@whyrweapp.bsky.social🚀 Artemis astronauts spotted big flashes on the Moon
👉 During the famous Artemis II mission, the four astronauts spotted a total of five bright flashes of light on the Moon. They may have been caused by meteorite...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🧪 Spinach really does make your heart stronger!
👉 Chinese researchers have used nanoparticles from spinach to give weakened hearts an extra energy boost. The particles are activated by red light, and in rats, they...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social⌛ Could this ancient legend be true after all?
👉 Archaeologists have discovered a Roman fort in Wales, and that's always fun to write about. According to a medieval legend, Emperor Magnus Maximus once stayed here w...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🧪 Anatidaephobia: afraid of being watched by ducks? 📖
👉 Anatidaephobia is a made-up phobia involving a duck that's spying on you. Real phobias, however, can involve surprisingly ordinary objects too. The brain ov...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🧪 This animal was the "missing link" between dinosaurs and mammals
👉 A 165-million-year-old fossil from China is revealing new information about the evolution of mammals, including ourselves. Megacauda sungei turn...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🧪 Mountain climbing? (Don't) use AI!
👉 A Canadian teenager used the AI chatbot Claude to plan a mountain hike, and things didn't exactly go according to plan. With ChatGPT, Grok, or Gemini, the outcome probably wo...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social⌛ Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, musical geniuses 📖
👉 Bach, Mozart and Beethoven are among the most influential composers in the history of classical music. German-speaking Europe, with its rulers, churches and music...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🚀 Three space probes hunt for colliding black holes
👉 Scientists have developed three separate space probes that will form a gigantic triangle together. Using incredibly precise laser beams, they hope to measure s...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social⌛ Ancient archive reveals death, misery and suffering
👉 Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old Hittite royal archive in Turkey. The tablets describe a mysterious epidemic and even the death of an infant pr...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🧪 Olfactory adaptation: your own farts don't stink 📖
👉 Your nose responds much less strongly to smells that linger for a while and therefore seem "familiar." This phenomenon is called olfactory adaptation and pre...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🧪 Zombie cells pile up as we age
👉 As we age, so-called zombie cells accumulate in our bodies. That was already known, but the cause wasn't. Now it appears that a less active recycling system disrupts their natura...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🧪 Ancient microbes turn out to be pretty good crawlers
👉 Asgard archaea can change shape and crawl across surfaces using long protrusions. Their movement is probably powered by an ancient form of the actin cytoske...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🧪 Dozens of new animals discovered on the seafloor!
👉 Dozens of new marine animals and even five new genera have been discovered off the coast of Argentina. They live in a deep canyon with an incredibly rich ecosy...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🧪 New lizard discovered high in Peruvian Andes
👉 A completely new species of lizard has been discovered high in the Peruvian Andes. The animal lives among rocks and plants at an altitude of almost 5,000 meters. DN...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🧪 WASH YOUR HANDS!!1! 📖
👉 After every trip to the bathroom, invisible pathogens can remain on your skin. Soap is great at loosening grease, dirt and microorganisms from your skin. And friction boosts that process...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🚀 Habitable planet pops up around scorching-hot star
👉 Astronomers may have found (disclaimer!) a planet orbiting a very hot star. The candidate also happens to be in a region where liquid water could exist… in ot...
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@whyrweapp.bsky.social🧪 Animals turn out to be much older than thought
👉 Animals may have emerged as early as 750 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought. Mongolian microfossils show that "the absence of animal fossils...
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