Emily Carter
@emilycurates.bsky.social
Social Media Enthusiast 🦋 Exploring the world through trends, culture, science and technology.
🧵1/5 Antarctica may have crossed a climate tipping point—new analysis warns parts are changing fast and could lock in sea-level rise for centuries. This is happening now. ❄️⚠️
Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas
Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences
newscientist.com
🧵1/5 Are we heating up 🌡️ or freezing down ❄️? Climate models suggest Earth’s carbon cycle may hide a dangerous glitch. While we’re living through rapid warming now, some feedbacks could one day flip us into a deep freeze. Let’s unpack this.
A dangerous glitch in the carbon cycle could freeze Earth over
Carbon cycle flaw can plunge Earth into an ice age.
techexplorist.com
🧵1/4 Intel was once the undisputed chip king 👑. But as the AI boom exploded 💥, it lagged behind rivals, ceding the field to Nvidia’s GPUs 🎮➡️🤖. The AI revolution created trillion-dollar giants—without Intel.
Nvidia takes $5 billion stake in Intel, offers chip tech in new lifeline to struggling chipmaker
Nvidia said it would invest $5 billion in Intel, throwing its heft behind the struggling U.S. chipmaker just weeks after the White House engineered an extraordinary deal for the federal government to take a massive stake in the company.
reuters.com
Japan has reached a remarkable milestone 🇯🇵✨ Nearly 100,000 people are now 100 years or older! That’s a new record, continuing an incredible 55-year streak of growth in centenarians 🎉👵👴
Japan sets new record with nearly 100,000 people aged over 100
The number of Japanese centenarians rose to 99,763 in September, with women making up 88% of the total.
bbc.com
🧵1/6 500 years under the Baltic Sea, the Gribshunden—King Hans of Denmark’s flagship—has been called the “Tudor warship of the North.” Recent finds reveal a time capsule of politics, power, and daily life at sea ⚓👑
Forgotten royal warship sunk 500 years ago reveals surprising secrets
From the wreck of the royal Danish-Norwegian flagship Gribshunden, archaeologists have uncovered a rare glimpse into the naval power of the late Middle Ages. This warship, lost in 1495, carried an ars...
sciencedaily.com
🧵1/6 NASA’s Perseverance rover has found clay-rich mudstones in Mars’ Bright Angel formation, with organic carbon + “leopard-spot” and “poppy-seed” textures—spots rich in iron phosphate & sulfide. These may be some of the strongest biosignature hints yet.
New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life.
apnews.com
🧵1/6 What if most of Earth’s life is still invisible to science? 🌍🔍 Researchers estimate up to 90% of species remain undiscovered: from flies & fungi to tiny mites. They shape ecosystems, store carbon, & feed the food chain, yet we barely know them.
The search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results
We still haven’t documented 90 percent of animals on Earth
vox.com
🧵1/7 🌎 ⚠️ A new study warns the Atlantic Ocean’s key current (AMOC)—which regulates global climate—could begin collapsing as soon as 2055. Scientists say this would cause massive shifts in weather, sea levels, and ecosystems worldwide.
Key Atlantic current could start collapsing as early as 2055, new study finds
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation brings heat to the Northern Hemisphere and regulates the climate globally, but research suggests it could weaken significantly in the coming decades.
livescience.com
⚡️⚡️ Google just got hit 💥 with a €2.95 billion ($3.45B) antitrust fine from the 🇪🇺 EU for favoring its own adtech platforms, distorting ad marketplace fairness. This is the fourth such penalty in recent years, intensifying Europe’s Big Tech crackdown.
Google hit with $3.45 billion EU antitrust fine over adtech practices
Alphabet's Google was hit with a 2.95-billion-euro ($3.45 billion) EU antitrust fine on Friday for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative adtech business, marking its fourth penalty in its decade long fight with EU competition regulators.
reuters.com
🧵1/6 So many Maya still live across Mesoamerica—over 7 million today maintain their native languages. Yet their voices have historically been marginalized. This new initiative changes that, with tools 🛠️ built by and for Indigenous communities.
Millions of Maya Still Call Mesoamerica Home. This Groundbreaking Initiative Ushers the Rich Tapestry of Mayan Languages Into the Digital Age
The Mayan Languages Preservation and Digitization Project promotes tools designed by and for Indigenous communities, like online glossaries and special phone keyboards
smithsonianmag.com
🧵1/5 Europa isn’t the only moon with a bioscience twist. Over on Titan, NASA now suggests methane and ethane lakes might naturally form vesicle-like bubbles—tiny structures resembling primitive cell membranes. Not water-based life, but something close. 👽🌌
NASA finds Titan’s alien lakes may be creating primitive cells
Saturn’s moon Titan may be more alive with possibilities than we thought. New NASA research suggests that in Titan’s freezing methane and ethane lakes, simple molecules could naturally arrange themsel...
sciencedaily.com
🧵1/7 The U.S. feels on edge — politics, climate anxiety, nonstop bad headlines. Yet one thing keeps winning attention online: cat videos. Quick, harmless, oddly comforting — why do we keep clicking? 🐱
The fascinating, feel-good psychology of Internet cat videos
Why are cats so popular online? A recent study may have the answer.
washingtonpost.com
🧵 1/7 The future of food might not be lab-grown beef or plant burgers 🌱🍔. It could be something far stranger… and squirmier. Imagine 10 billion maggots quietly working in France to fight climate change, recycle waste, and feed the world. Ready? Let’s dig in 🪲👇
Stephen@stephenhunt.ca · 11mo agoIf you're squeamish about bugs you might not want to open this, but it's VERY cool. Insects that consume waste food and plants, using excess heat and humidity from a power plant, and are turned into protein sources for animals without using forage fish. More of this please. wapo.st/4fWjX6p
🧵1/3 Meet Kostensuchus atrox — a grizzly-sized hypercarnivorous croc cousin that stalked dinosaurs on land in Patagonia 70 million years ago 🐊🦖. More than just a river lurker, this beast was a top predator.
70 million-year-old hypercarnivore that ate dinosaurs named after Egyptian god
Researchers have unveiled Kostensuchus atrox, a giant crocodile relative that ate dinosaurs in Argentina 70 million years ago during the Cretaceous period.
livescience.com
🧵1/7 The Sun just revealed its hidden threads—and they’re thinner than you think 🌞✨. Hawaii’s DKIST telescope captured the smallest magnetic loops ever seen during an X-class flare. Ready to dive in?
World's most powerful solar telescope sees incredible coronal loops on the sun (image)
"It's a landmark moment in solar science."
space.com
🧵1/6 What if life doesn’t need 💦 water? A new study says ionic liquids—salty solvents liquid at odd temperatures—could support life’s chemistry where water can’t. Life as we know it… but weirder.
Is water really a necessary ingredient for life? Aliens may swim in truly exotic pools
"This can dramatically increase the habitability zone for all rocky worlds."
space.com
🧵1/7 👉 The biggest threat to humanity might not be only climate, war, or AI. It could be something quieter, on top of all that: we’re running out of babies. 👶 A study warns the impact could rival climate change.
People are having fewer babies: Is it really the end of the world?
Steep population declines in most countries are expected to have negative impacts over the next several generations, but adaptation is possible.
nature.com
🧵1/6 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope 🔭(JWST) has found a tiny new moon orbiting Uranus—so small, you could walk around it in a few hours. Meet S/2025 U1.
Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope reveals
Uranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.
livescience.com
🧵1/6 What if a tiny nutrient you’ve never heard of could boost your memory, protect from cancer, and keep your genes working smoothly? Scientists just cracked a 30-year mystery about it 👇
Scientists solve 30-year mystery of a hidden nutrient that shields the brain and fights cancer
Scientists have finally uncovered the missing link in how our bodies absorb queuosine, a rare micronutrient crucial for brain health, memory, stress response, and cancer defense. For decades, research...
sciencedaily.com
🧵1/7 🔥 Want to know why megafires are growing bigger? A new study shows industrial private forests are 1.5× more likely to burn in high-severity wildfires than public forests. Mismanaged fuel beds help fires spread.
Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires, study finds
The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more l...
phys.org
🧵 1/9 40,000 years ago, two kinds of humans walked the Earth. One vanished. One became us. Why did Neanderthals disappear while our species thrived? 🤯 New science points to a single gene… but the full story is stranger, darker, and still unfolding. 👇
Gene that differs between humans and Neanderthals could shed light on the species' disappearance, mouse study suggests
A gene called ASDL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings could shed light on why Neanderthals vanished.
livescience.com
🧵 1/8 A new study reveals the Maya civilization endured severe droughts—one lasting 13 years—that likely contributed to its decline. The question 🙋♀️ : how did they survive so long in a region with no rivers?
13-year drought crippled Maya on Yucatán Peninsula 1,000 years ago, study finds
An analysis of a stalagmite within a Mexican cave reveals detailed evidence of drought that contributed to the downfall of the Maya civilization in the area 1,000 years ago.
livescience.com
🧵 1/6 Meta’s internal AI chatbot rules revealed a horrifying allowance 🤮: bots were permitted to engage in romantic or sensual conversations with minors—complete with unsettling compliments.
Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children
An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
reuters.com
🧵 1/7 ☀️ Solar just got a glow-up. A “black metal” thermoelectric generator from Univ. of Rochester achieves 15× more power than prior models—no fancy semiconductors, just better hot/cold sides.
Solar Power Reimagined: New “Black Metal” Device Generates 15x More Electricity
Researchers have developed a solar thermoelectric generator that is 15 times more efficient than the most advanced devices currently available. Researchers seeking greater energy independence have exp...
scitechdaily.com
🧵 1/8 🚨 Big change coming: The U.S. wants to end animal 🐁 🐇 research. FDA + NIH are backing new tools—AI, organ-chips, human data. Faster, safer, more human-relevant.
The U.S. wants to phase out animal research. Are the alternatives ready?
Drug and chemical safety can be assessed with AI and organ chips, but some scientists say it’s too soon to forgo animal methods entirely
science.org
🧵 1/6 Imagine a “Paris Agreement for plastic.” 🌍 That was the hope at Geneva’s #PlasticTreaty talks. Instead? The summit collapsed with no deal—while plastic waste climbs every single day.
How a global plastic treaty could cut down pollution—if the world can agree on one
The "Paris agreement for plastic" was set to be finalized at the end of this week.
phys.org
🧵 1/6 🤖🧪 Scientists used generative AI to design two candidate antibiotics that show promise against superbugs like MRSA and gonorrhoea in lab tests. Early stage, but this could jumpstart a stalled antibiotic pipeline.
AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA
Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.
bbc.com
🧵 1/5 Air pollution alerts are blaring: the National Weather Service is urging thousands of Americans to stop burning—no fires, no incense, no outdoor cooking—to help ease wildfire smoke that’s pushing air quality into dangerous territories.
Thousands of Americans told to stop burning
The National Weather Service has issued a series of air quality alerts across parts of Idaho, Washington and Colorado on Friday.
newsweek.com