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Before our Artemis II astronauts lift off on their journey around the Moon next year, find out what it takes to build a mission like theirs from the ground up. Episode 1 of Moonbound is live—and free to watch on NASA+: go.nasa.gov/4pxIoel Source: @NASA @EverythingScience

Dark Chocolate Compound Linked To Slower Aging Source:SciTechDaily @EverythingScience

30-Cargo-300: Major Report Outlines The Priorities For A NASA-Led Human Mission To Mars Source:IFLScience @EverythingScience

Radical New Treatment Clears Disease In 64 Percent Of Patients With Incurable Cancer Source:IFLScience @EverythingScience

Gravitational Waves Expose Hidden Dark Matter Around Black Holes Source:SciTechDaily @EverythingScience

The Geminid meteor shower peaks this weekend, Dec. 13-14! The meteors will be visible all night – just look to the eastern sky. Under the darkest skies (and after allowing your eyes to adjust), you could see up to 120 Geminid meteors per hour. Happy meteor-gazing! Source: @NASAJPL @EverythingScience

Let’s learn about lab-grown meat Source:SN Explores @EverythingScience

We May Finally Know What Caused The "Hobbit" Humans To Go Extinct Source:IFLScience @EverythingScience

Scientists Find a Hidden Brain Switch That Makes Habits Form Fast Source:SciTechDaily @EverythingScience

2025 on track to tie second hottest year on record: EU monitor The planet is on track to log its second hottest year on record in 2025, tied with 2023 after a historic high in 2024, Europe's global warming monitor said Tuesday. The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service reaffirms that global temperatures are on course to exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels—the threshold considered safer in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Temperatures rose by 1.48C on average between January and November, or "currently tied with 2023 to be the second-warmest year on record," according to the service's monthly update. "The three-year average for 2023–2025 is on track to exceed 1.5C for the first time," Samantha Burgess, strategic lead for climate at Copernicus, said in a statement. "These milestones are not abstract—they reflect the accelerating pace of climate change and the only way to mitigate future rising temperatures is to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions," Burgess said. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in October that the world would not be able to contain global warming below 1.5C in the next few years. Source:Phys.org @EverythingScience

New study explains why people fall for fake news In a world where misinformation spreads faster than fact, a new study is offering insight into why so many people fall for fake news, even when they suspect it's false. Researchers from Georgia State's Robinson College of Business, Kennesaw State University, and the University of Tennessee have developed a model that explains how emotional cues, rather than accuracy, shape the way we consume and share news on social media. The study, "Tabloids, Fake News, and the Overton Window: The COP Model on News Consumption in Uncertain Times," co-authored by Aaron French, Amrita George, Joshua Madden and Veda C. Storey, was published in Information Systems Frontiers. At the heart of the research is a simple question: Why do people believe and spread fake news, and do people consume fake news in the same way they consume tabloids? Previous studies largely pointed to belief in fake news as confirmation bias, which is the tendency to believe information that supports your existing worldview. But this new study suggests something deeper is going on, especially during times of uncertainty like the COVID-19 pandemic. "We found that people do consume fake news differently than tabloid news, which is largely consumed for entertainment and not taken seriously. With fake news, people are believing and sharing it because it feels useful either emotionally or informationally," said Amrita George, co-author and clinical assistant professor of computer information systems(CIS) at Robinson. In other words: fake news scratches an emotional itch. And in anxious, unstable times, that emotional itch is more powerful than truth. Source:Phys.org @EverythingScience

#PPOD: Titan's Surface 🌕 The atmosphere of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, appears similar to that on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago, before life appeared. After a seven-year journey on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe reached Titan’s surface, marking the most distant landing ever achieved by a spacecraft. During the descent, its cameras collected data on the dense atmosphere and took the first-ever images of the surface. These revealed an extraordinary world with lakes, islands, and erosion features similar to those that shape our planet, confirming that liquid methane once flowed there. Methane on Titan is found in liquid form, not as a gas, due to the intense pressure and cold temperatures, about –180° C. Credit: esaNASA Source: @SETIInstitute @EverythingScience