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Gravity waves mesmerize over Pennsylvania today.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

“We never in our wildest dreams would have expected a 75% slowing of clinical progression," she said.
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Hurricane Gabrielle becomes a major storm.

This morning's view shows a few bursts of intense convection within Gabrielle's inner core.
September 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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RFK Jr. purged CDC’s vaccine panel, filling it with conspiracy peddlers who spread lies about autism and DNA contamination. Meetings collapsed into chaos, contradictions, and distractions, leaving experts warning of a public health disaster.
‘You’re an idiot’: RFK Jr.’s new vaccine ‘experts’ meeting was plagued by chaos
A panel designed to shape national vaccine policy made up entirely of new appointments by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy held a series of chaotic first meetings Thursday and Friday that was plagued with distractions, missteps and misinformation in what health experts decried a...
www.rawstory.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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"Treating careful scholarship as somehow less important than the acquisition of data can adversely affect the reliability of the scientific record and consequently, the course of science," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4mqrKet
September 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The inventor of apparent temperature died.

He was 83 but felt like 91.
June 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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In summer 2024, 37 heat waves across the country were analyzed as part of a pilot initiative--a rapid extreme weather event attribution system. @natetwn.bsky.social has the story. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/clim...
Canadian heat waves far more likely in the era of climate change - The Weather Network
In summer 2024, 37 heat waves across the country were analyzed as part of a pilot initiative--a rapid extreme weather event attribution system. The goal: To quantify how human-caused climate change im...
www.theweathernetwork.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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☕🌊 Coffee too weak? Pour more slowly

A new study found that even a gentle water jet creates avalanches in coffee grounds, boosting mixing and extraction.

Slower pours = stronger brews with less coffee.

🔗 doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

#Coffee #SciComm 🧪
Pour-over coffee: Mixing by a water jet impinging on a granular bed with avalanche dynamics
Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world. However, issues such as climate change threaten the growth of the temperature-sensitive Coffea arabic
doi.org
April 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM