Grimmett and Li solved a small statistical-mechanics model — the polygon model, a way of weighting the closed loops you can draw on a lattice — on the honeycomb, and then named the next step they…

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…

Her boss called it “girl talk.” She had just discovered the largest geological feature on Earth, a 10,000-mile mountain range running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Marie Tharp mapped 70% of…

Did last week's heatwave really beat 1976? Not likely, says Paul Homewood, who argues the Met Office's "hottest evah" claims fall apart the moment you look at where the readings came from. The post…

https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/

Climate tech is losing trendiness but not relevance. This post explores what’s replacing it and why mission and values matter more than branding.

The three triangle laws (sines, cosines, tangents) followed by five worked "prove the identity" problems.

chaoticevilspacewitch:toocoolforhole:this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt,…

Alex Hsu is hosting June 2026 indie web carnival. The theme is No Way. My entry is not about something that happened to me specifically, but something that blew my mind when I first learned about it.…

What’s the strongest reason(s) not to believe there’s a reasonable chance that some of the seemingly less explicable UAP sightings could be an artifact of alien life? I think the general consensus…

The story of sheep begins long before shepherds, wool sweaters, and stone fences. It starts in the rugged mountains and open grasslands of Eurasia, where their wild ancestors evolved into some…

How Peace, Prosperity, and Evolution Are Quietly Ending Human Civilization As We Know It

This caught my eye, a Chemcraft Lionel Porter rocket from Hagerstown, lifting off using kitchen chemistry! I never had anything like this. You?

Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota Judy P. Pu; Samuel A. Bowring; Jahandar Ramezani; Paul Myrow; Timothy D. Raub; Ed Landing;…

Albert Einstein did not get the Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity. The check of $1.2 million for the expires after 12 months. The prize is never given posthumously. Why Gandhi never won the…

I Brought Galileo’s Telescope to a Navy SEAL’s Gun Range Two optics, four centuries apart. Shawn sighting Galileo’s 1609 spyglass; I’m on a suppressed precision SigSauer Rattler .300 Blackout…

Peter Brass is a prior NSF theory director. He has written an intelligent guest post on the new NSF guidelines that we present here. You have received many mails regarding the proposed OMB Uniform…

Avogadro’s number — the count of atoms in a mole — is about . The number of stars in the observable universe is, depending on whose galaxy survey you trust, somewhere between and . These are,…

The Anthropic Principle in Statistics and Science The anthropic principle in physics states that our existence implies certain constraints on the natural conditions under which we evolved. In…

An interesting news item this week is that BioNano Genomics has appointed Alex Hastie as Chief Scientific Officer. Hastie is an obvious choice for CSO, as for many years he was very much the public…

We report the discovery of an apparent nova found during our survey of the central region of M31. The object was discovered on a co-added 1800-s H_alpha CMOS frame taken on 2026 Jun. ...

Here is historical footage from the German Federal Archives showing the Rhine River during a severe drought in 1949. Months of persistent drought caused the Rhine River’s water levels to drop…

Authors note: Roughly correct as far as I know but I’m not a physicist so there certainly might be mistakes or things that I have missed. Obviously extremely speculative about far-future scenarios,…

So the possible development.... ...at the tail end of the front is official. Not officially happening. But not just speculation. This is really a very classic set up. It can happen early in El Nino…

Someone posted about Alice Friedemann in an online community I participate in. I found her book Life After Fossil Fuels and blog energyskeptic.com influential. The book may be expensive and the blog…

In the US and countries with a similar date format, today is the \(\tau\) day (\(\tau = 2 \pi\)). I still think that \(\tau r\) and \(\frac{\tau r^2}{2}\) are better formulas than \(2\pi r\) and…

Understanding the odyssey of water from interstellar space down to the oceans on Earth is hard. Today’s paper has given us another key link in this process: the first detection of deuterated water…

On June 23, a SpaceX Falcon 9 high-tailed into Earth orbit carrying the Starfall Demo mission. The SpaceX Starfall reentry vehicle is built to parachute to Earth, splashing down in ocean waters for…

Jim Nielsen recently wrote how blogging can just be stating the obvious, so here we go Jim: it’s too sodding hot. The last 3 days broke the record for the hottest June day. Yep, 3 days in a…

The forecasts for the next week or so are definitive: we are going to start the summer quite cool and wet. And the implications for both wildfires, water resources, and agriculture are quite…

We report optical spectroscopic observations of the field surrounding the hyperactive repeating fast radio burst FRB 20251229A (ATels #17574, #17591, #17606, #17671, #17709) obtained with the OSIRIS…

I’ve been hesitating in writing up a blog post about my latest preprint, “Minimum-weight Steiner triangulation of convex polygons requires interior Steiner points” (with my student Zahra Hadizadeh,…

This post on reddit asks how to rule a forest fire started by player characters. My day job involves running forest growth and wildfire simulations. I got into it via GIS & R coding and have little…

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Since the early days of quantum physics, some scientists have believed that there’s a link between quantum mechanics and consciousness. While most researchers don’t think this idea holds water, a few…

Waco Mammoth National Moment Fossil SiteIf you’ve ever wondered what happens when a herd of Columbian mammoths, a flash flood, and 21st-century paleontologists all meet in Waco, Texas… well, Waco…

If you are ready to make the trek to Mars and stay put on the Red Planet, the option to “terraform” that world may be on tap. What are the step-by-step tasks needed to make an Earth-like Mars? “The…

Full of shite! Germany’s Saarbrücken alltime record high temperature measurement was recoded at a station located at a sewage treatment facility in the middle of a commercial district. Since…

Our way of life is based almost exclusively on the notion of productivity. Work lies at the heart of our societies, which, as soon as living conditions deteriorate, take on a new dimension and call…

A meditation that wanders from 0 = 1 + (−1) into matter and antimatter.

The historic atmospheric Heat Dome is dominating Europe and has obliterated June and all-time high temperature records in the UK, France, Benelux, Germany, and Switzerland. … The post Update:…

Data is from 2026-06-20. North is right. 0.53"/pixel (27'x27' field). FWHM=4' A nice, if rather small (~100") edge on spiral galaxy. Arp filed this one under "low surface brightness companions", but…

Current-generation AIs are particularly good at finding and generating corresponding patterns. This can be useful when classifying images as cats or dogs (classifiers) or creating new sentences or…

While there is still chatter about the small chance of something trying to spin up close in off the Florida coast, there really is not much to talk about. The Atlantic is dealing with SAL and the…

A new wildfire ignited Friday afternoon in eastern Klickitat County. The Peterson Fire is estimated at 1,000 acres and is burning near Peterson Road and Alderdale Road. Localized Level 3 "GO NOW"…

About the sequence A067628 related to the compact shapes of hexagons problem.

New warmth record.

If you love gazing at the night sky and wondering what lies within the dense, glowing band of our home galaxy, you are in for a treat. The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released the largest,…

Some brief science and technology items heading into the weekend: IBM has reported making prototype chips for the "0.7 nm node" . As always, one should not interpret that size scale literally, since…

"The pie is fixed. The Earth is a closed system. You cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet." We hear this constantly, and it's delivered like a law of physics — case closed, only a…