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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 4d

☣️ Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola Virus Disease External Situation Report 04 (05 October 2025) ☣️ reliefweb.int/report/democ...
64 cases (53 confirmed and 11 probable), including 43 deaths (32 confirmed, 11 probable) have been reported

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Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Indigenous People’s Day. A typhoon has just devastated Alaska Native villages along the coast of Western Alaska. Colonization has not ended, and it’s tied to the climate crisis. vist.ly/4aayw

Remnants of Typhoon Halong bring widespread damage to Western Alaska

Dozens of residents were rescued after floodwaters in multiple communities swept homes off their foundations.

alaskapublic.org

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 1d

We express our solidarity to all affected by extreme flooding in Mexico. They are paying the heavy toll for a crisis created by profit-hungry big polluters.

Photos: Death toll from devastating Mexico flooding rises

The death toll from last week’s torrential rains in Mexico has risen to 64 as authorities expand the search.

www.aljazeera.com

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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 1d

Five facts about the WMO’s 2024 State of Global Water Resources Report:

This is the #StateOfWater.

Read the full report 🔗 https://bit.ly/469OBWU

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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 15d

It's finally in my hands! @harvardpress.bsky.social did such a wonderful job with the jacket. It's available for preorder, and will ship (to anyone in the US or Canada) on October 28th. #EnvHist #Astronomy #Space

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 4m

Ireland set to miss water quality goals as pollution crisis deepens, EPA warns www.irishpost.com/news/ireland...
Despite some small improvements, overall water quality across Ireland continues to fall.

⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 5m

Could targeted steroid use offer a universal complimentary treatment to fight TB? www.tcd.ie/news_events/...
Researchers wanted to understand how steroids selectively affect human macrophages, which are a key cellular player in the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)

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

Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth” news.mit.edu/2025/geologi...
Materials from ancient rocks could reveal conditions in the early solar system that shaped the early Earth and other planets.

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

Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool news.mit.edu/2025/checkin...
Acting as a “virtual spectrometer,” SpectroGen generates spectroscopic data in any modality, such as X-ray or infrared, to quickly assess a material’s quality.

Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool

SpectroGen, a new AI tool, serves as a virtual spectrometer for assessing a new material’s quality, offering a faster and cheaper option for certain materials-driven industries.

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

Why some quantum materials stall while others scale news.mit.edu/2025/why-som...
In a new study, MIT researchers evaluated quantum materials’ potential for scalable commercial success — and identified promising candidates.

Why some quantum materials stall while others scale

MIT researchers developed a way to evaluate the scale-up potential of quantum materials, combining a material’s quantum behavior with its cost, supply chain resilience, and environmental footprint. Th...

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

Earthquake damage at deeper depths occurs long after initial activity news.mit.edu/2025/earthqu...
While the Earth’s upper crust recovers quickly from seismic activity, new research finds the mid-crust recovers much more slowly, if at all.

Earthquake damage at deeper depths occurs long after initial activity

Measuring earthquake wave speeds following the 2019 Ridgecrest quake sequence, MIT researchers found the upper crust in the region recovered quickly, but the mid-level crust experienced ongoing change...

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

Engineering next-generation fertilizers news.mit.edu/2025/giorgio...
MIT postdoc Giorgio Rizzo harnesses plant chemistry to design sustainable fertilizers that could reshape modern farming.

Engineering next-generation fertilizers

MIT postdoc Giorgio Rizzo is engineering sustainable fertilizers to boost crop resilience and reduce agriculture’s environmental footprint. His work in the Marelli Lab aims to transform farming with i...

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

Optimizing food subsidies: Applying digital platforms to maximize nutrition news.mit.edu/2025/optimiz...
An algorithm can change the face of food assistance policy in the Global South, says MIT assistant professor and J-WAFS researcher Ali Aouad.

Optimizing food subsidies: Applying digital platforms to maximize nutrition

Ali Aouad, an assistant professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is developing an algorithm to collect consumers' food preferences, which will later help to infor...

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 1d

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working out how to find them anyway.

An Earthling’s guide to planet hunting

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working out how to find them anyway.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 1d

Over the past decade, scientists have been uncovering new methods of looking at the hidden ways our bodies are aging. What they’ve found is changing our understanding of aging itself.

How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it

When used correctly, they can help us unpick some of the mysteries of our biology, and our mortality.

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

How old is our water? www.eso.org/public/blog/...
Have you ever heard the old adage that the water you drink is likely to contain water molecules that passed through the dinosaurs? It’s crazy to think that the water we drink could have been around that long.

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ESO @eso.org · 1d

50 million light-years away, galaxy NGC 1097 & its tiny companion NGC 1097A are locked in a galactic embrace.

The bright knots around NGC 1097’s centre are thought to be large bubbles of glowing hydrogen gas about 750–2500 light-years across.

www.eso.org/public/image... 🔭

#Flashback

A barred spiral galaxy with a bright yellow core, sweeping outer arms against a dark background. A smaller galaxy is visible on the top right.

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EUMETSAT Users @eumetsat-users.bsky.social · 7d

Satellite data confirm that global warming accelerates as marine clouds break up due to ocean warming 🌊. Research by Abhay Devasthale & Karl-Göran Karlsson (SMHI) and @rroebeling.bsky.social, 👀 read it here bit.ly/3VVecwE #earthobservation #remotesensing

Sunset over the ocean. Credit: Great Brut Here/stock.adobe.com

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

🌌 Space Weather Alerts Presently Active spaceweather.com www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ale... www.swift-sgra.com

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

🌀 Cyclone Alerts Presently Active www.nhc.noaa.gov www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html

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

🔥 Wildfires Canada Alerts Presently Active cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...

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

🍁 Weather Canada Alerts Presently Active weather.gc.ca

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

🇪🇺 Weather Europe Alerts Presently Active www.meteoalarm.org

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

Breathtaking ✨️

Uluru under our Galaxy ✨️💙✨️

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 1d

⛈️ Severe Thunderstorm & Tornado Watch Canada / USA / North Mexico Alerts Active www.spc.noaa.gov/products/wat... weather.gc.ca map.blitzortung.org www.ventusky.com

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⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Goody, 102 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Successfully bridged experimental observations with theory that fostered unprecedented advances in our understanding of the Earth’s troposphere-stratosphere coupling, Venus & Mars & of the intricacies of the quantum mechanics of molecular spectra

Memorial Minute for Richard Goody, 102 — Harvard Gazette

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 7, 2025, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Richard Goody was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

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