Perhaps living with type 2 diabetes doesn’t have to be so permanent after all. @sciencefocus has more, including what causes the disease, how to put it in remission (and keep it there), and more:
"This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals? This is a generational loss of innovation, technology, and economic power."
An anonymous researcher at Boston Children's Hospital responds to a survey of scientists in Massachusetts about the impact of Trump administration policies on the state, which is home to Harvard University and many other research heavy-hitters.
#Science #Medicine #Research #Cancer #HHS #Trump #GOP #Harvard #Boston #Massachusetts
In another event at the 24/7 circus, the current head of the NIH is launching "Scientific Freedom" talks with a climate change denier who shares his idea (for which he cried "Suppression!") about how we should have dealt with COVID: do nothing, let nature decide. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/nih-director-launches-scientific-freedom-lectures-with-non-scientist/ #science
"Swimmable Cities ... brings together stakeholders and experts from all over the world to share knowledge about making urban waterways clean enough to swim in. The Rotterdam gathering, which included representatives from more than 20 countries, was the organization’s first summit....For most of their histories, urban centers poured sewage into the nearest river,... that can harm marine ecosystems and endanger swimmers."
Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/would-you-jump-into-your-local-river-swimmable-cities-may-be-within-reach-as-once-polluted-waterways-are-restored-180988317
#Science #HealthCare
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The global software ecosystem is now fundamentally dependent on a complex, corporate-backed open-source infrastructure that balances innovation with profound strategic tensions.
The annual Ig Nobels, the awards for odd and funny scientific achievement, will be held outside the United States for the first time in its 36 years because of concerns about attendees' safety. The 2026 ceremony, which takes place in September ahead of the Nobel Prizes, will be held in Zurich. “We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the USA this year," Marc Abrahams, editor of event organizers the Annals of Improbable Research, told @AssociatedPress.
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#Science #IgNobels #IgNobelPrize #TrumpAdministration #USPolitics
Big Picture Science for Mar. 09, 2026: Skeptic Check: Moon Conspiracy
As NASA’s Artemis program promises to take us back to the moon for the first time in fifty years, we consider what it means that as many as 10% of Americans don’t believe we went there in the first place. Why, despite all the evidence, has the faked moon landing conspiracy persisted? We explore why this falsehood has such staying power and what it reveals about our relationship with science and its findings.
Meanwhile, lunar science continues unabated. Scientists open a lunar soil sample that’s been vacuumed sealed for a half-century and receive a blast of four and a half billion-year-old solar wind.
Guests:
* Peter Knight – professor of American Studies, English and American Studies and conspiracy expert at the University of Manchester, U.K.
* Ryan Zeigler – planetary scientist and NASA’s Lunar Sample Curator at Johnson Space Center
Download podcast at - https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/skeptic-check-moon-conspiracy
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#Moon #Conspiracy #BigPictureScience #SETI #News #Podcast #Science
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La dépression opère une reconfiguration profonde du rapport entre langage et réalité, transformant la signification perçue des énoncés les plus banals.
“THE FIRST ATTEMPT to drill through the Greenland ice sheet was made in the early nineteen-sixties at a U.S. Army outpost called Camp Century. Some fifty years later, the camp remains far and away the biggest thing ever built on—or, really, under the Greenland ice. Camp Century had a bar, a chapel, a barbershop, a movie theater, and a nuclear reactor. All were housed in a network of snow tunnels like those at EGRIP [the East Greenland Ice-Core Project], but extending for miles. The ostensible purpose of the base was to promote Arctic science, but in the nineteen-nineties an investigation by the Danish government revealed this to be a ruse. What the army had really been up to was developing a new system for storing intercontinental ballistic missiles. Its plan was to install a subglacial railway and shuttle ICBMs around in a Cold War shell game. The code name for the scheme was Project Iceworm.” - A passage from the chapter, A Song of Ice Greenland Is Melting from the book, Life On A Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World by Elizabeth Kolbert (2025) which I am reading.
#Greenland #Denmark #Bookstodon #Climate #Science #Nature #Environment
Vision does not come automatically after sight restoration. In fact, when people born blind gain sight, the hardest part isn’t opening their eyes — it’s teaching the brain how to see. @BigThink@flipboard.com tells us how newly sighted people build a visual world:
Today I'm in the mood of expressing gratitude for the work of colleagues that influenced and inspired me. Plus, it's the #IWD26 so, here we are.
TLDR - if you're interested in complex systems and AI, do yourself a favor: read works by @melaniemitchell
Specifically, a great introductory work on complex systems is her book "Complexity: A Guided Tour" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5597902-complexity
About AI, I suggest her more recent "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43565360-artificial-intelligence
If you don't want to take my words for granted, take a peek at her substack - https://aiguide.substack.com/ - you will get a taste of her unique mix of competence, depth of analysis, and clarity.
You can thank me later.
#readingSuggestions #ai #complexity #science #scientificResearch
The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet, a planet outside our Solar System, came in 1992. We’ve found a lot more in the years since then. Is alien life next? Read more from @sciencefocus, including which colours we should look for in our search for life out there:
It took five decades of work, but one of the world’s driest regions is being transformed into a carbon sink. You’ve heard plenty about deforestation. @ScienceAlert provides a more upbeat look at an afforestation project in northwestern China that may add one piece to the puzzle in the fight against climate change:
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