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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🧵1/5 Antarctica may have crossed a climate tipping point—new analysis warns parts are changing fast and could lock in sea-level rise for centuries. This is happening now. ❄️⚠️
newscientist.com
Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas
Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
🧵1/5 Are we heating up 🌡️ or freezing down ❄️? Climate models suggest Earth’s carbon cycle may hide a dangerous glitch. While we’re living through rapid warming now, some feedbacks could one day flip us into a deep freeze. Let’s unpack this.
techexplorist.com
A dangerous glitch in the carbon cycle could freeze Earth over
Carbon cycle flaw can plunge Earth into an ice age.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
🧵1/4 Intel was once the undisputed chip king 👑. But as the AI boom exploded 💥, it lagged behind rivals, ceding the field to Nvidia’s GPUs 🎮➡️🤖. The AI revolution created trillion-dollar giants—without Intel.
reuters.com
Nvidia takes $5 billion stake in Intel, offers chip tech in new lifeline to struggling chipmaker
Nvidia said it would invest $5 billion in Intel, throwing its heft behind the struggling U.S. chipmaker just weeks after the White House engineered an extraordinary deal for the federal government to take a massive stake in the company.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Japan has reached a remarkable milestone 🇯🇵✨ Nearly 100,000 people are now 100 years or older! That’s a new record, continuing an incredible 55-year streak of growth in centenarians 🎉👵👴
bbc.com
Japan sets new record with nearly 100,000 people aged over 100
The number of Japanese centenarians rose to 99,763 in September, with women making up 88% of the total.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
🧵1/6 500 years under the Baltic Sea, the Gribshunden—King Hans of Denmark’s flagship—has been called the “Tudor warship of the North.” Recent finds reveal a time capsule of politics, power, and daily life at sea ⚓👑
sciencedaily.com
Forgotten royal warship sunk 500 years ago reveals surprising secrets
From the wreck of the royal Danish-Norwegian flagship Gribshunden, archaeologists have uncovered a rare glimpse into the naval power of the late Middle Ages. This warship, lost in 1495, carried an ars...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
🧵1/6 NASA’s Perseverance rover has found clay-rich mudstones in Mars’ Bright Angel formation, with organic carbon + “leopard-spot” and “poppy-seed” textures—spots rich in iron phosphate & sulfide. These may be some of the strongest biosignature hints yet.
apnews.com
New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🧵1/6 What if most of Earth’s life is still invisible to science? 🌍🔍 Researchers estimate up to 90% of species remain undiscovered: from flies & fungi to tiny mites. They shape ecosystems, store carbon, & feed the food chain, yet we barely know them.
vox.com
The search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results
We still haven’t documented 90 percent of animals on Earth
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🧵1/7 🌎 ⚠️ A new study warns the Atlantic Ocean’s key current (AMOC)—which regulates global climate—could begin collapsing as soon as 2055. Scientists say this would cause massive shifts in weather, sea levels, and ecosystems worldwide.
livescience.com
Key Atlantic current could start collapsing as early as 2055, new study finds
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation brings heat to the Northern Hemisphere and regulates the climate globally, but research suggests it could weaken significantly in the coming decades.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
⚡️⚡️ Google just got hit 💥 with a €2.95 billion ($3.45B) antitrust fine from the 🇪🇺 EU for favoring its own adtech platforms, distorting ad marketplace fairness. This is the fourth such penalty in recent years, intensifying Europe’s Big Tech crackdown.
reuters.com
Google hit with $3.45 billion EU antitrust fine over adtech practices
Alphabet's Google was hit with a 2.95-billion-euro ($3.45 billion) EU antitrust fine on Friday for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative adtech business, marking its fourth penalty in its decade long fight with EU competition regulators.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🧵1/6 So many Maya still live across Mesoamerica—over 7 million today maintain their native languages. Yet their voices have historically been marginalized. This new initiative changes that, with tools 🛠️ built by and for Indigenous communities.
smithsonianmag.com
Millions of Maya Still Call Mesoamerica Home. This Groundbreaking Initiative Ushers the Rich Tapestry of Mayan Languages Into the Digital Age
The Mayan Languages Preservation and Digitization Project promotes tools designed by and for Indigenous communities, like online glossaries and special phone keyboards
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
🧵1/5 Europa isn’t the only moon with a bioscience twist. Over on Titan, NASA now suggests methane and ethane lakes might naturally form vesicle-like bubbles—tiny structures resembling primitive cell membranes. Not water-based life, but something close. 👽🌌
sciencedaily.com
NASA finds Titan’s alien lakes may be creating primitive cells
Saturn’s moon Titan may be more alive with possibilities than we thought. New NASA research suggests that in Titan’s freezing methane and ethane lakes, simple molecules could naturally arrange themsel...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Quote of the day
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
🧵1/7 The U.S. feels on edge — politics, climate anxiety, nonstop bad headlines. Yet one thing keeps winning attention online: cat videos. Quick, harmless, oddly comforting — why do we keep clicking? 🐱
washingtonpost.com
The fascinating, feel-good psychology of Internet cat videos
Why are cats so popular online? A recent study may have the answer.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
🧵 1/7 The future of food might not be lab-grown beef or plant burgers 🌱🍔. It could be something far stranger… and squirmier. Imagine 10 billion maggots quietly working in France to fight climate change, recycle waste, and feed the world. Ready? Let’s dig in 🪲👇
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🧵1/3 Meet Kostensuchus atrox — a grizzly-sized hypercarnivorous croc cousin that stalked dinosaurs on land in Patagonia 70 million years ago 🐊🦖. More than just a river lurker, this beast was a top predator.
livescience.com
70 million-year-old hypercarnivore that ate dinosaurs named after Egyptian god
Researchers have unveiled Kostensuchus atrox, a giant crocodile relative that ate dinosaurs in Argentina 70 million years ago during the Cretaceous period.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
🧵1/7 The Sun just revealed its hidden threads—and they’re thinner than you think 🌞✨. Hawaii’s DKIST telescope captured the smallest magnetic loops ever seen during an X-class flare. Ready to dive in?
space.com
World's most powerful solar telescope sees incredible coronal loops on the sun (image)
"It's a landmark moment in solar science."
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
🧵1/6 What if life doesn’t need 💦 water? A new study says ionic liquids—salty solvents liquid at odd temperatures—could support life’s chemistry where water can’t. Life as we know it… but weirder.
space.com
Is water really a necessary ingredient for life? Aliens may swim in truly exotic pools
"This can dramatically increase the habitability zone for all rocky worlds."
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🧵1/7 👉 The biggest threat to humanity might not be only climate, war, or AI. It could be something quieter, on top of all that: we’re running out of babies. 👶 A study warns the impact could rival climate change.
nature.com
People are having fewer babies: Is it really the end of the world?
Steep population declines in most countries are expected to have negative impacts over the next several generations, but adaptation is possible.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🧵1/6 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope 🔭(JWST) has found a tiny new moon orbiting Uranus—so small, you could walk around it in a few hours. Meet S/2025 U1.
livescience.com
Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope reveals
Uranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🧵1/6 What if a tiny nutrient you’ve never heard of could boost your memory, protect from cancer, and keep your genes working smoothly? Scientists just cracked a 30-year mystery about it 👇
sciencedaily.com
Scientists solve 30-year mystery of a hidden nutrient that shields the brain and fights cancer
Scientists have finally uncovered the missing link in how our bodies absorb queuosine, a rare micronutrient crucial for brain health, memory, stress response, and cancer defense. For decades, research...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🧵1/7 🔥 Want to know why megafires are growing bigger? A new study shows industrial private forests are 1.5× more likely to burn in high-severity wildfires than public forests. Mismanaged fuel beds help fires spread.
phys.org
Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires, study finds
The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more l...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🧵 1/9 40,000 years ago, two kinds of humans walked the Earth. One vanished. One became us. Why did Neanderthals disappear while our species thrived? 🤯 New science points to a single gene… but the full story is stranger, darker, and still unfolding. 👇
livescience.com
Gene that differs between humans and Neanderthals could shed light on the species' disappearance, mouse study suggests
A gene called ASDL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings could shed light on why Neanderthals vanished.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
🧵 1/8 A new study reveals the Maya civilization endured severe droughts—one lasting 13 years—that likely contributed to its decline. The question 🙋‍♀️ : how did they survive so long in a region with no rivers?
livescience.com
13-year drought crippled Maya on Yucatán Peninsula 1,000 years ago, study finds
An analysis of a stalagmite within a Mexican cave reveals detailed evidence of drought that contributed to the downfall of the Maya civilization in the area 1,000 years ago.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
🧵 1/6 Meta’s internal AI chatbot rules revealed a horrifying allowance 🤮: bots were permitted to engage in romantic or sensual conversations with minors—complete with unsettling compliments.
reuters.com
Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children
An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
🧵 1/7 ☀️ Solar just got a glow-up. A “black metal” thermoelectric generator from Univ. of Rochester achieves 15× more power than prior models—no fancy semiconductors, just better hot/cold sides.
scitechdaily.com
Solar Power Reimagined: New “Black Metal” Device Generates 15x More Electricity
Researchers have developed a solar thermoelectric generator that is 15 times more efficient than the most advanced devices currently available. Researchers seeking greater energy independence have exp...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
🧵 1/8 🚨 Big change coming: The U.S. wants to end animal 🐁 🐇 research. FDA + NIH are backing new tools—AI, organ-chips, human data. Faster, safer, more human-relevant.
science.org
The U.S. wants to phase out animal research. Are the alternatives ready?
Drug and chemical safety can be assessed with AI and organ chips, but some scientists say it’s too soon to forgo animal methods entirely
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
🧵 1/6 Imagine a “Paris Agreement for plastic.” 🌍 That was the hope at Geneva’s #PlasticTreaty talks. Instead? The summit collapsed with no deal—while plastic waste climbs every single day.
phys.org
How a global plastic treaty could cut down pollution—if the world can agree on one
The "Paris agreement for plastic" was set to be finalized at the end of this week.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🧵 1/6 🤖🧪 Scientists used generative AI to design two candidate antibiotics that show promise against superbugs like MRSA and gonorrhoea in lab tests. Early stage, but this could jumpstart a stalled antibiotic pipeline.
bbc.com
AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA
Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🧵 1/5 Air pollution alerts are blaring: the National Weather Service is urging thousands of Americans to stop burning—no fires, no incense, no outdoor cooking—to help ease wildfire smoke that’s pushing air quality into dangerous territories.
newsweek.com
Thousands of Americans told to stop burning
The National Weather Service has issued a series of air quality alerts across parts of Idaho, Washington and Colorado on Friday.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🧵 1/10 GPT-5 is here, yet its gains feel… underwhelming. The latest release adds incremental improvements in reasoning and coding—but critics say the AI boom may be hitting a plateau.
newscientist.com
GPT-5's modest gains suggest AI progress is slowing down
OpenAI’s latest large language model has achieved seemingly underwhelming improvements in performance, leading to questions about whether the AI industry can make significant advancements with its cur...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🚀 The James Webb Space Telescope just nailed the oldest confirmed black hole, in a galaxy called CAPERS-LRD-z9, dating back to just 500 million years post-Big Bang—over 13 billion years ago.
livescience.com
James Webb telescope spots earliest black hole in the known universe, looking 'as far back as you can practically go'
Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang, and found that it may contain the earliest known black hole in t...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🧵 1/5 Ever wondered how archaeologists tell centuries apart with just iron clues? New X-ray tech is helping them finally separate Colonial, Post-Revolution, and Industrial iron with pinpoint precision. It’s like 🕰️ time travel in metal! ⏳🔍
phys.org
Archaeologists use X-rays to distinguish iron from different periods of America's colonial past
On a dark night in late May 1543, a group of men snuck through the Native American town of Guachoya and stopped at the gated wall, where a body had recently been buried. Working quietly, they disinter...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Tropical Storm Erin has formed near the Cabo Verde Islands and is forecast to become the first hurricane of the season by Thursday, possibly even a major one. Eyes on the Atlantic…
washingtonpost.com
Tropical Storm Erin tracker: Map and projected storm path
Erin is the 5th named storm of the hurricane season.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🧵 1/6 A space hurricane 🌀 —a massive plasma storm—raged over Earth’s North Pole during one of the ☀️ Sun’s quietest days in 2014. It spun for nearly 8 hours, disrupting GPS, agitating the magnetic field, and raining electrons high above us.
livescience.com
'Space hurricane' caught raging over North Pole during one of the sun's quietest days
A rare "space hurricane" that swirled over Earth's North Pole in 2014 caused intense space weather effects despite unusually quiet solar conditions, a new study reports.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🧵 1/10 The Amazon rainforest may be nearing a tipping point—one that could turn lush jungle into dry savanna within our lifetimes. Climate change + deforestation are pushing it toward a collapse. We’re racing against time.
livescience.com
Amazon rainforest is approaching 'tipping points' that could transform it into a drier savanna
Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could trans...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Ah, monarchs—those timeless celebrities of history class, still drawing crowds in ✨ 👑 shiny crowns while the rest of us juggle rent, bills, and a cost-of-living crisis. Apparently, medieval cosplay never goes out of style.
bbc.com
Harry and Meghan sign new multi-year Netflix deal
It's a looser arrangement than their previous deal - and comes ahead of a second series of Meghan's cookery show being screened later this month.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🧵 1/10 🚨💀 Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed 6,000-year-old human bones… with clear signs of cannibalism 🍖🩸 Cut marks, smashed skulls, marrow extraction — a prehistoric menu nobody asked for. This is the Neolithic… but not as you imagined.
newscientist.com
Human bones found in Spanish cave show signs of ancient cannibalism
Hundreds of pieces of bone dating from 5700 years ago carry evidence of being processed and eaten by other humans, bolstering the idea that cannibalism was common in the Neolithic period
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🧵 1/6 ☄️ Ever wondered your real chances of dying from an asteroid impact? A new study ran millions of simulations & compared the risk to everyday hazards. The answer might surprise you.
phys.org
Lifetime odds of dying from asteroid impact contextualized in study
Most people are aware that an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth around 65 million years ago, and this knowledge contributes to that chill of fear that many people experience, at least occasiona...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Scientists found a brain shortcut for weight loss & better blood sugar without nausea seen in GLP-1 drugs. Targeting support cells, not neurons, a compound called TDN worked in animals with fewer side effects.
sciencedaily.com
Scientists uncover hidden brain shortcut to weight loss without the nausea
Scientists have uncovered a way to promote weight loss and improve blood sugar control without the unpleasant side effects of current GLP-1 drugs. By shifting focus from neurons to brain support cells...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Shifting sands on Oahu, Hawaii have revealed a rare panel of 26 ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs, some over 600 years old. These striking human and abstract figures carved in sandstone tell stories of ancestors and legends, visible only briefly before the tides reclaim them.
theartnewspaper.com
Ancient stone carvings uncovered on Hawaiian beach
The 600-year-old petroglyphs, depicting humans and abstract forms, are usually obscured by sand and have not been seen in their entirety since they were first discovered in 2016
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Cooper Hewitt is spotlighting contemporary Danish 🇩🇰 tapestries alongside historic Royal Tapestries from France 🇫🇷 —a stunning dialogue between eras and styles. Textile art with stories woven in thread.
cabanamagazine.com
Global Cultural Bulletin: August
CULTURAL BULLETIN | HAPPENINGS | WORLD OF CABANA   A monthly guide to the events and exhibitions on Cabana's Radar: a global cultural bulletin and a must-read for anyone looking to keep their finger o...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
A colossal bubble of gas and dust—1.4 light years across and as massive as our Sun ☀️ —was spotted around red supergiant Stephenson 2 DFK 52 by ALMA 🔭. It’s the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way 🌌
phys.org
Supergiant star's gigantic bubble surprises scientists
Astronomers have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star—the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way. The bubble, which contains as mu...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Argentina is transfixed by a live deep-sea livestream from 4,000 m below the South Atlantic. Think translucent squid, “big-butt starfish,” and “sweet-potato” sea cucumbers—stunning footage that’s drawing over 1.6 million views per day and lighting up national media.
apnews.com
A livestream of deep sea creatures transfixes Argentina and sparks calls for refunding science
Transparent-faced fish drift through dusky waters. Snowlike flecks of dead plants sift down from the world above. Soft sponges peek through the soot of the seafloor.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The iconic glaciers on Heard Island —a remote UNESCO World Heritage site—are disappearing fast. New data reveals the annual rate of ice loss has nearly doubled in the past 70 years, putting entire ecosystems at serious risk. Climate change isn’t a future problem—it’s here and now.
nature.com
Globally recognized island is losing its trademark glaciers
Ice coverage is shrinking on Heard Island — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a haven of biodiversity.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🛡️ Microsoft’s August 2025 Security Update brings 8 new features to Windows 11, including Windows Recall export/reset options! Plus enhanced privacy controls for European users. 💻 Well thanks Bill, but I don’t need those - I’m more into Jobs 🍎😏
windowscentral.com
8 new features arriving with the August 2025 Security Update for Windows 11
Check out the major features and changes coming in the latest cumulative update of Windows 11, and how to use them.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🌙 This weekend: August’s full sturgeon moon peaks with meteor showers AND shining planets all visible! Perfect celestial combo for stargazers. Get your cameras ready for an epic night sky show! ✨
cnn.com
August full sturgeon moon is set to peak. Here’s what to know | CNN
August’s full sturgeon moon is peaking this weekend, accompanied by meteor showers and shining planets. Here’s how to see the celestial sights.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Scientists just recreated the Universe’s first molecule - helium hydride - and solved a 13-billion-year-old puzzle! Turns out this ancient molecule played a HUGE role in star birth that we never knew 🌟
sciencedaily.com
Scientists just recreated the Universe’s first molecule and solved a 13-billion-year-old puzzle
Long before stars lit up the sky, the universe was a hot, dense place where simple chemistry quietly set the stage for everything to come. Scientists have now recreated the first molecule ever to form...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🍎 BREAKING: Apple just announced a massive $600 billion commitment to the US over 4 years! This includes a new $100 billion acceleration program that could reshape American tech manufacturing. Big moves in the tech space! 📈
apple.com
Apple increases U.S. commitment to $600 billion, announces ambitious program
Apple announced a new $100 billion commitment to America, a significant acceleration of its U.S. commitment that now totals $600 billion over four years.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🔥 Scientists discovered an amino acid switch that turns fat into a calorie-burning furnace! Lowering cysteine flips fat cells from storage to burn mode—boosting metabolism. This amino acid tweak could help you burn fat even at rest! Could this change obesity treatments?
sciencedaily.com
Scientists discover amino acid switch that turns fat into a calorie-burning furnace
Cutting calories doesn’t just slim you down—it also reduces cysteine, an amino acid that flips fat cells from storage mode to fat-burning mode. Researchers found that lowering cysteine sparks the conv...
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