Mark Schulze

‘Ghost’ that haunts abandoned South Carolina rail line may be caused by tiny earthquakes Seismologist Susan Hough chats with Science about her attempts to debunk a local legend

“I’m sure there are colleagues out there thinking, ‘She’s lost her mind.'" Seismologist Susan Hough goes looking for the famed Summerville Ghost, and finds something far more interesting... Cool story by @richardastone.bsky.social for @science.org!

28.01.2025 14:13 — 👍 38    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

Maybe. But I’ll exempt you from Aggie jokes bc where else ya gonna go for meteorology?

02.12.2024 12:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The accepted term appears to be “skeet”. Welcome!

02.12.2024 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why we are all lab rats in the digital world. nature.com

18.11.2024 14:09 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence.

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01.07.2024 21:25 — 👍 2387    🔁 864    💬 48    📌 86

They make it sound like only some votes can be determined but I bet there are data crunchers out there working to find out most votes with a high degree of certainty

09.06.2024 14:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are some voters' ballots not so secret? Texas lawmakers need to fix mess they created Texas lawmakers buckled to the demands of election skeptics who wanted to run their own audits, making more records available without understanding misuse.

Ballots in Texas are no longer secret 😬
www.statesman.com/story/opinio...

09.06.2024 14:11 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Headline: vaccine works even better than thought

Some great news to end the year - Moderna’s mRNA skin cancer vaccine stops recurrence in 49% of people who receive it up to 3 years after treatment. The first stage of a revolution in cancer treatment. (h/t IFP)

28.12.2023 12:40 — 👍 1427    🔁 469    💬 20    📌 30

‘It’s all gone’: CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission Engineered immune cells, most commonly used to treat cancers, show their power against lupus and other immune disorders. Engineered immune cells, most commonly used to treat cancers, show their power ...

They...cured lupus??? www.nature.com/articles/d41... I mean. It's a hella intense, sci-fi treatment, and we're talking only a dozen or two patients, but they have actually knocked down four different autoimmune diseases here and it...works??

14.12.2023 16:40 — 👍 2591    🔁 969    💬 85    📌 195