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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 6h

#SeaSurge #TheDayAfterTomorrow #Film #GIF #Weather www.buzzfeed.com/sam_cleal/wh...

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 7h

Sea Ice Today | National Snow and Ice Data Center nsidc.org/sea-ice-today

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 7h

New Method Uses Collisions to Break Down Plastic for Sustainable Recycling news.gatech.edu/news/2025/10...
Researchers have developed a method to break down PET, one of the world’s most widely used plastics, for sustainable recycling using mechanical forces instead of heat or harsh chemicals.

New Method Uses Collisions to Break Down Plastic for Sustainable Recycling

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 7h

Storms Are Changing — Should the Hurricane Scale Change Too? news.gatech.edu/news/2025/10...
Georgia Tech expert Zachary Handlos joins a growing conversation about whether the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale adequately reflects the full range of hurricane hazards in a changing climate.

Storms Are Changing — Should the Hurricane Scale Change Too?

As climate change continues to reshape the intensity and behavior of hurricanes, meteorologists and researchers are examining whether the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, a decades-old classificat...

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 7h

Decades in the Making: Seeing the Full Impact From Air Pollution Reductions news.gatech.edu/news/2025/09...
Georgia Tech researchers analyze seasonal differences of SO₂ & sulfate concentrations in the atmosphere over decades to determine the long-term impact of sustained air quality control efforts

Decades in the Making: Seeing the Full Impact From Air Pollution Reductions

Researchers at Georgia Tech have analyzed the seasonal differences of sulfate aerosols — a major pollutant in the United States — to examine the long-term impact from sulfur dioxide (SO₂) emission red...

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Georgia Tech College of Engineering @gatechengineers.bsky.social · 8h

Georgia Tech engineers are building a cancer "atlas" that will offer a roadmap to finding multiple kinds of tumors earlier than ever — when they’re most treatable. It’s a big swing powered by $49.5M from @arpa-h.bsky.social & starting to deliver on its vision: b.gatech.edu/42LnlvH

Illustration of cancer cells along a road with location markers next to each cell to represent the cancer "atlas" Gabe Kwong and his collaborators are building.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 18h

"The researchers identify that, in some cases, the area burned by these fires was 25-35 times larger than it would have been without global warming."

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Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024 - Carbon Brief

“Extreme” wildfires emitted more than 8bn tonnes of carbon dioxide during the 2024-25 “global fire season”, according to a new report.

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Harvard Catalyst @harvardcatalyst.bsky.social · 1d

“An understanding of statistics is going to greatly improve your research,” says Brian Healy @hsph.harvard.edu. Discover the joy in statistics as you read the words of the professor behind our popular program in applied #biostatistics: hvrdct.me/0f9362

Born for Biostatistics

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Shruthi Mahalingaiah, MD, MS @smahalingaiahmd.bsky.social · 10d

Did you know? Clinical research takes an average of 17 years to reach real clinical practice. A new resource for the Mahalingaiah Lab discusses how we can combat this statistic: hsph.harvard.edu/mahalingaiah... #HealthLiteracyMonth #publichealthsky @hsph.harvard.edu @harvardmed.bsky.social

Turning research into reality: what is health literacy and why is it important? | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Health literacy is the bridge that closes the gap between scientific evidence and everyday life. Whether you’re a patient, researcher, or healthcare provider, we all have tremendous opportunity to tra...

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 7h

Researchers report ‘astounding’ obesity surge in U.S. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Prevalence rises to 70 percent under definition that includes measures other than just BMI

Researchers report ‘astounding’ obesity surge in U.S. — Harvard Gazette

Prevalence rises from 40 percent to 70 percent under definition that includes measures other than just BMI.

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 8h

MIT-Toyota collaboration powers driver assistance in millions of vehicles news.mit.edu/2025/mit-toy...
A decade-plus alliance between MIT’s AgeLab and Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center is recognized as a key contributor to advancements in automotive safety and human-machine interaction.

MIT-Toyota collaboration powers driver assistance in millions of vehicles

A decade-plus alliance between MIT’s AgeLab and Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center is recognized as a key contributor to advancements in automotive safety and human-machine interaction.

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il-nb.bsky.social @il-nb.bsky.social · 8d

Immune-informed brain aging research offers new treatment possibilities, speakers say | MIT News

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Understanding how interactions between the central nervous system and the immune system contribute to problems of aging, including…

Immune-informed brain aging research offers new treatment possibilities, speakers say | MIT News - Israel News Beep

Understanding how interactions between the central nervous system and the immune system contribute to problems of aging, including Alzheimer’s disease,

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 8h

Remembering Professor Emerita Jeanne Shapiro  Bamberger, a pioneer in music education news.mit.edu/2025/remembe...
The former department chair was an early innovator in the use of artificial intelligence to both study and influence how children learn music.

Remembering Professor Emerita Jeanne Shapiro  Bamberger, a pioneer in music education

MIT Music and Theater Arts remembers Professor Emerita Jeanne Shapiro Bamberger, who recently died at 100. The former piano prodigy and department chair was an early innovator in the use of artificial...

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 9h

Blending neuroscience, AI, and music to create mental health innovations news.mit.edu/2025/kimaya-...
Media Lab PhD student Kimaya Lecamwasam researches how music can shape well-being.

Blending neuroscience, AI, and music to create mental health innovations

Musician and computational neuroscientist Kimaya Lecamwasam, a doctoral student in the MIT Media Lab program in Media Arts and Sciences, uses neuroscience, AI, and music to explore the impact of music...

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 9h

MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries news.mit.edu/2025/mit-eng...
Their system uses electrochemically generated bubbles to detach cells from surfaces, which could accelerate the growth of carbon-absorbing algae and lifesaving cell therapies.

MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries

MIT researchers developed a way to make cells detach from surfaces on demand, using electrochemically generated bubbles. The system could keep bioreactors and other cell-growing systems clean, acceler...

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 1d

Physician Alice Hamilton fought tirelessly to remove lead from workplaces, urging the U.S. government to ban lead from gasoline. Her warnings were ignored. Through her story, Dr. Tom Frieden illustrates what public health needs to help others see & act on invisible toxins. Read at @bigthink.com:

How Alice Hamilton helped the world see a hidden poison

Alice Hamilton exposed the dangers of lead poisoning, a lesson that still guides today’s fight against hidden environmental toxins.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 9h

What is BECCS, and why is it so complicated?

The problem with Big Tech’s favorite carbon removal tech

What’s BECCS, and why’s it so complicated?

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 1d

In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure. But when algorithms measure our suffering, does that change the way we understand and treat it?

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 1d

Climate change forces us to reckon with the knotty science of how our bodies interact with the environment.

The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures

Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.

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ESO @eso.org · 1d

Come visit the 'Smiling cat' nebula!

Here, in vast clouds of gas & dust 15 000 light-years away from Earth, stars are being born. Meanwhile, giant pillars, light-years across, are formed as winds from the young stars batter the surrounding material.

www.eso.org/public/news/...

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ESO @eso.org · 11h

A Tale of Three Stellar Cities!

This is the Orion Nebula, one of the closest stellar nurseries. In it, three different generations of stars live together, a hint to the fact that the stars of a cluster may not form simultaneously 🔭

More: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1723a

📷 ESO/G. Beccari

A colorful nebula glowing in shades of pink, orange, and blue. Wisps of gas and dust swirl around bright clusters of stars. A brilliant white core at the centre is surrounded by countless smaller points of light.

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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 13h

DYK the clouds above our oceans play a role in understanding climate? ☁️

Marine stratocumulus clouds, which reflect sunlight & help cool the oceans, are shrinking as sea temperatures rise.

Fewer clouds mean warmer oceans - learn how satellites can help track this critical change: bit.ly/497OPPZ

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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 15h

This week's 'image of the week' is a view of Storm Karen, captured by Meteosat-12 on 10 October.

The storm - located far northwest of the Azores - reached maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kmh), before quickly fading.

Find out more and download the image at: www.eumetsat.int/image-week-s...

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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 13h

📈 Carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere soared by a record amount to new highs in 2024, according to WMO’s latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.

🔗 Find out more: https://bit.ly/3J2jZOg https://bit.ly/4qkJNGb

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 9h

ESA Open Day 2025: an unforgettable journey through space science at ESAC www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfGx... www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
The European Space Agency opened the doors of ESAC – the European Space Astronomy Centre near Madrid – for an inspiring day of discovery.

ESA Open Day 2025: an unforgettable journey through space science at ESAC

YouTube video by ESA Extras

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