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Two Belgian teenagers were charged with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser known species.
@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/RnLBW2
“Scientists have identified more than 25 parts of the Earth’s climate system that are likely to have “tipping points””
a journalistic article about state of the art research.
Link to scientific review article included
One hundred & fifty million kilometres away, the Sun released photons 🌞
They travelled for eight point three minutes across space, mostly undisturbed.
In the last hundred kilometres & point three milliseconds, they lost some high & low energy companions to our atmosphere.
Then in just ten centimetres & point three nanoseconds, water, life, & the magic of reflection, refraction, diffraction, absorption, & iridescence created a whole new universe.
January 1928: The Dirac equation unifies quantum mechanics and special relativity
A seminal paper by Paul Dirac, who relied on mathematical intuition, laid the foundation for quantum electrodynamics.
By Nyla Husain (from the archives)
https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2024/11/mathematical-intuition-dirac-quantum-mechanics
It's #WorldQuantumDay - of course you have now changed it just by looking at this.
As NASA faces possible devastating cuts, China outlines an ambitious slate of upcoming space missions to Jupiter's moons, Venus, a Mars sample return, and a possible Neptune probe.
https://spacenews.com/china-to-seek-out-life-in-the-solar-system-as-nasa-faces-cuts-commercial-players-expand-ambitions/ #science #tech #china
#Sunspot groups AR4055 (bottom) and AR4058 (top) yesterday as they rotate out of view and approach the West solar limb. #Solar cycle 25 is just past its activity maximum. #science #Astronomy #astrophotography
Born in 1914, Hedy Lamarr was a famous American actress who pioneered the technology that would lead to WiFi, GPS, cell phones & Bluetooth communication.
Lamarr was brilliant. Among many fascinating inventions, she developed a new communication system with composer George Antheil that used “frequency hopping” among radio waves.
Once called the “most beautiful woman in the world," Lamarr is now remembered as "the mother of Wi-Fi."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/thank-world-war-ii-era-film-star-your-wi-fi-180971584/ #science #history
This is than a “chilling effect”
A few days before they were to submit a scientific paper together, an evolutionary biologist in Europe received an unexpected request from 2 co-authors in the #UnitedStates.
After much thought, the co-authors said they preferred not to risk publishing at this time.
#Trump #law #immigration #academia #AntiIntellectualism #science #research #censorship #MafiaState #Nazis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/10/evolution-research-deportation-fears/
Stereo3D view of a peculiar rock captured seven hours ago by Perseverance on the slopes of Jezero Crater
#Mars Apr. 11, 2025 (Sol 1472)
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
#Perseverance #rover #Sol1472 #PerseveranceRover #Mars2020 #space #astrodon #science #STEM #geology #WitchHazelHill #NorthernRimCampaign #photography #Stereo3D #3D #stereoscopy #solarocks
It's weird to talk about the ecological benefits of #DireWolf #deextinction when the ecosystem they belonged to isn't here any more. Dire wolves ate a bunch of huge animals that also aren't around any more, and the ecosystem was literally an ice age. Hank Green makes the best points I've seen so far. #science #biology #ecology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0zgedLyTw
Per The New York Times, the #TrumpRegime fired everyone responsible for the program that detects, tracks, treats drug drug-resistant Gonorrhea, also known as "the clap," is a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
What could possibly go wrong?
#Culture #Science #Medicine #Healthcare #Politics #Trump #DOGE #Project2025
Capitalism cannot be allowed to continue.
As long as capitalism is in charge, then Business As Usual is inevitable.
But Business As Usual can only lead to collapse — of the ecosystem, of the economy, of governments, and of modern society.
Collapse, starting slowly and then growing, means tragedies beyond anything you have ever imagined.
If capitalism is still the dominating force ten years from now, then it’s too late. Collapse will happen. It may in fact be too late already — but we will never know unless capitalism is rejected and #degrowth is adopted.
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Here we are! Another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, sponsored this time by Shell Oil, Koch Industries, and the US Army.
🎶 "Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying!
We've got this, everything's fine." 🎶 😃
#Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Holy shit, the PCB design of this new sensor board, called Ophanim, of CERN’s Aegis experiment just fucking slaps. Right now, there don’t seem to be many images of it on the web, but I hope to see more in the future.
