Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base
science
DAMN! 🤬 🤬
"The owners of Scientific American just sold it and the new owners immediately
#fired the #union #employees, including some of the best #science #writers and
#editors in the business."
and
https://maggiefox.substack.com/p/something-bad-just-happened
Follow #StandUpForScience everywhere to fight for #science, protect #health, and defend #democracy. https://linktr.ee/standupforscience_bluesky
Unblurring the skies!
This is one of the lasers of our Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), under construction in #Chile
The laser, shown here undergoing tests at our Headquarters in Germany, is part of the ELT's adaptive optics system, which will correct the blurring effects of Earth’s atmosphere, enabling the ELT to capture much sharper views of the Universe.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2625a/
📷 ESO/TNO/Demcon/Fred Kamphues
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #engineering
"HaS sCiEnCe GoNe ToO fAr?!"
uh...
yeah, it has
#science has gone too far
🥴
"'It was very very good': #Ötzi the Iceman's body is covered in ancient #yeast — and scientists just used it to make a #sourdough
A new study cultivated four strains of cold-adapted yeasts that had colonized Ötzi's body shortly after his death 5,300 years ago in the #Alps."
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In May 2026, SETI Institute scientists and affiliates contributed to a wide range of conversations spanning planetary science, astrobiology, exoplanet discovery, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Read the full stories: https://www.seti.org/news/may-roundup-2026/
new podcast episode out!
#GifsArtidote presents episode 14: the death penalty
this time i am talking about the hypocrisy of the state in committing murder, whilst facilitating the material conditions driving people to harm others & themselves.
#press #StateCrime #IndependentMedia #psychology #criminology #science
https://gifsartidote.life/2026/06/26/gifs-artidote-episode-14-the-death-penalty/
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Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?
by Jennifer Ouellette
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/why-did-this-journal-retract-two-1940s-papers-by-max-planck/
Books by Max Planck at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35343
"A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.
Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.
Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”"
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Australia has the money to protect nature. It just isn’t spending it, expert says
Chasing Lightning: Detecting, Characterizing, and Identifying a Powerful Space-Based GNSS Interference Source via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/qrhqvc #science #security
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673
Solving Feynman’s Formula for Eating Well, Parking Your Car, and Finding a Mate
The 50-year mystery suggests humans may be more rational than we thought
By Kristen French
Original article available online:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2509612123
In a shocking discovery, scientific #journal finds that people work better when actually paid for it.
In the six-month experiment, reviewers who within four working days delivered a report that their handling editor considered good quality were paid £220 per manuscript.
Paying reviewers not only led to faster first editorial decisions — an average of 5.5 working days, down from nearly 38 for unpaid reviews — but review quality, as judged by handling editors on the basis of helpfulness in making an editorial decision, went up.
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🏖️📉 #California has lost roughly 60% of its coastal sand dunes since the 1850s, a loss of about 442 km².
Researchers used historical #maps, aerial #photos, and #lidar #data tracked by #machinelearning to measure the decline. Most losses came from development, #erosion, and invasive grasses, but some dunes expanded by 15 km² .
👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/california-coastal-dunes-disappearing/
#coast #pacific #ocean #dunes #sanddunes #climate #climatechange #conservation #habitats #wildlife #environment #storms #restoration #science #geology
Why Is CERN Making Antimatter?
RE: https://disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/116744843684193974
🚨 Reminder for USA folks 🚨
Have you submitted a public comment on the new OMB rule? The deadline is Saturday, July 13.
This new rule could impact any research study, not just ME/CFS research!
Solve ME has instructions and a template to make writing a public comment easier, link in quoted post.
There's also a tool to help you call & email Congress.
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Starter packs for geosciences, astronomy and physics (partly Germany-centric):
Earth and Geoscience: https://fedidevs.com/s/OTk1/ by @pikarl
Astronomy and Space: https://fedidevs.com/s/NjA2/
Physics: https://fedidevs.com/s/ODg2/
As I find I am running into limits with pinned posts, I've decided to consolidate three starter packs I like to recommend into this one single post. Enjoy!
#FollowFriday #StarterPacks #Science #Physics #Astrodon #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Geosciences #Geology #EarthSciences #PlanetaryScience
NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft has flown faster than the speed of sound in a recent test flight. Pilot Jim "Clue" Less reached a top speed of approximately Mach 1.1 (1,147 km/h) and an altitude of 13,228 metres flying out and back from Edwards Air Force Base in California. The X-59 is designed to fly at supersonic speeds while creating only a quiet thump instead of a loud sonic boom. @euronews has more:
🚨 Beyond the limit 🚨
New ESO study finds that current proposals to launch 1.7+ million satellites into orbit would have devastating consequences for astronomy.
The most extreme proposals come from SpaceX & Reflect Orbital
1/4
📷 F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #environment #pollution
It sounds like the plot of the Duffer Brothers' next series. After 139 years, scientists have finally discovered why wounds of Civil War soldiers at the Battle of Shiloh began to glow, Angel's Glow. Sorry, not scientists, two high school students
I derive the correlation of the two-channel optical Bell test (the Aspect experiment) without quantum mechanics and assuming action by direct contact.
Therefore Bell and Clauser have made mathematical errors. The entire subfield of physics and engineering based on their work should be withdrawn.
“Quantum computers” are in true theory polynomial-time devices at best. The theory is wrong that says they are fast.
Scientists finally complete Schrödinger’s 100-year-old color theory https://lobste.rs/s/zsdjqm #graphics #science
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260606015140.htm
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Melting glaciers and shrinking ice sheets are commonly understood to contribute to sea levels, but the primary driver might not be what you think. Read more from @ScienceAlert:
Scientists built a cell from scratch for the first time. It feeds, grows, replicates its DNA, and divides. Called SpudCell.
36 genes, 90K base pairs, 150-200 molecules. Not alive (can't make ribosomes, can't evolve, needs constant feeding) but it's the first complete cell cycle from entirely non-living components.