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...
06.03.2026 15:44 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This 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...
05.03.2026 20:49 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Pterocoma pennata, a comatulid ("feather star") from the Jurassic of Germany
Ginkgoites huttoni, a ginkgo from the Jurassic of England.
Cymatophlebia longialata, a dragonfly from the Jurassic of Germany
Pterodactylus antiquus, a pterosaur from the Jurassic of Germany.
Look at all these beautiful flattened Jurassic friends! ⛏️🤓 All from the Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit -names in alt-text #fossil #paleontology #paleobotany
05.03.2026 17:33 — 👍 106 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 1
an image promoting a substack article titled ‘25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right now’
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.
27.02.2026 14:43 — 👍 15 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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
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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
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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.
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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
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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...
20.01.2026 14:42 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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.
04.01.2026 04:50 — 👍 271 🔁 36 💬 145 📌 10
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...
LIDAR image of landscapes showing linear raised beds over a very large area, with inset image showing the scale of raised beds in a photograph
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.
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