Augusto Carballido

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There likely was a lake there billions of years ago and maybe, just maybe, tiny microorganisms lived on the lake bed and left chemical traces of their meals for humans to recognize.

Paper Quotes:

"Because the biosphere, as a living system, processes information in ways nonliving systems do not, information-theoretic approaches can capture aspects of coupled system dynamics that might otherwise remain invisible to purely physical or chemical models".

On the left, 24 amber colored debris disks are shown in six rows of four disks. They are ringed structures of various densities and inclinations. On the right, a column of blue disks matches the last column of amber ones, revealing the location of gas in the dusty structures.

#PPOD: This ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) gallery of faint debris disks reveals details about their shape: belts with multiple rings, wide smooth halos, sharp edges, and unexpected arcs and clumps, which hint at the presence of planets shaping these disks. 🧪 🔭

“Seeing is inference from incomplete information”.

– Jaynes, E. 2003, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

The gas between the stars also moves.

Signs of ancient life may have been found in Martian rock – new study The rock is peppered with spots that could have been formed by microbes four billion years ago.

"...in astrobiology, the lack of a non-biological explanation isn’t where life detection ends – it’s where it begins."

Signs of ancient life may have been found in Martian rock – new study
theconversation.com/signs-of-anc...

Airborne microplastics enter plant leaves and end up in our food Evidence for a previously overlooked route for microplastics to enter crops and reach plant tissues has implications for ecology and human health.

Microplastics are airborne too.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The rust that could reveal alien life Iron rusts. On Earth, this common chemical reaction often signals the presence of something far more interesting than just corroding metal—for example, living microorganisms that make their living by ...

"Finding iron biosignatures on another world wouldn't just confirm life exists elsewhere, it would reveal that the same fundamental chemistry... operates throughout the solar system."

phys.org/news/2025-11...

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.

For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

Timely reminder.

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.

Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

This Space Telescope Will Search For Life On Distant Planets The Pandora Space Telescope will study 20 promising worlds that could host life

time.com/7335787/pand...

This is very cool (no pun intended)!

Covid-19 and cardiovascular disease in a total population-study of long-term effects, social factors and Covid-19-vaccination - Nature Communications Covid-19 has been linked to cardiovascular complications, but the long-term impacts, particularly for mild infections, are not well understood. Here, the authors investigate the long-term impacts of Covid-19 on cardiovascular disease using data on the whole population of Sweden aged 40-75 years.

Covid-19 has been linked to cardiovascular complications, but the long-term impacts, particularly for mild infections, are not well understood. A study in Nature Communications demonstrate an increased risk of cardiovascular disease after Covid-19, also among mild cases. #medsky #cardiosky 🧪

A JWST deep-field image, replete with bright, familiar spiral galaxies, dimmer, rounder galaxies, and very dim, red–orange galaxies that date to within the first billion years of the Universe's history. Bright, blue, spikey features are stars in our own galaxy.

This is part of our universe.

An area of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length.

The spiked features are stars in the Milky Way.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.

Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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The driving motivation behind science is to ultimately answer one simple question (with no simple answer): are we alone in the universe?

“It may start as a respiratory virus, but that’s really the tip of the iceberg, and it has downstream ramifications in multiple organ systems, specifically in this case in the cardiovascular space”.

And it also seems that *anyone* can develop Long COVID, regardless of age.

It's worth clarifying that the "disagreement" on quantum mechanics refers to the theory's interpretation, not its predictions, results, or methods.

If galaxies could talk…

And report.

Hypnotizing.

Reaction-diffusion systems are so cool.

Fluid dynamical pathways of airborne transmission while waiting in a line Waiting and walking in lines (queues) can create unexpected air currents that can either heighten or suppress infection risks.

"Current guidelines of increasing physical separation appear to have a limited impact on reducing aerosol transmission."

Fluid dynamical pathways of airborne transmission while waiting in a line | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Much needed.

Physics of COVID-19 Transmission | Chemical Engineering | MIT OpenCourseWare MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity

The physics of airborne COVID transmission in a set of video lectures.

ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-...

One of this year’s Nobel prize laureates in chemistry is an immigrant in the U.S. 👍