🧵1/5 Antarctica may have crossed a climate tipping point—new analysis warns parts are changing fast and could lock in sea-level rise for centuries. This is happening now. ❄️⚠️

🧵1/5 Are we heating up 🌡️ or freezing down ❄️? Climate models suggest Earth’s carbon cycle may hide a dangerous glitch. While we’re living through rapid warming now, some feedbacks could one day flip us into a deep freeze. Let’s unpack this.

🧵1/4 Intel was once the undisputed chip king 👑. But as the AI boom exploded 💥, it lagged behind rivals, ceding the field to Nvidia’s GPUs 🎮➡️🤖. The AI revolution created trillion-dollar giants—without Intel.

Japan has reached a remarkable milestone 🇯🇵✨ Nearly 100,000 people are now 100 years or older! That’s a new record, continuing an incredible 55-year streak of growth in centenarians 🎉👵👴

🧵1/6 500 years under the Baltic Sea, the Gribshunden—King Hans of Denmark’s flagship—has been called the “Tudor warship of the North.” Recent finds reveal a time capsule of politics, power, and daily life at sea ⚓👑

🧵1/6 NASA’s Perseverance rover has found clay-rich mudstones in Mars’ Bright Angel formation, with organic carbon + “leopard-spot” and “poppy-seed” textures—spots rich in iron phosphate & sulfide. These may be some of the strongest biosignature hints yet.

🧵1/6 What if most of Earth’s life is still invisible to science? 🌍🔍 Researchers estimate up to 90% of species remain undiscovered: from flies & fungi to tiny mites. They shape ecosystems, store carbon, & feed the food chain, yet we barely know them.

🧵1/7 🌎 ⚠️ A new study warns the Atlantic Ocean’s key current (AMOC)—which regulates global climate—could begin collapsing as soon as 2055. Scientists say this would cause massive shifts in weather, sea levels, and ecosystems worldwide.

⚡️⚡️ Google just got hit 💥 with a €2.95 billion ($3.45B) antitrust fine from the 🇪🇺 EU for favoring its own adtech platforms, distorting ad marketplace fairness. This is the fourth such penalty in recent years, intensifying Europe’s Big Tech crackdown.

🧵1/6 So many Maya still live across Mesoamerica—over 7 million today maintain their native languages. Yet their voices have historically been marginalized. This new initiative changes that, with tools 🛠️ built by and for Indigenous communities.

🧵1/5 Europa isn’t the only moon with a bioscience twist. Over on Titan, NASA now suggests methane and ethane lakes might naturally form vesicle-like bubbles—tiny structures resembling primitive cell membranes. Not water-based life, but something close. 👽🌌

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🧵1/7 The U.S. feels on edge — politics, climate anxiety, nonstop bad headlines. Yet one thing keeps winning attention online: cat videos. Quick, harmless, oddly comforting — why do we keep clicking? 🐱

🧵 1/7 The future of food might not be lab-grown beef or plant burgers 🌱🍔. It could be something far stranger… and squirmier. Imagine 10 billion maggots quietly working in France to fight climate change, recycle waste, and feed the world. Ready? Let’s dig in 🪲👇

🧵1/3 Meet Kostensuchus atrox — a grizzly-sized hypercarnivorous croc cousin that stalked dinosaurs on land in Patagonia 70 million years ago 🐊🦖. More than just a river lurker, this beast was a top predator.

🧵1/7 The Sun just revealed its hidden threads—and they’re thinner than you think 🌞✨. Hawaii’s DKIST telescope captured the smallest magnetic loops ever seen during an X-class flare. Ready to dive in?

🧵1/6 What if life doesn’t need 💦 water? A new study says ionic liquids—salty solvents liquid at odd temperatures—could support life’s chemistry where water can’t. Life as we know it… but weirder.

🧵1/7 👉 The biggest threat to humanity might not be only climate, war, or AI. It could be something quieter, on top of all that: we’re running out of babies. 👶 A study warns the impact could rival climate change.

🧵1/6 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope 🔭(JWST) has found a tiny new moon orbiting Uranus—so small, you could walk around it in a few hours. Meet S/2025 U1.

🧵1/6 What if a tiny nutrient you’ve never heard of could boost your memory, protect from cancer, and keep your genes working smoothly? Scientists just cracked a 30-year mystery about it 👇

🧵1/7 🔥 Want to know why megafires are growing bigger? A new study shows industrial private forests are 1.5× more likely to burn in high-severity wildfires than public forests. Mismanaged fuel beds help fires spread.

🧵 1/9 40,000 years ago, two kinds of humans walked the Earth. One vanished. One became us. Why did Neanderthals disappear while our species thrived? 🤯 New science points to a single gene… but the full story is stranger, darker, and still unfolding. 👇

🧵 1/8 A new study reveals the Maya civilization endured severe droughts—one lasting 13 years—that likely contributed to its decline. The question 🙋‍♀️ : how did they survive so long in a region with no rivers?

🧵 1/6 Meta’s internal AI chatbot rules revealed a horrifying allowance 🤮: bots were permitted to engage in romantic or sensual conversations with minors—complete with unsettling compliments.

🧵 1/7 ☀️ Solar just got a glow-up. A “black metal” thermoelectric generator from Univ. of Rochester achieves 15× more power than prior models—no fancy semiconductors, just better hot/cold sides.

🧵 1/8 🚨 Big change coming: The U.S. wants to end animal 🐁 🐇 research. FDA + NIH are backing new tools—AI, organ-chips, human data. Faster, safer, more human-relevant.

🧵 1/6 Imagine a “Paris Agreement for plastic.” 🌍 That was the hope at Geneva’s #PlasticTreaty talks. Instead? The summit collapsed with no deal—while plastic waste climbs every single day.

🧵 1/6 🤖🧪 Scientists used generative AI to design two candidate antibiotics that show promise against superbugs like MRSA and gonorrhoea in lab tests. Early stage, but this could jumpstart a stalled antibiotic pipeline.

🧵 1/5 Air pollution alerts are blaring: the National Weather Service is urging thousands of Americans to stop burning—no fires, no incense, no outdoor cooking—to help ease wildfire smoke that’s pushing air quality into dangerous territories.

🧵 1/10 GPT-5 is here, yet its gains feel… underwhelming. The latest release adds incremental improvements in reasoning and coding—but critics say the AI boom may be hitting a plateau.

🚀 The James Webb Space Telescope just nailed the oldest confirmed black hole, in a galaxy called CAPERS-LRD-z9, dating back to just 500 million years post-Big Bang—over 13 billion years ago.

🧵 1/5 Ever wondered how archaeologists tell centuries apart with just iron clues? New X-ray tech is helping them finally separate Colonial, Post-Revolution, and Industrial iron with pinpoint precision. It’s like 🕰️ time travel in metal! ⏳🔍

Tropical Storm Erin has formed near the Cabo Verde Islands and is forecast to become the first hurricane of the season by Thursday, possibly even a major one. Eyes on the Atlantic…

🧵 1/6 A space hurricane 🌀 —a massive plasma storm—raged over Earth’s North Pole during one of the ☀️ Sun’s quietest days in 2014. It spun for nearly 8 hours, disrupting GPS, agitating the magnetic field, and raining electrons high above us.

🧵 1/10 The Amazon rainforest may be nearing a tipping point—one that could turn lush jungle into dry savanna within our lifetimes. Climate change + deforestation are pushing it toward a collapse. We’re racing against time.

Ah, monarchs—those timeless celebrities of history class, still drawing crowds in ✨ 👑 shiny crowns while the rest of us juggle rent, bills, and a cost-of-living crisis. Apparently, medieval cosplay never goes out of style.

🧵 1/10 🚨💀 Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed 6,000-year-old human bones… with clear signs of cannibalism 🍖🩸 Cut marks, smashed skulls, marrow extraction — a prehistoric menu nobody asked for. This is the Neolithic… but not as you imagined.

🧵 1/6 ☄️ Ever wondered your real chances of dying from an asteroid impact? A new study ran millions of simulations & compared the risk to everyday hazards. The answer might surprise you.

Scientists found a brain shortcut for weight loss & better blood sugar without nausea seen in GLP-1 drugs. Targeting support cells, not neurons, a compound called TDN worked in animals with fewer side effects.

Shifting sands on Oahu, Hawaii have revealed a rare panel of 26 ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs, some over 600 years old. These striking human and abstract figures carved in sandstone tell stories of ancestors and legends, visible only briefly before the tides reclaim them.

Cooper Hewitt is spotlighting contemporary Danish 🇩🇰 tapestries alongside historic Royal Tapestries from France 🇫🇷 —a stunning dialogue between eras and styles. Textile art with stories woven in thread.

A colossal bubble of gas and dust—1.4 light years across and as massive as our Sun ☀️ —was spotted around red supergiant Stephenson 2 DFK 52 by ALMA 🔭. It’s the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way 🌌

Argentina is transfixed by a live deep-sea livestream from 4,000 m below the South Atlantic. Think translucent squid, “big-butt starfish,” and “sweet-potato” sea cucumbers—stunning footage that’s drawing over 1.6 million views per day and lighting up national media.

The iconic glaciers on Heard Island —a remote UNESCO World Heritage site—are disappearing fast. New data reveals the annual rate of ice loss has nearly doubled in the past 70 years, putting entire ecosystems at serious risk. Climate change isn’t a future problem—it’s here and now.

🛡️ Microsoft’s August 2025 Security Update brings 8 new features to Windows 11, including Windows Recall export/reset options! Plus enhanced privacy controls for European users. 💻 Well thanks Bill, but I don’t need those - I’m more into Jobs 🍎😏

🌙 This weekend: August’s full sturgeon moon peaks with meteor showers AND shining planets all visible! Perfect celestial combo for stargazers. Get your cameras ready for an epic night sky show! ✨

Scientists just recreated the Universe’s first molecule - helium hydride - and solved a 13-billion-year-old puzzle! Turns out this ancient molecule played a HUGE role in star birth that we never knew 🌟

🍎 BREAKING: Apple just announced a massive $600 billion commitment to the US over 4 years! This includes a new $100 billion acceleration program that could reshape American tech manufacturing. Big moves in the tech space! 📈

🔥 Scientists discovered an amino acid switch that turns fat into a calorie-burning furnace! Lowering cysteine flips fat cells from storage to burn mode—boosting metabolism. This amino acid tweak could help you burn fat even at rest! Could this change obesity treatments?