Ouch. Canadarm2 Took a Direct Hit From a Micrometeorite (www.universetoday.com)
Living in space comes with risks. For astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), those risks occasionally make themselves intrusively apparent....
"Sniffing women's tears reduces aggressive behavior in men" hey PMC, are you doing ok?? (www.sciencedaily.com)
bocchi-cry power-in-misery
This seems revelatory in biological sciences. Incredible. But, what are some negative use cases for such technologies? (m.youtube.com)
One I can imagine would be soldiers who get injured in battle Having limbs regenerated and then having to go back out and fight in more wars. Terrifying idea.
Repost (hexbear.net)
chemistry classes are hard and full of irrelevant bullshit because of Cold War hysteria about the USSR overtaking the West in science education
This guy is apparently a widely cited education scholar not an extremist Marxist or whatever: “You Can’t Get There from Here” Johnstone 2010 [PDF]: sci-hub.se/10.1021/ed800026d...
Twin research indicates that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health (med.stanford.edu)
How the Stanford Prison Experiment convinced generations that humans are inherently selfish (web.archive.org)
Psychology has a repeatability problem. Turns out Zimbardo wasn’t completely honest about how hands-off the researchers were. The Stanford Prison Experiment is the latest famous experiment in psychology that is proving difficult to reproduce....
[CW: CSA] Why is it that whenever you hear about $historical_figure being a philanderer, oh haha he just loves women, etc. it actually turns out they're a full-on rapist (en.wikipedia.org)
Credit to David Revoy on Mastodon for bringing this to my attention (along with an excellent cartoon) framapiaf.org/
The universe is expanding faster than theory predicts – physicists are searching for new ideas that might explain the mismatch (theconversation.com)
One more (hexbear.net)
Convergent evolution, molecular machines, and computers made of dominoes (upload.wikimedia.org)
I think these 3 things are fascinating in a similar way. They all involve encoding some information or process in a way that could be replicated independent of the details of the underlying physical mechanisms. It really hammers home for me that life can be seen as a series of increasingly complex abstractions where the...
Prominent journal editor fired for retweeting Onion article about disregard for Palestinian lives (www.science.org)
headline edited because it’s not a war on Hamas, it’s an indiscriminate genocidal war on Palestinians
Ancient pots hold clues about how diverse diets helped herders thrive in southern Africa (theconversation.com)
‘Complete’ models of human embryos created from stem cells in lab (www.theguardian.com)
out here growing some new homies in my vats
Owl eyes aren't round and are set in their skull so they can't move (hexbear.net)
It’s really annoying having to turn your whole head to look at something. Stupid tube eyes.
A new way to visualize General Relativity (vid.puffyan.us)
Sex-Change Chicken: Gertie the Hen Becomes Bertie the Cockerel (www.livescience.com)
Please excuse the rather out of date terminology of ‘sex change’ here (it was written in 2011). I’m happy to delete if asked.
Is disinfectant resistance a thing?
We’ve all heard about antibiotic resistance, but is it also possible for bacteria to develop resistance to common disinfectants, like bleach, alcohol and soap?...