Conditions improved in south-central and northern areas of Kansas this week, while both extreme and severe drought expanded slightly in parts of western Kansas.
The state’s vacillating drought conditions over the past few weeks have affected some winter wheat crops. This week’s USDA Crop Progress report rated Kansas’ winter wheat condition at 11% very poor, 21% poor, 36% fair, 29% good and 3% excellent.
We’re thrilled to share that this image by Jordan Vonderhaar, from his photo essay “Braving ‘La Bestia’” in our July/August 2023 print issue, was named one of the top 100 photos of the year by TIME magazine. (1/2)
I've never stopped feeling angry about the NYT's story from last November which fearmongered heavily about puberty blockers and the supposed risks to bone health they might bring.
So it is with grim satisfaction that I can report on a new study, in JAMA Pediatricts, that suggests fears about bone density have been wildly overstated. #science#trans#journalism#mediabias#news
OpenSource.net welcomes new writers. This site is a good replacement for opensource.com which stopped publishing articles in March when Red Hat laid off most of the community team.
So here's the deal: We currently have 2,522 (and counting) followers on Twitter, and we want to exceed that on Mastodon before our Editor-in-Chief @alexip718 heads to Colorado for ScienceWriters23 conference in one month. Can you help us get there?
A look underneath seafloor hydrothermal vents on 🌎has revealed cave systems teeming w/ worms, snails & chemosynthetic bacteria living in 75F-degree water.
Methinks this may have significance for the origin of life on Earth & maybe Enceladus!
Conspiracy theories are the new pandemic infecting public life: Millions of people, from all walks of life, have come to believe aspects of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Prevention is our only hope, says James Ball. James Ball is the author of The Other Pandemic: How QAnon contaminated the world https://archive.is/DGKiV
@linuxiac If you prefer news outlets who refrain from using panic stirring #clickbait headlines and are looking for a not super #opinionated article, maybe checkout @itsfoss :