Science Social Media and Updates
Science Social Media and Updates
Beautiful new whole-Earth photos. I love to zoom in and see the changing fine details, like the green glow of the aurora near the poles. A beauty of extreme exploration is that we better discover and understand our home. nasa canadianspaceagency
SpaceX wants to put up to a million data centers in orbit. There are a few technological hurdles standing in the way.
Fun conversation on @NoPriorsPod w @LiamFedus on AI Foundation Model for Atoms from @periodiclabs -Foundation models that understand atoms -LLMs as reasoning engines -Timing to displace AI researchers Liam prior was VP Post Training at OpenAI, now CEO Periodic https://t.co/jmiv5uQt8U
Effects of Chronic Cannabis Smoke Exposure on Inflammatory Markers in Periphery and Brain in Young and Aged Mice https://t.co/QeOw5EVOnk https://t.co/PV4A1OBJzO
Human females live unusually long after their reproductive window has ended The evolutionary reason for that might be: grandmothers Dr. Kristen Hawkes is an anthropologist best known for developing the 'grandmother hypothesis.' The idea is that older women helped shape human evolution...
Getting a ringside seat to space history - after over half a century humans venture out beyond LEO again #Artemis #NASA #spaceflight #ArtemisII https://t.co/RMT4s1iZSC https://t.co/7NGliTWrD1
Breathtaking view of Earth taken by Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman after the TLI burn yesterday. The NASA post (link below) explains the two auroras and the zodiacal light in the image. https://t.co/jSToocbGT1 https://t.co/7lbb8pErhF
Ask Ethan: Do gravitational waves redshift like light does? Light redshifts as it travels through the expanding Universe, and is affected by a host of other phenomena. But not everything is the same for gravitational waves. https://t.co/x7HvhjGPU5
April 2, 1968, Kubrick releases 2001: A Space Odyssey. December 21, 1968, Apollo 8 orbits the Moon. July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 lands on the Moon. April 1, 2026, Artemis heads back to the Moon. https://t.co/OYK341YTa2
The NAD-brain pharmacokinetic study of NAD augmentation in blood and brain using oral precursor supplementation 🔎 “… oral NR or NMN in humans produces a slow but robust and sustained elevation of systemic and cerebral NAD that stabilizes after ∼2 weeks…” https://t.co/Hvp1NvRwl0
This is a thoughtful essay on a new preprint from Raghav Sehgal and Albert Higgins-Chen that’s worth your time. It highlights something we don’t talk about enough: for biological aging clocks to be useful outside of research, they need to...
Spent a day at my old PhD experiment at DESY in Hamburg. This is what remains of H1 - a particle detector that mapped the structure of the inside of the proton (and I used to explore Pomerons … but...
Three of the four Artemis-II cubesats have now been cataloged; orbits are 149 x 70247 km, 492 x 70228 km, and 61 x 70276 km. Suggests at least one made a successful perigee raising burn, but waiting for more data...
In honor of Artemis: Yours truly with Charlie Duke, youngest living human to have walked on the moon. Let’s get back there, soon. 🌖 https://t.co/PkTaRIMwJG
On the left is the first ever full-disk image of Earth captured in 1966, on the right is the most recent photo taken by the Artemis II crew Incredible. https://t.co/codJxEg6NB
Take a second and look at this image. Right now, there are four human beings seeing the full, unobstructed Earth for the first time since 1972. They are the only four people not in this picture. But it gets wilder...
Looking at a viral academic study that claims to analyse local area heating effects of data centre construction on green-field sites, that does not control for the heating effects of *any* construction on green-field sites.
NASA released footage of Earth. This is Earth photographed at night time for the respective countries/ cities facing us.
The Artemis II astronauts are the only living people who are not in that photo. For reference: North is down with Africa to the left and South America on the right.
As a medical school professor, I never learned this in training: the plastic in your food may be fueling cancer. A new Journal of Clinical Investigation review (Feb 2026) maps how micro/nanoplastics drive cancer through 4 mechanisms: 1. Inflammation: Macrophages engulf plastic...
The White House is proposing $18.8 billion for NASA in FY27, a 23% cut to NASA's 2026 enacted funding. Science, ISS, and education major targets of the proposed cuts. https://t.co/4PxZxpplUh
A bat-inspired approach denoises ultrasound echolocation signals, enabling a palm-sized drone to navigate challenging environments while avoiding transparent or thin obstacles. Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/utyw7UGfJ9 https://t.co/gfE3Ehcuyy
"Where and how people live may be as important for brain aging as the specific disease they develop." Physical and social exposome factors associated with accelerated brain aging across 34 countries Physical factors primarily linked with structural MRI brain aging; social with...
Exposure to deceased remains of conspecifics extends the lifespan of young and aged C. elegans via distinct pathways https://t.co/B1VE91Y1lj
Is aging programmable? It implies there IS a program created by evolution, not only accident or entropy. But that's a debate. Here's a paper by business consultant Michael Ringel, on this very topic, with many good citations. https://t.co/fREM4AHnJG
The human brain processes visual information 60,000x faster than text. Humans are visual processors, not text processors. Images hit the brain instantly. Words take work. That's why a single SpaceX launch video communicates more than a thousand-word essay—and why your...
Every exome analysis I have seen filters out synonymous variants first. "Silent mutations, skip them." But 15% of human codons sit inside transcription factor binding sites. A synonymous change that breaks a TF site can cause disease with the protein completely intact. https://t.co/yzkdi82kEd
Most people treat aging as fate.�Biology treats it as a process that can be changed
Saker falcons sit with their eyes covered before being released into the wild as part of a population restoration programme led by Saudi Arabia's state-run Saudi Falcons Club in cooperation with Kazakh partners, at Altyn-Emel National Park, Kazakhstan March28, 2026.Pavel...
In the book From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne calculates the "neutral point" of gravity based on the density of Earth and Moon. His location was 47/60th the way there. Was he right? https://www.instagram.com/p/DWpIDBgAJuq/
A new theoretical model suggests that a 7-dimensional geometric structure could resolve the black hole information paradox and naturally explain the origin of the Higgs mass, linking quantum information storage to the fabric of spacetime. physics
From the Earth to the Moon - what's it like to watch a rocket launch? #Artemis #NASA #ArtemisII https://t.co/ixlbGUQBk0 https://t.co/d7yEw0ZMRo
A new theoretical framework demonstrates that quantum coherence can be preserved at large scales in open, driven systems by exploiting fermionic dark-state symmetry, potentially enabling more robust quantum devices. quantumphysics
Part 2 of exploring the current ecosystem of space exploration and research we see in the 21st century via the Artemis program #space #stem #nasa @aljazeeraenglish
Artemis II will use laser beams in giant leap for space video — new optical tech will stream '4K high-definition video from the Moon' https://www.techradar.com/streaming/artemis-ii-will-use-laser-beams-in-giant-leap-for-space-video-new-optical-tech-will-stream-4k-high-definition-video-from-the-moon
Negative relationships may accelerate biological aging. In a new study, each additional “hassler” - someone who often causes problems or makes life difficult - was linked to ~1.5% faster aging and ~9 extra months of biological age. The catch: this showed up...
Microbiome depletion rejuvenates the aging brain "...targeting the gut microbiome or its circulating mediators may therefore represent a non-invasive approach to promote brain health and cognitive resilience in aging..." https://t.co/GuBPBxx1p9
Your muscles and your brain are in constant conversation. Most people have no idea this conversation is happening — or what's at stake when it goes quiet. Many of you fear dementia far more than a heart attack or a diabetes...
Are you pro-bodyoid or anti-bodyoid? For the purpose of this poll, a bodyoid is: a newborn clone of you lacking a cortex, a.k.a. a brainless clone, gestated by a paid surrogate. It's organs are a perfect match (isogenic) to you...
If you've got a hard-boiled egg, try this before anyone eats it. Spin it fast on the table and watch it end up standing upright. Kids always go “HOW?” and then want to see it ten more times and try...
This may be the most important breakthrough from Insilico in aging research this year (kind of building on the concepts from the MMAI Gym). Turns out, you do not need original biological data to train foundation models to predict...
Question: If a transcript has a CDS that starts with two methionines, what's the general rule for sequence annotation? Should I make it so if two METs in a row at the beginning, annotate the closest MET to rest of sequence...
Next flight of Starship and first flight of V3 ship & booster is 4 to 6 weeks away https://t.co/tg4OQQ7pyI
Woah. I'm slightly embarrassed that I missed this for a few weeks. Finally there is approval, in a Large Nation, for a stem cell-based REPLACEMENT therapy for an age-related condition. The condition is, no surprise, Parkinson's, which I always highlight...
Dead Spiders Reanimated as Necrobotic Grippers by Rice University Engineers by @IntEngineering #Innovation #TechForGood #EmergingTech #Technology https://t.co/pKca0ZPo05
Recent weeks have brought a range of new ideas in quantum error correction for fault tolerant-quantum computing, along with deeper exploration of their implications. We introduce a new approach: a method for achieving high-threshold decoding of non-Pauli codes aimed at...
LAUNCH of Tianlong-3 from Jiuquan at about 0417 UTC. Speculation it has failed but no official info yet.
Dynamics of blood NAD and glutathione in health, disease, aging and under NAD-booster treatment “In healthy population (n=299;18-70 year-olds) redox metabolites follow normal distribution in blood and remain unchanged during aging. NAD-boosting increased 4-6 fold the blood NAD+ depending on individual,...
Watched the Artemis launch yesterday with my 8yo. Today he built a rocket out of household stuff and started explaining all the parts. Don’t underestimate how important national science programs are. 🚀
#WhatsNext? This endoscopy in a capsule robot, makes it easier for doctors to fully examine patients. It also makes examinations less painful to patients. (GiGadgets) #Robotics https://t.co/IQr2WTjyj6
