To see if scientists can coax soils to store more carbon, researchers need to understand what makes soil microbes tick. But that is no simple task. https://t.co/XGxn5FpIuv

It’s not exactly a relief to say that the oceans, which are already becoming more acidic and storing record-breaking amounts of heat due to global warming, might be able to bear a little more of the climate change burden. https://t.co/AXVt0BPEOr

Scientists have finally sniffed out the molecules behind marijuana’s skunky aroma. https://t.co/kWW9RYzbDX

A social shift in the 1960s stigmatized psychedelic drugs and whatever promise they held. But Indigenous communities have been using them for thousands of years. https://t.co/tNgJWNAipB

This unique structure at the back end of Stegouros elengassen, a species of ankylosaur that lived between 72 million and 75 million years ago, strongly resembles an Aztec war club called a macuahuitl. https://t.co/6rcG9iBpRf

The small world swung around its host star every 7.7 hours. https://t.co/JMQz9JuZVg

An individual from an enigmatic hominid species strode across a field of wet, volcanic ash in East Africa around 3.66 million years ago, leaving behind a handful of footprints. https://t.co/71RcRzPUc8

The now-extinct animals were still considerably larger than their modern kin. https://t.co/lEls9r3iua

Researchers have for decades attempted to find a cure for people who develop the disease. https://t.co/8ckfqM2wzA

#OTD in 1959, Science News reported on Louis Leakey's discovery of the Nutcracker Man, in East Africa. The oldest known hominid at the time, the species is now called Paranthropus boisei. #SN100 https://t.co/YJxWkshPf7 https://t.co/jMfG95zjAL

The rabies vaccine can protect people from becoming ill. Yet the disease is still almost always fatal once people show symptoms. https://t.co/8ckfqM2wzA

Today, orangutans are found only on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. https://t.co/lEls9r3iua

A previously unknown hominid species may have left its marks in muddy ash in what’s now East Africa about 3.66 million years ago.   https://t.co/71RcRzPUc8

A new ankylosaur species found in Chile may be an early version of the armored creatures. https://t.co/6rcG9ijOZH

Scientists have sniffed out the chemical culprits responsible for cannabis’ skunky smell. https://t.co/kWW9RYzbDX

For years, Kanu Caplash had suffered from flashbacks, nightmares and insomnia from childhood trauma. His experiences on MDMA changed his perspective. “I still have the memory, but that anger and pain is not there anymore.”
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Fungi may be essential for making soil that sequesters carbon in the earth. https://t.co/XGxn5FpIuv

Some organisms have already moved, adapted or died as a result of the warming, and many more will face challenges from changes that are yet to come. But Thor Hanson hasn’t given up hope.  https://t.co/JsPpIqZlDD

The Southern Ocean is still busily absorbing large amounts of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans’ fossil fuel burning, a study based on airborne observations of the gas suggests. https://t.co/AXVt0BPEOr

Corals have been observed eating or otherwise incorporating microplastics into their bodies. But scientists don’t know how much of the debris reefs take up globally.  https://t.co/1zwtUTFYGc