by Susan Keown | Jan 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Vince Beiser (@VinceBeiser) writes for the Sierra Club about the impact of lithium mining on environments worldwide, through the lens of the Atacama Desert of Chile, which is home to one of the world’s biggest lithium operations. The world must vastly increase its...
by Susan Keown | Jan 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
New member Laurel Hamers (@Arboreal_Laurel) writes for the University of Oregon about the jet propulsion used by a gelatinous sea creature, Nanomia bijuga. Hamers describes how this tiny, colonial creature with no central nervous system nevertheless uses many...
by Susan Keown | Jan 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Beautiful colors on tropical birds, while undoubtedly adaptive for the animals, also attract people who want to capture them for the international pet trade, writes Anna Marie Yanny (@annamarie_yanny) for Mongabay. This puts them at greater risk of extinction,...
by Susan Keown | Jan 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Been there, done that. So why send humans back to the Moon? asks Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) in an opinion piece for Nature. Politics and technology, not science, are (again) driving forces behind the latest Moon mission, Artemis I, which launched in November. But...
by Susan Keown | Jan 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Writing for neo.life, Robin Donovan (@RobinKD) explains that muscle loss, loss of strength and loss of function — sarcopenia — has a big impact on the quality of life and even lifespan of many people, but yet few have heard of it and there is little research on it....
