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1. https://www.sciencealert.com/the-great-barrier-reef-is-suffering-another-mass-bleaching-event-right-now
2. https://www.sciencealert.com/common-arthritis-drug-shows-promise-for-treating-severe-alopecia-in-clinical-trials
3. https://www.sciencealert.com/primordial-helium-could-be-seeping-from-earth-s-core
4. https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-detected-a-single-star-just-900-million-years-after-the-big-bang
5. https://www.sciencealert.com/we-now-have-the-most-complete-gapless-sequence-of-the-human-genome-in-dazzling-detail
6. https://www.sciencealert.com/the-first-country-in-the-world-has-given-legal-rights-to-individual-wild-animals
BrentonCoppick
Number 6 will be the best idea to stop the chinese buying Rhino and Elephant horn and money hunting safari's
Mewmus
did you specifically look for one about alopecia ?
Wampa842
Please give me some good news, today has been an absolute shit-show, aaaand the coral reefs are dying again.
RenaldoMooon
Filled in missing segments of DNA?! Didn’t any of these guys see Jurassic Park?
trigonman3
Yeah, if we recreated some of these "human" hoobajoobs, they'll destroy the planet!
otamolot
No link to Jada and Will?
Stefnos
love "This week in science" posts ^^ thanks for them
mcrump929000
Way to go Ecuador, oh that stuff about helium was neat too..
HeraldOfTheBadger
"It dates back to the dawn of the universe" yeah well so do I technically it's not special
Brookimus741
The helium thing is interesting, because I think we have a helium shortage on the planet.
Badger421
Ehhh. Kinda but not really. Hank Green did a good video on it: https://youtu.be/m6nBd9e7xrA
Mentor397
It's not really going to help. They're talking about 4.4 pounds a year, according to the article.
z0mbieb0y
Great, so now I can get sued by a monkey.
CallMeLittleDaddy
GojirasFury
LaFrosh
#4 'Just' 900 million years. These scales are mind-boggling
Zixtank
Tolkien would be honored, I'd imagine.
jherazob
Is there much left of the poor barrier by now?
dviking
I'm really hopeful about that alopecia treatment. I'm really tired of these bald spots on my chin, makes growing a beard difficult.
RobettG
Go Ecuador!
Bluegrasslass
If it’s the morning star, why didn’t they name it Lucifer??
thatwoodguy
The helium leaking out of Earth's core also comes from heavy radioactive elements decaying by alpha particles
Kenkenny82
As always, love your work
RealityIsOftenDisappointing
Earth farts.
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
Aaah, Scomo, good job on convincing all those diplomats that the GBR was doing totally fiiiiiine and didn't need to be classified as endange
kingoftheironislands
eightyearplan
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210406-how-kelp-can-help-solve-climate-change
OrkieBleu
Pablo Escobar's Hippo's are recognized as people or "interested persons" with legal rights in the U.S. following a federal court order.
Kreia
Éarendel arose where the shadow flows
at Ocean's silent brim
through the mouth of night as a ray of light
where the shores are sheer and dim
Revrot
Erendel is so far away... that it took the luck of spacetime bending into a lens to see an individual star billions of LY away
AssDewlap
LordAuditorVorkosigan
he launched his bark like a silver spark
from the last and lonely sand;
then on sunlit breath of day's fiery death
he sailed from Westerland
CptRobotNinja
Thank you
Stephen9000
Our most beloved star!
tracereading
Of course scientists are a bunch of geeks. :P
ThePastmaster
Who else would send Jupiters wife Juno to check on Jupiter and all the moons named after his mistresses.
tinctures
The nerdery goes deeper. Tolkien's is Earendil. Earendel is Old English for the same thing. *adjusts glasses*
Stephen9000
Did we just become best friends?
tinctures
YUP
tracereading
That's still geekery!
HasteTheFool
It's deeper geekery.
TielKiri
Do not cite the deep geekery to me, witch! I was there when it was programmed!
thepanzerjack
I was hoping for better news for the barrier reef :(
HiMyNameIsDavidAndILikeToParty
So, if the earth could talk it would have a squeaky voice
fokjoudoos
But you wouldn't hear it, because it's in space..
Trankia12
Yes, and these are the discoveries that make it all worth it!
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
It's zooming around the sun at thousands of miles an hour so it's probably going "Wheeeeeeeeee!"
casbott
No… We all have a naturally slightly deeper voice that we think we do.
KMakyra
While the sun would sound like jackhammers surrounding you all the time.
Keairan
It has a voice, and it's not a squeak so much as a voice so deep that it makes James Earl Jones sound like he puffs helium. 7.83 Hz
gtollie
From tbe linked article: “That rate is about 2,000 grams (4.4 pounds) a year: "about enough to fill a balloon the size of your desk””
ProfessorChaos
How do they know how big my desk is?
gtollie
lol .. maybe your desk is like the table that Putin uses ;)
NancyReaganSchoolOfGawk
Maybe that’s the back end, so squeaky farts.
yeahhedugit
Cartoones
Jagerbeast
What keeps the center of the earth so hot?
WrongUn
Pressure? Where there's immense pressure there's usually heat. Idk.
etcnotect
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-the-earths-core-so
etcnotect
Things only get hot when they change in volume, so pressure isn't the reason for the earth's heat
Cartoones
Can't wait til James Webb takes a look past #4 and truly shows us what's what.
CorgiGrrrMan
If I'm not mistaken, it is still limited by the speed of (infrared) light. So anything it sees beyond #4 will also be snapshot of the start
CorgiGrrrMan
Of the universe.
Drix1942
I once wrote a short story about what the James Webb telescope would find; it was a giant eye looking through a microscope. :D
Cartoones
So whats behind that eye!? We must go deeper
Mentor397
They lost me on rights for animals when they started attacking hunting. If nothing else, deer would quickly get out of control around...
Mentor397
here without it.
RigoryMorty
Stop killing their natural predators then you bastards.
Sheldonian
Such a strawman. Giving rights to them is a preservation strategy as it is controlled deer hunting since because of human activity deer 1/
Sheldonian
Populations have to be controlled by us or they would get out of control and affect other species. Most of the wild animals don't have that2
Sheldonian
Problem, they're endangered by us taking their echo systems and animal trafficking, this gives a new legal tool against that 3/3
Mentor397
Did you read the article? Did you see where it talked about hunting, or are you just arguing?
erotemeeroteme
"hunting, fishing, gathering, and forestry are still allowed as long as they're performed within other pre-existing laws" ?
Mentor397
For now. It's clear in the article they wish to change that.
erotemeeroteme
Is it? What makes you say so?
andstabitdead
Alopicia is curable! Jokes are back on the menu
MyHarryPotterHasHogwarts
Read the side effects. Probably not worth it.
Skizzlesnap
They never were off the table. Sorry a rich lady’s feelings and her simp husband’s actions don’t stop jokes.
SuicidalThrillbillyturnedLunaticChillbilly
*happy Grace Jones noises*
SuicidalThrillbillyturnedLunaticChillbilly
I wouldn't wish Alley Oopia on my worst Oscar recipient's cheating wife.
Supreemoa
Upvoted but it sent the count to 70, do I took back my upvote...for obvious reasons
YaHeardTurdFerguson
Treatable
delphinart
Love how people are taking celebrities being shitty as a free pass to be ableist now.
PffftNext
Love how bald jokes are only not OK when a rich black woman is the target
AlmightyThor117
Cartoones
Him about the Oscar's
autodidacticcortex
There are two kinds, the drug in question does not address full body alopecia
2graves
Most people only care about the hair on top
astrangehop
The Sitwell kind
Grumpyzoomer
But jokes are always on the menu.
funkmoth
Butt jokes?
dooremouse
Butt jokes are always on the menu
drbjrart2
not within ear shot of will smith....
cmerc00n
You better keep my wife's name out of your f***ing mouth! And every other part of her too for that matter
CanadianOneDollarCoin
I like my coffee like I like my wife...without another man’s dick in them!
Skizzlesnap
Unless you’re 20 and a friend of my son.
cmerc00n
Well obviously...
getthismanabeer
*entanglement ensues*
Grumpyzoomer
A symptom of it has become treatable in some cases. It's not the same thing as curable.
nichfra
How do you treat a symptom of being bald? That's a symptom in itself already.
Grumpyzoomer
The symptom is baldness, caused by the cells in a person's immune system to attack hair follicles causing hair loss. If you can find...1/?
Grumpyzoomer
A way to prevent the cells from attacking the hair follicles, you will essentially treat the hair loss.
Grumpyzoomer
https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/hair-loss/types/alopecia/causes#:~:text=When%20you%20have%20alopecia%20areata,hair%20loss%20you%20will%2
AncientSeraph
Name checks out
Grumpyzoomer
Yeah. My mom was like, "you have the attitude of a boomer but you're a zoomer."
MyBigMouth
GI Jane 2 has been cancelled
Sheldonian
But not the GI Jane reboot!
Emmyluhu
Is that the one where they switch to male characters?
Sheldonian
You mean something like GI Joe? Idk if that sounds good
Hurro
No, POC. I got a leading lady ready to go.