Where would another civilization expect us to look?
SETI Institute researchers are surveying the anti-solar point with the Allen Telescope Array — a possible shared “Schelling point” for sending or searching for technosignatures.
It’s the ATA’s largest-ever survey.
Read more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07065
🌕 A new crater on the Moon is revealing some surprising science!
The crater measures just 222 meters across, but the impact changed the lunar surface kilometers away.
Join Dr. Franck Marchis and Dr. Tyler M. Powell TODAY at 2:30 p.m. PDT to explore the discovery on #SETILive!
Revisiting a Young Isaac Newton
by Katie Neith, edited by Robert Egan
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-revisiting-young-isaac-newton.html#goog_rewarded
Newton's Principia at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404
Where did Mars’ carbonate rocks go?
A new study co-authored by SETI Institute affiliate Mohit Melwani Daswani suggests groundwater may have carried part of that record underground, where future missions could potentially find evidence of Mars’ wetter past.
I don't think he knows about "reading the books you have" 😂
#LotR
#FantasyMemes #Fantasy #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels
#Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
Hugh Miller: the David Attenborough of his day
4 December, Elgin Museum. £6.13
A fossil hunter, folklorist, man of faith, stonemason, geologist, editor, writer & social justice campaigner, find out why Hugh Miller is one of the great Scots of the 19th century – & why he deserves the title of “the David Attenborough of his day”
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hugh-miller-the-david-attenborough-of-his-day-tickets-2004167394628
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #geology #folklore #science #fossil #HughMiller
4435 Vertebrate Paleontology lecture series. 2026.
Lecture 28.5 (a lab lecture) Human Evolution.
This is the earliest primate we know. 66 million years ago. This little primate fits in the palm of your hand. On the dudes finger is an astragalus (ankle joint bone) and calcaneus (heel bone).
Check it out or check out the full series! Quality series! (Not audibly. Standard lecture audio quality).
https://youtu.be/nspUDVpuPKk
#Science #HumanEvolution #Purgatorius #Paleontology #Primate #Notch2
You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while.
Why?
Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #repost as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year.
Deal?
1/15
#bees #nature #environment
#insects #biodiversity #science
#wildlife #autumn #education
‘This is a lethal threat’: Indigenous groups fear Bolsonaro’s hold on voters in Brazil’s Amazon towns
#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics
Remembering that I did a reading of my Fantasy/Attempted Comedy, The Last Philosopher, at the 2025 Eurocon called Archipelacon 2 😁
#Eurocon2025 #Archipelacon2
#Fantasy #Humor #Humour
#High #Science #Comedic
#FantasyBooks
The Last Philosopher: Part One is available here: https://payhip.com/NickEastIndieWriter
"History by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings & Solving a 200-Year-Old Mystery" by Richard Kurin. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2026.
Book description: The definitive account of how a discarded strand of hair found in Thomas Jefferson’s Bible led to a sweeping, multi-year genomic investigation, drawing on technological advances in DNA to finally resolve a 200-year national controversy.
I found the writing to be first rate, though somewhat technical, at least for someone like me with no science background. That said, the book was still a most interesting read.
#nonfiction #history #genetics #science #books #reading @bookstodon
🗓️ Bonjour, aujourd'hui 10 novembre, c'est la journée mondiale de la science au service de la paix et du développement. Bonne fête aux Nausicaa, Noé, Juste, Japhet, Démétrien et Léon.
#JournéeMondiale #WorldDay
#Science 🔬
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That's why I write #SpeculativeFiction things are always right if I'm making everything up 😜😂
Also, did you know to create a fictional world from scratch you have to start with creating the #Multiverse? At least that's what I've been told... 😅
#FantasyMemes #SciFiMemes #Fantasy #SciFi #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic #Whatever
#Book #Books #Bookstodon
#BoostingIsSharing
Are galaxy clusters producing more fast radio bursts—or magnifying signals from behind them?
Researchers found 26 FRBs potentially associated with galaxy clusters, hinting at an intriguing excess. But where are those mysterious signals really coming from?
Explore the science in our latest SETI Live blog:
https://www.seti.org/news/do-galaxy-clusters-host-or-magnify-more-fast-radio-bursts/
#PPOD: Just three years after Henry Draper captured the first photograph of the Orion Nebula, British amateur astronomer Andrew Ainslie Common transformed what photography could reveal about the night sky. On February 26, 1883, Common exposed a photographic plate for 60 minutes using a 36-inch reflecting telescope in the garden of his home in Ealing, London. Credit: Andrew Ainslie Common
"Accretion is especially familiar in systems involving black holes and neutron stars. Although these objects can be extremely massive, their physical dimensions are relatively small. Material falling toward a black hole, for example, often forms a swirling disk around it before moving inward.
But ZTF J0440+2325 appears to work differently.
Rather than a black hole or neutron star collecting matter, an ordinary low-mass star is receiving material from a nearby brown dwarf. Because the star has a much larger physical surface than a compact object such as a black hole, the incoming material can strike it directly.
"The difference here is, the thing absorbing matter is not a tiny black hole but a star, which is relatively big in size," Burdge explains. "So matter just pummels directly onto the surface, at very high speeds, like an asteroid hitting the Moon.""
#science
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261008005240.htm
Plots of deltas between time scales https://lobste.rs/s/aayqm3 #historical #science #unix
https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html
Does anyone else ever worry that the scientific method doesn't work and instead it's just that any heavy computation (like doing a bunch of math in order to model some phenomenon) exhausts the local resources and makes the universe more malleable? Maybe we just tell ourselves that math is unreasonably effective because the truth that it's damaging the fabric of reality is too disturbing.
#math #mathematics #science #ScientificMethod #ScienceFiction #philosophy
🏛️🔎 À LA DÉCOUVERTE DU MUSÉUM D'ANGERS !
🐻🌿🦴🧝 Des sciences naturelles, des collections fascinantes et même une plongée dans la Terre du Milieu !
La rediffusion de la visite guidée avec les responsables des collections est disponible !
À voir ici ➡️ https://youtu.be/bW7BOrMM7ek
Like et partage = 💚
#ecologie #biodiversite #museum #sciencesnaturelles #zoologie #botanique #science #Angers #cafédessciences @pogscience.bsky.social
