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The interior least tern, a bird which survived waves of attacks from dam building, hat making, and more, can now be classified as an Endangered Species Act success story as its numbers have increased 900% over 35 years.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/interior-least-tern-leaves-endangered-species-list/

Can I post something from the Weekly World News?  I understand there's a good story about the Bat Boy.

This one is pretty cool:

Astronomers Have Created the Largest Ever Map of the Sky, Comprising Over a Billion Galaxies

https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-have-created-the-largest-ever-map-of-the-sky-comprising-over-a-billion-galaxies/

Reverse aging could be a thing:

https://scitechdaily.com/holy-grail-hyperbaric-oxygen-treatments-reverse-aging-process-in-first-clinical-trial/

You just need access to a hyperbaric oxygen treatment.

jamie said:

Reverse aging could be a thing:

https://scitechdaily.com/holy-grail-hyperbaric-oxygen-treatments-reverse-aging-process-in-first-clinical-trial/

You just need access to a hyperbaric oxygen treatment.

There's a large contingent of the brain injury community that believes HBOT is helpful in recovery from TBIs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3401652/ 

jamie said:

Reverse aging could be a thing:

https://scitechdaily.com/holy-grail-hyperbaric-oxygen-treatments-reverse-aging-process-in-first-clinical-trial/

You just need access to a hyperbaric oxygen treatment.

 I wanna revert to the age where I don't need Viagara.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-are-highest-resolution-photos-ever-taken-snowflakes-180976710

The snowflake photos are great.   I know it must have something to do with the chemistry of frozen water, but why are all snowflakes six-sided? 

RobertRoe said:

The snowflake photos are great.   I know it must have something to do with the chemistry of frozen water, but why are all snowflakes six-sided? 

 good question and you're on the right track.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/snow/snowflake

Why are snowflakes hexagonal?

All snowflakes contain six sides or points owing to the way in which they form. The molecules in ice crystals join to one another in a hexagonal structure, an arrangement which allows water molecules - each with one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms - to form together in the most efficient way.

I believe this article is open access - I got it via The Guardian’s link. 

At last, self-navigating flying pigs!! 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631755/full
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/11/pigs-can-be-trained-to-use-computer-joysticks-say-researchers

Thread drift

joanne said:

At last, self-navigating flying pigs!! 

 

I knew of one flying pig, but I had to navigate!

It was an aeroplane I piloted many, many years ago. It had the registration letters of PIG.

I also flew a related aeroplane some months later. It was registered as STY

Now back to the Science

Reducing plastics: have you heard about this? Paper bottles for Coca Cola!!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56023723

Pigs flying? Ha! I've got spinach sending emails.

https://www.euronews.com/living/2021/02/01/scientists-have-taught-spinach-to-send-emails-and-it-could-warn-us-about-climate-change

This is pretty darn cool. Each green dot on the map (which covers the world) is a radio station. Click on the dot and listen to that station.

http://radio.garden/visit/south-orange-nj/0YUcRYJE

Hoping for a safe landing for the latest NASA Mars Rover Perseverance arou 3.55pm EST today.

If it all goes right, we'll have a helicopter on Mars that we can use to take aerial video for the first time on another planet!

https://www.mlive.com/politics/2021/02/pfizer-and-moderna-vaccines-work-against-new-variants-new-studies-say.html?utm_campaign=mlivedotcom_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR343e6qO1pBrCQOufxZdQBq2QA5gB446dAANSQLAoKeVLH3VZim71r44cQ

Wow, this is just mind-boggling! Maybe all those people interested in cryology can be saved??

Surviving extreme events through suspending animation:  cryptobiosis: 
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-06-08/rotifers-survive-for-twenty-four-thousand-years-permafrost/100191788

I thought this was adorable. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/science/birds-magic-tricks.html?referringSource=articleShare

Sorry if you can’t access it. I’ll try to post the article from my computer tomorrow. 

@marylago, the little I could read before it all flashed behind the subscription wall looked like a fun read! It’ll probably be accessible via library membership/PressReader, and very possibly New Scientist next week (I haven’t seen this week’s edition).

I thought this was pretty cool