[URBAN NOTE] Five science links: coffee, CERN, Titan, HCN–0.009–0.044, panspermia

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• Motherboard notes that climate change endangers a majority of the coffee species growing in the wild.


• Universe Today notes that CERN is planning to build a successor to the LHC, one a hundred kilometres in diameter.


• A review of data from Cassini, Universe Today reports, suggests the probe saw rain fall in the north polar region of Titan.


• A new analysis suggests that mysterious object in the heart of the galaxy, HCN–0.009–0.044, is actually a black hole massing 32 thousand suns. Universe Today has it.


• Universe Today shares an ambitious proposal for future humanity to use interstellar probes to seed life on potentially hospitable but lifeless worlds, a planned panspermia.