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#iflscience #science #newsletter

Today I learned that #Cherenkov radiation is a real life phenomenon, and not a sci-fi gimmick

✨🔭 OMG, NASA's #Voyager found a "hot" #wall in space—because we all know #cosmic borders need heating, right? 🚀🔥 Meanwhile, #IFLScience is more concerned with turning #newsletter subscriptions into a cross-galactic mission control. 📧👽
https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-voyager-spacecraft-found-a-30000-50000-kelvin-wall-at-the-edge-of-our-solar-system-79454 #NASA #hot #space #discoveries #HackerNews #ngated

Stretched out across the sky right now are Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars, all plainly visible with the naked eye. Go outside and look up!

#astronomy #PlanetaryAlignment #Science #IFLScience

Stretched out across the sky right now are Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars, all plainly visible with the naked eye. Go outside and look up!

#astronomy #PlanetaryAlignment #Science #IFLScience

Looks like #iflscience went to a #paywall and #personaldata gathering model. Sad, it had potential.

Any recommendations for good #science #blogs , #websites , and the like. Any topic is fine as long as #rss is available.

#sciencejournalism #sciencecommunication #scicom #scicomm #scicomms #lazyweb #indieweb

In #Uranus news https://www.iflscience.com/uranus-experienced-a-colossal-impact-that-knocked-it-on-its-side-48602 (from 2018) #IFLScience

The Aurora Borealis on Friday night, 5/10/2024, near Mosier, Oregon in the Columbia River Gorge. This was the first time I've seen the Northern Lights, and it was well worth the 90 minute drive to get to dark skies. A spectacular display! #iflscience

New from #iflscience.
"Scientists have fused human brain tissue to a computer chip, creating a mini cyborg in a petri dish that can perform math equations and recognize speech."

#IFLS
https://www.iflscience.com/hybrid-biocomputer-fuses-human-brain-tissue-with-computer-chips-72033

https://www.astronomy.com/science/9-unusual-things-researchers-launched-into-space/

#nasa #iflscience #space

Better living through egg whites. It turns protein aerogels are very good at filtering water of micro plastic and other contaminants, even salt. It's not clear if you have to throw the gel away at the end of the day but if it's cheap and low impact to make maybe that's okay.

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-egg-whites-material-capable-filtering.html

#iflscience #science #waterpurification #microplastics

"Mars is the only known planet inhabited solely by robots."

— From "I Fucking Love Science", from 2014, still valid today.

https://www.facebook.com/IFLScience/photos/a.456449604376056/943138239040521

#robots #mars #iflscience

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People Are Just Now Learning How Vinyl Records Work
No, it isn't "magic".

https://www.iflscience.com/people-are-just-now-learning-how-vinyl-records-work-70233

#vinylrecords #audiorecordings #grooverecordings #musicindustry #physics #mechanics #recordplayers #needles #vinylhistory

Scientists just figured out how to generate unlimited energy from thin air. 🤯

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-newly-enzyme-air-electricity-source.html

What are thoughts and prayers doing about #globalwarming again?

#scienceismagic #IFLscience #science

"The results were subtle, but significant. Compared to meat-eater Ross, vegan Hugo experienced a massive drop in #cholesterol and a sharp increase in resistance to type 2 #diabetes. " 🥬🥕🥑🍎
One Twin Went #Vegan, The Other Ate Meat. This Is What Happened. | #IFLScience
https://www.iflscience.com/one-twin-went-vegan-the-other-ate-meat-this-is-what-happened-61980

“Who knows,” said Gonser, “There might be many more species that have weird sex chromosomes and we've just never bothered to look.” #iflscience https://www.iflscience.com/meet-the-sparrow-with-four-sexes-66879

A #Neuroscientist Found Out What Happens To The Brain When We Die - Then Realized That Star Trek (#TNG) Figured It Out First! 😂 👍 #StarTrek #iflscience #Trekkies #sciencefiction #Scifi

Video: https://bit.ly/3hFhJ18

#TashaYar is severely injured. Back at sickbay, the crew watch over Yar as she slowly dies. Just like the scientific research explains, #Crusher notes that there is still hope 2 revitalize Yar, even though there is technically no brain activity.
Article: https://bit.ly/3tDMA16

#science: The Very, Very Clean Ant: must keep antennas clean for nav and comm. leg forms #bio carwash ;) #iflscience http://nyti.ms/1IBKtQ6

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#science: The Very, Very Clean Ant: must keep antennas clean for nav and comm. leg forms #bio carwash ;) #iflscience http://nyti.ms/1IBKtQ6

Video: ScienceTake | The Very,...