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Attention protein maxers: not only are you likely getting enough protein in your normal diet, but you may be shaving years off your life by upping your intake. www.scientificamerican.com/article/eati...

Eating less protein could help you live longerWhile “protein maxxing” is all the rage, reducing your protein intake could add years to your lifewww.scientificamerican.com

Good morning! The proof that Betelgeuse has a companion star is piling up, including an effort to image the star via visible light. The star is currently being called Betelgeuse B, but maybe Lydia would be a better name? (Little Winona Ryder joke for you) www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Scientists get best-yet glimpse of Betelgeuse’s companion starAfter decades of hints and speculation, scientists have at last unveiled the hidden companion to the iconic star Betelgeusewww.scientificamerican.com

In 2008, a Belgian boy was undergoing treatment for sickle cell disease. The illness can cause infertility, so doctors performed an operation: they removed one of his testicles, sliced it up into thin fragments, and froze them. There was only 1 problem: no procedure to re-graft them existed.

Shocked by this orca violence. Personally, I blame all the video games they play. www.scientificamerican.com/article/vide...

Watch orcas smashing fish to smithereens, possibly for funThe behavior could be a strategy to help younger orcas feed, or it may just be for their own amusement, researchers saywww.scientificamerican.com

Got a story coming out tomorrow that is an absolute ball. I'm really nuts over it. The subject of it rocks, nad I hope you all like it. This is not a testes, the story will be running after it's edited. You'll never guess what it's about.

Speaking to a house committee, Trump science advisor Michael Kratsios defended a proposed change that puts political appointees in charge of selecting grant proposals, and said $5 billion in fed funding will go to promoting AI in gov't science research. www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

U.S. pledges $5 billion to boost AI in government-backed scientific researchThe White House’s senior science adviser faced questions over research funding cuts from lawmakers on Wednesdaywww.scientificamerican.com

Bri was not so low-key excited about this. Get it? Low-key? Loki? Just watch the video. It's really interesting and he's very handsome.

Good afternoon! As astronomical tools get better, we're finding more weird stuff. The latest is a star system with a brown dwarf that has a satellite almost as huge as Jupiter. That enormity raises a question: what, exactly, separates a moon from a planet? www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

A huge cosmic object could force astronomers to rethink what a moon isThe almost Jupiter-sized object is orbiting a brown dwarf, which, in turn, is circling around a small starwww.scientificamerican.com

Just imagining a whale floating there and sighing. "Five minutes alone, that's all I ask."

Futurama: come for the silly, incompetent lobster doctor. Stay for the genius math proofs that were required to make the plots work. (I struggled with the math in this one because I'm way more Fry than Prof. Farnsworth) www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

How a Futurama writer’s plot problem led to a totally new math proofIn an episode of the cartoon, a machine lets characters swap bodies, but they can’t switch back with the same person. Math helps all the characters return to their original bodieswww.scientificamerican.com

Aside from Project Hail Mary (it was good! also, Weir can't write dialogue to save his life!), I'm almost done The Emperor of All Maladies. Cancer can feel like this unknowable enemy if you're not an MD - this book has taken it out of the shadows and made it feel more tangible. #sciamsummerreading

As I reported in SciAm, if polyurea is not applied exactly as intended, water can seep between the layers, seriously compromising its integrity on the molecular level.

Scared the hell outta me for a second till I remembered Infowars is good now.

On the light sider of things (literally), astronomers found a planet leaking helium into space. That means the planet, which is in the habitable zone near its star, has an atmosphere. scientificamerican.com/article/a-super-earth-exoplanets-leaking-helium-could-be-evidence-of-a-complex-atmosphere/

A super-Earth exoplanet’s leaking helium could be evidence of a complex atmosphereThe planet LHS 1140 b lies in its star’s habitable zone, which already made it a prime candidate as a possible host for lifescientificamerican.com

RIP Bonnie Tyler. Got a lot of mileage out of singing Total Eclipse of the Heart (poorly) at karaoke. But your spirit lives on in science!

There's probably trillions of exoplanets in the Milky Way, but trying to find them from Earth is tricky - you're trying to detect light from a planet with lots of it. So finding a new planet orbiting B Pictoris with the Very Large Telescope is pretty cool. www.scientificamerican.com/article/astr...

Astronomers just accidentally spotted the faintest exoplanet ever seen from EarthBeta Pictoris d is more than twice the size of Jupiter, but it is a baby compared to its humongous neighborswww.scientificamerican.com

Good morning! There's a total eclipse coming up in a few weeks, and while majestic on its own, there's a lot of science that needs to be done in just a few minutes. There's experiments on heliophysics, gravity waves and much, much more planned. www.scientificamerican.com/article/augu...

August's solar eclipse inspires science involving jets, balloons and Einstein’s general theory of relativitySolar eclipses are a rare and brief opportunity for scientists to gather data on everything from the physics of the sun to air pressure in the upper atmospherewww.scientificamerican.com

Good afternoon! At midnight, the public comment period ends for a proposed federal rule change that would put political appointees in charge of science grant funding. Thousands have already written in against it, including several Nobel laureates. www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Scientists overwhelmingly against rule change that would give political appointees say over science grantsHundreds of thousands of scientists, including Nobel laureates, warn that changes to the way federal grants are approved would greatly damage American sciencewww.scientificamerican.com

Good afternoon! National Weather Service data shows the current El Nino is poised to become a 'Super' El Nino. That would make it very likely we're in for some extremely hot weather, and raises the potential for deadly weather events in parts of the world. www.scientificamerican.com/article/odds...

The odds of a Super El Niño just got higherThe climate system is tied to more powerful typhoons, as well as famine and wildfires.www.scientificamerican.com

Good afternoon! A tiny single-celled protozoa is causing a lot of trouble in Michigan, where over 1,000 cases of cyclosporiasis have been confirmed. The illness isn't usually fatal, but has been known to cause explosive bowel movements. Yikes. www.scientificamerican.com/article/case...

Cases of an explosive diarrhea-causing parasite are rising fast in the U.S.Case numbers have skyrocketed from several dozen nationwide in June to more than a thousand in the state of Michigan alonewww.scientificamerican.com