That's the TL;DR. Full post — every source linked, bad jokes included — here:
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Rocket engine exhaust, as well as the burnup of inactive satellites and rocket parts reentering Earth’s atmosphere, releases a suite of pollutants. New research looks at just how much.
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Global topsoil contains ~110 quadrillion km of fungal threads, roughly one billion times the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
A new study in @science.org maps this hidden arbuscular mycorrhizal infrastructure for the first time.
Explore the Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map: buff.ly/PISOj8k
After the tarp was cleared away...
4) Testing, testing, testing — independently. Not lab blog posts, but focused testing on specific risks, with real infrastructure to support it. And yes: gutting the US scientific research apparatus directly undermines our ability to test for harms. It has to be part of any policy path.
Hold my (and an as-yet-to-be-publicly-disclosed co-author's) beer on exactly this point.
Part III: Drama. We love good guys & bad guys: tempting to pick a villain, then crown the other a hero. But reporters, please: it's not that simple. There are NO innocent actors. This admin's AI policy is "hands-off (but not really)": favoritism, pique & vengeance:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our latest issue just dropped! It's green & special!
And super meaty, even though it is about #plants #evolution!
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This is all you need to read this week!
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...