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APOD - Thu, 08/14/2025 - 12:00am


Categories: Astronomy, NASA

ADHD drugs reduce risk of criminal behaviour, drug abuse and accidents

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 08/13/2025 - 7:30pm
A study of 150,000 people with ADHD in Sweden confirms that drugs taken to manage the condition have wider benefits beyond improving immediate symptoms
Categories: Astronomy

Why AI ‘Therapy’ Can Be So Dangerous

Scientific American.com - Wed, 08/13/2025 - 12:10pm

Using AI chatbots for “therapy” is dangerous, mental health experts say. Here’s why

Categories: Astronomy

What Is a Glacial Outburst Flood? Alaska’s Suicide Basin Explained

Scientific American.com - Wed, 08/13/2025 - 11:52am

Meltwater from a glacial lake outburst is flooding Juneau, Alaska. Such events are likely to happen more often as climate change destabilizes ice and glacial lakes fill with more meltwater

Categories: Astronomy

New Human Ancestor Identified from Fossil Teeth

Scientific American.com - Wed, 08/13/2025 - 11:30am

Ancient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species in the Australopithecus genus of human ancestors

Categories: Astronomy

Tracking the climate-driven shift in Antarctic plankton from space

ESO Top News - Wed, 08/13/2025 - 10:30am

Combining 25 years of space-based data with ocean sampling, scientists have uncovered a change in the microscopic organisms that underpin the Southern Ocean’s food chain and carbon storage.

Categories: Astronomy

No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

ESO Top News - Wed, 08/13/2025 - 10:00am

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is similar in size to Earth, rocky, and resides in an area around its star where liquid water on its surface is theoretically possible. But according to a new study using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, it does not have an Earth-like atmosphere.

Categories: Astronomy