In “The Martian,” NASA had boots on Mars by 2035, ten years from now.. In real life, robots are doing the heavy lifting and citizen scientists are rewriting the map of the red planet. 10 years after the movie, reality is stranger and smarter! https://buff.ly/BKURhIV #space #mars

🪰 They're back — and louder than ever. Millions of cicadas from Brood XIV are emerging across 12 states for the first time in 17 years. But mapping this noisy swarm isn’t as simple as it sounds — especially when climate change starts messing with their timing. How scientists and citizens (maybe you) are tracking one of nature’s loudest mysteries:

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Billions of cicadas are emerging, from Cape Cod to north Georgia – here’s how and why we map them

Two ecologists explain why a misleading map is worse than no map at all, and how they have worked for years to track the emergences of 13-year and ...

Richard Garwin, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of”. He designed the first H-bomb at 23. He later became a tireless advocate for nuclear arms control and disarmament. Garwin died at the age of 97 on May 13, 2025. buff.ly/23pWoAP 🧪

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Pope Leo XIV's choice of name pays tribute to Pope Leo XIII, who stressed economic justice and workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution. The new pope sees parallels between that era and today's #AI revolution. A scholar of economic thought around religion explains: https://buff.ly/lq7tisv

Aging infrastructure, extreme weather, and transmission bottlenecks are contributing to soaring electricity rates across the US. Here’s what Pennsylvania is doing about it: https://buff.ly/JlGkhts

Pres. Biden is said to have an ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer. A urologic surgeon explains that “advances in genomics, imaging and targeted therapies continue to improve how aggressiveness is defined, how its behavior is predicted and how treatment is personalized.” https://buff.ly/OgIh73l

Small gestures such as eye contact or a smile, even from a stranger, can foster feelings of connection by signaling that our existence matters. When these signals are absent, a person may feel that they’re not worthy of others’ attention. A social psychologist explains:

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Making eye contact and small talk with strangers is more than just being polite − the social benefits of psychological generosity

A social psychologist recommends ways to connect with others as you move through public spaces – with benefits for your own well-being as well as...

Mark Zuckerberg recently suggested that AI chatbots could combat social isolation by serving as “friends” for people experiencing loneliness. An ethics professor explains why he thinks Aristotle would scoff at that concept: https://buff.ly/nDs9qhO

The FDA has announced new #COVID19 vaccine rules which will limit access to poorly-defined ‘high-risk’ groups. Here’s more on the rules and what they mean for you and your family, from a public health nursing professor: https://buff.ly/TfnaiDX