#discovery — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #discovery, aggregated by home.social.
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https://disassociated.com/microsoft-pay-some-publishers-content-ai-agents/
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If you had any doubt that #dinosaurs are dwindling in popularity, think again. And just ask The North Dakota Geological Survey, conducting public dinosaur digs where tickets are selling out fast.
🔗 Read about it: http://dlvr.it/TV8hpG
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🎸🐍 Scientists named a newly described #NewGuinea groundsnake, "Lielaphis slashi", after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, for his love of #reptiles.
Herpetologist Chris Austin first spotted the 71 cm (28 in) snake during nighttime fieldwork in 2006. Genetic and ecological analysis confirmed it as a distinct #species, supporting #conservation in New Guinea’s threatened #forests.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/snake-species-named-after-guns-n-roses-guitarist-slash/
#snakes #gunsnroses #herpetology #science #biodiversity #zoology #fieldmuseum #nature #wildlife #reptiles #discovery #genetics
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The Tiny Ocean Organisms That Could Help The Climate In a Big Way
Stocktrek Images / Getty Images Some of the littlest organisms in the ocean wield incredible influence, both on their ecosystems and on the planet. Like plants do on land, phytoplankton absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide and expel oxygen. They process so much of those two gases, in fact, that they’re responsible for half of the carbon sequestered by photosynthesis worldwide and half of the oxygen in the atmosphere…….Continue reading…. By: Matt Simon / Grist Source: Popular […] -
New observations have revealed the astonishing scale of the largest known galaxy in the universe. Discoveries like this continue to expand our perspective, reminding us that the cosmos is even more vast and extraordinary than we imagined.
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/new-observations-reveal-the-staggering-scale-of-the-universes-largest-galaxy/
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🗂️🔗 Starting in 1895, Belgian lawyers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine built the #Mundaneum, a vast paper #archive of over 15 million index cards meant to gather and classify all human #knowledge.
Otlet also imagined “electric #telescopes,” networked screens users could query by phone, an early blueprint for the #internet. The project was dismantled after the 1940 Nazi invasion, but survives today as a #museum in #Mons and an online catalog.
👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/discover-the-mundaneum-an-early-20th-century-internet.html
#history #belgium #library #invention #concept #classification #tech #technology #education #discovery
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A rare meteorite that landed on a New Jersey home is giving scientists new clues about the chemistry that may have helped life emerge on Earth. Sometimes the answers to life’s biggest questions arrive from far beyond our planet.
#GoodNews #Science #Space #Meteorite #OriginsOfLife #Discovery
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"'Any system learning from feedback has to divide its effort between exploiting what already scores well and exploring options it hasn’t tried, in case they’re better.'
Computer scientists have long understood that focusing on exploitation to the exclusion of exploration is a trap that locks you into 'the first decent option' so you can never discover the best one."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/12/insurance-value-of-biodiversity/#model-collapse
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https://nooneshappy.com/article/native-apps-should-be-avoided-whenever-possible/
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There's a lot we can learn from dinosaur fossils, not only about the prehistoric giants themselves but history and evolution as a whole.
🔗 Read how their footprints are shedding insight into what could be the largest mammal from the dinosaur age: http://dlvr.it/TV63pM
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https://robinrendle.com/notes/the-singularity-already-happened/
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧠⏳ Scientists kept #stemcell-grown brain #organoids alive for nearly six years, the longest yet, and found they matured much like real human #brains.
Brain #cells carry an internal clock that records developmental age, shown when reassembled "chimeroids" remembered their prior stage and skipped completed steps. The #research opens a window into the hard-to-study #development of the human brain after #birth.
#neuroscience #science #nature #biology #microscopy #discovery #neurons #chemistry #electricity
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🕷️🪐 #Spider-like channels etch #Mars’ southern hemisphere, carved by seasonal #CO2 ice that sublimes under #spring sunlight, building gas pressure until it cracks the ground and jets dust.
Lab #experiments at #NASA’s #JPL, in a liquid-nitrogen chamber called DUSTIE, recreated that process. A follow-up showed soil grain size and #water content shape how these features form, and they may hint at Mars’ warmer, wetter past.
👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/how-the-mars-spiders-form-experiments-nasa-rep/
#space #news #planets #science #sublimation #astronomy #geology #exploration #discovery