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  Private spacecraft falls back to Earth after failing to rescue aging NASA telescope. @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com reports: https://flip.it/2D9ylH #Space #NASA #Science

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  In the eyes of some anti-abortion activists, embryos frozen for IVF are already children. And that concept now appears in a U.S. federal document. Grant guidelines announced by the health department describe IVF embryos as “children who already exist and are in need of a family," and references embryos' "rights." Here's more from @TheConversationUS@newsie.social. https://flip.it/NfCdBL #Abortion #USNews #Healthcare

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  Important question: Have you had a life-changing sunburn? Researchers searched thousands of published studies and found that people with medium frequencies of painful, blistering, or severe sunburns over their lifetime had 51 percent higher odds of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma than those with no such history. Read more from @ScienceAlert@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/SD0K2w #Science #Health #Cancer

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  Private mission to rescue NASA’s aging telescope runs into its own trouble. @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com reports: "Katalyst Space Technologies said that its Link satellite is experiencing thruster problems and has gone into an uncontrollable spin that is disrupting communication." https://flip.it/tPbmsk #NASA #Space #Science

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  The blood-brain barrier protects the brain from toxins and pathogens. An artificial sweetener popular with consumers may pose a threat to this essential line of defense. Read more from @ScienceAlert@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/7cUAkE #Science #Health #Brain

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  Put this in your calendar: On Aug. 28, Earth’s shadow will cover up to 96% of the moon’s disk, creating an exceptionally deep partial lunar eclipse. It’ll be visible across Europe, Africa, the Americas and parts of western Asia. What can I expect? Do I need eye protection? @Spacecom@flipboard.com has more: https://flip.it/ZLYmk0 #Science #Space #Moon

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  Scientists have long known that human-caused climate change was increasing the frequency and intensity of some extreme weather, but pinpointing its effect on a specific weather event was much harder. Even today, the answers are not always straightforward, but researchers can provide a scientifically grounded answer for hotter heat waves and other severe events. Read more from The Conversation: https://flip.it/Bx1Q0M #ClimateChange #Science #GlobalWarming

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  For a lot of you, the world has probably become an incredibly hectic place with little let up from day to day. (How do you even have time to read this?!?!) And if you find it all overwhelming, science backs it up. The daily pressure is outpacing our bodies and minds, leading to significant mental and physical health problems. Read more on this “evolutionary mismatch” from @ScienceAlert@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/MuBZTK #Science #Health #Humans

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  Watch an orca ram into a sunfish so hard it explodes! Science News reports that scientists think the orcas might pulverize prey to help feed their young — or just for fun. https://flip.it/NxxdIX #Animals #Orcas #Science

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  From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, rice feeds more than half the world. But the same flooded soils that provide daily meals to billions of people also create ideal conditions for climate-increasing gases. @TheConversationClimate@newsie.social goes in-depth and finds a silver lining — but slowing emissions won’t be easy: https://flip.it/i4oItw #Science #ClimateChange #Food

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  The land beneath most solar farms is mostly left as gravel or turf. But the teams at two sites in Minnesota decided to do things differently, seeding the ground with native grasses and flowering plants. Five years later, that land is home to many types of insect, with a 20-fold increase in bees that have begun pollinating the crops in neighboring fields. Here's more from The Pulse. https://flip.it/ta7SMV #Environment #Solar #Ecology

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  Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat’s last theorem. From @NewScientist@flipboard.com (registration may be required): https://flip.it/_V6E9W #Mathematics #Math #AI

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  Tree swallows in the northern United States and Canada respond to temperature changes in the same way as tree swallows in the southern U.S. And yet, the northern birds are at greater risk from climate change. Phys.org has more on the constant strain these birds are facing: https://flip.it/p4C9.P #Science #ClimateChange #Animals

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  Last year, the U.S. CDC made tracking the cyclospora parasite optional. Now, nearly 3,000 people are sick with a bug called cyclosporiasis, which is caused by cyclospora and leads to intense diarrhea. Here's NBC with more. https://flip.it/mOXpi7 #Health #USNews #Cyclosporiasis

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  Finding the remains of a prehistoric animal can often be an exercise in patience. That patience paid off recently when a team of paleontologists found a single vertebra in a fossil bed in Thailand. The result was a whole new species of giant dinosaur. Read more from @ScienceAlert@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/a.8ZP- #Science #Animals #Dinosaurs

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  NASA images are almost always striking, but the space agency took things up a notch with a small collection of cosmic images featuring red, white, and blue to honor the United States’ 250th birthday. Check them out at @LiveScience@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/ccejzR #Space #NASA #Science

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  Ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in 1986, many kinds of life-forms moved in and thrived. One in particular stands out. @ScienceAlert@flipboard.com has more on the wall-clinging black fungus that seems to be living its best life: https://flip.it/IaTtz7 #Science #Chernobyl #Nature

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  A boiling hole of water might not be that unusual in Yellowstone National Park, where more than 10,000 thermal features exist. But a new one opened up just days after scientists were walking around on what was then a patch of ground. @ScienceAlert@flipboard.com has more on the pool that sprouted up out of nowhere: https://flip.it/xiGKxd #Science #Earth #Geology

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  Scientists decipher new secrets from ancient scrolls scorched by Vesuvius eruption, using AI. @CBSNews@flipboard.com reports: "A particle accelerator and AI were used to identify ink, even faint traces, allowing researchers to virtually unwrap the delicate scrolls" which were discovered in the 18th century. https://flip.it/vuALdl #History #Archaeology #AI

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  Algae blooming in your pond? Don't reach for the hydrogen peroxide! Eric Palkovacs writes for @TheConversationUS@newsie.social about why Donald Trump might need to get fleas. https://flip.it/ZOs9gR #Science #ReflectingPool #Algae

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  There’s a river of molten rock flowing 1,400 miles below the Pacific Ocean in the Earth’s outer core, which is an important part of the planet’s magnetic field. Should we be concerned the river just changed directions? Read more from @sciencefocus@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/VqIZZd #Science #Earth #Geology

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  A new paper published last week suggests that 15% of human-driven global warming comes from indirect drivers such as carbon monoxide, non-methane volatile organic compounds, and black carbon (soot). Read more from Inside Climate News, including why integrating carbon monoxide and other contributors into policy will be an uphill battle: https://flip.it/ZILNZm #Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

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  A decade ago, Spain was one of Europe's more expensive power markets, and critics said it was investing too much in solar energy. Now, the average wholesale price for electricity in the country is one of the lowest in Europe. Oxford professor and energy policy advisor Jan Rosenow writes for his newsletter about how that happened. https://flip.it/bIwOpR #Renewables #Environment #Spain

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  "An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands of years ago that have left a lasting imprint on our species." @AssociatedPress reports on a new study that reveals genetic clues about a human ancestor called Homo erectus. https://flip.it/AhobNy #Human #Anthropology #Science

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  Alcohol is perhaps the world's deadliest drug, causing millions of deaths, destroying lives and families. Yet in the U.S., at least, it's not seen as a public health emergency. @STAT has created this @Flipboard Storyboard about the booze epidemic, and how mass death and sickening of Americans due to drinking is a generational failure of health, industry and government systems, not an inevitability. https://flipboard.com/@statnews/the-deadliest-drug-mabl491dckoj6hvi?from=share&am...

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  Earlier today, the Nobel Assembly announced that this year's Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on understanding the human immune system. For @TheConversationUS, immunologist Aimee Pugh Barnard explains the significance of the three scientists' work on regulatory T cells and immune regulation, which started back in 1995. "Continuing to unlock the secrets of immune regulation can help lead...

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  This might sound crazy but imagine if the name you gave your newborn affected the shape of your offspring’s face over time. After all, George Orwell once famously said “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.” Research supports Orwell’s observation. But do names play a role? Read more from @sciencefocus: https://flip.it/rAMx6r #Science #Humans #Names #Psychology

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  The secret to perfect espresso? It’s physics. From Science News: "The key is tight control of the interaction between water and coffee grounds." https://flip.it/8SLLtd #Coffee #Physics #Science #Food #Espresso

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  NASA is hard at work preparing for the SkyFall mission on which three helicopters will go to Mars aboard a nuclear-powered spacecraft. A breakthrough in rotor technology will help the helicopters fly in much thinner air than what we have on Earth. @ArsTechnica@flipboard.com has more: https://flip.it/PoomJR #Space #Science #SpaceExploration #NASA #SkyFallMission

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  Spring bloom arrived early across much of the United States this year, bringing pretty flowers and trees into view while also handing allergy sufferers an early dose of sneezing, itchy eyes and worse. Another side effect of our changing climate. Read more from @InsideClimateNews@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/0dHE9u #Science #ClimateChange #Health #Allergies