmas, and provide invaluable insights into the fundamental nature of our cosmos.
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The act of reptile reproduction suggests that dinosaurs and pterosaurs may have been capable of parthenogenesis, too, much like the creatures in “Jurassic Park.”

Using organoids that mimic intestinal tissue, researchers have found that microplastic and nanoplastic particles may trigger responses linked to inflammatory bowel diseases.

Critical insights into why airborne viruses lose their infectivity have been uncovered by scientists at the University of Bristol. The findings, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface today, reveal how cleaner air kills the virus significantly quicker and why opening a window may be more important than originally thought. The research could shape future mitigation strategies for new viruses.

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An unusually cool spring has kept the copious quantities of snowpack that built up over the course of California’s stormy winter intact, generating cautious optimism among…

Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to policymakers and the public, a new study has found. That has created a climate catch-22 in which scientists …

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You've heard of Gell-Mann amnesia, though you might not remember the actual name the video will quickly remind you, we trust everything we read, except the things we're experts on.
acollierastro goes on to invent new terms like Mann-Gell amnesia, the igon value problem, and Gell-Mann recollection in order to commentate on ways experts communicate about subjects in their day to day. Also reminds us Michio Kaku is a hack.

Our biased attention means we’ll always feel like we’re living in dark times, and our biased memory means we’ll always feel like the past was brighter.

This is almost certainly fad behavior that would stop if we left them alone.