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Corey S Powell

Nature presents us with 80 "octaves" of light, of which humans can see exactly 1.

Bringing the other 79 octaves into view has taken two centuries of effort, but it has transformed our ability to sense our place in the cosmic order.

My new essay in Aeon magazine:

https://aeon.co/essays/william-herschels-sensors-let-us-see-the-invisible-universe #space #science #nature #tech

This is a mosaic of the images covering the entire sky as observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), part of its All-Sky Data Release.

The sky can be thought of as a sphere that surrounds us in three dimensions. To make a map of the sky, astronomers project it into two dimensions. Many different methods can be used to project a spherical surface into a 2-D map. The projection used in this image of the sky, called Aitoff, takes the 3-D sky sphere and slices open one hemisphere, and then flattens the whole thing out into an oval shape.

In the mosaic, the Milky Way Galaxy runs horizontally across this map. The Milky Way is shaped like a disk and our solar system is located in that disk about two-thirds of the way out from the center. So we see the Milky Way as a band running through the sky. As we look toward the center of the galaxy, we are looking through more of the disk than when we are looking at large angles away from the center, and you can see a noticeable increase in stars (colored blue-green) toward the center of the image.

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. Today: Clara Ward lives in Silicon Valley on the border between reality and speculative fiction. When not using words to teach or tell stories, Clara uses wood, fiber, and glass to make practical or completely impractical objects.

Their latest novel, Be the Sea, features a near-future ocean voyage, chosen family, and sea creature perspectives, while delving into our oceans...

https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotlight-clara-ward/

#AuthorSpotlight #Science Fiction #Fantasy #SciFantasy

Bits of Pluto

A bit of Pluto
#pluto #nasa #space #astronomy #science #plutopics

Project Gutenberg

Electric Fish and the First Battery

Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile, the earliest electric battery, in part because of his investigations into the torpedo, an electric ray fish.

By: Danny Robb

https://daily.jstor.org/electric-fish-and-the-first-battery/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mcae&utm_campaign=jstordaily-05282025

Alessandro Volta at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=alessandro+volta

#books #science

Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), demonstrating his pile (battery) to Napoleon in Paris, 1801. From Le Petit Journal 1901.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_pile_de_Volta_(Le_Petit_journal).jpg

Bytes Europe

Seeing well-designed gardens could relax us almost immediately because we look at them differently https://www.byteseu.com/1062992/ #EverythingScience #Science

Flipboard Science Desk

The White House is pulling the nomination of billionaire Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator. Isaacman is one of Elon Musk’s business partners. Read more from @Semafor.

https://flip.it/BopQkC

#Science #ScienceNews #NASA #Trump

Kim Perales

"You just can't make this stuff up. Head of US Health and Human Services celebrates the release of his fraudulent report with a "health influencer" by consuming a product deemed dangerous by the agencies he oversees. Make it make sense."
-N Aboelata, MD
#HHS #RFKJr #Health #MAHA #Science #PublicHealth #Resist #June14 #USPol

Two men in business attire are clinking glasses while drinking from shot glasses filled with a creamy liquid, presumably raw milk. The setting appears to be an elegant room with decorative detailing.

Kim Perales

"According to this paper, the removal of😷mask mandates in schools in early 2022 is responsible, through spillover infections, for nearly 22,000 deaths that year alone—9 percent of all American COVID mortality in 2022."
-D Wallace-Wells

#Covid #Masks #PublicHealth #Health #Science #HHS #CDC #USPol https://www.nber.org/papers/w33849

Corey S Powell

Using new adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing.

This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down.

https://nso.edu/press-release/new-adaptive-optics-shows-stunning-details-of-our-stars-atmosphere/ #space #science #NSF #nature

Coronal rain forms when hotter plasma in the Sun’s corona cools down and becomes denser. Like raindrops on Earth, coronal rain is pulled down to the surface by gravity. Because the plasma is electrically charged, it follows the magnetic field lines, which make huge arches/loops, instead of falling in a straight line.

Noodlemaz

Uhhm
What the fuck, academia.edu??
Is there no opt-out for this? I'm not a first author on this but I do NOT want my papers fed into this bullshit. Any help..?
#scientistsAgainstGenerativeAI #artistsAgainstGenerativeAI #writersAgainstGenAI #aiSlop #ai_slop #AITheft #science #publishing #research #academia #AcademiaEdu

Screenshot of an email from Academia.edi, title is 'An AI created a podcast of your paper' (it's about integrins and tumour blood vessels) and embedded is an audio file over 4min 45seconds long, with a big blue Listen to Podcast button below

Science Scholar

“Safer” Vapes Might Be Worse: Ultrasonic Devices Found Full of Toxic Metals https://scitechdaily.com/safer-vapes-might-be-worse-ultrasonic-devices-found-full-of-toxic-metals/ #science

Warren Currie

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Light is an extremely important factor in the oceans. It governs not only photosynthesis, but is also an important cue for vertically migrating zooplankton and needed for visual predation. The finding that 20% of the #oceans, especially at vital polar regions, are increasingly murky over the last 20 years is very worrying. Over 9% had the photic zone reduced by more than 50 m. This will impact #phytoplankton growth and #carbon flux. #science
https://scitechdaily.com/21-of-the-ocean-is-losing-sunlight-what-that-means-for-marine-life/

#science

Corey S Powell

J. Scott Coatsworth, Author

Bits of Pluto

Project Gutenberg

Bytes Europe

Flipboard Science Desk

Kim Perales

Kim Perales

Corey S Powell

Noodlemaz

Science Scholar

Warren Currie

Radical Anthropology

Jesús Estrada

Jesús Estrada