Today CMS celebrates all our colleagues and their identities: we raise the progress pride flag in recognition of all members of the LGBTQIA+ community who have and continue to contribute to STEM 🌈
Cosmologists have a dark energy fix for the Hubble tension—a mismatch between two Universe-expansion-rate measurements. However, a new study shows that this fix messes up predictions for a set of hydrogen absorption lines for quasars.
#mythbusting: Damage to roads from ice comes from the growth of ice crystals, not the expansion of water as it freezes. Now researchers show that the number of crystals an ice block contains determines how bad the damage will be.
A major headache for recyclers is complex packaging that incorporates multiple materials. So why not consider the end point in the first place? #AmericaRecyclesDay
A lot of people in academia will swear to god that their code is absolutely perfect and their computations above reproach, but they absolutely refuse to show you any of it because it's got a bad hair day or something and is not looking pretty at the moment.
The number of Americans with diabetes, overwhelmingly type 2, has increased steadily over the past 6 decades — and the rate of increase has risen sharply since the mid-1990s. Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the US.
Diabetes cannot be cured once it develops, but it can be prevented.
Bulgaria is now the 32nd nation to officially sign on to NASA Artemis Accords.
Agreeing to work in peaceful, open, partnership with NASA and 30 other countries
in all aspects of moon exploration, colonization, and resource mining.
Let us hope many more countries continue to follow.
Can wind turbines coexist peacefully with bats and birds?
As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.
L'allemand Julian Voss-Andreae 🇩🇪 est un artiste à la trajectoire singulière : il a commencé sa carrière comme physicien quantique avant de se lancer dans l'art.
Voss-Andreae associe harmonieusement les concepts scientifiques à l'expression artistique. Ses sculptures deviennent un pont entre le monde tangible et le domaine immatériel de la physique quantique.
En voici une de ses œuvres. C'est une interprétation du paradoxe de la physique quantique ! Construite à partir de tranches de miroirs en coupe transversale, la sculpture semble quasi invisible lorsqu'elle est vue de face ou de dos et solide lorsqu'on se déplace sur les cotés.
#Mars global maps show the likely distribution of water ice buried within the upper 3 feet of the planet's surface
and represent the latest data from the Subsurface Water Ice Mapping project.
Cette photo a été prise au parc national Bükk, en Hongrie 🇭🇺.
L'arbre le plus mince a été coupé il y a des années ; le plus grand le tient et le nourrit depuis lors ; ils se « réveillent » ensemble au printemps et « s'endorment » ensemble à l'automne.
Le terme scientifique est « l'anastomose » en français 🇫🇷 ou «l'inosculation » en anglais 🇬🇧 :
C'est ce phénomène naturel dans lequel des parties de deux arbres différents, généralement mais pas exclusivement de la même espèce, poussent ensemble, s'auto-greffant et partageant les nutriments.
“Even people who are really knowledgeable and who have a lot of experience out in the field were surprised to see how fast these forests were going down the drain,” says ecophysiologist and Annual Review of Plant Biology author Henrik Hartmann.
❓Are you a #SciComm practitioner or #researcher, a #scientist interested in scicomm, a #journalist or someone keen for greater citizen engagement with research?
The EU-funded project #COALESCE aims to build a competence center for #ScienceCommunication. They have now opened registrations to join their Community of Practice:
A global team of scientists that includes UC Santa Cruz Professor of Astronomy J. Xavier Prochaska have discovered an eight-billion-year-old fast radio burst – the most ancient and distant located to date.
The study is a prime example of the new era of multi-wavelength astronomy, where facilities observing different types of light are used together to reveal more than they could do individually. https://bit.ly/3QucCjf
Clear Lake, California’s largest freshwater body of water, is fouled each year by algal blooms, one of many assaults endured by the battered ecosystem. Can a multipronged plan help it recover? https://arevie.ws/HABS_KM via @KnowableMag
Harmful algal blooms afflict coastal and freshwater systems. Technological advances have shed light on the diverse toxins found in blooms and new techniques are helping combat them. https://arevie.ws/HABS_MA4 via AR Marine Science
Imagine taking this entirely black lump of scroll that was caught in the same volcanic eruption that buried #Pompeii in 26AD, and both virtually unfolding it and seeing the original ink markings to read it.
#Ecuador 🇪🇨 was a hotspot of the #COVID19 pandemic in 2020, despite introducing contact restrictions early on. One issue: high mobility in the informal labor sector.
Now virological evidence by researchers from #CharitéBerlin and Ecuador suggests that contact restrictions nevertheless reduced the spread of #SARSCoV2 to some degree.
There are some cool sounding science-related events coming up via the Royal Canadian Institute for Science. Most are FREE and open to the public.
Salmon! The female body! Fungi foraging event!