Becky Ferreira
Science Writer and Journalist at Freelance
Great ape. bylines @nytimes @motherboard (forever) & more. Writing a book about aliens for @workmanpub, repped by @slevittslevitt. [email protected]
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5 days ago |
404media.co | Becky Ferreira
Welcome back to the Abstract!It was a good week for the Fox Mulders among us. We want to believe, and a new study has given us some empirical grist along those lines. I shall say no more, and let the giant planet K2-18b speak for itself. Next, remember the time that Earth partied so hard that the Northern Lights showed up in the Sahara and humans had to invent sunscreen? Hahaha…our planet just DGAF sometimes.
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1 week ago |
404media.co | Becky Ferreira
Welcome back to the Abstract! Whatever else you think of this past week, it sure served up some ridiculously good science. I’m talking about a real boffin buffet, with all the fixings. There were studies about trees spying on illegal mines. Or, an eerie rhino graveyard buried in ash 12 million years ago. Or, the first baby born from a remote and fully automated sperm injection. And those were all ones I had to regretfully leave in drafts, on account of the sheer scientific bounty.
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2 weeks ago |
404media.co | Becky Ferreira
Welcome back to the Abstract! This week has been a lot. This year has been a lot. THIS MILLENIUM HAS BEEN A LOT. That’s why there’s only good news in the column this week. We deserve it. Normally, I’m not a big fan of putting artificial stuff in our brains (see: plastic spoons). But I’ll make an exception for a new neural implant that has allowed a woman to regain the ability to speak nearly 20 years after suffering a debilitating stroke.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Becky Ferreira
Newborn caterpillars are too fragile to endure the sort of violent conflicts observed in other territorial animals, from ants to elephants, which can be deadly. But intruders did make body contact in eight of the trials. And such encounters highlighted why the tiny tyrants want to live on a leaf tip: It allows an easy getaway. Faced with insistent invaders they'd never defeat, the caterpillars can rappel off the tip on a silk thread, a strategy called lifelining.
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3 weeks ago |
nationalgeographic.com | Becky Ferreira
Forbidden fruit has been a theme across all seasons of The White Lotus, HBO’s series about a fictional high-end hotel chain. In season three, set in Thailand, the metaphor becomes literal when a hotel worker warns a guest not to eat the fruit of the pong pong tree, as it is toxic enough to kill.
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The pong pong tree is having a moment due to an ominous mention in The White Lotus. I wrote about the poisonous plant & its frightening death toll for @NatGeo 🌴💀 https://t.co/TyOqRFR0uY
RT @SteveBrusatte: 🚨The newest dinosaur discovery from Scotland! Over 100 tracks made by theropods & sauropods. In the same spot where, 170…
👀 at this detail......who just absconds with plants?? someone plz foia the fate of the NASA HQ plants https://t.co/wYwxkKYDk2
Webb has few details on current or future budgets, and says he knows little about canceled grants and contracts, noting that is a procurement decision. He said he is aware of one canceled contract that involved plants at NASA HQ: one day people came in and removed all the plants.
