Climate Change Could Cost 20% Of Income Over Next 25 YearsThe world is already committed to warming that will undercut the global economy by 20 percent between now and 2050. That’s six times the price of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius.— Wired
Finding Changes the Way We Think About Human EvolutionIn the past, scientists believed that hominin evolution was largely driven by changes in climate. But now, research suggests that competition was, in fact, fundamental to hominin evolution.— Newsweek
Expired Cans of Salmon From Decades Ago Reveal Big SurpriseCanned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum, with decades of Alaskan marine ecology preserved in brine and tin.— Science Alert
Two Lifeforms Merge Into One Organism For First Time In EonsA team of scientists have detected a sign of a major life event that has likely not occurred for at least one billion years. They’ve observed primary endosymbiosis–two lifeforms merging into one organism.— Popular Science
Purple Exoplanets Could Be Teeming with Alien LifeA team of researchers from Cornell University has significantly expanded the range of potential surface biosignatures for Earth-like exoplanets.— The Debrief
Activist Matthew Landman shared updates on geoengineering and a sun-dimming experiment. Followed by palmist Vernon Mahabal on the eternal nature of the soul.