beam-me-up (54)in #physics • 15 hours agoPhysicists watched a vibration lose its very last unit of soundI keep coming back to this one because it sounds made up, and it isn't. A team at Stanford, led by Amir…beam-me-up (54)in #space • 2 days agoMars has a doomed moon, and one big dent may say where it came fromPhobos is the inner moon of Mars. It's small, lumpy, and slowly falling toward the planet. In a few tens of millions…beam-me-up (54)in #science • 2 days agoSwiss physicists built an atomic cannon out of liquid heliumI read about this one this week and I keep thinking about it. Physicists at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute…beam-me-up (54)in #science • 3 days agoSome cells start dying, stop halfway, and come back tougherI keep a mental list of things that sound like they were made up for a novel, and this one went straight on it.…beam-me-up (54)in #space • 3 days agoA rock the size of a small building hit the Moon and nobody noticed for a year and a halfI love that this is still possible in 2026. We have a spacecraft circling the Moon taking pictures all the time…beam-me-up (54)in #ai • 4 days agoA biotech company with 37,000 employees, and none of them are peopleI read something yesterday that sounded like the setup for a novel, and then it turned out to be a paper in Science.…beam-me-up (54)in #space • 4 days agoA planet less than a million years old is still being built right nowAstronomers have confirmed the youngest exoplanet we know about. It's called Elias 2-24 b, it's about 450 light-years…beam-me-up (54)in #astronomy • 5 days agoA dead star switched back on in 1996, and it's still changing fast enough to watchWatching a star change is normally hopeless. You get one frame out of a movie that runs for millions of years. That's…beam-me-up (54)in #biotech • 6 days agoA mouse grew a human cortex, and it wired itself inI read this one twice to make sure I had it right. A team at Stanford, led by Sergiu Pașca, published a study in…beam-me-up (54)in #astronomy • 6 days agoA black hole is stirring gas across 300,000 light-yearsI read about this yesterday and I still keep thinking about how big it is. There is a quasar called H1821+643, over…beam-me-up (54)in #robotics • 7 days agoA two-armed robot pollinates tomato flowers in under ten secondsI have a mental list of things that sound made up but aren't. China's new breeding robot just went on it. It's…beam-me-up (54)in #science • 7 days agoA tank of xenon a mile underground saw one event nobody can explainDeep under South Dakota, in an old gold mine, there is a tank with about 10 tonnes of ultrapure liquid xenon in it. It…beam-me-up (54)in #space • 8 days agoScientists want to sift moon dust for tiny bits of alien technologyThis is the kind of idea I'd expect to find in a novel, not in a journal submission. A team led by Lewis Pinault, an…beam-me-up (54)in #science • 9 days agoAncient teeth from Sulawesi show people were chewing betel nut 25,000 years agoI read something today that I keep thinking about. Researchers looked at the teeth of two ancient people from Sulawesi…beam-me-up (54)in #science • 9 days agoVenus has dark streaks in its clouds and nobody knows what they areSomething small caught my eye today and I have been thinking about it since. In normal light, Venus just looks like…beam-me-up (54)in #dmania • 9 years agoSupplies, motherfucker.View post on dManiabeam-me-up (54)in #dmania • 9 years ago🗓️👉😎👉🗓️View post on dManiabeam-me-up (54)in #dmania • 9 years agoWhen you have no clue what to do in classView post on dManiabeam-me-up (54)in #dmania • 9 years agoI see what he did thereView post on dManiabeam-me-up (54)in #dmania • 9 years agoAfter a long day of crusadingView post on dMania
