The science of how fireflies stay in sync https://arstechni.ca/bnta #collectivemotion #quorumsensing #biophysics #Science #Biology #swarms

UK Announces £2.5 Billion Investment to Develop Nuclear Fusion Technology

📰 Original title: The UK Will Invest Billions to Build a Nuclear Fusion Industry

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View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/uk-announces-2-5-billion-investment-to-develop-nuclear-fusion-technology/?redirpost=cf2dc330-3a74-421a-ba81-9cc65c4b7ad0

#science #nuclearfusion #uk

Scientists discover AI can make humans more creative
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260315004355.htm?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FFLIPBOARD+EXCHANGE+FEED+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F
Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a tool that replaces human work, but new research from Swansea University suggests a far more exciting …
#science #ai #creation

Seals and sea lions provide clues to evolution of vocalization

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-sea-lions-clues-evolution-vocalization.html

#science #neuroscience

Science Has a Major Fraud Problem
https://www.thefp.com/p/science-has-a-major-fraud-problem?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FFLIPBOARD+EXCHANGE+FEED+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F
Not long after he arrived on the Stanford University campus in 2022 as a 17-year-old freshman, Theo Baker received a tip about the school’s …
#science #fraud

Is the Universe Defective? Part 2: The Persistence of Memory

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/is-the-universe-defective-part-2-the-persistence-of-memory

#science #cosmology

Is the Universe Defective? Part 1: The Good Old Days

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/is-the-universe-defective-part-1-the-good-old-days

#science #cosmology

You haven’t noticed that the days are getting ever so slightly longer, but a new study shows that they are — and it points to climate change. @euronews explains what’s happening and why it can be a problem:

https://flip.it/ZerBDD

#Science #ClimateChange #Climate #GlobalWarming

Ravens don't just follow wolves-– they memorize kill sites across vast distances https://www.sciencealert.com/ravens-dont-just-follow-wolves-they-memorize-kill-sites-across-vast-distances

#science #biology #ravens #wolves

Glasgow, Scotland

Absolute Zero Discovery Point

On this spot Lord Kelvin discovered absolute zero

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/absolute-zero-discovery-point

Books by Lord Kelvin at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48139

#science #travel

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Portrait of Lord Kelvin

When your eyes, ears, and brain don’t agree, that will leave you susceptible to motion sickness. But just because the 15-foot swells you’re experiencing out on the ocean make you seasick, doesn’t mean others will experience the same thing. So what makes the difference? @popsci dives into it, including how you can offset the effects:

https://flip.it/5-jzuF

#Science #Biology #Humans #Health

Dr Becky Smethurst’s video about the Project Hail Mary film is out. Spoiler-free. Dives into the science and the fiction. Featuring Ryan Gosling, Andy Weir, and directors Phil Lord & Christopher Miller.

👍🏻

21-minute video: https://youtu.be/lYHCTEnYOr4

#Science #Film #ProjectHailMary

Taxonomy is one way biologists communicate about what they are looking at. It's uniquely human, strangely important, and now in peril.
#Biology #Ecology #Science #Taxonomy

‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out? | Taxonomy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/02/identify-species-taxonomists-crisis-art-borkent

Study Reveals How Cats Use Their Spines to Land Safely

📰 Original title: A New Study Details How Cats Almost Always Land on Their Feet

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#science #cats #biology #animalbehavior

this is incredible. Hanging solar panels a few meters above crops of tomatoes and jalapeños multiplied their yield 2-3x, used substantially less water, controlled temperatures, and increased the output of the solar panels https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301355120 #science #solar #environment #agriculture

@davep

Yes. This. But further…

We should all stop *believing* in anything!

If you 'believe' something, even if it's true, you can just as easily un-believe and believe something else.

I don't believe in democracy. Churchill said it's the worst form of government except for all the others. I accept that analysis, therefore I am 'in favour' of democracy

The scientific evidence points to climate change. I accept the #science, therefore I 'acknowledge' climate change

#belief #evidence #reason

The wild "Starshot" project was conceived to design a probe that could reach Proxima Centauri in about 20 years.

Although project has gone dormant, it has yielded a lot of new ideas (many not widely shared, alas) about how to build a viable interstellar probe.

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/03/10/starshot-is-a-success-part-ii/ #space #science #technology

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A graphical summary of the Starshot concept to send a laser-sail probe to the star Proxima Centauri.

This summary of the Starshot project by one of its team leaders is a bit defensive. But it's a fascinating peek into the minds of the engineers who deeply, passionately wanted to be able to send a spacecraft to another star within their lifetime.

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/03/03/starshot-is-a-success-part-i/ #science #astronomy #space #tech

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The figure shows a concept for the sail, about 5 m in diameter. Some studies show that at the velocity under consideration the gas and dust will pass through the thin sail with virtually no damage if it travels face-on. Only the payload would need protection. The sail can also be oriented edge-on in order to avoid such collisions, giving meters of material protection to the center. The payload is around the center, protected from damage due to incoming gas and dust.

Academic Challenges in Studying Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the United States

📰 Original title: While the US government is investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena, academic researchers studying them face stigma

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/academic-challenges-in-studying-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-in-the-united-states/?redirpost=1a1f4db1-fc53-4da7-8703-44ce005700cd

#science #uap #academia #research

So, it's a bit old, but I never saw this coming.

It turns out not all #America #First #people are entirely #senseless when taking into consideration, #serious long term issues.

Specifically, things like a #environment #risk regarding #plastic and its more aptly named #microplastic variants.

According to this #research, the #science is saying that we have to take this a lot more seriously.

Now I am no #alarmist, but I do believe in medium term #red #alerts and this seems to be very much like one.

So were all the #climate #activist types right after all about an aggressive #carbon push to reduce it?

If the leading #might is #right voices are now admitting that this #doctrine as a #regime is now failing, with multiple levels of the #deception revealing and unveiling themselves piece by piece. We now stand at a very significant #crossroads as such.

As far as I know, #news wise this post is a bit old, but still highly relevant in the scientific discussion around #health and human well being. A topic of conversation that sstill peaks my #interest no matter who strategizes new theories upon it to date.

I'm all for saving the #planet but can we please agree to go all the way, and not say it's fine if we only do so in part?

https://www.infowars.com/posts/jagged-little-pills-why-microplastic-research-needs-to-get-real/

Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability

If you send a shock wave through a magnetized plasma–something that happens in both supernova explosions and inertial confinement fusion–it can trigger an instability known as the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. The image above shows a form of this, taken from a simulation. Rather than treating the plasma as a single idealized fluid, the researchers represented it as two fluids: an ion fluid and an electron fluid. This allowed them to better capture what happens when certain components of the plasma react to changes faster than others do.

The image itself shows the electron number density across the fluid, where darker colors represent higher electron number density. The interface between high and low-densities shows a roll-up instability that resembles the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, but there are also regions of mushroom-like plumes that more closely resemble Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.

The authors note that these structures don’t appear in simulations that represent a plasma as a single fluid; you need the two-fluid representation to see them. (Image and research credit: O. Thompson et al.)

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Simulation result showing the interface between an ion fluid and electron fluid breaking down.

Cryptography: from paper to silicon

https://negativepid.blog/cryptography-from-paper-to-silicon/

#cryptography #tech #IT #science #STEM #computing #AI #quantumComputing #inventions #innovation #Cybersecurity #onlineSecurity #negativepid

Cosmic voids look empty but they may be tearing the universe apart

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260309225236.htm

#science #astronomy #astrophysics

JWST Detects Evidence of “Monster Stars” That May Have Created the Universe’s First Giant Black Holes

https://scitechdaily.com/jwst-detects-evidence-of-monster-stars-that-may-have-created-the-universes-first-giant-black-holes/

#science #astronomy #astrophysics

Estimating Pi Using Buffon's Needle Probability Experiment

📰 Original title: You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/estimating-pi-using-buffons-needle-probability-experiment/?redirpost=a27b041c-8c9a-49f8-9257-c1374c8f62fc

#science #pi #probability #montecarlo

Dry ice, commonly used to ship perishables, cleaning and to create smoky effects for rock concerts, has been found in a planetary nebula for the first time. Phys.org has more details, including how the team of astronomers discovered it:

https://flip.it/3r_G1-

#Science #Space #SpaceExploration #JWST

New Research Shows Hair Is Pulled Upward by Cells, Not Pushed from the Root

📰 Original title: Textbooks were wrong: Scientists reveal the surprising way human hair really grows

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/new-research-shows-hair-is-pulled-upward-by-cells-not-pushed-from-the-root/?redirpost=9969792e-e5c1-4fad-8cc3-db4977675ff5

#science #hairgrowth #cellbiology #biophysics

Potentially good news for sleep apnea sufferers from the field of medicine. Participants in a clinical drug trial who took the highest daily dose of an epilepsy drug had nearly 50 percent fewer breathing interruptions while sleeping. @ScienceAlert has more:

https://flip.it/SUJyp5

#Science #Health #SleepHealth #SleepApnea #Humans

Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae

Frame-dragging may explain an odd pattern seen in the brightest supernovae.

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/r57ms
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/magnetars-drag-spacetime-to-power-superluminous-supernovae/#astrophysics #general-relativity #magnetar #physics #science #supernova

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Image of a purple sphere on a star studded background. The sphere has a series of glowing yellow lines curving out from its poles.

"Do you think it's inappropriate in any way that someone w/ no experience w/ grants for the federal government was making personal judgment calls about what grants to cancel?" an attorney asked.

"Um, no. I don't think it's inappropriate," Cavanaugh said, arguing that he did not need formal education or experience to make informed judgments. 🤔

https://abcnews.com/Politics/2-doge-staffers-regrets-people-losing-income-reduce/story?id=131050170 #science #uspol

Cambridge researchers develop light-driven reaction to efficiently modify drug molecules

📰 Original title: A lab mistake at Cambridge reveals a powerful new way to modify drug molecules

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#science #chemistry #drugdevelopment #photochemistry

pi Day: https://www.amon-hen.com/science/6177 #Humor #Science #TheSimpsons

Chick-fil-A announces major change to ingredient list

Chick-fil-A has backtracked on its ‘no antibiotics ever’ policy Chick-fil-A has promised customers “no antibiotics ever” for the past 10 years(Image: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)) Chick-fil-A has anno…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanIngredient #health #InTheNews #Mediterranean #science
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2554580/chick-fil-a-announces-major-change-to-ingredient-list/

Single-Celled Organism with No Brain is Capable of Pavlovian Learning...

...and yet the likes of Laurence Fox cannot grasp the most basic of concepts!

#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #Science #Pavlov #PavlovianLearning

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Screenshot of a new scientist article "Single-Celled Organism with No Brain is Capable of Pavlovian Learning "

If you wave a florescent tube under powerlines, the tube will light up. A bit of long exposure photography and you can create the illusion of your own Northern Lights. Images by Russian photographer NeverSmile.

#science #photography #art #NorthernLights #Aurora #AuroraBorealis

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You can just make out the powerlines in the background of the image. The foreground consists of sweeping sheets of lights, caused by multiple florescent tubes being waved about.

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More whirls of light.

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Even more whirls, the powerlines a bit more visible in this one.

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A night shot of a group of people holding florescent tubes, blurred by the long exposure and the motion they cause waving the tubes about.

European retailers yank popular headphones after study reports trace amounts of hormone-disrupting chemicals https://thever.ge/8HX2 #Environment #Headphones #Analysis #Gadgets #Science #Health #Report

https://www.europesays.com/se/190246/ Whatsapp lanserar konton för barn #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #ScienceAndTechnology #SE #Svenska #Sverige #Sweden #Swedish #Technology #Teknik #Vetenskap #VetenskapTeknik

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This is fun reading. How researchers use #Doom in #science.

https://archive.is/2026.03.13-183239/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00813-4

Happy π day!

#pi #PiDay #PiDay2026 #math #science #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #8bit #commodore #computer #computers #computing #IT #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

Embattled journal brand mistakenly invites out-of-scope researchers to join board https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/13/cureus-journal-brand-agriculture-food-science-mistakenly-invites-researchers-board/ #Science #ScienceCommunications

Has anyone heard from @breadandcircuses ?
It's been a very long time since he posted. I know he was extremely upset over the climate crisis-- I'm worried about him.

#Climate #Science #Environment

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 290

In late summer new #bumblebee queens mate before hibernating.
The queen stores the sperm collected in her body until she chooses how to use it the following year.
This choice determines the sex of her offspring.
#bees

#nature #biodiversity
#wildlife #science
#worldbeesanctuary
#education #insects
#environment #pollinators

Could the Tyrannosaurus rex have evolved into giants far earlier than previously believed? A 74-million-year-old shin bone found in New Mexico may have belonged to a relative of the ferocious predators. “It's a dead ringer for T. rex,” Dr. Nicholas Longrich of the University of Bath said. Read more from @sciencefocus, including how big this particular giant is estimated to have grown:

https://flip.it/KsOrVi

#Science #Animals #Dinosaurs #Geology

There was a time when scientists thought that once the intensity of hurricanes, wildfires and droughts spiked enough, people would wake up to the threat of climate change. “Analogously, this great pot known as Earth is now coming to a rolling boil, yet many people remain oblivious to the pending disaster,” social sciences reporter Sujata Gupta writes. Gupta shares her experience living in northern Vermont, where trucks were once driven across Lake Champlain in the winter, and why people are slow to accept the reality of warming, for ScienceNews.com:

https://flip.it/HE5Bzm

#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateScience

What Does a National Geographic Photo Engineer Do? https://petapixel.com/2026/03/13/what-does-a-national-geographic-photo-engineer-do/ #nationalgeographic #photoengineer #Interviews #interview #engineer #magazine #science #natgeo #News

China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science…

The Chinese #government is ramping up its support for #science announcing plans to boost two key budgets at the country’s biggest political meeting, called the Two Sessions... Nature.com #policy #china #politics

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/china-pledges-billion-dollar-spending-boost-for-science/

#Science
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vibrant-wildflowers-are-blanketing-death-valley-national-park-resulting-in-the-most-breathtaking-bloom-in-a-decade-180988321/
"Death Valley, primarily in California’s Mojave Desert, is having its best wildflower year since 2016, thanks to a confluence of weather conditions: “well-spaced rainfall throughout the fall, winter and spring; sufficient warmth from the sun; and lack of drying winds,” according to the National Park Service (NPS). Prior to 2016, Death Valley’s most recent “superblooms” occurred in 2005 and 1998."
#Diversity

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When photographer Elliot McGucken heard about a possible superbloom in Death Valley this spring, he drove around 1,000 miles from Montana to California. Elliot McGucken, via Smithsonian

"In the late 19th century, the American bison almost disappeared from the continent. Its population fell from around 35-45 million individuals to only a thousand within a couple of decades. This near-extinction was caused by the westward expansion of American settlers, who built railroads that disrupted bison migration pathways, over-hunted the animals for their hides and converted bison habitat into farmland."
#Science #Diversity
Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2026/03/04/meet-the-scientist-analyzing-historic-bison-dna-to-understand-how-the-species-rebounded-from-the-edge-of-extinction/

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Postdoctoral researcher Sarah Johnson stands among rows of historic bison specimens deposited in the National Museum of Natural History’s collection. Phillip R. Lee, Smithsonian Institution