“Plumose Anemone”, one of the many wonderful illustrative plates to appear in Philip Henry Gosse's The Aquarium (1854) which inspired the "aquarium mania" that gripped much of mid-19th century Britain. More in @BrunnerBernd's "Bringing the Ocean Home" publicdomainreview.org/essay/b...
Keeping quantum computers cool usually means using the extremely rare & expensive isotope helium-3. Freelance science journalist Zack Savitsky joins the @science.org podcast to talk ultra cooling alternatives -- given what we know about ^3He stockpiles.
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The adoption of agriculture kicked off a very active period in human evolution, geneticists argue in a new @nature.com study. “Everything has changed about the way we live," says @harvard.edu geneticist Ali Akbari, "and that’s reflected in our genome and how it’s trying to catch up.” @science.org
Would you serve as a research subject in exchange for learning opportunities? Time for episode 2 of the @science.org podcast limited series The Normals!
Listen to all the episodes here: www.science.org/topic/tags/n...
Brief fun survey from Jessica, Andrew & myself:
If you are a faculty member, research scientist, postdoc, or senior Ph.D. student in any area of science, please take five minutes and fill it out. We’ll share the results widely along with some reflections.
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A galaxy seems to host two giant black holes, poised to collide in a century | Science | AAAS 🔭🧪 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
Episode 2 drops Tuesday!
" ...they were doing a lot of work with controlling hypertension. And those people were on long-term diets, you know, like they got nothing but rice to eat for months. ...I don't know how they did it." Check out @science.org podcast's limited series The Normals
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Did you hear or feel the sonic boom from the Artemis II reentry? Fill out a “Did You Feel It?” report!
It will say earthquake but fill it out for the boom.
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On this week's @science.org podcast: NASA’s plans to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by 2028. Having not launched a fission reactor to space in more than 60 years...complications ensue w/ @hannah-richter.bsky.social
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This week on the @science.org podcast: An unprecedented violent split occurred in a large chimp colony that has been tracked by researchers for decades. Now, scientists are asking: What can the lethal division of a chimp community teach us about human conflict?
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In the 1950s, scientists tried to define "normal" humans. The problem? They couldn't find any.
🎧 Listen to episode one of "The normals," Science's newest podcast series: https://scim.ag/4mj0bVY
How do know what's normal? Check out the @science.org podcast short series on early research on health human subjects. Listen here:
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Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
Learn more about his life and see a collection of his stunning astronomical art here: https://buff.ly/2ENtY5g #eclipse #solareclipse
So excited to share our new @science.org podcast limited series The Normals! Out now!!
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This week on the @science.org podcast, a new path to calculating the Hubble constant using reappearing bursts from deep space, lensed by gravity w/ @danclery.bsky.social LISTEN HERE: www.science.org/content/podc...
Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world
This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities
This week on the @science.org podcast, Deputy News Editor Martin Enserink and researcher Jill Farrant talk about harnessing the secrets of resurrection plants—specialized plants can survive up to 95% water loss—for drought-proofing crops.
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The trouble with sycophantic AI, this week on the @science.org podcast with Myra Cheng
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Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncov...
Okay so why was I the only one in the theater tonight who gasped when Ryan Gosling ran a centrifuge with two tubes in the whole thing, sitting right next to each other? Sorry was I the only scientist in the film society theater tonight??
This week on the @science.org podcast, new results suggest it may be time to rethink the peopling of the Americas. Lizzie Wade describes the history of tumult in the field and what it will take to change minds
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I have seen the flying squirrels of Uptown! Here's a 50% speed video of them in action tonight.
We review ways to replenish groundwater and which has worked well in different settings—this week on the @science.org podcast, with @meagancantwell.bsky.social and Scott Jasechko
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In the latest @science.org podcast, journalist Evan Howell talks about how warming and erosion in Alaska have revealed a relic of long-vanished ice sheet that could hold clues to a key time in the Northern Hemisphere's climate history
Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...
Computer vision, data compression, and machine learning have gotten so good, that researchers can now capture behavior across the entire lifespan of a fish. Claire Bedbrook joins the @science.org podcast to talk about what filming fish can teach us.
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This week on the @science.org podcast, Matthias-Claudio Loretto discusses how observing ravens and wolves in Yellowstone might change the way we think about scavengers’ strategies for finding their ephemeral food sources.
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This year’s children’s book roundup features everything from a look at space law to a clever wartime spider farmer. Science's Valerie Thompson joins the @science.org podcast to discuss some of the books. Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...
This week on the @science.org podcast, a policy round up with #ScienceInsider editor @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and others--including a story by @richardastone.bsky.social on allegations of a Chinese nuclear blast that may reignite weapons testing. Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...
Pterocoma pennata, a comatulid ("feather star") from the Jurassic of Germany
Ginkgoites huttoni, a ginkgo from the Jurassic of England.
Cymatophlebia longialata, a dragonfly from the Jurassic of Germany
Pterodactylus antiquus, a pterosaur from the Jurassic of Germany.
Look at all these beautiful flattened Jurassic friends! ⛏️🤓 All from the Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit -names in alt-text #fossil #paleontology #paleobotany
