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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

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The woman who shot a video of a hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday morning told WyoFile she and her family were terrified as the blast sent boiling water and rocks skyward, destroying parts of a boardwalk, its guardrail and a nearby bench.

Yellowstone hydrothermal explosion: ‘We were terrified’

Ozone can be an agent of good or harm, depending on where you find it in the atmosphere. Way up in the stratosphere, the colorless gas shields the Earth from the sun's harsh ultraviolet rays. But closer to the ground, ozone is a harmful air pollutant that can trigger chronic health problems including chest pain, difficulty breathing, and impaired lung function.

Scientists find a human 'fingerprint' in the upper troposphere's increasing ozone

A US study found that 12% of swabs from pets living with mpox patients tested positive for mpox virus DNA, though blood cultures showed no infection. Researchers from the CDC, collaborating with officials in several states, collected swabs from 34 pets in 21 households with mpox patients between July 2022 and March 2023. They sampled 24 dogs, 9 cats, and 1 rabbit, as well as their environments. While mpox DNA was found in 12% of pet swabs and 25% of environmental samples, blood tests showed no viable mpox or orthopoxvirus antibodies. The positive samples likely indicated human contamination. The study highlights a low likelihood of pet infection and suggests that mpox contamination in animals is due to human exposure. Researchers recommend avoiding contact between mpox patients and pets and advocate for a One Health approach to study human-to-animal transmission. (CIDRAP)

DAILY DOSE: Study Finds Low Mpox Infection Risk in Pets; Chicxulub Asteroid Traced to Carbonaceous Chondrite.

Denver, CO

The Denver City Council accepted Monday two grants totaling $24.5 million from the state of Colorado to pay for the homeless navigation campus it opened last year. One council member wants answers as to why wraparound services at the campus aren't up and running.

Denver homeless hotel wins $24.5 million grant, experiences wraparound services delay

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Wyoming State

To increase the genetic diversity of an island population of grizzly bears , Wyoming and Montana wildlife managers recently worked together to import fresh bloodlines into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Two Montana grizzly bears trucked to Wyoming to bolster genetic diversity, help states’ delisting case

ScienceAlert


There are literal oceans' worth of liquid water hiding out on Mars. There's just one big problem. That water is actually in Mars, at depths that are too far below the surface for us to access.



					
			

That's according to new analysis of seismic data collected by the  Mars InSight lander, for which huge reservoirs of liquid water are the best explanation. And, although that water is out of reach, it is an important piece of the strange puzzle of the aquatic history of our dry, desiccated, dusty neighbor.
"Understanding the Martian water cycle is critical for understanding the evolution of the...

Scientists Just Found Oceans of Liquid Water on Mars – But There's a Catch

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Four years ago, the discovery of phosphine gas in the clouds of Venus ignited debate among scientists, with subsequent observations failing to replicate the findings. Now, the original research team has returned with more robust data, presented on July 17 at the Royal Astronomical Society meeting in Hull, England. These findings, which will underpin future scientific studies, suggest even stronger evidence of phosphine in Venus’ atmosphere.

Controversy Over Potential Signs of Life on Venus Rekindled by New Findings

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Oregon State University researchers working on a way to make cleaner hydrogen have been busy beavers. As a result, they have developed a material that leverages sunlight to separate hydrogen from water, OSU reported. The science is happening on the molecular level — measured in tiny micromoles. But the team...

Game-changing material turns sunlight and water into clean fuel: 'Sustainable and efficient energy solutions'

Florida State

The four-member crew of what is set to be an historic spaceflight arrived in Florida on Monday. Against the backdrop of clear blue skies and summertime humidity, the quartet of astronauts descended from the camouflage clad Dassault Alpha jets owned by the mission’s commander, Jared Isaacman. The crew, which...

Polaris Dawn astronauts, set to perform first commercial spacewalk, arrive in Florida ahead of launch

The Conversation U.S.

Space may be considered the final frontier, but the US was once a frontier, too. How can space industry leaders avoid repeating practices that led to colonialism in the 18th century and beyond?

Astronomers have warned against colonial practices in the space industry − a philosopher of science explains how the industry could explore other planets without exploiting them

Researchers discovered that Earth’s rotational slowing occurs in a staircase pattern rather than a flat drop. This pattern, discovered after intensive geological and astronomical investigation, shows alternating periods of stability and fast change in Earth’s rotation over the last 650 million years. The study, led by He Huang...

Staircase pattern discovered in Earth’s rotational deceleration evolution

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Natrona County, WY

Houma, LA

A worker died Aug. 5 when the crane he was operating toppled at a wind farm construction site in remote Natrona County, state and local officials say. The victim, John William Hoffpauir, Jr., 55, of Houma, Louisiana, was working as a crane operator at the Cedar Springs wind energy construction site north of Casper and Glenrock under the control of Blattner Energy at the time of the accident. Hoffpauir was a Blattner Energy employee, a spokesperson for the company told WyoFile.

Worker killed in accident on wind energy construction site in Natrona County

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Startup New Frontier Aerospace has started tests of the engine that will power high-speed, point-to-point travel aircraft.

‘World’s most advanced’ hypersonic engine for suborbital flights tested

More dangerous substances are entering the Denver drug supply, Harm Reduction Action Center warned in a newsletter this week. “The Iron Law of Prohibition posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases,” HRAC Executive Director Lisa Raville wrote in the newsletter. That is exactly what is happening, she said.

Dangerous substances entering Denver drug supply

There aren’t many advantages to working nights, Alan Nash says, but getting a glimpse of the aurora borealis is one. Nash, a locomotive engineer, photographed the green and magenta ribbons of light early Monday just south of Bill, Wyoming.

Northern lights brighten the night shift

A nearly 20-year effort to map the electrical properties of Earth's crust and mantle across the contiguous United States, viewed as critical to protecting the electrical grid during extreme solar storms and against damage from electromagnetic pulses used as weapons, is now complete. The 3D geoelectric map produced by researchers...

Researchers complete electrical mapping project critical to protecting the US power grid

Hawaii State

Citizen scientists collaborating with NASA’s Backyard Worlds project have discovered a unique hypervelocity object, CWISE J1249, that is rapidly exiting the Milky Way. Powered by infrared images from NASA’s WISE mission, this find includes contributions from amateur astronomers who identified its unusual speed and composition. The object, possibly a low-mass star or brown dwarf, showcases a rare makeup indicating an ancient origin. Theories about its high velocity involve interactions with supernovae or black holes, suggesting a dynamic past within the cosmos.

Hypervelocity Escape: NASA Spots Mysterious Object Moving at 1 Million Miles per Hour

Pasadena, CA

From left, the artist Saskia Wilson-Brown, the astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi and the artist Shane Myrbeck, in front of a model of the twin Voyager spacecraft at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., Aug. 1, 2024. NASA scientists are teaming with artists to create “Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination,” one of about 70 installations in “PST Art,” an exhibition set for museums and other nonprofits across Southern California that aims to unlock creative pathways that “are just not open.” (Magdalena Wosinska/The New York Times)

NASA scientists team with artists for sprawling 'PST Art' liftoff

Chinese astronomers have performed multi-wavelength observations of a galactic supernova remnant known as HB9. Results of the observational campaign, published August 9 on the preprint server arXiv, shed more light on the remnant's properties and its possible physical connection with a nearby region of ionized atomic hydrogen (H II region).

Observations investigate the connection of a supernova remnant with a nearby H II region

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A catalyst for success: A molten salt researcher’s journey at INL

IDAHO FALLS – Among the impressive nuclear energy scientists at Idaho National Laboratory, Bill Phillips stands out as a particularly gifted molten salt researcher. His journey...

A catalyst for success: A molten salt researcher’s journey at INL

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