Tibi Puiu
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Science journalist for ZME Science https://bsky.app/profile/zmescience.bsky.social
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For months, we've worked on an app to monitor fishing in UK's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The UK claims to be a leader in marine conservation, yet plenty of "protected areas" remain open to destructive fishing. With a grant from the @earthjournalism.bsky.social, we finally did it. 🧵👇
The UK says its sea are protected. We Built an App to Track Fishing in 'Protected' Seas
Our new data-driven investigation reveals how “protected” UK waters are still being heavily trawled—and invites anyone to explore the evidence for themselves.
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Andrei Mihai@mareacaspica.bsky.social · 10mo agoFor months, we've worked on an app to monitor fishing in UK's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The UK claims to be a leader in marine conservation, yet plenty of "protected areas" remain open to destructive fishing. With a grant from the @earthjournalism.bsky.social, we finally did it. 🧵👇
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"Faith may be the currency of banking. But regulation is the guarantor of that faith." Check out my latest for @lindaunobel www.lindau-nobel.org/blog-modern-...
Modern Finance Is Efficient. It's Also Remarkably Vulnerable
Imagine the global economy as a patient showing troubling signs: rising fevers in inflation, irregular rhythms in credit, and a fragile pulse of confidence. When trust disappears, even healthy-seeming...
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@zmescience.bsky.socialBy analyzing the DNA of 370 individuals who lived across Eurasia between the 2nd century BCE and the 6th century CE, researchers have uncovered surprising genetic ties between the Huns and the Xiongnu elite. But there was more to the Huns than a single lineage.
Ancient DNA Reveals the Surprising Origins of Attila’s Huns. Genetics Point to an Ancient Mongolian Empire
Ancient DNA traces the Huns' journey from Mongolia to Europe. But this wasn't straightforward.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
New study finds human-caused lead contamination in the Aegean Sea dating back 5,200 years—1,200 years earlier than thought! Linked to early silver production, pollution peaked under Roman rule. 🏺⚒️ #Archaeology #Environment #RomanEmpire (1/4)
Oldest Evidence of Human-Caused Lead Pollution Dates from Over 5,000 Years Ago, Around the Aegean Sea
Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.
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Somewhere in the invisible world of microbes, a tiny bacterium wields an astonishing superpower. Deinococcus radiodurans, affectionately nicknamed Conan the Bacterium, can survive 140,000 grays of radiation when dried and frozen — a dose 28,000 times greater than what would kill a human.
This Tiny Microbe Can Withstand Extreme Radiation That Would Obliterate Humans. Here's How It Might Protect Astronauts on a Trip to Mars
Could a humble bacterium hold the key to surviving cosmic radiation?
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Scientists have discovered unique neurons in the brain that respond only to music. www.zmescience.com/science/your...
Your Brain Has A Special Set of Neurons That Only Light Up for Music
Scientists have discovered unique neurons in the brain that respond only to music.
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In a quiet lab at Argonne National Laboratory, Saw-Wai Hla and his team were huddled around their instruments late one night when they detected the spectral signature they had been searching for. They had captured the X-ray fingerprint of a single atom.
Scientists Capture the X-ray Fingerprint of a Single Atom for the First Time — And This Could Change Everything
The achievement has potential implications from medicine to materials science.
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These clay instruments produce scream-like sounds, which trigger a fear response in the human brain.
Aztec Death Whistle Was Designed to Haunt the Mind, Brain Scans Confirm
These clay instruments produce scream-like sounds, which trigger a fear response in the human brain.
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“Digital media increases boredom through dividing attention, elevating desired levels of engagement, reducing a sense of meaning, and serving as an ineffective boredom coping strategy,” researchers say. www.zmescience.com/science/news...
Endless digital media was supposed to cure boredom forever — except the opposite is true
Digital devices were meant to cure our boredom. So why are people feeling more bored than ever?
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