Just stealthily hanging out, keeping their existence secret from us by dying in the wrong places for us to find them.

“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”

In a world full of terrible news, you'd think people would be shouting something so wonderful from the rooftops. But more than a week after a paper showing the malaria vaccine can save even more millions of lives than we thought, I haven't seen anyone else cover it www.iflscience.com/malaria-vacc...

My effort to help communicate that we need to treat the Hantavirus outbreak carefully, but the pandemic risk is very low. Love the phrasing used by the WHO Director General in his letter to the people of Tenerife. "The best immunity any of us has is solidarity." www.iflscience.com/who-updates-...

The Tonga eruption - this century's largest - released a lot of methane. But an unexpected chemical reaction that cleaned up a portion of that could help advance our efforts to deal with our own emissions of this planet-heating gas www.iflscience.com/the-largest-...

A region known as the Kafue Rift could be the site of the world’s newest plate boundary www.iflscience.com/new-plate-bo...

It's hard to stand out among all the coverage of David Attenborough's 100th birthday, so I made the case he's gotten better with age. Not just because of the technology his crews can now use, but because he has become more courageous about speaking truth to power www.iflscience.com/david-attenb...

Yikes. I'm amazed I had not heard this story before. I wonder how proponents of the Nordic model respond. Probably by ignoring it I guess.

it's been five months since the United States has admitted a refugee that is not a white South African

Denial is among the most immature and destructive of human traits. Yet it is all around us: Denial of antisemitism Denial of Islamophobia Denial of climate breakdown Denial of democratic breakdown. We should put away childish things and face our monsters.

kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2026/05/woul... Would Scrapping Group Ticket Voting In Victoria Help One Nation? #springst

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

Speaking at an industry event this morning, it's clear the PM is trying to dampen expectations of a gax export tax, claiming "no surprises" in the upcoming budget. But he's stopped short of ruling one out. It's clear that he's feeling the heat.

AI algorithm attempting to get physics communicators to ditch the physics for pseudoscience. Can the boosters really not see what is wrong here? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd5E...

Let’s Talk About Saline Placebos Yet Again: it's unethical to do a saline placebo trial for a new vaccine when there's a licensed vaccine for that disease; many vaccines have been compared to saline, and are generally well tested. via @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/stopanti...

This dude won’t help. He does science by vibe. Not evidence. It’s like securing a meeting with a minor demon in Hell, hoping he’ll ask Satan to help end your suffering.

An amazing example of communication and game playing in phages, which are so simple people still debate if they count as being alive www.iflscience.com/viruses-list...

1928: we can never have a Catholic president, he would take orders from the Pope! 2026: any chance the Pope can fill out the rest of the term as president?

Amazing clip of former Shell employee and now right-wing News Corp blogger Liam Barlett blaming the fossil fuel crisis on renewables (while Australia's energy minister very patiently tries to ask him WTF he means) (for some reason News Corp decided to publicly share this instead of burying it)

Artemis II puts the focus back on human space exploration. Some people think humans should never go to Mars. Some want us to go as soon as possible. But there are good arguments for a compromise, to say, "Yes we should go, but carefully and thoughtfully, not in a rush like Apollo to the Moon".

The reason we keep thinking this must be bottom and they keep going lower is that most of us (Stephen King and G RR Martin perhaps aside) simply aren't capable of imagining this level of depravity, let alone doing it.

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

This is unforgivable: Afghan who fought with US special forces — and was legally evacuated to the U.S. — dies in ICE custody www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Now *this* is a candle in the darkness.

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

Once again I will point out that most deaths in early concentration camps occur from illness and poor conditions. But these deaths are not accidents; this is one of the intended outcomes of a concentration camp.

Calling the claim of genocide a “blood libel” dilutes the meaning of one of the most dangerous antisemitic tropes in history. Weaponizing this term makes it harder to identify when actual blood libel is directed at Jews and weakens the very language we need to protect ourselves.

I just can't.

This is utterly disgusting. Also appalling, there will be near or total silence from those claiming to be "gender critical" but to not hate trans people. I'd be happy to hear exceptions, but they'll be few. Most of those saying "oh we just want..." will be fine with jailing trans people for driving.

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

For good or ill, colonies on other worlds are once again looking a long way off, but there's nothing to stop us dreaming about interplanetary sports competitions.

Not as good a dinosaur story as my previous one, but they go together well. An enormous field of Triassic dinosaur tracks found five months ago between two of the venues in the winter olympics www.iflscience.com/world-class-...

This is a great story for dinosaur fans, particularly those with a liking for Spinosauruses. But it deserves a much wider audience as a tale of pure science done against the odds, and used to benefit the most excluded of humanity www.iflscience.com/marvelous-ne...

There is no bottom to what these people are capable of.

This is the thing about tech. Money is wasted developing something that they claim will never be, because it's too problematic. So instead of saying "if we have to ask *should* we do this, then we shouldn't," they create these prototypes that are "abandoned".......until they aren't.

Having been challenged about the alleged silence of BlueSky on the Fox Varian case, I’ll respond. For someone to undergo such a major surgery they will regret for the rest of their life is a tragedy. A court has ruled it medical malpractice, which I’m won't dispute, and makes it a moral travesty.

Refresh your timeline with this tale (or tail) of love across the geographic and personality divide in a super-endangered species, full of epicly cute photograhs and details of an unusual mating structure. www.iflscience.com/possum-roman...

Guy who would be utterly outraged at the suggestion that every member of literally any other minority group be blamed for the crimes of some members is quite happy to say that about "all Jews"

Me before statements like this: Watching the Winter Olympics mainly to cheer against representatives of USA and other nations under fascist control. Me after statements like this: "Go this individual American athlete, sorry to all the people I was cheering before but support withdrawn"

Another one we can't afford to lose. Hoping for full recovery.

It's just brutal the way we are losing some of the best people young when the world needs them most.

I started off sceptical when I wrote about the original research, and got considerably moreso the further I got with writing the article, but it seems I was not nearly sceptical enough - amazing such bad work got published in such a respected journal.

Much as I'd love to escape Meta, I mostly keep personal posting to FB, as it's where my friends are, but for the few here who know us; my wife, Michaela Hart was awarded a Public Service Medal for outstanding public service to archival practice and access to records www.gg.gov.au/australia-da...

There's so much competition, but this flag symbolizes what may end up being the most destructive of all Trump's terrible actions.

Definitely the actions of domestic terrorists </sarcasm>

Interesting...a new clue in the mystery of Prototaxites, the largest land organism in the Devonian period. It wasn't a fungus 🍄 OR a plant 🌱. It's a completely extinct KINGDOM! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... reported by @sluntz.bsky.social for @iflscience.com www.iflscience.com/the-first-gr...

I mean. I am not an expert. But when the government is like “Hey, give me a list of Jews. For uh protection reasons” it would seem like A BAD THING. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...

I take it the 1% for questions 2-4 are all people who work for these firms. Must be gutting to Musk he couldn't get even them to be ok with making CSAM.

This study is very preliminary given the incomplete data, but it makes a significant advance in revealing the benefits of same-sex sexual behavior for many animals, and for some, such as Japanese macaques, it seems the advantages are very large indeed. www.iflscience.com/from-gorilla...