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Homeowner shares video tour of tiny house nestled in idyllic mountain setting: 'It's amazing how much work goes into something like this'
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-home/transformative-tiny-house-dave-cowley-tour/?ref=feedle.world
Published: September 1, 2025 04:30
"Thanks for sharing!" Homeowner shares video tour of tiny house nestled in idyllic mountain setting: 'It's amazing how much work goes into something like this' first appeared on The Cool Down.
Could we shade the Earth or at least some cities now that Starship is working?
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2025/08/31/could-we-shade-the-earth-or-at-least-some-cities-now-that-starship-is-working/?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 31, 2025 16:14
Elon Musk wants to go to Mars on Starship. What can the technology do for those of us who aren’t interested in living on Mars? How about improving our beloved Earth, or at least the biggest and richest cities, via space-based sunshades? If we wanted to…
Embodiment and the (Re)invention of Emoji, from the Aztecs to Humboldt and Darwin to AI
https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/08/31/aztec-humboldt-darwin-emoji/?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 31, 2025 15:38
By the time he published Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique, Alexander von Humboldt (September 14, 1769–May 6, 1859), barely in his forties, was the world’s most eminent and polymathic naturalist (the word scientist was…
Alcohol opens "gut floodgates" for bad bacteria to invade the liver
https://newatlas.com/disease/alcohol-gut-bacteria-liver/?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 31, 2025 13:03
Scientists have now discovered how alcohol can switch off an immune "alarm system" in the gut, allowing bad bacteria to escape their natural habitat to flood into the liver, rapidly causing inflammation to the organ. This bacterial invasion is a key driver…
AI Spots Hidden Signs of Consciousness in Comatose Patients before Doctors Do
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-spots-hidden-signs-of-consciousness-in-comatose-patients-before-doctors/?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 31, 2025 12:00
A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors could do so
Why We Need Carbon Removal
https://heatmap.news/climate-101/carbon-capture-removal-difference?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 27, 2025 15:32
At the heart of the climate crisis lies a harsh physical reality: Once carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere, it can stay there for hundreds or even thousands of years. Although some carbon does cycle in and out of the air via plants, soils, and the ocean,…
Aggressive Breast Cancers Steal Energy from Nearby Fat Cells
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/08/aggressive-breast-cancers-steal-energy-from-nearby-fat-cells.html?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 25, 2025 13:17
Shelby Bradford in TheScientist: Patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) have more aggressive, invasive tumors and fewer treatment options than other kinds of breast cancers. TNBC tumors use fatty acid oxidation as a key part of their…
When the Blade Breaks
https://www.theverge.com/features/760555/vineyard-wind-turbine-blade-break-nantucket?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 25, 2025 12:30
A charter boat fisherman was among the first to discover the wreckage - a "mess," he called it, deep off the coast of Massachusetts. From behind a veil of pea soup-thick fog emerged hundreds of white and green fiberglass and Styrofoam pieces, some as small…
Trump Yanks Revolution Wind Permits
https://heatmap.news/climate/trump-revolution-wind-orsted?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 25, 2025 12:09
Current conditions: The highest wave measured from Hurricane Erin was 45 feet by a buoy located 150 miles off North Carolina’s Cape Hetteras • Intense rainfall is flooding Rajasthan in India • Wildfires continue raging across North America and southern…
Retooled Cancer Drugs Eliminated Aggressive Tumors in ‘Remarkable’ New Trial
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/retooled-cancer-drugs-eliminated-aggressive-tumors-in-remarkable-new-trial/?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 24, 2025 22:50
Cancer drugs that have been used for two decades were retooled until they were able to eliminate aggressive tumors in a “remarkable” clinical trial. Two of the patients—one with the deadliest form of skin cancer called melanoma and another with breast…
Pea Plant Virus Creates a Powerful Immune Attack on Cancer—A Cheap Treatment Headed for Clinical Trials
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pea-plant-virus-creates-a-powerful-immune-attack-on-cancer/?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 24, 2025 19:26
A virus that infects the humble black-eyed pea plant is showing great promise as a low-cost, potent cancer immunotherapy—thanks to researchers at the University of California San Diego. The team led by chemical and nano engineers just published their study…
Scientists Strip Cancer of Its “Superpower” To Outsmart Drugs
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-strip-cancer-of-its-superpower-to-outsmart-drugs/?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 24, 2025 15:33
Restoring cellular memory blocks cancer cells from adapting to escape treatment. Northwestern University biomedical engineers have developed a completely new approach to cancer therapy that doubled the effectiveness of chemotherapy in animal studies.…
Astronomers Just Uncovered the Secret Fuel Behind Giant Stars
https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-just-uncovered-the-secret-fuel-behind-giant-stars/?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 24, 2025 04:49
How do the universe’s biggest stars get so massive, when their own powerful radiation should blast away incoming material? Astronomers using the ALMA telescope in Chile have uncovered a surprising answer: vast “cosmic streamers” of gas act like…
Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/why-wind-farms-attract-so-much-misinformation-and-conspiracy-theory/?ref=feedle.world
Published: August 23, 2025 11:07
If you think climate change is a hoax, you might believe wind turbines poison groundwater.