The Neutron Cube 🏅

The valley in Zion National Park, as seen from the summit of Angel's Landing, 2015

#photography #scape #naturephotography #landscapephotography

A black and white photo of Alan Turing. He is looking at the camera and the top of his head is not visible in this closely cropped image. He has dark eyes and bold eyebrows. Turing's hair is very short, which accentuates his ears. He is wearing what appears to be a gray flannel jacket, with what might be a plaid shirt.

Mathematician, computer scientist, and WWII code breaker Alan Turing was born #OTD in 1912.

His work helped establish the theoretical foundation for just about every modern computing device, making it possible (among other things) for you to read this. 🧪 💾

Image: The Guardian

Umm...

Kind of a catchy term, actually.

What a blast! A fun and interesting talk by Flint and Ken. A must listen!👌 👇

The Ruins of Civilizations with Dr. Paul M.M. Cooper Archaeology with Flint Dibble · Episode

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If you missed yesterday's episode, The Ruins of Civilizations with Dr Paul M.M. Cooper @paulmmcooper.bsky.social it is available there

We will port older episodes over soon

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jack A. Reeves, Ferdinand Schweser, et al:

IRONMAP: Iron network mapping and analysis protocol for detecting over-time brain iron abnormalities in neurological disease

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Egypt, major discovery in Saqqara: tomb of Prince Userefra found Important discovery in Egypt, in the archaeological area of Saqqara, where the tomb of Prince Userefra, son of King Userkaf, the first king of the Fifth Dynasty, has been discovered. This was reported...

Egypt, major discovery in #Saqqara: tomb of Prince Userefra found
#Egyptology #archaeology
www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...

Rome’s GRAB: A new way to experience the Eternal City by bicycle Rome is creating a new 50-km ring road for cyclists and walkers as part of an ambitious project known as Grande Raccordo Anulare delle Biciclette, or GRAB.

Rome is creating a new 50-km cycle path that will weave its way past archaeological sites, historic parks, Roman aqueducts and riverbanks.

Scientists Found a 520-Million-Year-Old Miracle: a Fossil With Brains and Guts Intact Scientists discovered a 520-million-year-old fossilized larva with brains and guts intact, offering unprecedented insights into early arthropod evolution.

✳ Amazing discovery ⬇️

www.yahoo.com/news/scienti...

YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble Pompeii. HIDDEN in Plain Sight 👀 WHAT are these!? ⛏️⛏️ #RealArchaeology

These are the coolest features at Pompeii!

youtu.be/dWHuaSCb86I

Toxic dust and stressed seals: What the shrinking Caspian Sea could mean for people and nature An area larger than Iceland is likely to dry up, even if the climate ‘only’ warms up by 2C. Here’s what that means in the Central Asian region.View on euronews

Declining water levels in the Caspian Sea are set to have profound implications for biodiversity and people. 🧪🌍🦭🦩
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

uk.news.yahoo.com/toxic-dust-s...

A photograph of a piece of an ancient Egyptian coffin. This a single slightly curved board from the side of a coffin set upright with the decorated face towards us as if it were still part of a whole item. The background of the decoration is yellow, and the motifs are painted on to it in blue, black, white & red. At the top of the piece is a strip with alternating feathers & snakes. Below this is a rather busy scene with 7 deities, 6 of them standing or sitting on a boat and one behind the boat. They all face to the right, and as we look that way we see 2 rows of 4 ba birds one above the other pulling two ropes attached to the front of the boat to pull it along towards the right. A ba bird is a bird with a human head, and all of these birds are drawn with their bodies facing to the right but their heads craned round looking back towards the boat. The birds have bird legs, but as well as their wings (which are folded on their backs) they have little human arms which extend up & backward to pull the ropes. The are several short bits of hieroglyphic text above the heads of the deities.

This is a piece of one of those busily decorated yellow 21st Dynasty coffins, with every bit of it covered in vignettes and protective symbols. It has no provenance, but it is now in the Ashmolean Museum (or at least it was when I photographed it in 2018). 🧵1/6

#Egyptology

Painting as tribute. Wonderful. Powerful.

A painting of a girl reaching for a star with a galaxy in the background.

This is possibly the most meaningful painting I've ever done, even though it is nearly 4 years old. My Dad always told me lost loved ones are the brightest stars in the night sky.💜

Happy birthday Dad, I miss you so much.💫

This new Webb image shows an edge-on protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star, surrounded by jets and a disc wind, in unprecedented detail.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Tazaki et al.

When Earth Had Rings A new way of thinking about the history of the Earth.

About 466 million years ago (long before the dinosaurs), our planet may have had rings like Saturn. 🧪

The Shiniest Planet Has Clouds of Metal and Glass This exoplanet’s sun should have obliterated its atmosphere. It's still going strong.

More than 200 light years away from Earth, the planet LTT 9779 b reflects 80 percent of the light that hits it due to clouds made of titanium molecules and silicate. 🧪

37 cm tall, marble portrait head of Alexander the Great, said to have been discovered in Alexandria and acquired by the British Museum in 1827, where it is currently displayed.

Colossal pink granite statue of a Ptolemaic king, wearing the Double Crown and chendyt kilt, excavated from the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria between 1995-6, now displayed outside the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Egyptianising, 41” tall, black basalt statue of Cleopatra VII, wearing a tight ankle-length shift dress, a tripartite wig, topped by a triple uraeus and holding a double cornucopia. Held by the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, since 1929.

Ancient map of Alexandria, according to Mahmud Bey, superimposed over a nineteenth century map of the city, created by Wagner & Debes for Baedeker’s Guide to Egypt, 1885.

According to Plutarch, on 7 April c.331 BC, Alexander the Great founded the Egyptian city of Alexandria, which, became the site of his own tomb, home to the Ptolemaic dynasty, the famed Library, and the Pharos lighthouse; a bustling metropolis of high culture and higher drama. #Egyptology

How Small Can You Get? Another New-To-Science Flea-Toad Wows Scientists

by @grrlscientist.bsky.social via #Substack

#frogs #FleaToad #amphibians #NewSpecies #SmallestVertebrates #evolution #ecology #SciComm🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-small-...

World’s tiniest pacemaker could revolutionize heart surgery Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 02 April 2025

🔔🧪 Good news!
Researchers have developed a #prototype #pacemaker that fits inside a syringe and #dissolves when no longer needed! It requires no external power and is controlled using #light shone through the skin.
#heartdisease
#heartsurgery

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

This visual shows three panels that each show Uranus and dynamic aurora activity. The images were captured in October 2022 on the 8th, 10, and 24th respectively. Each image shows a centred planet with a strong blue hue and a visible white region. A faint ring is also visible around the planet in each image. Each image shows fuzzy blue/purple regions hovering over the planet in different locations to indicate the aurorae.

Thanks to more than a decade of Uranus 🔵 observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have measured the planet’s internal rotation rate with a level of accuracy 1000 times greater than previous estimates!

Read more 👉 esahubble.org/news/heic2503/

🧪 🔭 ☄️ #planetsci

YouTube video by Veritasium The Most Controversial Rule In Math

The Most Controversial Rule In Math

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Excavations in Ancient Leucas Fully Reveal the First Theater Discovered in the Ionian Islands Excavations in the ancient city of Leucas have brought to light the first theater discovered in the Ionian Islands. This majestic monument, situated in a privileged position, dominates the landscape o...

Excavations in Ancient Leucas Fully Reveal the First Theater Discovered in the Ionian Islands
#Greece #archaeology
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/04/e...

At the Dawn of Parenting: An Evolutionary Tale of Love and Survival Imagine a small band of early humans huddled around a flickering fire on the African savanna 1.8 million years ago. In the dim glow, a young mother cradles her infant, who fusses quietly. Ther…

Parenting has always been a challenge, and yet our species and others related to us have always found special ways for us to raise our children and successful ways to allow our species to continue on. Find out how our ancient hominin relatives did it. worldofpaleoanthropology.org/2025/03/20/a...

World of Paleoanthropology Welcome to the World of Paleoanthropology, your one-stop shop for unraveling the mysteries of human evolution! Join as we embark on a captivating journey through our deep past. * In-depth interviews:...

I am working on a "Intro to #paleoanthropology" video. Nothing special, but hopefully something to help the newbies out!

Stay tuned for it!

Subscribe to www.youtube.com/channel/UCbX... to not miss it!

Coming this weekend!

#stemeducation #STEMFun #stemforkids

Messier 64, or the Black Eye Galaxy,known for its dark dust band and unusual motion, where outer gas rotates opposite to its inner regions. This result from a merger over a billion years ago. New stars form where the gases collide, creating blue stars, pink hydrogen clouds. Credit: NASA, AURA/STScI

Messier 64, or the Black Eye Galaxy,known for its dark dust band and unusual motion, where outer gas rotates opposite to its inner regions. This result from a merger over a billion years ago. New stars form where the gases collide, creating blue stars, pink hydrogen clouds.

Credit: NASA, AURA/STScI

I want to boost this point and my video for the science community here because several legit sci comm influencers have shared this pseudoscience in the last few days

Instead share #RealArchaeology and talk to real archaeologists before sharing fake archaeology stories 🧪🏺📗 #AncientBlueSky

YouTube video by The Vintage Space Context to this BIG question is in my latest video #shorts #history

Should tech giants have to face the moral consequences that come from their creations?

Full video in linked post!

youtube.com/shorts/vNkCr...

Mystery ancient Egyptian royal tomb sheds light on history in Sohag - Ancient Egypt - Antiquities Two major discoveries have been made in Sohag Governorate in a remarkable archaeological breakthrough, shedding new light on Egypt’s ancient past.

New discovery: Egyptian royal tomb sheds light on history in Sohag. A royal tomb from the Second Intermediate Period in the Gebel Anubis necropolis at Abydos in Sohag Governorate was uncovered.

english.ahram.org.eg/News/542019....

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