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Just an old technophobic laborer trying to learn how to get past my limitations and hoping to help democracy survive.

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First-ever 'mummified' and hoofed dinosaur discovered in Wyoming badlands Researchers have unearthed two dinosaur "mummies" in the badlands of Wyoming, confirming duck-billed dinosaurs had hooves, alongside a string of other discoveries.

www.livescience.com/animals/dino...

29.10.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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For the first time, James Webb telescope detects 5 'building blocks of life' in ice outside the Milky Way New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around a star outside our galaxy. This cosmic first hints that the stuff of life m...

www.livescience.com/space/astron...

29.10.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over the Internet for the First Time – A New Era Begins Scientists at Northwestern University have achieved quantum teleportation over active internet cables for the first time, sending quantum information through 30 kilometers of fiber-optic cable carryin...

Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over the Internet for the First Time – A New Era Begins share.google/m4okpgtccbgS...

28.10.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Puzzling' object discovered by James Webb telescope may be the earliest known galaxy in the universe While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling discoveries" to date.

www.livescience.com/space/cosmol...

28.10.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Quantum computing 'lie detector' finally proves these machines tap into Einstein's spooky action at a distance rather than just faking it Researchers developed an experimental method for confirming quantum activity in a quantum computing system.

www.livescience.com/technology/c...

21.10.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New eye implants combined with augmented-reality glasses help blind people read again in small trial Of the 38 patients with age-related macular degeneration, 80% were able to read again after having the eye implant and using the glasses.

www.livescience.com/health/new-e...

21.10.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Holy Grail of Physics: Scientists Discover New Path to Room-Temperature Superconductors Penn State scientists have unveiled a new theory-driven method to predict superconductors, offering a possible path toward materials that could conduct electricity perfectly. Electricity travels throu...

The Holy Grail of Physics: Scientists Discover New Path to Room-Temperature Superconductors share.google/uWMrMzrYBD1U...

26.10.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œUnlike Anything Yet Discovered”: New Fossil Rewrites Our Understanding of Reptile Evolution A 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon reveals unexpected skull and tooth features in one of the earliest lepidosaurs. A newly discovered fossil from Devon has provided rare insight into the appeara...

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14.10.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Astrophotographer Adds His Adorable Cat to Far Out Space Photos In space, nobody can hear you meow.

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14.10.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alex Ross - Superman convenes the β€œwar room”, in the classic Mark Waid/Alex Ross tale, Kingdom Come (1996).

26.09.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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A Million-Year-Old Skull Just Rewrote The Origin Story of Humanity An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the history of modern humans.

www.sciencealert.com/a-million-ye...

27.09.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulous): The Waxwings that move south from northern Eurasian & N.American forests during the winter frequently appear in towns, cities and urban areas. Cracking photograph taken by Richard Cousens in Yorkshire, UK. #waxwing #waxwings #bird #birds #wildlife #nature

28.09.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 380    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4
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30,000-year-old 'personal toolkit' found in the Czech Republic provides 'very rare' glimpse into the life of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer Archaeologists have found an extraordinary cluster of Stone Age artifacts that may have been the personal gear of a single prehistoric individual.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

28.09.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Physicists find a loophole in Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle without breaking it By using something called a quantum grid, scientists have found a clever way to simultaneously measure momentum and position without violating Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

www.livescience.com/physics-math...

28.09.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Martin Gregus Jr.
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"One of the most unique sequences I filmed this summer was on a day when three to five bears were play wrestling in the water."

29.09.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 778    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 12
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125-Year Mystery Solved: New Dinosaur Species Identified in Wales Paleontologists identified a new dinosaur species from a 125-year-old Welsh fossil. The animal was a giant Triassic theropod. Paleontologists at the University of Bristol have confirmed a new dinosaur...

scitechdaily.com/125-year-mys...

30.09.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
I didn't want to miss getting a nice image of one of my all-time favourite nebulae, the Rosetta nebula, before it was too late in the season and moved into the west. 

This image combines 15 x 60s exposures in each color channel, using broad-band filters B (blue), G (green) and R (red). I also tried to achieve natural colours (i.e. the colours we would see with our eyes).

The data were taken at 10:30pm, Sunday 15 March 2021, from Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia).

I used a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro at -20C with the ZWO 2" BGR filters, my new 7x2" ZWO filter wheel, a Skywatcher Black Diamond 80mm with an Orion x0.8 focal reducer (effective focal length 480 mm, f/6). I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, filter wheel, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope).

The data have been processed with SIRIL, then converted into TIF using Fits Liberator using a logarithmic stretch, and finally combined in Photoshop to get the colours and the final details. Darks, flats and biases were used.

I usually try to get at least 30-40 frames per filter, but as I said this was a compromise to get a nice colour shot of this nebula before it set, and hence I took 15 exposures per filter, and only 60 seconds each (and the highest gain in the camera, hence the noise that can be seen when zooming in). Otherwise I would have taken ~5 minute exposures with a lower gain and 40 of them. 

In any case, I hope you li...

I didn't want to miss getting a nice image of one of my all-time favourite nebulae, the Rosetta nebula, before it was too late in the season and moved into the west. This image combines 15 x 60s exposures in each color channel, using broad-band filters B (blue), G (green) and R (red). I also tried to achieve natural colours (i.e. the colours we would see with our eyes). The data were taken at 10:30pm, Sunday 15 March 2021, from Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia). I used a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro at -20C with the ZWO 2" BGR filters, my new 7x2" ZWO filter wheel, a Skywatcher Black Diamond 80mm with an Orion x0.8 focal reducer (effective focal length 480 mm, f/6). I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, filter wheel, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope). The data have been processed with SIRIL, then converted into TIF using Fits Liberator using a logarithmic stretch, and finally combined in Photoshop to get the colours and the final details. Darks, flats and biases were used. I usually try to get at least 30-40 frames per filter, but as I said this was a compromise to get a nice colour shot of this nebula before it set, and hence I took 15 exposures per filter, and only 60 seconds each (and the highest gain in the camera, hence the noise that can be seen when zooming in). Otherwise I would have taken ~5 minute exposures with a lower gain and 40 of them. In any case, I hope you li...

A quick view of the Rosetta nebula - From Ángel López-SÑnchez - https://flic.kr/p/2kLxJKy

30.09.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 214    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"She walked like us, but around 3.2 million years ago.
For five years now, a life-sized fleshed-out model of a female Australopithecus aferensis known as "Lucy."
(note: link below goes to Facebook... )
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

01.10.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientists find best evidence yet that icy moon Enceladus is habitable An ocean flowing beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus is spewing ice that holds the building blocks of life.

www.livescience.com/space/saturn...

02.10.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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From tool use to warfare β€” here are 5 ways Jane Goodall revolutionized our knowledge of chimpanzees Pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall has died at age 91. These are her five biggest contributions to how we understand about our closest living relatives.

www.livescience.com/animals/land...

03.10.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Harvest supermoon photos: See the moon at its biggest and brightest in pictures from around the world This year's full 'Harvest moon' was also a supermoon. Check out some of the best images of this lunar event with our worldwide gallery.

www.livescience.com/space/the-mo...

07.10.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa): 108cm (43in). This is a medium-sized wild cat occurring from the Himalayan foothills through mainland Southeast Asia into southern China. Total population is suspected to be fewer than 10,000 mature individuals. #cloudedleopard #leopard #wildlife #nature #bluesky

07.10.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 281    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4
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Second-farthest object ever spotted by James Webb telescope may be something we've never seen before Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, astrophysicists have spotted what they say is compelling evidence of a new type of cosmic object called a 'dark star.'

www.livescience.com/space/cosmol...

09.10.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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New species of deep-sea shark and crab discovered off Western Australia A single voyage of discovery in 2022 is helping us put more incredible marine life on the map.

www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...

09.10.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New species of Jurassic 'sword dragon' could help solve an evolutionary mystery The newly discovered ichthyosaur dubbed Xiphodracon goldencapsis was about 10 feet long and had a sword-shaped snout.

www.livescience.com/animals/exti...

10.10.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Groundbreaking image shows two black holes orbiting each other for first time Observations by a system of radio telescopes have offered the first visual evidence for the existence of black hole pairs. But vital follow-up observations are needed before we know for sure.

www.livescience.com/space/black-...

11.10.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Emerald Dragon, Javier Franco Santacreu
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11.10.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Physicists capture rare illusion of an object moving at 99.9% the speed of light For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like β€” an optical illusion called the Terrell-Penrose effect.

www.livescience.com/physics-math...

12.10.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Incredible Fossil Reveals Two-Headed Creature From The Dinosaur Age Rare malformations can cause animals to grow two heads – and it seems that kind of thing has been happening for millions of years.

www.sciencealert.com/incredible-f...

17.08.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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