Are "SwiftQuakes" a real thing? Seismologists investigate the impact of Taylor Swift concerts.
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#Earthquake #TaylorSwift #Seismology #Science #Music #PopCulture
Scientists are baffled by a powerful and long-lasting gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy.
From nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqh9em3v9p0wmde9u7alfr79jk4hzje3mdx7gkpzp36yy64lf4tjdslwjaq5: "Astronomers reported Tuesday it’s unlike anything they’ve witnessed before."
#Space #Astronomy #Science
Millions of birds fly thousands of miles every year to reach their seasonal destinations. How do they know where they’re going? Some of the answers are still beyond human comprehension. nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqrl6x3yf0jz20m60vfzkwxk3rpk492jxk72vh7dtk4myul5ytn27qq57erv explains:
#Science #Animals #Birds
NASA’s two stuck astronauts may return to Earth sooner under new plan.
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqh9em3v9p0wmde9u7alfr79jk4hzje3mdx7gkpzp36yy64lf4tjdslwjaq5 reports Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams "should have returned in June on Boeing’s Starliner capsule after what should have been a weeklong flight demo."
#NASA #Boeing #Space #Starliner #SpaceX #Astronauts
Simple science summaries written by AI help people understand research and trust scientists, argues a professor of communication.
From nostr:npub10vk7n70xxgwjxnyjxfypex77mg2lzcsdt5c8jvwpep3a5z7searqmxy6hj: "AI-generated summaries not only improved public comprehension of science but also enhanced how people perceived scientists."
#AI #Science #ArtificialIntelligence #Communication #Language
Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics.
From nostr:npub1h9em3v9p0wmde9u7alfr79jk4hzje3mdx7gkpzp36yy64lf4tjdsr0r7yr: "John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the [prize] for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats to humanity, one of the winners said. Hinton, who is known as the Godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton."
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#Nobel #NobelPrize #Physics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Science
Artificial intelligence helps uncover hundreds of unknown ancient symbols hidden in Peru’s Nazca Desert.
From CNN: "The carvings include birds, plants, spiders, humanlike figures with headdresses, decapitated heads and an orca wielding a knife."
Here's the original study from PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407652121
#Anthropology #Archaeology #Nazca #Peru #Science #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
What merging with AI could mean for humanity, according to futurist Ray Kurzweil.
Next Big Idea Club shares five key insights from his new book, "The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI."
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Humanity #Future #Tech #Technology #Science
Biological puzzles abound in an up-close look at a human brain.
Science News reports: "Never-before-seen details may eventually lead to a better understanding of how the brain works."
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#Brain #Neuroscience #Science #Biology
Massive cradle of baby stars revealed in new space telescope images.
AP reports on the European Space Agency's Euclid observatory: https://flip.it/58hAua
#Space #Astronomy #Stars #ESA #Euclid #Science
Does anger take a toll on the heart?
nostr:npub1mctxc5g3smtr0ymejg6s4urg8qzfvx0nkzx0sf3dvy9k6pzpvz0sc3payn reports on a new study showing "that anger may indeed affect the heart because of how it impairs blood vessel function."
#Heart #Health #Research #Science
The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. CNN explores one place where a lot of it ends up: the Western coast of Java in Indonesia.
The package includes amazing (and alarming) photos: https://flip.it/HY-fvr
#Plastic #Pollution #EarthDay #Environment #Ocean #PlasticPollution #Indonesia
"A controversial theory posits that life began when RNA spontaneously began to replicate itself — and now researchers are claiming they've replicated part of that process in a lab."
Futurism reports: "The Salk Institute for Biological Studies scientists worked from the theory that before there was DNA or proteins, RNA existed as the initial ingredient in the so-called 'primordial soup.'"
#Life #Science #RNA
Four astronauts from four countries return to Earth after six months in orbit.
AP reports: "NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, a Marine helicopter pilot, led the returning crew of Denmark’s Andreas Mogensen, Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa and Russia’s Konstantin Borisov."
#NASA #Space #Astronauts #ISS #SpaceX
Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science.
That's the view of one professor who says "Science fiction can lead people to be more cautious about the potential consequences of innovations."
From nostr:npub1cy06su88dl9crjvthx56mdpgd0m9dauplnjf58rvcqynj6p8uygq9uggw4: https://flip.it/T2vmZY
#SciFi #ScienceFiction #Science #Books
How did our earliest ancestors and extinct human relatives procure enough food to sustain themselves millions of years ago? It wasn’t easy, you can imagine. Popular Science has more: https://flip.it/vPf_12
#Science #Humans #Pleistocene #Animals #Survival
New NASA report lays out roadmap for studying UFOs.
NPR's "All Things Considered" covers this week's news: https://flip.it/Kpj2-d
#NASA #UFO #UFOs #Space
Whoa! Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb.
BBC reports on the "embryo model": https://flip.it/7c0bOY
#Embryo #Life #Pregnancy #Research #StemCells
Mexican Navy hopes to expand net-snagging hooks to protect endangered vaquita porpoises.
AP reports: "The vaquita lives only in the Gulf (of California) ... where as few as ten vaquitas remain. They cannot be held or bred in captivity."
#Vaquita #Endangered #Mexico #Ocean #Animals
As Florida braces for Hurricane Idalia, HowStuffWorks explains how these massive storm systems form.
#HurricaneIdalia #Idalia #Hurricane #Storm #Science #Weather