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Vaccine Outbreak Infographic

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/heres-visual-proof-why-vaccines-do-more-good-harm

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Caterpillar eat shopping bags, a biodegradable solution to plastic pollution

Scientists have found that a caterpillar commercially bred for fishing bait has the ability to biodegrade polyethylene: one of the toughest and most used plastics, frequently found clogging up landfill sites in the form of plastic shopping bags.

via Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting a biodegradable solution to plastic pollution.

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Signs of Science

Signs from the Science March

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Beautiful drone footage of sharks near the beach

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Carbon dioxide has not reached this height in millions of years

We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-just-breached-the-410-ppm-threshold-for-co2/

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What do we want? SCIENCE! When do we want it …

Earth Day Protests 🌏 — at Times Square, New York City.

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SpaceX’s refurbished Falcon 9 on display at Cape Canaveral

The first SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to ever be reused is now on display at Cape Canaveral.  The $60 million dollar rocket cost 50% less than the price of a new rocket.  It can be reused 100 times.  SpaceX spent $1 billion in R&D on the rocket.

SpaceX’s refurbished Falcon 9 costs 50% less than a new rocket

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Shrinking Terahertz Chips

Spectroscopy is nothing new, but shrinking the chips that make it work is ground breaking.

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-future-terahertz-chips.html

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Giant Black Worms

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Our neighborhood iceburg

https://qz.com/963439/a-massive-iceberg-photobombed-ferryland-newfoundland-a-small-canadian-fishing-village/