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The U.S. CDC's vaccine advisory committee has voted to remove the universal recommendation for hepatitis B vaccine at birth. @Independent@flipboard.com explains more about the transmission and seriousness of the virus and the rationale behind the universal recommendation.

https://flip.it/RoKtax

#Health #Science #Medicine #Vaccination #HepatitisB #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration

Scientific publishing may be the biggest scam you've never heard of. A billion-dollar industry built on free labor and public money—then sold back to us at a markup. It's not just broken. It's sabotaging progress.
#Science #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/we-need-to-talk-about-the-billion-dollar-industry-holding-science-hostage/

Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.

But evolution is not linear. It branches and branches. Divides in some places and recombines in others. #science
Image: @keesey

#PPOD: A vast cavity on the Red Planet looks back at ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) with an icy stare. The crater is located in Utopia Planitia, the largest known impact basin in the Solar System, with a diameter of roughly 3,300 km, or twice the size of Earth’s Sahara Desert from north to south. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS

#planetaryscience #space #science

Giant telescope project, long planned for Hawaii, gets cozy with Spain

Spain’s €400 million offer could induce Thirty Meter Telescope to switch sites

https://www.science.org/content/article/giant-telescope-project-long-planned-hawaii-gets-cozy-spain

#TMThawaii #TMT #Astronomy #Hawaii #Maunakea #science #news #Astrodon #Spain

#PPOD: This new JWST picture features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537 — the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars. Planetary nebulae like the Red Spider Nebula form when ordinary stars like the Sun reach the end of their lives. Credit: ESA, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)

#space #science