Scientists modeled the newly built Vera Rubin Observatory to determine how many incoming impactors it could detect before they struck Earth. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/how-many-ast...

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Tulane University found that a specialized group of pain-sensing neurons, called TRPV1+, plays a role in detecting and fighting off parasitic worms in mice. #SciComm #SciNews #Neuroscience sciworthy.com/a-parasite-t...

Researchers in the UK proposed a new model for how ice sheets melt, based on observations of subglacial lakes in Greenland. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/how-do-ice-s...

Scientists in France developed a new seismic-based signalling system that can predict early volcanic eruptions. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/a-new-method...

Researchers demonstrated that warm conditions in the south supported diverse populations of dinosaurs right up until their extinction 66 million years ago. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/were-dinosau...

Scientists from China created a new sustainable energy-harvesting device using coffee waste and biodegradable plastics. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/brewing-sust...

Metabolically flexible microbes are the first to colonize recently deglaciated soils! #SciComm #glaciology #microsky 🦠 🧫 sciworthy.com/when-glacier...

Scientists determined that tsunamis caused by slip-to-the-trench earthquakes are common in the Japan Trench. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/the-history-...

Researchers from Duke University found that waters downstream of a lithium processing plant had high metal concentrations even decades after the mine shut down. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/hard-rock-li...

Scientists in the US and China have developed a new biological fungicide that kills the fungus responsible for brown rot disease in stone fruit trees. #SciComm #SciNews #agriecon #plantsci #planthealth #microsky sciworthy.com/using-bacter...

Are intelligent aliens more likely to emerge on planets with more or less land cover than Earth? #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/is-earths-wa...

How plants changed the chemistry of magmas. New on Sciworthy! sciworthy.com/plants-chang...

The evolution of land plants about 450 million years ago altered many of Earth’s geologic processes, like weathering and erosion. Now, researchers think they might have fundamentally altered rivers as well. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/how-did-plan...

Today, Mars is a big red dustball, but researchers studying Martian clay deposits think it was once warm and humid. 👇 #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/clay-mineral...

Astronomers used data from the ALMA telescope and JWST’s NIRCam to study 3 galaxies that formed roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, during a period of rapid star formation known as "cosmic noon." #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/what-were-an...

Researchers studied methane cycling in the Arctic Ocean during a global warming event that occurred about 56 million years ago, called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. 👇 #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/does-the-arc...

Over 20 million tons of polystyrene plastic are produced annually, yet only a small fraction is recycled worldwide. Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics recently used sulfur to break down this waste into useful chemicals. #SciComm #Chemsky sciworthy.com/upcycling-po...

When continents split apart, magma from deep within the Earth travels upward through cracks to Earth’s surface, forming volcanoes. Researchers from the UK recently found that this happens on unexpectedly short timescales. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/magma-rapidl...

Star Wars depicts alien heroes fighting against evildoers and their planet-destroying superweapons “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” But what do scientists really know about alien planets in distant galaxies beyond our own? 👇 #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/searching-fo...

The 2023 El Niño event was the warmest on record... scientists now think they know why. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/why-the-2023...

Astronomers used data from the BRIght Target Explorer Constellation to monitor 85 stars thought to contain exceptionally high amounts of metals. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/what-makes-c...

This Earth Day, we're celebrating science for a sustainable planet! Read about how scientists from Italy are developing custom microbial biofertilizers to help crops withstand drought and disease. #SciComm #envecon #agriecon #envpsy #microsky 🦠 🧫 sciworthy.com/do-biofertil...

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Researchers from George Washington University examined how exposure to direct sunlight and experimentally increased temperatures affect the behavior of tree-dwelling tropical ants. #SciComm #SciNews #plantscience #ecology #ecosystems sciworthy.com/ants-struggl...

Researchers showed that how we teach genetics to biology students in the US can impact their beliefs and knowledge about race. #SciComm #SciNews 🧬 sciworthy.com/a-humane-gen...

Researchers at the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals demonstrated that a specialized zinc-based electrocatalyst could efficiently convert carbon dioxide into the liquid fuel formate. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/turning-carb...

Scientists in Japan and the USA created a database, called MLOmics, that compiles genetic and molecular data from more than 8,000 cancer patients and is specifically designed for machine learning applications. #SciComm #SciNews #CanSky #OncoSky sciworthy.com/building-a-r...

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Scientists have long proposed that cell membranes undergo a short-lived intermediate state when they merge, but none had previously been able to directly visualize it inside intact cells. Until now... #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/how-do-cells...

Researchers at University College London modeled stars in the outer regions of the Milky Way and found that a long, tilted dark-matter cloud surrounds the galaxy. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/a-halo-of-da...

Researchers from the University of Kentucky tested a new drug on mice that protected their mitochondria and helped them grow stronger after sepsis. #SciComm #SciNews #medsky 🩺⚕️ sciworthy.com/new-drug-pre...

Sunflowers + biochar + beneficial microbes = bioremediation of copper-contaminated soils! 🎉 #SciComm #SciNews #plantscience #microsky 🦠🧫 sciworthy.com/scientists-p...

Researchers from Spain demonstrated that identifiable DNA fragments could persist in Martian lake sediments for over 100 million years. New article by @aubreyzerkle.bsky.social! #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/could-we-fin...

Scientists in Canada and the USA demonstrated that comparing patients' DNA sequences with the complete human genome can help them detect structural variants in cancer more accurately than the standard reference genome. #SciComm #SciNews #CanSky #OncoSky sciworthy.com/a-complete-d...

Astronomers from Germany simulated the complex collection of material between stars, known as the multiphase interstellar medium 💫 #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/what-lies-be...

Machine learning can search for patterns in large genetic datasets to identify cancer, but its methods are difficult for clinicians to discern. Researchers recently used statistics to clarify how these models make breast cancer predictions. #SciComm #CanSky #OncoSky sciworthy.com/explaining-b...

Researchers at Berkeley studied how neurons in mice’s brains fill in missing visual information, a process called "sensory inference." #SciComm #SciNews #Neuroscience sciworthy.com/how-the-brai...

Scientists affiliated with the SETI@home project identified 92 incoming radio signals that could potentially be from alien technology. The 4th in our series of articles for IAUS 404: Advancing the Search for Technosignatures! #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/has-earth-re...

Where are all the aliens? One researcher argued that alien civilizations could be too technologically limited to make contact with humans. The 3rd in our series of articles for IAUS 404: Advancing the Search for Technosignatures! #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/radical-mund...

Astronomers calculated that extraterrestrials with modern human-level technology could detect radio signals from Earth from up to 100 trillion miles away. The second in our series of articles for IAUS 404: Advancing the Search for Technosignatures! #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/are-aliens-r...

Scientists led by Sara Seager at MIT proposed the industrial gases nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) as ideal technosignatures to search for intelligent life on distant planets. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/these-gases-...

Scientists used high-resolution data from JWST to discern the internal properties of distant star-forming galaxies. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/jwst-reveals...

Researchers from France demonstrated that one species of ants, Messor ibericus, can naturally produce offspring of another species, challenging scientists’ assumptions about reproductive biology. #SciComm #SciNews #evobio sciworthy.com/the-european...

Researchers from China developed color-shifting carbon nanodots that detect spoiled food. When incorporated into food packaging, these sensors enable contactless real-time assessment of meat freshness using only UV light and a smartphone. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/new-packagin...

Researchers from China and the US found a phylum of bacteria, CSP1-3, with genes for a streamlined metabolism and low-energy survival that are adapted to life in deep, nutrient-poor soils. #SciComm #SciNews #microsky 🦠🧫 sciworthy.com/hidden-bacte...

Researchers from Germany developed a new AI tool, MethylBERT, that can identify cancer DNA in data from any sequencing platform. #SciComm #SciNews #CanSky #OncoSky sciworthy.com/finding-canc...

Scientists have shown that adding easily digestible carbon to soils increases microbes’ appetite for other, more difficult-to-degrade stuff. But does the same hold for microbes in the deep sea? #SciComm #SciNews #microsky 🦠 🧫 sciworthy.com/why-do-deep-...

Researchers from Harvard used CRISPR to fix faulty RNA, correcting protein mistakes that cause fatal diseases. #SciComm #SciNews #medsky 🩺⚕️ sciworthy.com/could-gene-e...

Scientists from China have developed a new bamboo-based bioplastic using a scalable and sustainable manufacturing process. #SciComm #SciNews sciworthy.com/unzipping-ba...

What if you could get a flu vaccine without any needles? Researchers recently discovered a solution to this question in the form of dental floss. #SciComm #SciNews #immunosky sciworthy.com/can-vaccines...