In the 1950s, scientists tried to define "normal" humans. The problem? They couldn't find any. 🎧 Listen to episode one of "The normals," Science's newest podcast series: https://scim.ag/4mj0bVY

How do know what's normal? Check out the @science.org podcast short series on early research on health human subjects. Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. Learn more about his life and see a collection of his stunning astronomical art here: https://buff.ly/2ENtY5g #eclipse #solareclipse

So excited to share our new @science.org podcast limited series The Normals! Out now!! Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

This week on the @science.org podcast, a new path to calculating the Hubble constant using reappearing bursts from deep space, lensed by gravity w/ @danclery.bsky.social LISTEN HERE: www.science.org/content/podc...

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

This week on the @science.org podcast, Deputy News Editor Martin Enserink and researcher Jill Farrant talk about harnessing the secrets of resurrection plants—specialized plants can survive up to 95% water loss—for drought-proofing crops. Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

The trouble with sycophantic AI, this week on the @science.org podcast with Myra Cheng Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

Okay so why was I the only one in the theater tonight who gasped when Ryan Gosling ran a centrifuge with two tubes in the whole thing, sitting right next to each other? Sorry was I the only scientist in the film society theater tonight??

This week on the @science.org podcast, new results suggest it may be time to rethink the peopling of the Americas. Lizzie Wade describes the history of tumult in the field and what it will take to change minds LISTEN HERE: www.science.org/content/podc...

I have seen the flying squirrels of Uptown! Here's a 50% speed video of them in action tonight.

We review ways to replenish groundwater and which has worked well in different settings—this week on the @science.org podcast, with @meagancantwell.bsky.social and Scott Jasechko Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

In the latest @science.org podcast, journalist Evan Howell talks about how warming and erosion in Alaska have revealed a relic of long-vanished ice sheet that could hold clues to a key time in the Northern Hemisphere's climate history Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

Computer vision, data compression, and machine learning have gotten so good, that researchers can now capture behavior across the entire lifespan of a fish. Claire Bedbrook joins the @science.org podcast to talk about what filming fish can teach us. LISTEN HERE: www.science.org/content/podc...

This week on the @science.org podcast, Matthias-Claudio Loretto discusses how observing ravens and wolves in Yellowstone might change the way we think about scavengers’ strategies for finding their ephemeral food sources. Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

This year’s children’s book roundup features everything from a look at space law to a clever wartime spider farmer. Science's Valerie Thompson joins the @science.org podcast to discuss some of the books. Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

This week on the @science.org podcast, a policy round up with #ScienceInsider editor @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and others--including a story by @richardastone.bsky.social on allegations of a Chinese nuclear blast that may reignite weapons testing. Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

Look at all these beautiful flattened Jurassic friends! ⛏️🤓 All from the Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit -names in alt-text #fossil #paleontology #paleobotany

i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :) open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

Nearing a decade @science.org, this is a point I should stress more. It's only $25/year to support one of the largest science-focused newsrooms in the world. Independent and nonprofit.

Birds are vanishing from tropical forests. Is another ‘silent spring’ coming? This week on the @science.org podcast, @meagancantwell.bsky.social & Warren Cornwall discuss why these bird populations are shrinking www.science.org/content/podc...

This week on the @science.org podcast -- a look at direct electrical stimulation of the brain during surgery w/ Raouf Belkhir #ScienceAdvances Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

We've got highlights from the AAAS annual meeting with @science.org reporters and editors -- this week on the podcast w/ @nerdychristie.bsky.social @michaelgreshko.bsky.social & Perri Thaler Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

This week on the @science.org podcast, we hear about the “bouba-kiki” effect—the tendency for people to associate round shapes with the nonword bouba and spiky shapes with the nonword kiki. And why it might be at work in chicks but not chimps. www.science.org/content/podc...

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

This week on the @science.org podcast, observing the birth of a stellar black hole in the nearby Andromeda galaxy. We hear how researchers looked for this elusive event, and what we can learn from observing its slow fade in the decades to come. Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

This week on the @science.org podcast, the science helping more puppies graduate into service dogs w/ @mcleanka.bsky.social and @david-grimm.bsky.social Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

Engineering safer football helmets, this week on the @science.org podcast -- w/ Adrian Cho Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

This week on the @science.org podcast: The undone science of opioids. Although much study has gone into addiction research, less attention has been paid to the biological details of overdose itself, w/ John Strang @kingsioppn.bsky.social Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

An intracellular meteor shower. EB3 comets tracking growing microtubule plus-ends in a cultured cell.

What happens when we only need half of an oil pipeline? As fossil fuels are phased out, we could face unforeseen infrastructural threats—learn more on this week's @science.org podcast w/ Emily Grubert and Johsua Lappen @notredame.bsky.social Listen here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The week on the @science.org podcast—protecting astronauts from deep-space radiation w/ Elie Dolgin Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

New planet just dropped and it 1) is almost exactly Earth-sized 2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year. 3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡 Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪

This week on the @science.org podcast: getting drunk off your own microbes, using the Mexican Biobank to guide patient care, and preliminary findings that surgery on the brain’s plumbing shows promise for Alzheimer’s disease, w/ @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social www.science.org/content/podc...

Deorbiting spacecraft are coming down to Earth, more and more often. This week on the @science.org podcast, we talk about using sonic booms to find space debris after uncontrolled reentry w/ Benjamin Fernando @spacequakes Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

Antarctica's response to climate change is one of the biggest unknowns in predicting sea level rise over the next century. Helen Ockenden joins the latest @science.org podcast to discuss filling in the missing details of the continent's subglacial surface. www.science.org/content/podc...

This week on the @science.org podcast, we hear about reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos from Sofia Quaglia—including a novel way of protecting native birds from invasive, bloodsucking fly larvae. Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

Scholars are on a quixotic quest to identify Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA—what could they learn from the real 'da Vinci' code? This week on the @science.org podcast with @richardastone.bsky.social www.science.org/content/podc...

When did humans up their hunting game by adding poison to arrows? This week on the @science.org podcast, Sven Isaksson joins to discuss evidence for this toxic technology from 60,000 years ago Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

When did humans up their hunting game by adding poison to arrows? This week on the @science.org podcast, Sven Isaksson joins to discuss evidence for this toxic technology from 60,000 years ago Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

Math is hard to explain, even to mathematicians. On the latest @science.org podcast, we talk about the unique challenges of communicating math expert to expert, and how computers (and possibly AI) might move the field forward www.science.org/content/podc...

What's the best hard-sci book you've read recently? A big, dense immersive space opera that will take me off this fucking planet.

The Sun’s gravitational lens could reveal alien planets’ surfaces but getting the physics to work means a long journey for the telescope. Learn more on this week's @science.org podcast w/ @danclery.bsky.social www.science.org/content/podc...

This is a neat new study using LIDAR to document pre-colonization raised agricultural beds along the Menominee River that separates Wisconsin from Michigan, north of Green Bay. “massive field systems like these were much more common than previously recognized” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

From trees that love getting struck by lightning to one of the most insane acrobatic feats in nature, here are our favorite science news stories of the year! @science.org

Evolving hummingbirds, lightning-loving trees, and more from this year's top online stories. Listen in on this week's @science.org podcast w/ @david-grimm.bsky.social www.science.org/content/podc...

My latest for @science.org: Researchers at Nokia Bell Labs have done something remarkable -- turned a submarine telecom cable in the Pacific Ocean into, in effect, an array of 44,000 (!) seismic sensors. That's potentially DAS-like precision -- and it doesn't need its own dedicated fibers.

A cell dividing into two daughter cells videoed through a microscope. Chromosomes are labeled in pink. Technique: differential interference microscopy (DIC) and fluorescence. #CellBiology