Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
The Bees Are Disappearing Again
“Honeybee colonies are under siege across much of North America…” . Last winter beekeepers across America “began reporting massive beehive collapses. More than half of the roughly 2.8 million colonies collapsed, costing the industry about $600 million in economic losses…” America’s Department of Agriculture says “sublethal exposure” to pesticides remains Read more…
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Water on Earth May Not Have Originated from an Asteroid Impact, Study Finds
Discover magazine reports that a team of researchers have produced evidence that the ancient building blocks for water have been here on earth “since early in the planet’s history, according to a study published in the journal Icarus.” Pinpointing when and where Earth’s hydrogen [originated] is an essential key to Read more…
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Return-to-Office Policies Are Impacting Neurodivergent Workers
With more companies requiring workers to return to an office five days a week, anxiety is rising for some of the millions of people who identify as neurodivergent. They raise the possibility that “strict office mandates have the potential to deter neurodivergent people who may approach problems differently,” the article Read more…
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Astronomers Confirm First ‘Lone’ Black Hole Discovery – and It’s in the Milky Way
For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole, one with no star orbiting it. It’s “the only one so far,” says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. In 2022, Sahu and his colleagues discovered the dark object coursing Read more…
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Conservationists Say ‘De-Extinction’ Not the Answer to Saving Extinct Species
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a “de-extinction” of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). “But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific research,” writes the Chicago Tribune. “Unfortunately, as clever as this science is … Read more…