The rest of the video is devoted to constructing different shaped tubes and experimenting with different noble gases. Krypton produces blue flashes instead of the vivid red of neon, while bringing the mercury/noble gas tubes back into the electrical field generated by the Tesla coil also yields some remarkably beautiful results.
While carbonaceous chondrites make up only a small portion of the meteorites sampled on Earth, CO chondrites make up a very tiny fraction of those meteorites. According to the study, these types of meteorites are among the most pristine materials in our Solar System.
Banner image: Awareness of leopard cats is generally low across their range, as they are small, difficult to spot, and are sometimes mistaken for domesticated cats or leopard cubs. This one was photographed in the Sundarbans mangrove forest of West Bengal state, India. Image by Soumyajit Nandy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Close your eyes and picture a beach. For most people, you can “see” it in your mind—water, sand, sunshine. For around 3 to 4% of the population, however, no image appears. The mental screen stays blank, and many of them spent years assuming everyone else was speaking metaphorically when they said, “picture this.” That condition is called aphantasia, and what’s really weird: a lot of people who have it still dream in full color.
After years of students asking for a simple checklist to guide their figure design, and none available, I finally made it myself. And since I’m sure it’s not just my students who need this, it is now published.
Banner image: A black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina), which is found within the African-Eurasian flyway. Image by H. Zell via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Banner image: The Maud Island frog of New Zealand is expected to face rising wildfire risk due to climate change. Image by Phil Bishop via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).
Banner image: Awareness of leopard cats is generally low across their range, as they are small, difficult to spot, and are sometimes mistaken for domesticated cats or leopard cubs. This one was photographed in the Sundarbans mangrove forest of West Bengal state, India. Image by Soumyajit Nandy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Banner image: The Maud Island frog of New Zealand is expected to face rising wildfire risk due to climate change. Image by Phil Bishop via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).
I am mainly linking this for the Special Segment on Falsifiability in Science starting at 01:12:42 with a philosophy expert on it, which is really interesting. The rest of the podcast is interesting too and there is a great discussion on how AI Detection Tools for detecting AI Writing are extremely problematic and also discussion about a study on how kids use AI and how abstinence based responses/age gating don’t work.
In this context, a “proof” is not a series of logical statements that leads to a theorem, as it is in math. Instead, it’s a certificate confirming that a problem has been solved correctly. For example, if you solve a tricky sudoku puzzle, your solution itself is a proof. A computer can easily scan the grid and verify that it’s correct.
Bumblebees collect up to seven times the amount of toxic heavy metals as honeybees even when foraging in the same environment, new research has discovered. Exposure to these metals can affect everything from their ability to forage for food to their ability to reproduce.
Europe has launched new €7 million (£6 million) grants at a time when increased political oversight of research in the US is pushing more scholars to consider leaving the country, but experts say the scheme is not big enough to seriously move the dial on international mobility.
The paper has long been the primary medium of scientific discourse. But it seems unlikely that it represents the final format for scholarly publishing and discussion. This post explores the formats that might emerge to replace the traditional academic article, including community notes, interactive and multi-media figures, and adversarial collaborations.
The first sign isn’t the otter itself. It’s the ripple – small, nearly invisible – spreading across the marsh. Then a blur of brown breaks the morning water’s silver surface. A head lifts, whiskers dripping, eyes alert. For a second, it lingers. Then it’s gone again, leaving only widening rings.
S. snuffleupagus, a newly described species of fish, is named after the beloved Sesame Street character, Mr. Snuffleupagus, to which it bears an “uncanny” resemblance.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Following its final physics run, the accelerator has been switched off to begin CERN’s Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), a major programme of maintenance, consolidation, upgrades and installation work that will prepare the Laboratory for the High-Luminosity LHC (HiLumi LHC), the next phase in the exploration of the fundamental laws of nature.
Certainly, there is no denying the rhetorical appeal to horizonless aspiration. Yet for all Zubrin’s enumeration of thrust-to-weight ratios and chemical formulae, the defining currency of this notional colony, and the keystone of its author’s unwavering faith in its feasibility, is human genius. In Zubrin’s telling, the first Martians will face a proposition not dissimilar to that which confronted early humans as they expanded out of Africa, a migration enabled less by Earth’s benevolence than the force of our species’ ineluctable resolve. Atavistic allusions to the colonization of North America, shorn of any ethical or genocidal wrinkles, crop up in almost every chapter.
The new species targets ants already infected by Ophiocordyceps, or “zombie fungus”, which manipulates the infected insect’s nervous system and makes it behave erratically before killing it and bursting from its carcass.
A gravastar (gravitational vacuum condensate star) is a hypothetical black hole alternative with a dark energy interior and no singularity or event horizon. How one could actually form from gravitational collapse has been an open problem — until recently.
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