Notices tagged with science, page 57

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A comet no one had seen until last month may be visible to the naked eye this weekend, giving stargazers a once-in-a-437-year opportunity. More from Science Alert: https://flip.it/K8EJxE
#Science #Space #Comet #Stars #SpaceExploration

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Three of the fundamental forces operate in three spatial dimensions. Could gravity be operating in more than that?

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/gravity-extra-dimensions/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Scientists have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy in the early universe. Axios explains how understanding these fields could be crucial for learning more about our cosmos as a whole: https://flip.it/Lu8Bs4
#Space #Science #SpaceExploration #SpaceScience

Why is Microsoft betting millions on spreading “a magic dust on a bunch of giant baking sheets stacked in 50-foot-tall towers? Heatmap explains: https://flip.it/EDeJLw
#Science #ClimateChange #Microsoft #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

New research shows that when a volcano erupted in Tonga Jan. 15, 2022, the huge volume of volcanic ash, dust and glass that rose and fell back into the water reshaped the seafloor in a dramatic fashion. More from Popular Science: https://flip.it/x._057
#Science #Volcano #Tonga #PacificOcean

From Live Science: “Past research suggests that some whale species are more likely to get lost and accidentally beach themselves during periods of increased solar activity.” Could a rise in solar storms create problems for whales that use magnetoreception to orient themselves? https://flip.it/BhHq8l
#Science #Whales #MarineLife #SolarStorms #Sun #Earth #Ocean

Wind and snow don’t always bring about the coldest winters in the Arctic. An international team of researchers has found that the blustery weather can contribute to regional warming. Science Alert explains: https://flip.it/qacf2_
#Science #Climate #Arctic #ClimateChange

Accidents aren’t always a stroke of bad luck. Scientists have measured the exact size of the disk of matter swirling around a supermassive black hole. Live Science has more on the serendipitous discovery, one that the team didn't set out to find: https://flip.it/8ijQ1k
#Science #Space #BlackHole

How roads have transformed the natural world.

Smithsonian Magazine reports: "A brief history of road ecology, the scientific discipline that is helping us understand our impact on the environment and how to diminish it."

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#Nature #Ecology #Cars #Road #Environment #Science

How human extinction would change the Earth.

From the BBC's Science Focus: "If our species disappeared tomorrow, what would actually happen, and what kind of planet would we be leaving behind?"

https://flip.it/8dcEgX

#Extinction #ClimateChange #Environment #Earth #Science

Did humans nearly go extinct about 800,000 years ago?

Popular Science reports: "An ‘ancestral bottleneck’ took out nearly 99 percent of the human population" at that time.

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#Humans #Anthropology #Archaeology #Evolution #ClimateChange #Science

Weird (scientific) stuff is happening in the Nevada desert. Three-eyed "dinosaur shrimp" are waking up at Burning Man.

IFLScience reports: "The human festival is over, but for Triops and fairy shrimp, it's just getting started."

https://flip.it/NUbkxt

#BurningMan #Nevada #Science #Animals

Could "One Health" be the optimal approach for human, animal and environmental health?

Inside Climate News reports: "The University of Arizona is getting millions in state funding to develop the program. The first task is communicating what it is."

https://flip.it/GFAleJ

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Research #Science

Were the ancient Greeks onto something when Pythagoras mused about the music of the spheres — a flawed, if romantic concept suggesting the mathematical relationships between celestial bodies could likewise emanate harmonious sounds not unlike violin strings? A team of nuclear physicists at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility explores the possibilities, Salon reports: https://flip.it/YEjtjA
#Science #Music #Space #Pythagoras

Shimmering water intrigued scientists at a spot off the coast of California in 2018, where they made a staggering discovery: Far below the surface, an estimated 20,000 deep-sea octopuses had gathered, the largest congregation of the cephalopods ever found. Smithsonian Magazine explains why: https://flip.it/HkALvb
#Science #Animals #SeaLife #MarineLife #Octopus

J. Robert Oppenheimer & his student Hartland Snyder publish the Oppenheimer–Snyder model ("On Continued Gravitational Contraction"), proving for the 1st time in contemporary physics how black holes could develop #OTD in 1939.

They showed when a sufficiently massive star runs out of thermonuclear fuel, it will undergo continued gravitational contraction and become separated from the rest of the universe by a boundary called the event horizon, which not even light can escape.

#science #physics

What evolutionary biology can and can't tell us about sex, gender, and sexuality.

From the MIT Press Reader: "Some human social constructs like gender are viewed erroneously in an evolutionary context. It’s time for our understanding of a person’s self-identity to evolve."

https://flip.it/FG32TG

#Sex #Gender #Sexuality #Evolution #Science #LGBTQ

"f you regularly follow debates about public policy, especially those involving wealthy tech bros, it’s obvious that there’s a strong correlation among the three Cs: climate denial, Covid vaccine denial and cryptocurrency cultism."

~ Paul Krugman

#ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #Covid #vaccines #crypto #TechBros #libertarianism #science #disinformation

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/opinion/columnists/covid-climate-cryptocurrency-plutocrats.html

The lack of a dominant theory of consciousness is surprising given the amount of brain research conducted. The "adversarial collaboration" between global neuronal workspace theory and integrated information theory was successful in advancing consciousness science by providing large data sets. #consciousness #science #research https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-a-contest-of-consciousness-theories-really-proved-20230824/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter