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📚 **The 5 best science books of 2025**
🧬 **Genetic Ancestry Doesn’t Tell Your Whole Story**
🔗 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/dna-and-its-discontents/.
#Ancestry #DNA #Science #Genetics
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**Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century**
"_Here, using three global glacier models, we project a sharp rise in the number of glaciers disappearing worldwide, peaking between 2041 and 2055 with up to ~4,000 glaciers vanishing annually._"
Van Tricht, L., Zekollari, H., Huss, M. et al. Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02513-9.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Environment #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Glaciers #Academia
🇮🇹 **Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy**
"_The community shows closer genetic affinity to Early Bronze Age Sicilians than to contemporaneous populations from the Italian peninsula. However, unlike contemporary Sicilian individuals, they lack eastern genetic influences, suggesting distinct ancestral trajectories and interaction networks among Bronze Age populations._"
Fontani, F., Larocca, F., Cilli, E. et al. Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy. Commun Biol 8, 1766 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09194-2.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Demography #Science #Biology #Consanguinity #Genetics #History #BronzeAge #Italy #Academia
**Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2**
"_Efforts to lower the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may come too late to prevent long-term changes to the Arctic_"
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Arctic
#Image attribution: U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Reindeer_Graze_in_the_Arctic_(27428057380).jpg.
🔬 **Ultra-processed foods are ‘pushing aside’ all other food groups to dominate global diets**
"_Professor Carlos Monteiro, of the University of São Paulo, highlighted the dangers UPFs represent to global health, and recommends that they be regulated in a similar way to tobacco with warning labels and advertising restrictions._"
🇩🇰 📖 🔭 **The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe**
"_The Lord of Uraniborg is a comprehensive biography of Tycho Brahe, father of modern astronomy, famed alchemist and littérateur of the sixteenth-century Danish Renaissance._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/lord-of-uraniborg/06D94F2184A543176965B1D026B41D31.
#History #Denmark #Science #Astronomy #HistSci #Nonfiction #Biography #TychoBrahe #Books #Bookstodon
#Image attribution: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_de_Gheyn_Ii_-_Portrait_of_Tycho_Brahe,_astronomer_(without_a_hat)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.
🌡️ 🌍 **New study warns of 'creeping catastrophy' as climate change drives a global rise in infectious diseases**
"_Participants reported that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create an escalating health crisis that could become a ‘creeping catastrophe’ if left unaddressed._"
#News #Research #Study #Science #Epidemiology #Health #Medicine #Climate #ClimateChange
#Image attribution: James Gathany, USCDCP, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosquito_on_human_skin.jpg.
**Roman-era ink reveals surprising chemical complexity**
"_University of Évora archaeologist César Oliveira, the lead author of the new study, says the ink’s basic ingredients were as expected, but ‘the surprising element is the intentional inclusion of iron-gall ink constituents, creating a hybrid of carbon-based and metal-based ingredients’. The tannin from oak galls combined with iron salts during the ink-making process to create an intense black or dark purple ink._"
**Explaining the Tides Before Newton**
"_Astronomical explanations for tides, usually credited to Isaac Newton, can be traced to thinkers like Strabo and Pliny in the Classical era._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/explaining-the-tides-before-newton/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Oceans #Physics
#Image attribution: Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Komos_site_baie_Cr%C3%A8te.jpg.
**Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago**
🧬 **Ancient DNA from Shimao city records kinship practices in Neolithic China**
"_These findings reveal a predominantly patrilineal descent structure across Shimao communities, and possibly sex-specific sacrificial rituals. We also characterize the population history, revealing that Shimao culture-related populations originated mostly from a Yangshao culture-related population present at least 1,000 years earlier, and the lasting inflow of Yumin-related populations from Inner Mongolia did not interrupt regional genetic continuity._"
Chen, Z., Gardner, J.D., Sun, Z. et al. Ancient DNA from Shimao city records kinship practices in Neolithic China. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09799-x.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Neolithic #China #Academia
🧬 **Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihoods**
"_We showed that the Neolithic diffusion of early farmers introduced lighter phenotypes, but for millennia, pigmentation diversity remained extensive, so that many Europeans kept the dark skins of their African ancestors well within the Bronze and Iron ages_"
S. Perretti, P. Santos, M.T. Vizzari, E. Tassani, A. Benazzo, S. Ghirotto, & G. Barbujani, Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihoods, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (29) e2502158122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2502158122 (2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Ancient #DNA #Phenotype #Pigmentation #Europe
🧻 **Poo donation is the life-saving medical gift you never considered**
"_To get involved with this type of science, you’d need to donate your poo or make a series of donations at set times that fit into a study’s design. Your microbiome would be profiled and the data used to answer questions relating to that study._"
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/donate-poo-for-money-b2872784.html.
🌎 **‘Almost half of the beaches will disappear by the end of the century,’ warns researcher**
#Pollution #Beaches #Environment #Ecology #Science #Research #Academia
**Hitler had genetic sexual disorder, new DNA analysis reveals**
**How chromosomes separate accurately**
"_UNIGE scientists reveal how separase, a key enzyme in cell division, ensures the accurate separation of chromosomes._"
🔗 https://www.unige.ch/medias/en/2025/comment-les-chromosomes-se-separent-sans-erreur.
🧬 **Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia**
"_For Li Dan, genetic analysis reveals a close relationship with modern Brahmins, supporting his Brahmin status and his biography as the progeny of Brahmanic descent. Alongside the eclectic archaeological culture, we believe Li Dan preserved his ethnic heritage while forming an integrated Chinese cultural identity._"
Du, P. et al. (2025) 'Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia,' Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 68, p. 105474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105474.
#Academia #Research #Archaeology #Ancient #DNA #Genetics #Science #Asia
**‘They treat men like vending machines’: Inside the hidden world of social media sperm selling**
**How a medieval Oxford friar used light and colour to find out what stars and planets are made of**
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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