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I make a latte every single day. It's become a whole ritual — pull the shot, pour it over ice and almond milk, done. I even get my beans shipped monthly from Atlas Coffee Club. I love my espresso machine, even if I've been eyeing an upgrade lately.

So this research out of UNSW caught my attention. Scientists rigged a filter basket with a transducer that vibrates at ultrasonic frequencies. Those vibrations create tiny collapsing bubbles that fracture the coffee grounds and pull out the flavor in a couple of minutes — at room temperature, no heat required. They ran a blind taste test with a hundred coffee drinkers and nobody could tell the difference from a regular shot.

That is amazing! Medical tech got better and better. That is why I support vaccines!!!

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It’s incredible how far we can go to observe what they look like. The universe offers so much to explore. Additionally, it’s hard to believe we’re the only ones out there.

Colorful, Chaotic Jupiter - NASA During its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the giant planet's northern hemisphere. nasa.gov

This is equal parts bizarre and horrifying. Centuries-old whaler remains thawing out of Arctic permafrost and sliding downhill. Climate change isn’t just a future problem.

Climate change is an obvious danger to future generations, but it also threatens our link to the past by accelerating the erosion and degradation of its material remains.

via ‘Corpse Point’ In the Arctic Is Melting, Disturbing Centuries-Old Bodies

It’s hard to believe we’ve only cataloged around 15% of animal species — so much of life on Earth is still out there, undescribed and unseen. And the ocean makes it even wilder: roughly 75% of the seafloor hasn’t been mapped, and we’ve explored only about 5% of the total ocean volume. There’s a lot of world left to find.

Even after centuries of effort, some 86 percent of Earth’s species have yet to be fully described, according to a new study that predicts our planet is home to 8.7 million species.

86 Percent of Earth’s Species Still Unknown?

Medical tech keeps getting weirder and better. Chewing gum that fights gum disease is apparently a real thing now.

🔁 Reblogged from newscientist.com

A small trial found that chewing gum containing nitrate can ease the symptoms of gum disease by favouring the growth of beneficial mouth bacteria

Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease

via bsky.app

This past week, the world watched four astronauts climb into a capsule called Integrity and fly to the Moon and back for the first time in over fifty years. Artemis II splashed down in the Pacific on April 10th, carrying Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen farther from Earth than any crew since Apollo.

It was a big deal. And watching it, I kept thinking about eleven men most people have never heard of — men who quietly helped make all of this possible. I knew the Gallaudet 11 were involved in space experiments. What I didn’t know was just how deep that involvement went — that their work quietly laid the foundation for human spaceflight as we know it. That’s the part that got me.

Those photos from Artemis II were amazing!!! Those are my two favorite photos:

Check the rest of photos here.

Seeing them in space is incredible. The Earth appears breathtakingly beautiful. They also send photos and videos from distant space. Watch the video!

Amazingly, it has been 4 days and it is already closer to Moon than Earth.

As of 9 A.M. EDT on April 4, the Orion spacecraft was more than 160,000 miles from Earth, less than 120,000 miles away from the moon and traveling around 2,540 miles per hour.

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