#PPOD: As carbon dioxide frost sublimates with the warming Martian spring, a pattern emerges of dark brown sand dunes interspersed with the remaining bright frost. Image taken by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona
A survey of more than 3000 physical science researchers in over 100 countries reveals a sharp split in attitudes towards the use of AI in peer review, with 35% saying it will be harmful, 29% saying it will be beneficial, and 36% predicting it will have no impact.
Ever wonder how soft bodied creatures exert forces as they move? Now a new theory by @mchtweet & co reveals how starfish feet propel the echinoderms, how worms burrow & how squid propel their tentacles.
Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
The elliptical orbits of planets were indicated by calculations of the orbit of Mars. The third law expresses that the farther a planet is from the Sun, the slower its orbital speed, and vice versa.
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The other weird law that he found was that planets sweep the same area for time. If you take the elliptical path over time and create a pie shaped wedge from the focal point, no matter how distant or how close, the area of the pie shape will be the same in the same amount of time. Weird but true.
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Wir sprechen unter anderem über einen Schwurbel, den ihr euch schon lange wünscht: Den QiOne. Und der ist – wie so oft – gar nicht mal so ungefährlich.
@karlauerbach Neat! Also check out radioactive decay used for measuring the age of the Earth (lead and uranium) and of lava flows (argon and potassium).
Have any good investigative journalists done pieces on how the slant of donors, the power of large universities "strategic communications" departments, and the evisceration of newsrooms have affected how the public gets access to reliable scientific research and information in the public interest? #Science#Newstodon#Journalism@academicchatter
"Stranger than science fiction." That's how an ecologist describes a strange fungus that hijacks cicadas’ bodies and behavior, turning them into "zombies."
CNN reports on the the fungus Massospora cicadina and how it's impacting some of the cicadas emerging this year: https://flip.it/cxfw5K
@ScienceDesk@NatureMC interesting, there are a few more fungi like this, like the one that Richard Dawkins describes in, I believe, "the extended phenotype" - a fungus that takes over an ant, crawls it to the top of the highest place around and the makes the ant's feelers it's fruit, swollen and bright red, attracting a bird to complete the fungus' life cycle.
Pioneering geologist & oceanographer Marie Tharp changed our understanding of the ocean.
When Tharp sought a geology job at Columbia in 1948, women couldn’t go on research ships. So she was hired to assist male grad students.
Back then, many scientists still assumed the bottom of the ocean was featureless. Tharp figured out how to use data to create sketches of the ocean floor. Her hand-drawn maps helped develop plate tectonic theory. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/marie-tharp#science#history
When it's my turn to be god, I'm making all scientific instruments out put well commented, documented CSV files.
UV-Vis Spectrometer - CSV
Profilometer - CSV
Raman - CSV
SEM - CSV
Hubble Space Telescope - CSV.
EVERYTHING for CSV.
Until then I'll just sulk at this data I have that's not entirely commented as to what units it's using.
@Dtl Not sure I'd insist on CSV personally, though I won't object if others do.
Units are an absolute must, though. Presenting a graph without units on it should get you fined, with jail time for repeat offenders.
(And if you do get jailed, we won't tell you what the units are. You'll be sentenced to "6 in jail" or something, and left to wonder if that was days, months or years.)