Ibrahim Khan
@iakhan13.bsky.social
I love microcosm, and macrocosm.
Reset Your Mind With This Feel-Good Ritual
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Reset Your Mind With This Feel-Good Ritual
Quick Health Tip #29
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December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Reset Your Mind With This Feel-Good Ritual
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Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars or galaxies – an astronomer explains where it’s distributed
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Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars or galaxies – an astronomer explains where it’s distributed
Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space as tiny particles.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars or galaxies – an astronomer explains where it’s distributed
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The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety
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The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety
Priced out of ‘safe,’ more and more Americans are moving to flood plains and fire zones.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety
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Measuring Colorado’s mountains one hike at a time
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Measuring Colorado’s mountains one hike at a time
To most accurately measure mountain peaks, Eric Gilbertson lugs equipment all the way to the top.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Measuring Colorado’s mountains one hike at a time
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Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too
At a recent conference on mathematics in the age of automated proofs, mathematician and Fields Medalist Akshay Venkatesh presented “How do we talk to our students about AI?'' He quoted an email he'd r...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures
Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past
Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures
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December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures
Is This Bird the Next Dodo? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/s...
Is This Bird the Next Dodo?
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December 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Writing how the new fossil evidence is a glimpse of the ancient world, @andrewpaul.bsky.social dives into the new findings for @popsci.com.
Read the fantastic coverage here ⬇️
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Read the fantastic coverage here ⬇️
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Anacondas have been huge for over 12 million years
The snakes behind the blockbuster are megafauna throwbacks.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Writing how the new fossil evidence is a glimpse of the ancient world, @andrewpaul.bsky.social dives into the new findings for @popsci.com.
Read the fantastic coverage here ⬇️
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Read the fantastic coverage here ⬇️
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The modern anaconda is an example of a megafauna 'throwback', new "surprise" @jvertpaleo.bsky.social findings claim, as @camzoology.bsky.social experts reveal it reached its vast length 12.4 million years ago 👇
Whilst other giant animals died out, the huge snake survived 🐍
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Whilst other giant animals died out, the huge snake survived 🐍
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December 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The modern anaconda is an example of a megafauna 'throwback', new "surprise" @jvertpaleo.bsky.social findings claim, as @camzoology.bsky.social experts reveal it reached its vast length 12.4 million years ago 👇
Whilst other giant animals died out, the huge snake survived 🐍
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Whilst other giant animals died out, the huge snake survived 🐍
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Maternal allergy and neonatal RSV infection synergize via FcR-mediated allergen uptake to promote the development of asthma in early life | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Maternal allergy and neonatal RSV infection synergize via FcR-mediated allergen uptake to promote the development of asthma in early life
Maternal IgG transfer and neonatal infection synergize via Fc receptor pathways to promote allergic TH2 immunity.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Maternal allergy and neonatal RSV infection synergize via FcR-mediated allergen uptake to promote the development of asthma in early life | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Elasticity of davemaoite as a primary contributor to lower-mantle heterogeneities | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Elasticity of davemaoite as a primary contributor to lower-mantle heterogeneities
Geophysical detection of subducted mid–ocean ridge basalt (MORB) in the lower mantle is hindered by uncertainties in the elasticity of Fe,Al,Mg,Ti–bearing davemaoite, a key MORB component. Using Brill...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Elasticity of davemaoite as a primary contributor to lower-mantle heterogeneities | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Liquid-state dipolarcaloric refrigeration cycle with nitrate-based salts | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Liquid-state dipolarcaloric refrigeration cycle with nitrate-based salts
The environmental burden of vapor compression refrigeration has driven interest in alternatives. Caloric refrigeration cycles offer a path forward, but most rely on solid-state materials with limited ...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Liquid-state dipolarcaloric refrigeration cycle with nitrate-based salts | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership
The nation’s next generation of scientists and technologists will shape the coming decades.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Vaccine advice based on science: US centre fills gaps in public-health information www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Vaccine advice based on science: US centre fills gaps in public-health information
Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm talks about efforts by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy to inform vaccine recommendations and maintain public-health awareness during the Trump ad...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Vaccine advice based on science: US centre fills gaps in public-health information www.nature.com/articles/d41...
From Knowable Magazine: Achieving lasting remission for HIV | Knowable Magazine knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... Audience
Achieving lasting remission for HIV
People infected with HIV must take antiretroviral drugs for life. But promising trials using engineered antibodies suggest that ‘functional cures’ may be in reach.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Daily Mosnodenvir as Dengue Prophylaxis in a Controlled Human Infection Model | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Daily Mosnodenvir as Dengue Prophylaxis in a Controlled Human Infection Model | NEJM
Approximately half the worldwide population is at risk for dengue. No antiviral prophylaxis
or treatment options are available. In a phase 2a, double-blind, randomized trial,
we assigned healthy ad...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Daily Mosnodenvir as Dengue Prophylaxis in a Controlled Human Infection Model | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
AI reviewers are here — we are not ready www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI reviewers are here — we are not ready
Artificial intelligence promises rapid and polite feedback on papers — but we must first review the reviewer.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
AI reviewers are here — we are not ready www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Great science happens in great teams — research assessments must try to capture that www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Great science happens in great teams — research assessments must try to capture that
Europe must reform the ways in which science is evaluated. To boost innovation, it must improve research culture.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health
Astrocytes make up one-quarter of the brain, but researchers are only now realizing their true value.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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the rise and fall of shallow-water reef habitats have governed how quickly the planet recovered from major carbon dioxide (CO₂) shocks ⚒️🧪
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Coral reefs have stabilised Earth's carbon cycle for 250 million years
Coral reefs are not just passive recorders of Earth's carbon cycle, they are active buffers dealing with 'carbon shocks'. Tristan Salles at the University of Sydney says while reefs will recover, they...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
the rise and fall of shallow-water reef habitats have governed how quickly the planet recovered from major carbon dioxide (CO₂) shocks ⚒️🧪
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🌄 Evening Brief: Ola Electric’s numbers raise questions about how costs were shared
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🌄 Evening Brief: Ola Electric’s numbers raise questions about how costs were shared
Ola Electric has reported that its two-wheeler business turned operationally profitable in the September quarter, but a closer look at its books shows why the claim has drawn scrutiny.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🌄 Evening Brief: Ola Electric’s numbers raise questions about how costs were shared
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Jane Austen shunned literary fame – but transformed the novel from the shadows
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Jane Austen shunned literary fame – but transformed the novel from the shadows
The fifth episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail explores Austen’s view of writing through the pages of Northanger Abbey.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Jane Austen shunned literary fame – but transformed the novel from the shadows
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The Bible Is on Trial in Europe. Plus. . .
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The Bible Is on Trial in Europe. Plus. . .
Today in The Front Page: the Bible is on trial in Europe. The cost of climate science confusion. Elliot Ackerman on the problem of Pete Hegseth. Has an English civil war already begun? And much more.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Bible Is on Trial in Europe. Plus. . .
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Trump has ‘shaken the hell’ out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now? www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a... via @statnews.com
Trump has ‘shaken the hell’ out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
Trump has "shaken the hell" out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
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December 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Trump has ‘shaken the hell’ out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now? www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a... via @statnews.com
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Antipsychotic Medication Use by Older Adults
This cross-sectional study examines trends in antipsychotic medication use among adults aged 65 years or older in the US.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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