Reducing greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting chemicals, which increase UV exposure, are key to protecting eye health at a global level. But even under the best climate scenarios, intense climate-driven heat, droughts and other eye irritants will continue to affect people. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/how-climate-change-threatens-eye-health #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon #ClimateChange
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Viruses are important causes of disease and death in humans worldwide — and understanding how viruses contribute to chronic disease is essential to developing preventive strategies.
That's where virologists are well-positioned to contribute, write Annual Review of Virology editors Terence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
🔗 Read more: https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/guest-columns/2025/04/28/chronic-disease-maha-kennedy-virus-virologist-research/stories/202504280002 #Virology #ScienceMastodon
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too. ✍️ Tim Vernimmen
143mio EUR for 2087 project proposals with approx. 3mio each. That means a funding rate of 2.2% or a reject rate of 97.8%.
What a waste of resources, so many excellent proposals will be rejected. Science funding has to be organized differently. This is so frustrating, I already regret to have spent so much time on the proposal.
And the @EUeic even boasts the many submissions. But that is only the accumulated resubmissions of excellent proposals that were rejected in previous years.
#ScienceMastodon #EIC #funding
EIC Pathfinder Open 2025 call draws record interest from the research community - European Commission
https://eic.ec.europa.eu/news/eic-pathfinder-open-2025-call-draws-record-interest-research-community-2025-05-23_en
#OPINION ✍️ Isolated mountaintops are hotbeds of evolutionary adaptation and great places to study how climate change affects ecosystems.
Stronger than plastic and tougher than glass, the resin-filled material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows and more. ✍️ Jude Coleman
👀 On our radar: People who are too friendly
💬 “They treat everyone they meet as their new best friend, yet there is a downside to being so friendly.”
✍️ Jasmin Fox-Skelly, BBC Future
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250515-williams-syndrome-the-people-who-are-too-friendly
Lesbats Stephane (2010). #Orques pygmées (Feresa attenuata). #Ifremer https://image.ifremer.fr/data/00574/68627/
#science #ocean #ScienceMastodon
🌏 Science at the other end of the world
Benedikt Hiller & David Krieg from Hof University’s ibp presented their research on sustainable plastics at the PPS-40 Conference in Auckland. After 38 hours of travel, they shared insights, discussed innovations – and explored New Zealand’s culture along the way. 🌿
🔗 https://t1p.de/y97cx
#dieforschendehochschulehof #hierwirdknallhartgeforscht #PPS40 #Biopolymers #SustainablePlastics #ResearchTravel #ScienceMastodon #CircularEconomy
As the world warms, trees in forests such as those in Minnesota will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in.
As an unstable climate delivers too little water, careening temperatures and chaotic storms, the fates of human food production and birds are ever more linked — with the same climate anomalies that harm birds hurting agriculture too. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2025/how-farmers-can-help-save-migrating-water-loving-birds #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine #Agriculture
For many people, bed bugs are becoming a fact of life again, much as they used to be throughout humanity’s history.
But as scientists race to find new strategies to combat these pests — everything from microfabrications that entrap the insects to fungal spores that invade and kill them — they also learn more about the often bizarre biology of bed bugs, which might one day reveal the parasite’s Achilles heel.
Without knowing it, we track pulse, tempo and rhythm, and we move in response. But only recently have scientists developed the tools, and the inclination, to quantitatively study the human response to music in its many forms.
Learn more in our 2018 Q&A:
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2018/music-moves-us-how
A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
👀 On our radar: Beautiful physics of the ordinary
💬 “My deep and abiding feeling is that if you look at anything closely enough, there will be new riches to be found” —Sidney Nagel
✍️ Charlie Wood, @QuantaMagazine
🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/finding-beauty-and-truth-in-mundane-occurrences-20250509/
Psychological studies of sports appeared as early as the late 19th century — and within the last decade or so, sports psychology research has exploded, as scientists have explored the nuances of everything from the pursuit of perfection to the harms of abusive coaching. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2024/sports-psychology-research-athletic-performance #psychology #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
Bureaucracies put the policies of government into operation, sometimes inefficiently, which helps fuel the ambivalence often expressed about these essential institutions.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2025/how-to-make-bureaucracies-better
Cranes, sandpipers, ducks, geese and many other waterbirds have lost essential rest stops along their seasonal migration routes. Bird-friendly agriculture can assist in filling the gaps. ✍️ Lela Nargi.
👀 On our radar: To tackle chronic disease, turn to the virologists
💬 “Virologists are dedicated to discovery and service. Understanding viruses helps combat viral diseases and unlocks broader biological insights. Virologists signed up for this work, and we are ready to do even more.”
✍️ Terence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Materials scientists are cooking up environmentally friendly polymers from natural sources like silk, plant fibers and whole algae. Economics and acceptance remain hurdles.
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