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2 weeks ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Collin Blinder
Key takeaways New research shows that microplastics can harm birds in much the same way they harm humans, possibly threatening these species’ survival and their ecosystems.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.ucsc.edu | Collin Blinder
This study found that plastic swallowed by northern fulmars can leach chemicals inside the birds’ stomachs that interfere with their hormones. This disruption can impair the birds’ fertility, development, and behavior with consequences that ripple through ecosystems. The hormonal response seen in the fulmar receptors was similar to the response seen in human hormonal receptors when exposed to the same chemicals.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.ucsc.edu | Collin Blinder
Third-year undergraduate Isabelle “Izzy” Connor and two Ph.D. candidates at other universities have recently won awards to further their research in astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. Connor (Crown ‘26, astrophysics) is a 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholar, an honor awarded by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program to second- and third-year undergraduate students studying mathematics, science, and engineering.
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1 month ago | 
science.org | Collin Blinder
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2 months ago | 
science.org | Collin Blinder
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2 months ago | 
scitechdaily.com | Collin Blinder
A top-view visualization of a platinum surface during cathode corrosion. Platinum and hydrogen atoms are represented in black and white, respectively. Blue and purple triangles indicate where hydrogen atoms have been bound to platinum atoms. Credit: Selwyn Hanselman/Leiden UniversityFor years, scientists were baffled by a peculiar problem: why do platinum electrodes, usually stable, corrode so quickly in electrochemical devices?
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2 months ago | 
science.org | Collin Blinder
While his neighbors frantically fled from their oncoming doom, one man stayed in bed. For whatever reason, he didn’t join the other 2000 residents of Herculaneum—the ancient Roman city just north of Pompeii—as they ran from erupting Mount Vesuvius. The first scorching cloud of ash passed through the city so quickly, it turned his brain into black, glasslike shards.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
science.org | Collin Blinder
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
science.org | Collin Blinder
When a massive asteroid slammed into the Moon’s southern region 3.8 billion years ago, it shot out debris that—with energy 130 times greater than Earth’s entire nuclear arsenal—carved lunar fissures comparable in size to the Grand Canyon within minutes. The finding, reported today in Nature Communications, doesn’t just illuminate a cataclysmic bit of lunar history—it may have cleared up a concern for future NASA missions.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
santacruzsentinel.com | Collin Blinder
Francisco Rivero proudly shows off a large stainless steel pod in the middle of a cavernous concrete room. He unlatches its heavy vault door, swinging it open slowly to reveal an inner chamber just large enough for a person to lie inside. Rivero is a funeral director at Pacific Interment Service in Emeryville, and the futuristic machine is an aquamation system. It uses water to dissolve every part of the human body except for the bones and teeth — a process also called alkaline hydrolysis.
