Interactive Nextstrain builds for Andes variant: Segment S Segment M Segment L Suggestions for seqs to kick out or etc welcome. Will try to continue to improve.

An objective, deeply researched analysis of how the U.S.-Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz disruptions are forcing India to rapidly allocate capital into biogas, nuclear, and clean energy…

The South Pole Telescope Collaboration reports: The 3rd-generation receiver on the South Pole Telescope (SPT-3G) detects a flaring millimeter point source at RA = 336.51170d, DEC = -54.09255…

And the wreck of science Confidence in scientists, which slipped in this country during the Covid-19 pandemic, is reported to be climbing once again, but you have to wonder why. Not because […]

Great Job Which RT-qPCR was used for the diagnostic ?

I'll classify their imagery with an OpenAI model and examine their EXIF metadata.

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of the two instruments on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has observed renewed gamma-ray activity from a source positionally consistent with the flat-spectrum…

Mmm hmm. Via: Daily Mail: An international team of scientists are working to develop a vaccine against deadly hantavirus after an outbreak of the rat-borne virus on luxury cruise ship left three…

AI could boost AC/DC hybrid electricity systems and make renewable-heavy power grids more stable, efficient and resilient, according to research in the International Journal of Global Energy Issues,…

Mr. Blurrycam strikes again: war.gov/UFO I was hoping for some laughs on aliens.gov, but no joy. Via: ZeroHedge: On Friday, the Trump administration released the first official tranche of…

There is a functional relationship between the mass of the proton and the charge radius of the proton that is consistent with experimental measurements of those quantities, that doesn't have an…

So, an interesting exercises to show the vectors obtained by linear combinations for c(2, 1) + d(0, 1) with c = 0, 1, 2 and d = 0, 1, 2. So, eu escrevi a soma dos vetores e os números que c e d…

The subtitle of the first Climate Biennial, Rehearsing the Unexpected, captures the biennial’s central idea: learning to navigate moments like ours, when the present is shaky and the future uncertain

A couple years ago, Jay Naborn wrote: I am studying people’s preference for categorically correct forecasts (such as getting the winner of a sports game right) over error-minimizing ones (such as…

The Department of War (DOW) has posted new information on UFOs, at the request of U.S. President Donald Trump. Never-before-seen files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) are part of the…

During their far-flung voyage around the moon, the Artemis II crew remained vigil while zipping by the darkened side of the moon, on the ready to try and record meteoroid impact flashes visually on…

Natural Worlds Sir David Attenborough, great naturalist and celebrated TV presenter, an indisputable “national treasure”, likes to use the phrase “the natural world”.[1] I have no objection to this…

During this period the moon’s phase will reach its last quarter phase on Saturday May 9th. At that time the half-illuminated moon will rise near 03:00 and will remain in the sky the remainder of the…

Whatever your view of the world, even the most diehard rationalist admits there are things that science simply can't explain. Perhaps our understanding hasn't advanced that far yet and science will…

David Attenborough turns 100 today. Thank you, David, for sharing and for inspiring!

More snow finally came on Tuesday night, two months later than it was supposed to finally come, and it is too late, but it is better than nothing. That’s what everyone is saying. “I’m so grateful for…

4 DAYS until Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony tickets go on sale (12 May 2026).

* Why explore Venus * VERITAS, NASA’s Venus mapper * EnVision, Europe’s mission to Venus * ISRO’s plan to study Venus in unprecedented detail alongside NASA and ESA Related: Coverage of India’s…

NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center Infographic describing the best current theory on the evolution of PBHs. Black holes live forever, at least according to general relativity. Once material crosses a…

Cruise ships are bad for the world.

In 1950, Hill and Doll published a landmark paper in the British Medical Journal . They had interviewed hundreds of lung cancer patients and healthy controls in London hospitals and found that people…

In 1974, two chemists at the University of California published a paper predicting that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) would destroy the ozone layer in the stratosphere that shields Earth from…

Note: This post turned out a little different from the previous ones. It's more of an essay than a dialogue. I tried restructuring it multiple times, but it kept wanting to be linear. And you know,…

  I recently asked people on Mastodon “What’s the most surprising fact you’ve learned in the last couple of weeks?” It was a nice way to learn a lot of interesting…

LNG Canada and Mark Carney’s “Low Carbon Oil”Those of you following the parallel track to my essays, the chapters of my memoirs I am also putting out on Substack and […]

A robot made by Toyota blows its own horn.Image from Wikimedia.   I happened to type “evolution revised” into my Safari browser, and A.I. kicked in. I try to turn off A.I. as much as I can, but…

For nearly three decades, much of the modern world behaved as though the nuclear age had quietly expired sometime in the early 1990s. The collapse of the Soviet Union created the comforting illusion…

I will give my first public astronomy talk at TU Chemnitz's Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften on May 9th, 2026 — a journey from comets and auroras to distant galaxies — alongside the Astro Stammtisch…

How Life Uses Atoms As we learned from Part 2 of this series, the ingredients for life are all around us. Some atoms, like nitrogen and oxygen, are abundant, so it comes as no surprise that living…

David W. Hogg, who takes his role as scientific gadfly seriously, recently (February 2026) released an interesting rumination on science, LLMs, and the human component of research. David W. Hogg.…

The Hot Zone is one of those books that gets under your skin. Richard Preston doesn't soften anything. He describes what the virus actually does to a person. The hemorrhaging. The organ liquefaction.…

The 95 GeV bump is suspiciously close to the mass of the Z boson plus the mass of the b-quark. The 152 GeV bump is close to the mass of two W bosons reduced by the mass of two b-quarks. The…

In the 2026 World Happiness Report, all but one Latin American country scores above what income predicts. East Asia shows the opposite pattern.

Bob Grant: The Mysterious Hantavirus Outbreak That Put the Virus on the Western Map. European hantavirus is what you get when mice pee all over your idyllic mountain cottage. It causes your kidneys…

A study in the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research has looked at women’s employment in Saudi Arabia. It suggests that workplace empowerment is closely linked to an employee’s…

To this day, researchers don’t fully understand quantum physics. But in a new paper, physicists from MIT say that that’s okay – because the phenomena we use quantum physics to explain can actually be…

what? I submit that the most gameable number is 12. I ask you: Why are there 12 months of the year? 12 zodiac signs? 24 hours in a day? 12 inches to a foot? 12 Apostles, 12 tribes of israel, 12 gods…

As a new quick rule of thumb inspired by the Nature papers, you could do worse than “cut estimated effect sizes in half”. If a published paper says that a college degree raises wages 100%, then…

Fundamentals is written by a Physics Nobel prize winner (Frank Wilczek), and is an elegantly written paean to science as well as philosophy, which I thoroughly enjoyed. For one thing, he starts with…

Writing to Learn Math: Math journal explanations avoid the formality that turns so many students away from geometry proofs. Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and…

So, considered other question in linear algebra. Some parts não sabia como resolver, but it helps to solve the parts that que se sabe. Percebi isso quando respondi uma das partes da questão. Depois…

The two Principal Components (eigen vectors) derived with Principal Component Analysis from the solar background magnetic field defining two largest magnetic waves of the poloidal field of the Sun…

I asked Claude: “What are the most effective and impactful ways you can help me?” One of its ideas was to ask it: What are the three questions this field has not resolved, where the…

by Gertrud U. Rey Contrary to popular belief, most vaccines don’t actually prevent infection with a pathogen, instead, they prevent the disease that follows infection. The human papillomavirus (HPV)…