#coolscience — Public Fediverse posts

Guy kicks a single rock for 200 days to see if it'll become a perfect sphere. Here's how it went.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/rock-kicked-for-200-days

Guy kicks a single rock for 200 days to see if it'll become a perfect sphere. Here's how it went.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/rock-kicked-for-200-days

Guy kicks a single rock for 200 days to see if it'll become a perfect sphere. Here's how it went.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/rock-kicked-for-200-days

Guy kicks a single rock for 200 days to see if it'll become a perfect sphere. Here's how it went.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/rock-kicked-for-200-days

8th grader's award-winning experiment finally reveals if a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/dog-tongue-versus-human-tongue-experiment-ex1

Earth is the only known planet that has plate tectonics—the process that does so much to preserve life on the planet. The only one out of four rocky planets. Amazing, right?
I was reading today about how researchers plan to observe this process on distant exoplanets. Such planets where one year takes 12 hours and one hemisphere always faces the sun while the other never sees daylight.
Their quest is to answer what starts this process.
#coolscience

It's #Leptember! Moths are a HUGE part of many bat diets. But did you know that moths have EARS? Tympanae are structures that allow moths to hear the echolocation calls of attacking bats (so they can dodge & avoid being eaten). #Bats #Moths #CoolScience

https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3032.2003.00355.x

Astronomy has honestly some of the most mind-boggling science, kudos to astronomers for doing their thing #CoolScience

Capturing #CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry!

Scientists from our Microbial Metabolism Group & the Univ. of Radboud and Geneva isolated a microbial enzyme & branched it on an electrode to efficiently and unidirectionally convert CO2 to formate.
Out now @ "Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed."

Read more here:
https://mpi-bremen.de/en/Capturing-CO2-with-electricity-A-microbial-enzyme-inspires-electrochemistry.html

Original publication here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202311981

#climatechange #microbiology #enzyme #methanogen #formate #carboncapture #coolscience

Capturing #CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry!

Scientists from our Microbial Metabolism Group & the Univ. of Radboud and Geneva isolated a microbial enzyme & branched it on an electrode to efficiently and unidirectionally convert CO2 to formate.
Out now @ "Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed."

Read more here:
https://mpi-bremen.de/en/Capturing-CO2-with-electricity-A-microbial-enzyme-inspires-electrochemistry.html

Original publication here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202311981

#climatechange #microbiology #enzyme #methanogen #formate #carboncapture #coolscience

Capturing #CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry!

Scientists from our Microbial Metabolism Group & the Univ. of Radboud and Geneva isolated a microbial enzyme & branched it on an electrode to efficiently and unidirectionally convert CO2 to formate.
Out now @ "Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed."

Read more here:
https://mpi-bremen.de/en/Capturing-CO2-with-electricity-A-microbial-enzyme-inspires-electrochemistry.html

Original publication here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202311981

#climatechange #microbiology #enzyme #methanogen #formate #carboncapture #coolscience

Capturing #CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry!

Scientists from our Microbial Metabolism Group & the Univ. of Radboud and Geneva isolated a microbial enzyme & branched it on an electrode to efficiently and unidirectionally convert CO2 to formate.
Out now @ "Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed."

Read more here:
https://mpi-bremen.de/en/Capturing-CO2-with-electricity-A-microbial-enzyme-inspires-electrochemistry.html

Original publication here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202311981

#climatechange #microbiology #enzyme #methanogen #formate #carboncapture #coolscience

Capturing #CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry!

Scientists from our Microbial Metabolism Group & the Univ. of Radboud and Geneva isolated a microbial enzyme & branched it on an electrode to efficiently and unidirectionally convert CO2 to formate.
Out now @ "Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed."

Read more here:
https://mpi-bremen.de/en/Capturing-CO2-with-electricity-A-microbial-enzyme-inspires-electrochemistry.html

Original publication here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202311981

#climatechange #microbiology #enzyme #methanogen #formate #carboncapture #coolscience

Day 5 of #ScienceAdvent is a bit late, because somehow the academic end of the year implies doing a year's worth of work in three weeks 😅 But it's a good one.

I recently found out that awake dog fMRI is something that we can do and there's basically an entire subfield of "dog neuroscience". I also recently discovered Gregory Berns' book, "How Dogs Love Us", and I'm looking forward to a wholesome Christmas read.

Did you know about this? Have you read the book? Do you know any cool insights from this field? Would love to discuss.

https://neurofrontiers.blog/brain-activity-of-dogs/

#DogNeuroscience #neuroscience #neuro #dogs #fmri #CoolScience #brain

Day 5 of #ScienceAdvent is a bit late, because somehow the academic end of the year implies doing a year's worth of work in three weeks 😅 But it's a good one.

I recently found out that awake dog fMRI is something that we can do and there's basically an entire subfield of "dog neuroscience". I also recently discovered Gregory Berns' book, "How Dogs Love Us", and I'm looking forward to a wholesome Christmas read.

Did you know about this? Have you read the book? Do you know any cool insights from this field? Would love to discuss.

https://neurofrontiers.blog/brain-activity-of-dogs/

#DogNeuroscience #neuroscience #neuro #dogs #fmri #CoolScience #brain

Day 5 of #ScienceAdvent is a bit late, because somehow the academic end of the year implies doing a year's worth of work in three weeks 😅 But it's a good one.

I recently found out that awake dog fMRI is something that we can do and there's basically an entire subfield of "dog neuroscience". I also recently discovered Gregory Berns' book, "How Dogs Love Us", and I'm looking forward to a wholesome Christmas read.

Did you know about this? Have you read the book? Do you know any cool insights from this field? Would love to discuss.

https://neurofrontiers.blog/brain-activity-of-dogs/

#DogNeuroscience #neuroscience #neuro #dogs #fmri #CoolScience #brain

Day 5 of #ScienceAdvent is a bit late, because somehow the academic end of the year implies doing a year's worth of work in three weeks 😅 But it's a good one.

I recently found out that awake dog fMRI is something that we can do and there's basically an entire subfield of "dog neuroscience". I also recently discovered Gregory Berns' book, "How Dogs Love Us", and I'm looking forward to a wholesome Christmas read.

Did you know about this? Have you read the book? Do you know any cool insights from this field? Would love to discuss.

https://neurofrontiers.blog/brain-activity-of-dogs/

#DogNeuroscience #neuroscience #neuro #dogs #fmri #CoolScience #brain

The attached pictures show the average value for each frame of a movie. Does every #movie have a unique #temporal #spectral signature? Similar to #hyperspectrometry it ought to be possible to uniquely identify movies by their signature.

I’m guessing there are lots more applications, such as #emotional connotation or even #semantics attached to certain spectral changes. #coolscience

#Colorists probably know all this already. People with #synesthesia might have a unique perspective.

See here for more examples and background: https://thecolorsofmotion.com/films

h/t to Massimo on Twitter