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Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd.

From @ConversationUS: "Newly published research introduces a way to create audible enclaves – localized pockets of sound that are isolated from their surroundings."

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The ConversationResearchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd
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Neighborhood dispute among cells: Whoever successfully transmits force wins

Cells constantly compete, eliminating weaker ones to maintain tissue health. Researchers from #MPZPM, #InstitutJacquesMonod and #NielsBohrInstitute discovered a new strategy in mechanical cell competition: the ability to transmit force determines the winner. Their findings challenge classical views on #CellCompetition.

Learn more 👉 mpzpm.mpg.de/news/news-details

#science #research #cellbiology

📸 Lucas Anger

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@aram Sputnik. A generation before me. Blind panic from top to bottom, opening a short window during which the broad society, and relevant institutions, were willing to make sacrifices to commit resources to science education.

Primary result: total failure.

Secondary result: every five or ten years, another comprehensive report appears that details the previous cycle's failures, and makes recommendations that are invariably ignored in the next cycle.

Climate change not only means warming temperatures. It means a total breakdown in how we've always expected the climate to behave...
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Climate whiplash is hitting major cities around the world, bringing deadly swings between extreme wet and dry weather as the climate crisis intensifies, a report has revealed.

Cities across the world are affected but the data shows some regional trends, with drying hitting Europe, the already-parched Arabian peninsula, and much of the US, while cities in south and south-east Asia are experiencing bigger downpours.

The analysis illustrates the climate chaos being brought to urban areas by human-caused global heating. Too little or too much water is the cause of 90% of climate disasters.

The savage wildfires in Los Angeles in January were an example of a single whiplash event, with a wet period spurring vegetation growth, which then fueled the fires when hot and dry weather followed. Such events are increasing due to human-caused global heating.
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FULL STORY -- theguardian.com/environment/20

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DOGE’s Cuts at the #USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise & Invasive Species to Spread

Thousands of #US Dept of #Agriculture employees, including food inspectors & disease-sniffing #dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports & pests to proliferate.
wired.com/story/usda-food-supp

"the losses could cause #food to go rotten... even higher grocery #prices... potentially devastating invasive species getting into the country."

#Musk#Doge#Trump

I’ve been posting weekly reminders about Business As Usual every Monday morning for about two years now.

But you know what? I could legitimately have been doing it each week for the past 30 or 40 years! Because that’s how long the ‘elite’ rulers of our society have been fully aware of what they are doing and yet continued pushing non-stop in a destructive rapacious exploitative colonial capitalist frenzy — completely ignoring the science and dooming the rest of us to a disastrous ecological breakdown.

All in the name of profits.
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It's time for another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, sponsored by Toyota, Comcast, and the U.S. military-industrial complex.

🎶 "Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying!
We've got this, everything's fine." 🎶 😃

🚨 ESO analysis confirms that the INNA industrial megaproject would have a devastating and irreversible impact on the facilities at Paranal Observatory in #Chile.

➡️ Light #pollution would increase by at least 35% above ESO's Very Large Telescope, by a minimum of 5% above ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope and by at least 55% above the south site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

➡️ Air turbulence would also increase, degrading seeing conditions by up to 40%

➡️ Vibrations from the project could seriously impair the functioning of the ELT and the VLT Interferometer, which are both extremely sensitive to micro-seismic noise.

➡️ Dust during construction is also problematic as it settles on the telescope mirrors and obstructs their view.

Full story here: eso.org/public/news/eso2506/

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www.eso.orgNew ESO analysis confirms severe damage from industrial complex planned near ParanalAn in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on the facilities at the Paranal Observatory, Chile — and the results are alarming. The analysis reveals that INNA would increase light pollution above the Very Large Telescope (VLT) by at least 35% and by more than 50% above the south site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO-South). INNA would also increase air turbulence in the area, further degrading conditions for astronomical observations, while vibrations from the project could seriously impair the functioning of some of the astronomical facilities, like the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), at the Paranal Observatory.

The lasers our Very Large Telescope (VLT) pierce the Milky Way… but what is that vertical glow just below? 🤔

That’s the zodiacal light: caused by dust grains in the Solar System, it's so faint that it’s only visible in the darkest skies, such as those of Chile’s Atacama Desert.

And the pristine night sky 🌌 in this region has always been intertwined with the culture and traditions of its indigenous people, discover how: eso.org/public/images/potw2511

📷 F. Millour/ESO

DATE: March 16, 2025 at 09:00AM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG

TITLE: Merely Watching Scenes of Nature Can Reduce Pain, Says New Study

URL: goodnewsnetwork.org/merely-wat

A new neuroimaging report says merely looking at nature can help ease how people experience pain by reducing the brain activity linked to pain perception. It is well known to reduce feelings of anxiety and depression as well, and the report serves as a reminder of how much good the great outdoors can do for […]

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Good News Network · Merely Watching Scenes of Nature Can Reduce Pain, Says New StudyIt is well known to reduce feelings of anxiety as well, and the report serves as a reminder of how much good the great outdoors can do.

This feels like an alien invasion of the United States.

"NIH officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.

'Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,' the scientist told his colleague.
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#Politics #Science
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KFF Health NewsScientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health NewsTwo senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promising field of medical research.