Science teacher Education @NTNU 🇳🇴 🧪 | Non fiction author Krigens laboratorium (2026), Vårt kjemiske liv (2023), Finding places (2020) /Jakten på stedsansen (2018) | Former TV host & Science journalist @NRK https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/unni.eikeseth
Unni Eikeseth
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Yay PoopScience! 💩🧪
Nice to read that the researchers cleaned the wound before releasing the Komodo again. 😮💨 🐉
Hurra for albanarane som går til gatene og protesterer mot Trump-familiens planar om å rasere natur for å bygge feriekompleks: www.nrk.no/artikkel/kre... 🦩
As smartphones spread, births fell fastest among younger Americans. In counties with broad early iPhone access, the sharpest declines appeared at ages 15–24, with smaller drops among older women.
New paper! Here we meld our ecology, stats & design brains together to solve a problem encountered working with landscape architects on public open space design.
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We've created a preliminary tool for quantifying how different landscape designs support #urban nature
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Two drinks a day looked far from harmless in this model. At 14 drinks a week, alcohol was linked to a 1-in-25 mortality risk, with risk increasing as intake rose.
The region of Lombardy, Italy sets 200% tax on data center development in agricultural zones
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
“Utah’s vaccination rates have dropped steadily since the covid pandemic. < 80% of kindergartners were adequately immunized in the 2024-25 school year in SW Utah, w/ only 87% adequately immunized in the state as a whole—far below the 95% threshold required for herd immunity.”🛟🧪
Human activity may be enabling the expansion of golden jackals across Europe by reducing the suppressive effect of grey wolves, suggests research in Nature Ecology & Evolution. This human-mediated interaction could allow jackals to occupy up to 75% of the continent. go.nature.com/4nLOJ5O 🌍🧪
Modig ytring i det vi går inn i VM; 😅👉Fotballsupportere snakker ustanselig om kjærlighet, men store deler av kulturen drives av hat. Hat mot rivaler. Hat mot byer. Hat mot spillere. Hat mot dommere. Hat mot «de andre»." www.nrk.no/ytring/fotba...
Dragon vs Flies:
This paper report on the first documented case of myiasis (maggot infestation) on a Komodo Dragon. The maggots were identified as Chrysomya rufifacies - a species of blow fly known to infest cattle and sheep 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Veeloxxy Bites
As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new U.S. studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit—the smartphone.
Even what many Americans consider moderate drinking is linked to an increased risk of death, disability, and chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease, according to a new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, published at Rutgers University.
medicalxpress.com
2026. Frozen squirrel poop rewrites rodent evolution, reveals new details about mammoths | "One of the oldest samples—about 700,000 years old" Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
My story on America's regressive, new reality is now up @kffhealthnews.org (without a paywall) kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
DNA from ground squirrel coprolites offers an unusually detailed record of ice age ecosystems
Measles has been spreading in Utah for nearly a year, straining hospitals, schools, and parents. The state’s outbreak provides a glimpse into a new era in America’s health, in which vaccine-preventabl...
I went to Utah to see what life is like in America's new reality, where vaccine-preventable diseases are common again.
Utah's measles outbreak has lasted 10 months. Pediatricians teared up in interviews. Mothers were stressed.
🧵My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/anguis...
The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
