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Study Projects a Surge in Coastal Flooding, Starting in 2030s

By Carol Rasmussen, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory High-tide flooding in Honolulu. Credit: Hawaii Sea Grant King Tides Project In Brief: In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea … Continue reading

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TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross

[…] Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources… The original Limits of Humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL4yY… Is there a border we will never cross? Are there places we will never reach, no matter how hard we try? It turns out, there are. Even with … Continue reading

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Astonishing Viral Video Shows an “Eye of Fire” Raging on the Gulf of Mexico

🚨 Sobre el incendio registrado en aguas del Golfo de México, en la Sonda de Campeche, a unos metros de la plataforma Ku-Charly (dentro del Activo Integral de Producción Ku Maloob Zaap) Tres barcos han apoyado para sofocar las llamas … Continue reading

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Why It’s Eco-Socialism or Collapse | Downstream

Climate change is better understood as climate systems breakdown, and it’s only through the lens of the latter that we can grasp the scale of the crisis ahead. On this episode of Downstream, Aaron Bastani is joined by Mat Lawrence … Continue reading

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Dr. Becky Smethurst On Being An Astrophysicist, English Accents, And the Cosmological Crisis

I recently sat down with Dr. Becky Smethurst where were talked about the Cosmological Crisis for Monday’s video, what it’s like to be a super-dope scientist, and make fun of each other’s accents. Check out her channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYNb… Here’s … Continue reading

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What happens to your brain during a migraine – Marianne Schwarz

Find out what’s happening in the brain when you have a migraine and what we still don’t know about this complex disorder. — A throbbing, pounding headache. Bright zigzagging lines across your field of vision. Sensitivity to light, lingering fatigue, … Continue reading

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Why Do We Have To Sleep?

…and how did it evolve in the first place? Tweet ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSsleep Share on FB ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSsleepFB ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Why do we sleep? We spend a third of our lives in slumber, but science has … Continue reading

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Feral Chickens Are Taking Over Florida

The feral chicken population of Key West is getting out of hand. They’re pooping everywhere, tearing up yards, and stopping highway traffic. But they’re too beloved to kill – so the city is sending them off to the mainland and … Continue reading

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Scientists Are in a Race Against Time and Earth’s Rotation

The year 2020 may have felt like it lasted forever, but it was actually the shortest one in decades. In fact, it was 1.3 milliseconds shorter. The planet is now spinning faster than it has any time in the last … Continue reading

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Macro Photos Spotlight the Colorful, Whimsical Plant Growths Caused by Cynipid Wasps

JUNE 30, 2021 GRACE EBERT When an herbivorous insect like an aphid or mite needs a place to feed and reproduce, it sometimes seizes a tiny section of a plant where it creates an abnormal growth or gall. These tissue … Continue reading

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