The aging U.S. power grid is not expected to hold up well to the coming climate stresses. #longreads
 https://t.co/kETrUP597x

There hasn’t been a surefire way to treat cat allergies yet. But if cat allergies can be treated, maybe someday so can other kinds. #longreads
https://t.co/FCIOgmBCRH

As a mystery illness started spreading in China in late December, researchers at Inovio Pharmaceuticals were keeping a close eye on what was happening, even before anyone knew the cause was a coronavirus.
 https://t.co/2aNvpEQNCZ

Without action to prepare for climate change by 2100, sea level rise could cost 4 percent of global GDP each year by 2100, a study finds. https://t.co/iGgskJzh7I

“We know that drug use comes in cycles.”
https://t.co/hYsQjXjopg

Ancestors of Neandertals and Denisovans left Africa for Eurasia around 700,000 years ago and then interbred with a Homo population that had exited Africa long before, according to a new genetic study.
https://t.co/xADzJoNgPt

African turquoise killifish can double their life span by pressing pause on cell growth and organ development. 
 https://t.co/ZxPV5srtHO

Things don’t look good for the Colorado River under climate change. 
 https://t.co/UMUHh0WEtl

Researchers from @Biology_LU found the first evidence of a parasite that can move from mother to baby lizards.
https://t.co/lRvKYHvhtX

Methane has about 80 times the atmosphere-warming potential of carbon dioxide — but only on short timescales.
 https://t.co/5AO2WbXbz2

An experiment at CERN is painstakingly measuring the energy levels of antimatter hydrogen atoms. https://t.co/Azr70YXC76

Nebelivka, a village of around 700 people, sits amid rolling hills and grassy fields. Here at the edge of eastern Europe, empty space stretches to the horizon. But it wasn’t always that way. https://t.co/tmH04RTJmM

After repeated dives in a cave, scientists began to suspect they were seeing the same olms in the same spots every time. 
https://t.co/y2jgNFsHPx

Oxygen is the third most common element in the cosmos, after hydrogen and helium. But molecular oxygen, O2, has never been seen outside our galaxy — until now. https://t.co/SmDC2sQKxc

Burying the dead — a behavior typically associated only with Homo sapiens — implies compassion for group members, care and mourning for the dead, and perhaps spirituality and belief in an afterlife. 
https://t.co/n3dWrKEfLs

An ethicist weighs in on the present and future of brain research.
https://t.co/MJ76wVbpMb

Seeing into the massive gulf between “infinite” and “almost infinite” requires the mysterious power of quantum physics. https://t.co/jBbIZROaoH

Breaking down bodies into dirt may be an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation. https://t.co/PDMdDBUvrD

A robot with a sense of touch may one day “feel” pain, both its own physical pain and empathy for the pain of its human companions. https://t.co/K1ix5EQF4Z

More than half of major U.S. power outages from 2000-2016 were caused by natural hazards. And climate change is making extreme weather more likely and more intense. #longreads
 https://t.co/kETrUP597x