-
32 votes
-
Superconductor chaos
8 votes -
The first two botanists who surveyed, and survived, the Colorado River
5 votes -
When plants feed on fungi: Novel method enables unrestricted isotope analyses
9 votes -
How People Change: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the essence of freedom and the two elements of self-transcendence
9 votes -
Injection of kidney protein improves working memory in monkeys
9 votes -
We made a meat-leaf to demonstration of the cutting edge of regenerative medicine, and bioengineering. And maybe as the first stop on the road to meat-robots.
10 votes -
Lonely people see the world differently, according to their brains
30 votes -
Scientists discover second deep-sea octopus nursery off of Costa Rica
32 votes -
The incredible latent abilities of living things — slime mould is amazing!
23 votes -
What can jellyfish teach about fluid dynamics - Interview with engineering professor John Dabiri
9 votes -
Purple variety of cannabis could save pot farms struggling with diseased plants
10 votes -
Seximal: a better way to count
24 votes -
Cat noses contain twisted labyrinths that help them separate smells
13 votes -
Golden age of medicine
18 votes -
The network of collaboration among rappers and its community structure
9 votes -
Is anyone here interested in talking about volcanoes?
So, I have a casual interest, but I find them intriguing. I recently took a trip to Lassen National Park, and saw this boiling mud pool. https://imgur.com/n6dV92U. I am planning a trip next year...
So, I have a casual interest, but I find them intriguing. I recently took a trip to Lassen National Park, and saw this boiling mud pool. https://imgur.com/n6dV92U. I am planning a trip next year to Pompeii and Herculaneum. Someday, I am interested in seeing volcanoes in Hawaii and Iceland and maybe more. I casually enjoyed HarryTurtledove's survival novels about Yellowstone erupting, although they are not great literature by any means.
What about you? Any cool experiences with volcanoes or bucket list plans that you would like to share? Do you know fun facts? Do we have any geologists in the room? Take this prompt in any direction you would like.
40 votes -
I lost the cubane race (still going though!) - Cubane Ep. 15
10 votes -
Trace amounts of antidepressants cause behavioral changes in crayfish, potentially making them more vulnerable to predators
14 votes -
History of transcendental numbers
7 votes -
Denmark sets new record - month of June has been the most sunny since records began
11 votes -
John Goodenough, part of Nobel trio in lithium battery hunt, dies at 100
12 votes -
What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem?
Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?
36 votes -
Can you recommend a simple world weather map that shows weather fronts and upcoming lightning?
I enjoy a few weather tools. For example, I enjoy blitzortung that shows live lightning. Currently, you can see a long chain of lighting through eastern Germany and up through Denmark, Sweden and...
I enjoy a few weather tools. For example, I enjoy
blitzortung that shows live lightning. Currently, you can see a long chain of lighting through eastern Germany and up through Denmark, Sweden and Norway.This is expected, since we’ve had very warm weather for a while, and it’s supposed to change to colder weather soon.
But is there a good website that can show me easily the weather front that is currently creating all those lightning strikes? The sites I know only shows vague colors and you can perhaps implicitly see some change in pressure, wind, temperature etc, but nothing that clearly shows an east front where for example you would expect lightning soon.
15 votes -
The $21,000,000,000 hole in Texas - The Superconducting Super Collider
28 votes -
Independent journalist uncovers a ring dedicated to publishing low quality articles and increasing publishing credits
35 votes -
This week in virology 1018: Clinical update
7 votes -
Solving chemistry problems through AI
7 votes -
Pacemakers, other implants, made of jelly
3 votes -
Scientists develop new birth control for female cats—no surgery necessary
12 votes -
Creatures that don't conform: Slime molds and their fascinating existence
28 votes -
Cambridge-Caltech team of scientists claim to have created synthetic human embryos from stem cells at conference; work not yet published
29 votes -
Has anyone else gone down the weather rabbit hole recently?
I was always familiar with tornadoes living close to or in Oklahoma for a vast majority of my life. However, with the odd weather patterns we’re seeing this year producing severe weather, I’ve...
I was always familiar with tornadoes living close to or in Oklahoma for a vast majority of my life. However, with the odd weather patterns we’re seeing this year producing severe weather, I’ve gone way down the rabbit hole. Watching weather livestreams, subscribing to chasers, the works. Has anyone else been on the bandwagon?
20 votes -
Timeline of the far future
20 votes -
The Great Southern Reef is an extensive and valuable ecosystem … that not very many people know about
14 votes -
World lightning mapping in real time
19 votes -
The physics of dancing peanuts in beer
8 votes -
Photosynthesis, key to life on Earth, starts with a single photon
5 votes -
Neuroscientists show that brain waves synchronize when people interact
11 votes -
The spool paradox
4 votes -
For a billion years of Earth's history our days were only nineteen hours long, finds new study
26 votes -
UK hobbyist discovers new unique shapes, stunning mathematicians
17 votes -
Why Koko the gorilla couldn't talk
13 votes -
June 2023 ENSO update: El Niño is here
17 votes -
The Wallace Line: An invisible barrier keeping two worlds apart
12 votes -
Alzheimer’s drug gets FDA panel’s backing, setting the stage for broader US use
13 votes -
Transient hazards: Explosion at the Husky Superior Refinery
9 votes -
Bullets hitting bullets in slow motion - The impossible shot
14 votes -
I am a cosmologist, AMA
Ok ok disclaimer, I am a cosmology PhD candidate, don’t have the degree yet. However I do feel comfortable at this point calling myself a cosmologist (I think for the first time ever). In any...
Ok ok disclaimer, I am a cosmology PhD candidate, don’t have the degree yet. However I do feel comfortable at this point calling myself a cosmologist (I think for the first time ever). In any case, with all the new people here, I think an AMA might be fun. I will try my best to answer all of the questions I get asked, but it may not happen quickly!
A bit about my research. I study the conditions in the early universe, specifically when the cosmic microwave background was forming, and I use CMB data to test our understanding of this era. The CMB formed roughly 300,000 years after the big bang, when the universe was 1/1000th its current size. The patterns that we see in the temperature fluctuations of the CMB can tell us a lot about the universe at this early time, and specifically we can try to use them to see if anything ‘unexpected’ happened at this time, like a hitherto undiscovered particle annihilating into ‘normal’ particles (for example).
Ask me anything about the early universe, or physics writ large, and I will do my best to answer!
51 votes -
Controversial research project in Norway on whales' hearing suspended after a whale drowns
8 votes