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Entropy: The Heat Death of The Universe As the arrow of time pushes us forward, each day the universe inches closer to maximum entropy. And when that does happen, the lights just might turn back on, and for all we know, we might just end up back at square one. Video (Aperture) | Stream on YouTube @EverythingScience

Only Have Your First Vaccine Dose So Far? Here's The Data on How Protected You Are More than 147 million Americans and more than 34 million Britons have received their first dose of a two-shot COVID-19 vaccine. The data for how well the vaccines work after one dose isn't always clear cut – it depends on what you're measuring, and when you're measuring it. This is how much protection one shot of each vaccine gives you, based on the best data we have so far... Article | #Covid19 @EverythingScience

What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End Wrapping your mind around your life is pretty hard, because you are up to your neck in it. It's like trying to understand the ocean while learning how to swim. On most days you are busy just keeping your head above water. So it is not easy to figure out what to do with your life and how to spend your time. It’s easy to get lost. So let us take a step back and take a look at your life from the outside. Video (Kurzgesagt) | Stream on YouTube @EverythingScience

New NASA Earth System Observatory to Help Address, Mitigate Climate Change NASA will design a new set of Earth-focused missions to provide key information to guide efforts related to climate change, disaster mitigation, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time agricultural processes... Article @EverythingScience

In the Blink of an Eye: Space in an Instant When we look up at night, the universe seems pretty quiet. But that perspective is an illusion; in reality, there are millions of world-shattering events happening every instant across the cosmos. This short film explores just how much is going on every moment in our ridiculously enormous universe. In the fraction of a second it takes to blink your eyes, thousands of stars will be born, hundreds will explode and die, millions of planets will form, and our universe will expand by half a million kilometers in diameter. And these numbers only account for the observable universe -- not for what could be happening beyond, where some scientists believe there could be an infinite expanse of space. Think next time you blink. Video (melodysheep) Stream on YouTube (4K) @EverythingScience

Here Are 6 Reasons Why Potatoes Are Actually Good For Us Article @EverythingScience

A Total Lunar Eclipse Is Coming Tomorrow, And It's a Really Special One The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going to happen during the early hours of May 26. But this is going to be an especially super lunar event, as it will be a supermoon, a lunar eclipse and a red blood moon all at once. Article @EverythingScience

The Long-Forgotten History of the British Moon Spacesuit Decades before NASA's Apollo program, the British Interplanetary Society wanted to go to the moon: in a spacesuit that looked like a suit of armour. Video (Tom Scott) | Stream on YouTube @EverythingScience

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Scientists Discover a New Type of Biochemical That Could Be in All Life on Earth The wonderful mess of molecules that make up living things is so complex, biologists have overlooked an entire class of them – until now. This missed bit of biochemistry is neither rare nor hard to find; it's just no one had thought to look for it before. "This is a stunning discovery of an entirely new class of biomolecules," said Carolyn Bertozzi. "It's really a bombshell because the discovery suggests that there are biomolecular pathways in the cell that are completely unknown to us." Article @EverythingScience

Gene Therapy Partially Restores Vision in Blind Patient in First Case of Its Kind A blind man who lost his sight to a neurodegenerative eye disease decades ago has had his vision partially restored, thanks to a first-of-its-kind experimental gene therapy. For those people and their families, recent advancements in optogenetics could be a source of new hope for restored vision – although it's worth emphasizing this approach is still very much in the experimental stage, with practical treatments likely to be years away.... Article @EverythingScience

How Exactly Do Planetary Flybys Work? Gravity assists, sometimes called flybys, are a big part of space exploration. These precision maneuvers involve harnessing a planet’s gravity to accelerate and direct a spacecraft to some far-flung destination so the spacecraft can go further without a big and heavy propulsion system. It’s a key element in both human and robotic space explotration... Video | Read article version @EverythingScience

Dogs Can Detect Over 90% of COVID-19 Cases, Even Asymptomatic Ones Dogs can be trained to detect more than 90 percent of COVID-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to new research available in preprint, which authors hope could help replace the need to quarantine new arrivals. Using their remarkable sense of smell - which can pick up the equivalent of half a teaspoon of sugar in an Olympic-sized swimming pool - dogs have already shown that they can sniff out maladies such as cancer, malaria and epilepsy. Article | #Covid19 @EverythingScience

This Beating Sesame Seed-Sized 'Human Heart' Grew Itself in a Lab Scientists have successfully grown a bundle of human stem cells into a tiny artificial "heart" the size of a sesame seed. The pulsating mass is the first self-organizing miniature organ to resemble the human heart, including a hollow chamber enclosed by a wall of cardiac-like tissue... Article @EverythingScience

The Nostalgia Effect From where we were, to where we are, to where we will be, nostalgia will be there all along the way. It’s the burning desire to go back to the past, live the life we once had, or perhaps only a romanticized version of it. We want experiences, places, things, people, and even ourselves to go back to being what they once were... Video | Read article version @EverythingScience

We've Tracked 5 Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts to The Arms of Distant Spiral Galaxies The mystery of fast radio bursts (FRBs) continues to fascinate astronomers. No one is quite sure what's behind these super-short, super-intense radio wave pulses from deep space, but now astronomers have tracked down five FRBs to their home galaxies. It's the Hubble Space Telescope that has come up with the goods again. The ultraviolet and infrared cameras on the telescope were used to see where on a star map these five bursts emerged from, which gives us a better understanding of how they might have come into being in the first place... Article @EverythingScience

The Jellyfish and Mars Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring scene. It floats below and left of center, a bright arcing ridge of emission with dangling tentacles. In fact, the cosmic jellyfish is part of bubble-shaped supernova remnant IC 443, the expanding debris cloud from a massive star that exploded. Light from that explosion first reached planet Earth over 30,000 years ago. Like its cousin in astrophysical waters the Crab Nebula supernova remnant, the Jellyfish Nebula is known to harbor a neutron star, the remnant of the collapsed stellar core. This telescopic snapshot also captures Mars. Now wandering through early evening skies, the Red Planet also shines with a yellowish glow on the right hand side of the field of view. The Jellyfish Nebula is about 5,000 light-years away, while Mars is currently almost 18 light-minutes from Earth. Photo (Jason Guenzel) @EverythingScience

The Oldest Known Spiral Galaxy Was Just Detected, And It Has Some Surprises For Us Article @EverythingScience

@AXMPaperSpaceScaleModels Alfonso X Moreno is a self-taught designer of space-related paper models and owner of AXM Paper Space Scale Models. He designs accurate scale replicas of real rockets and spacecrafts made out of paper, covering the Space Shuttle era and current rockets from around the world. Join the AXM Paper Models channel and chat to stay updated or visit the website to browse through all the models you can download and create yourself! @EverythingScience

Hatching planets A Hubble Space Telescope view of a small portion of the Orion Nebula reveals five young stars. Four of the stars are surrounded by gas and dust trapped as the stars formed, but were left in orbit about the star. These are possibly protoplanetary disks, or 'proplyds', that might evolve on to agglomerate planets. Photo (ESA/NASA) @EverythingScience