Ever wonder what happened to that $100 million interstellar spaceship program? Me too. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Shoutout to people finding out for the first time that this gif is of Robert Redford

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

The Grinder, with Rob Lowe and Fred Savage. Criminally underrated and under watched

For your Friday, another stunning view of the cosmos from JWST—this time of jets of plasma blasting out from a newly formed star. It looks like a painting.

This is what the Trump administration sends its cabinet ministers to Europe to talk about, one day after Poland shoots down Russian drones violating its airspace.

good job, guys @acosta32jp.bsky.social @minakimes.bsky.social

Can someone make me a simple plugin for this app, the NYT homepage, and all of the internet, such that when I log in, I will only see recipes for soups and Italian dishes

The morning’s bright the sky is blue and we have a teaser trailer! WAKE UP DEAD MAN the new Benoit Blanc mystery, in theaters Thanksgiving and on Netflix 12/12

Good excuse to post my favourite Onion headline.

The comet displays a broad coma—a cloud of gas and dust that forms around the comet’s icy nucleus as it gets closer to the Sun. These features are more significant than they appeared in earlier images, showing that 3I/ATLAS has become more active as it travels through the Solar System. 🔭 🧪

Making waves in the cosmos, galaxy style 😎🌊 Shell galaxies preserve the memory of a cosmic splash, like ripples in a pond 🌌✨ These elliptical galaxies are surrounded by faint, layered arcs that form when a large galaxy absorbs a smaller one. 🔭 🧪

Waking Ned Devine is a good film

Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Today, Scientific American turns 180—the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S. 🎉 Since 1845, we’ve shared the wonders of science with the world. 💫 Dive into 180 years of discovery: sciam.com/180 🧬 Explore pivotal moments in science: bit.ly/4mNTpGY 🎁 Win prizes: sciam.com/180contest

For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten truck

Once in a while, you read a book that deeply matters, & makes you realize things are not as you thought. This is one such book. You can buy it now: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Happy book birthday to my friend, nonfiction shelfmate, and unparalleled lost-world chronicler, @peterbrannen.bsky.social

This image of a young planet clearing its orbit in the protoplanetary disk around a distant star (the star itself is obscured) is stunning. Of course it’s beautiful, but it’s also a remarkable technical achievement for the study authors, the observatory, and the instrument scientists. Well done!

Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs

Anastasia Trusova, It’s Warm (acrylic on canvas, 2023)

"Autumn Night" - my oil painting

Tag yourself, I’m the brooding mother octopus trying to hide her offspring from the world

“A peaceful place, or so it looks from space…” New image of the home world and our companion moon, captured last month from 180 million miles out by our Psyche spacecraft on its way toward the first rendezvous with a metallic asteroid in 2029. 🧪 www.nasa.gov/missions/psy...

Tonight the super pooper birds are gonna find me 🎵 Shining like the sun Smiling, having fun 🎶 Feeling like a number ….. ….. …. 2

#EduSky join @scifri.bsky.social today from 2-4 pm ET for these great science stories. 🧪 Since I'm the SciFri Book Club Captain, I'm excited for the interview with this month's author @rboyle31.bsky.social about her book, "Our Moon." 🌖 #booksky

It is time for a blazar

Why has no one written an oral history of Austin Powers? Especially the group therapy session monologue with Carrie Fisher as the therapist

No one talks about the fact that orange and baby blue are the colors of the one and only Denver football team, and therefore the TS12 color scheme is actually a coded message that TK87 is coming back to join the Broncos and defeat his former teammates ✨

a layoff of five staff members representing a reduction in force by TEN PERCENT for a flagship newspaper covering a city of nearly 3 million people is just so fucking bleak on every level

To add some more context, Orville Wright piloted both of these aircraft.

The first people to hear that CBS was canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” reacted to the news loudly, and viscerally, with a chorus of “No!” that turned into a sustained round of boos.

Oh amazement of things, even the least particle!

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Hello, I thought you might need this story, which is worth your time. It helped me today to remember there are good people, and good fairies, in the world (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/p...

Interstellar cartography is a thing now. Everything is horrible in 2025, but interstellar cartography exists

Oh hey! It’s me! Thanks, @washingtonpost.com book editors. This is a good list, and includes the best novel you’ll read this year, Go As A River 🍑 🌕

I said what I said

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

And @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social has a tour-de-force @nytimes.com piece on the shameful landscape of organizations downplaying and erasing diversity initiatives, just as Vera Rubin finally gets her recognition. 🧪🔭🏳️‍🌈

Humans have been in North America for at least 23,000 yrs, probably much longer (as indigenous folk have told us all along). The “USA” has existed for < 1 % of the time humans have been here. So let’s stop acting like we own the place. How about some humility? 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

You guys, we are not ready for what this thing is going to see. It is going to MESS YOU UP www.scientificamerican.com/article/bloc...

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

It’s publication day for Human Nature!! My baby is out in the world!

I haven’t served in the military so idk for sure but it is totally the sound of the tanks in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Seems very bad but it's time to put up the bat signal

Basic scientific research is a public good.

As you can imagine, we at SciAm are extremely excited about the upcoming Vera Rubin Telescope. What's it going to do? "something revolutionary, rare and relatively old-fashioned: it will just look out at the universe and see what there is to see." (by @rboyle31.bsky.social) 🧪

New hero just dropped.