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Scientists from Canada recently studied ancient uranium deposits to determine how similar radioactive waste might behave in deep geological repositories underground. #geology #science #sciencenews #radioactive #scicomm sciworthy.com/is-nuclear-was…
Controlled area - Underground radioactive material. Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash

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NASA researchers recently tested whether they could distinguish living worlds from nonliving ones based solely on the complexity of light patterns reflected from their surfaces. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #astrobiology sciworthy.com/finding-alien-…
"Forest planet" by Pablo Carlos Budassi is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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How do waterfalls form? New on Sciworthy! #science #sciencenews #scicomm #watefalls sciworthy.com/bedrock-fractu…
Waterfall, photo by Jeffrey Workman on Unsplash

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Researchers from China designed a new type of food packaging that uses sunlight to eliminate bacteria. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #sustainability sciworthy.com/harnessing-sun…
Strawberries, by Saim Özkan on Unsplash

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Scientists recently tested four strategies to reduce the risk of earthquakes triggered by drilling for geothermal energy. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #geothermal sciworthy.com/reducing-earth…
Drilling for geothermal energy. Image by wirestock on Magnific

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Ethics in Science and Society An Introduction

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Astronomers discovered a new type of substellar object in a star-forming region of the Milky Way using observational data from JWST. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #astronomy sciworthy.com/objects-at-the…
Image Credit: "Brown Dwarf Illustration" by NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva is licensed under CC BY 4.0

ALT Image Credit: "Brown Dwarf Illustration" by NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva is licensed under CC BY 4.0
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New insights into how the upper continental crust was formed! #science #sciencenews #scicomm sciworthy.com/why-is-earths-…
Zircon by Parent Géry is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

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Scientists found that neurons in three neurodegenerative diseases share the same pattern of DNA mutations despite having different symptoms and underlying causes. #scicomm #science #sciencenews sciworthy.com/common-dna-dam…
"Brain Inflammation from Alzheimer's Disease" by NIH is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

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Soil loss from modern farming practices now exceeds that caused by the largest natural climate transition in recent Earth history. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #sustainability #sustainablefarming sciworthy.com/is-modern-farm…
Farming, by Randy Fath on Unsplash

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The heat is on🔥! In this month's newsletter, we explore how rising temperatures affect Earth and its inhabitants, both today and in the (very) distant future. Check it out here👇 mailchi.mp/3373794441b7/sciw…
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Astronomers from China uncovered a previously unknown connection between the properties of dark matter halos and galactic disks. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #astronomy #darkmatter sciworthy.com/dark-matter-in…

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Researchers from the USGS tracked fish species in 10 streams within the Brooks Range in Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve to investigate how thawing permafrost affects Arctic ecosystems. sciworthy.com/thawing-permaf…
"Arctic Grayling" by shankar s. is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Researchers in Canada found that forest harvesting and wildfires contributed to the severe impacts of an atmospheric river that hit British Columbia in 2021, triggering catastrophic landslides and debris flows in traditionally dry regions. #sciencenews sciworthy.com/wildfires-and-…
Wildfire, by Fachy Marín on Unsplash

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Machine learning models predict that climate change could alter global soil conditions in ways that favor antibiotic-resistant bacteria. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #machinelearning #microbiology #climatechange #ai sciworthy.com/predicting-mic…
"Staphylococcus Bacteria" from Scientific Animations is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Paleontologists have discovered a horseshoe crab fossil more than 215 million years older than previously known fossils, preserving evidence of external fertilization similar to that seen in modern horseshoe crabs. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #paleo sciworthy.com/are-horseshoe-…
Image Credit: "Atlantic horseshoe crab" by James St. John is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Scientists tested how accurately seasonal indicators used by local farmers could predict the weather in Bolivia’s Altiplano region. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #meteorology sciworthy.com/testing-local-…
Young plants growing in soil, by muhammad.abdullah on Magnific

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Scientists from China and the US have determined the cause of a catastrophic glacial event that occurred in 2018 at the Sedongpu Glacier in the Eastern Himalayas. #science #sciencenews #scicomm #glaciers #geohazards #landslides sciworthy.com/can-melting-ic…
"The Great Himalayas" by Karunakar Rayker is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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In roughly 5 billion years, the Sun will swell up large enough to engulf and destroy the Earth. But for how much of that time could life endure? sciworthy.com/the-long-term-…
“Red giant star sets over a waterlogged planet” by Les Chatfield is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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