Looking up at the night sky and making a wish upon a shooting star is a universal human experience. However, i […]

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…

Since the inception of the Human Landing System (HLS) program in 2019, NASA has obligated nearly $7 billion to lander development. It is projected that NASA will spend over $18 billion through fiscal…

New research highlights growing risks to public understanding of “planetary defense” – an area of science that deals with the threat to Earth from asteroid and comet impacts, with potentially…

Initial genomes from May 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, reveal a new spillover event Context On 15 May 2026, the Ministry of Public Health,…

5/18/2026, 12:03:20 PM In this tessellation, you can connect the centers of the bigger square in such a way that the resulting squares do not have an area that is the sum of the two squares in the…

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An analysis of six ancient Homo erectus tooth proteins from three locations in China, a Denisovan tooth protein, and some modern human and animal tooth proteins reveal some notable insights.…

Darrin Mottler's Human to Theropod ComparisonThe wind always arrives first.It sweeps across the red cliffs of eastern Utah, brushing your shoulders like a quiet invitation as you step out onto the…

AI can be used to model the spread of Alzheimer’s disease through the brain and has now provided researchers with a more biologically grounded way to predict cognitive decline. Details are reported…

Across the long history of legends about antigravity and breakthrough propulsion, spin appears with uncanny persistence—not merely as an engineering choice, but as a symbol of hidden order, stored…

In a previous post we wrote about how one can mine social media to uncover smells and how they shapes peoples perceptions of urban spaces. Building off this work we ( Qingqing Chen , Ate Poorthuis…

Tara Shyam is Executive Director of Regen10, a global initiative to support the transition to an inclusive, regenerative, and equitable agrifood systems, and it just published a roadmap. A…

The near-polar lunar surface and environment had never been measured in-situ before Chandrayaan 3 arrived. Now our understanding of it has been grounded in measurements just as we prepare to send a…

Spectra of AT2026clk were obtained on May17, 2026, by C.Buil (from the STAROS project, and member of RAPAS) with his 0.2m Newton telescope located at Antibes in the south of France. ...

There were over 700 species of dinosaur that roamed the Earth for millions of years, so why don't we ever see the huge ghost of a dinosaur walking along the street?

From Leonard Mlodinow’s Feynman’s Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life, a memoir about his early career as a physicist and working in the same department as titans Richard…

Fish ear bones can be used to study seal diet... and looking at seal diet changes over time can, in turn, give us information on the fish communities themselves

Among various kinds of dangerous pollution produced by burning wood in fireplaces, one shocking kind is lead.

We captured again the near-Earth asteroid 2026 JH2, about 24-hours before its flyby, and share this new picture here. The image above comes from a single 300-second exposure, remotely taken with the…

New research utilizing the DNA of dinoflagellate (Polarella glacialis) indicates that, 14,000 years ago, when the atmospheric CO2 concentration is thought to have been 230 ppm, the studied Arctic…

The last Zelda related content I'll post this week - I usually try hard to avoid using guides in games if I can, but sometimes you need a hand farming materials or finding every heart piece. I've…

Date: 18 May 1974 (8:05 AM Indian Standard Time) Code name: Smiling Buddha Type: plutonium fission Yield: 5 to 12 thousand tons of TNT Location: Pokhran, India Earthquake magnitude: 5.0

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A number of posts on social media have suggested that Andes hantavirus, which most recently caused an outbreak on the MV Hondius, is sexually transmitted. These claims are based on a 2023 paper…

The gut microbiome is best understood as a metabolic organ with no fixed genome. It is a dense microbial system that expands digestion, trains immune tolerance, blocks pathogens, transforms drugs,…

Thanks to Sam Graf for introducing me to this and suggesting some toys. IntroductionMultiplication tables can be fun. Line up your numbers, multiply, and find patterns. Like with 5x5, we can fill it…

On 18 May 2026, the near-Earth Asteroid 2026 KB will have a very close, but safe encounter with the Earth, coming as close as 231.000 km from us, 60% of the average lunar distance.... The…

In the previous installment in this series I introduced the concept of information, which I defined as correlations between states.  Commenter Samuel (whose profile says he is a Young…

Interesting example of theorising in paper by Kotler et al. (2026), “The body does not keep the score”. I haven’t read van der Kolk’s (2014) classic The Body Keeps the Score,…

The Biefeld–Brown Effect, The Aharonov-Bohm Effect, The Josephson effect etc. are minor temporal rendering artifacts of the User Generated Reality. #fnord #RTM #Science #Paradox

I'm surprised that I haven't written about heavy fermion s as a separate post before, so here we go. (It's a break from thinking about science and politics, anyway.) I've written before about "…

The Cylinder and the Moebius strip are a nice paradigm because the classical algebraic topology elements are the same for it: they are both homotopic to the circle, their cohomologies agree, their…

The Three Gorges Dam spanning the Yangtze River was completed in 2012. The project was highly controversial with some scientists arguing that if the dam should collapse millions of people downstream…

according to the theory of predictive processing , our perception doesn't really work like we would like it to.. instead of it working like: "there is an apple, and we use our eyes to see it", it's…

Cue Biopharma licensed CUE-221, a dual-mechanism anti-IgE antibody combining picomolar free IgE neutralization with CD23-mediated suppression of new IgE synthesis. Controlled Phase 2 in CSU in…

The company Casimir Inc promises "unlimited power" from the vacuum by using the Casimir effect. Here is why you shouldn't believe what they say.

I enjoy trying different learning tools and I started PhysicsGraph about two and a half months ago for fun. I am now 50% of the way through Physics 1. This is just a dump of my general thoughts so…

Studies in the theory of random processes - Book by Anatoliy Skorokhod (1961) Studies in the Theory of Random Processes is a foundational mathematics text by Ukrainian mathematician A. V. Skorokhod,…

Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. I've been really enjoying looking at all oil-in-water colouring and chunkiness of these ammonites.Euhoplites is an extinct ammonoid…

1) Congratulations to Scott Aaronson for winning the first Trevisan Award. The Trevisan Award is in memory of Luca Trevisan and recognizes expository work in Theoretical Computer Science. It is given…

German critical journalist Roland Tichy has posted a scathing commentary on German alarmist politicians who refuse to accept that the climate crisis has been called off by the IPCC and that their…

This is the seventh in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. T Earlier posts explored, how this project started, the method, the role of wonder and…

This is the sixth in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. Earlier posts explored, how this project started, the method, the role of wonder and beauty,…

More than 20 men and women who have traveled into space came together Saturday (May 16) to see two of their fellow fliers enter the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Both shuttle-era spacewalkers, Tom…

You are a multicellular organism made of cells. Each cell carries the same DNA. Each cell expresses different genes based on its position in the body. A liver cell and a cortical neuron share 100% of…

On a precision scale inside NASA Marshall’s Propulsion Research Laboratory, a small rotor of bismuth spun between magnetic assemblies while Richard H. Eskridge—a veteran Marshall propulsion engineer…

Post last updated 2 days, 3 hours ago Some of you might already be familiar with the concept of the great filter, but for those who aren't: it says there exists a barrier in the evolution of…

Very active spring weather has been occurring over the Northwest, with substantial snow above 4000 ft and unstable air that has brought heavy showers and even a mini-tornado! First, the snow. Here is…