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Coronaviruses are extremely widespread in wild animals bred for food in Vietnam, with the wildlife supply chain quickly spreading those viruses to uninfected animals, preliminary research shows
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Bertrand Russell’s infinite sock drawer
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Everyone loves laminar flow but turbulent flow is the real MVP
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Making people aware of their implicit biases doesn’t usually change minds. But here’s what does work
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Quetzalcoatlus was the largest flying animal of all time. But only a handful of bones have been found. So how do scientists know what it looked like?
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A neat introduction to representation theory and its impact on mathematics
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The biology and people of Madagascar
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The search for the world’s simplest animal: For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely
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Every Jurassic Park dinosaur illustrated with modern science
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Marie Curie's PhD thesis
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Revealing motion invisible to the naked eye using Motion Amplification and Video Magnification
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Split brain does not lead to split consciousness
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To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
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Martin Luther King's challenge to the nation's social scientists
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A surprising Pi and 5
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Inside corporations’ war on science
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Frames of consciousness - Can electrical impulses in the brain explain the stuff that dreams are made on?
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People drawn to conspiracy theories share a cluster of psychological features
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$100B plan submitted for massive remake and expansion of National Science Foundation
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Cognitive ability and vulnerability to fake news
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How Europeans evolved white skin
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The tempest prognosticator
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Scientists unravel challenge in improving fusion performance
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Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada after tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers claiming its talc products, including Johnson’s Baby Powder, caused their cancer
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Electrons may very well be conscious
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Pulling seven G's in an F-16 and going supersonic with US Air Force Thunderbirds
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Twitter thread about Doug Geisler, an astronomy grad student who was at Manastash Ridge Observatory forty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded 140 miles away
@emsque: Exactly #40YearsAgo Doug Geisler was asleep atop Manastash Ridge Observatory. An astronomy grad student, he'd just logged his first excellent night at the telescope for his PhD thesis. He was the only person on the summit, ~90 miles from #MountStHelens... #MSH40
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No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong
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Against Set Theory (2005) [pdf]
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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
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Africa’s biggest collection of ancient human footprints has been found
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Rock samples aren’t archived or shared: An international group of geologists make the case for storing and sharing ancient rocks
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Mouse embryos that are four per cent human are step towards spare organs
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Darkling Beetles: Daringly dynamic
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New Tesla "million mile" battery in development that relies on little to no cobalt, poised to reshape auto economics
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Blind people could 'see' letters that scientists drew on their brains with electricity: scientists stimulated the brain using electrodes implanted on its surface
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An inmate's love for math leads to new discoveries: Published in the journal Research in Number Theory, he showed for the first time regularities in the approximation of a vast class of numbers
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At the limits of thought: Science today stands at a crossroads--will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created?
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Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image sleuthing
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A new type of chemical bond: The charge-shift bond
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How much is a human life actually worth?
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Iceland has a record of its people's ancestry going back 1,000 years – it's given the country an advantage into understanding the genetic makeup of coronavirus
6 votes -
US Geological Survey volcano news
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Inside curved spaces
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Chemistry is dangerous
7 votes -
Smallpox and the long road to eradication
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Greenland's Grand Canyon – UMass Amherst and the University of Copenhagen's Centre for Ice & Climate propose a new mechanism for how the megacanyon formed
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Predictability: Can the turning point and end of an expanding epidemic be precisely forecast?
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Ask a cosmology PhD student (almost) anything!
Hi all, I am a PhD student focusing in cosmology. I wanted to up the science content here on Tildes, and I thought that one way to do so is to have an informal little Q&A session. As such, feel...
Hi all,
I am a PhD student focusing in cosmology. I wanted to up the science content here on Tildes, and I thought that one way to do so is to have an informal little Q&A session. As such, feel free to use this post to ask any questions you might have about cosmology specifically, and physics in general.
This may not be as exciting as some other science AMAs given that I am a rather early graduate student, so there may be a lot of questions I don't know the answer to. However, I'm willing to try my best and answer over the next few days, and to let you know I don't know if I don't!
A bit about myself: I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago where I studied physics and mathematics, and then I was a student researcher in a computational cosmology group at a national lab. I subsequently enrolled at UC Davis to continue studying cosmology. Ask me anything about physics, cosmology, or high performance computing!
I also invite anyone else with expertise to chime in as well!
23 votes