NEW: How do you shelter from extreme weather in a desert? Whether it’s torrential rain or scorching heat, archaeologists have discovered that people in Arabia have been using a *lava tube* as a way station for at least 7,000 years! 🌋

Me NYT Science nytimes.com/2024/04/17/sci…

NEW: NASA's chosen the gadgets that its Artemis III crew will (likely) use at the lunar south pole: a moonquake scanner, a water finder, and a crop-growing terrarium. 🫨❄️🌱

This makes it clear: NASA's going back to the Moon—and staying there. Me Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-…

Love when we update the nonhuman consciousness list. Starts to seem a little silly that we drew those lines in the sand in the first place quantamagazine.org/insects-and-ot…

Cloud seeding is unlikely to have contributed significantly to Dubai’s historic floods. But the event raises some fundamental questions about interfering with nature in a warming world, Marina Koren reports: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

NEW: Jupiter’s moon Io is renowned for its extreme volcanism. But worlds change and evolve all the time. Has Io always been this way?

New research has come to an astonishing conclusion: Io’s been erupting since the dawn of the solar system. 🤯

Me National Geographic nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

NEW: How do you shelter from extreme weather in a desert? Whether it’s torrential rain or scorching heat, archaeologists have discovered that people in Arabia have been using a *lava tube* as a way station for at least 7,000 years! 🌋

Me NYT Science nytimes.com/2024/04/17/sci…

Powerful eruption occurring now at Ruang volcano in Indonesia's North Sulawesi Province. Photos show the lava flow, huge ash cloud, and volcanic lightning.
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Bloody hell.

NEW: NASA's chosen the gadgets that its Artemis III crew will (likely) use at the lunar south pole: a moonquake scanner, a water finder, and a crop-growing terrarium. 🫨❄️🌱

This makes it clear: NASA's going back to the Moon—and staying there. Me Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-…

Eruption🌋 at Ruang volcano in North Sulawesi, Indonesia🇮🇩 today 17th April.

The alert level of the volcano was raised to level 3 yesterday. According to local news reports evacuation of people from the restriction zone was initiated before the onset of the eruption.

There it is: the world’s smarty pants have until autumn to come up with a plan to save Mars Sample Return - reducing costs, risks, and getting the samples back to Earth a decade sooner - or else, well, 🫥🫥🫥

It’s the floofy house wolf’s 5th birthday today!

(She is being constantly reminded that, of course, she is the Very Best Girl.)

It’s the floofy house wolf’s 5th birthday today!

(She is being constantly reminded that, of course, she is the Very Best Girl.)

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Very cool: the source of the brightest gamma-ray burst (a type of supremely energetic and mysterious cosmic boom) - the BOAT - has been found by JWST to be a supernova, the death of a massive star. But this supernova is missing heavy elements that supernovae are supposed to make!