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Humans first landed on the moon 40 years ago this July. Just three years later, the last human mission left the lunar surface. We remember Apollo astronaut Alan Bean in this archival interview from 2009.
Birds don’t just see the world from higher up than the rest of us; they also see a whole range of light that we can’t. Birds have a fourth color cone in their eyes that lets them see ultraviolet wavelengths.
📺The new show
#TheLastOfUsHBO
takes viewers to a world taken over by a fungus that turns people into zombies. When it comes to the zombifying fungus, what’s science and what’s fiction?
Geek out with us and mycologist
@queendom_fungi
on
#SciFriLive
📻!
Alan Alda on empathy and communication: "You have to listen better than the person you’re communicating with. The other person becomes your communicating partner, not the target of your communication. It’s ping pong instead of archery."
Alright everybody, that's it for
#SciFriLive
today...and for
#CephalopodWeek
!
Thanks for such a fun poddy over these last 8 undersea days. We'd say it went swimmingly. We'll leave you with this "adorabilis" for now.
“The scientists of the world are being ignored. And it’s got to stop. We’re going to lose everything. And we’re not joking. We’re not lying. We’re not exaggerating.”-
@ClimateHuman
Why scientists are turning to civil disobedience to fight climate inaction.
Happy
#IndependenceDay
! Take a moment to meet these African American women mathematicians and engineers who crunched the calculations that got the U.S. to the moon.
Did you know that when a leaf on a plant is snipped, crushed, or chewed, it transmits distress signals to other healthy leaves?? Yeah, we didn’t either. Mind = blown.
Say hello to... pocket prairies!
These patches of native prairie grass can be planted anywhere—from front yards to traffic medians—and can hold up to *nine inches* of rainwater during a storm, reducing the likelihood of catastrophic floods.
The COVID pandemic continues to reveal many existing biases in medical care. Disabilities advocates are saying their community is often belittled and denied medical attention.
On
#SciFriLive
📻,
@KALW
reporter
@chrisegusa
joins us to spotlight their story.
A passenger in a commercial airplane flying across the Pacific saw an odd gray mass floating in the ocean.
It turned out to be a giant pumice raft from an eruption of an underwater volcano.
Don’t forget to look for Mars tonight! (It’s closer to Earth than it’s been in nearly 20 years.) Planetary scientist
@BonnieMeinke
has some Marsgazing tips for you.
When the plague hit Europe, the Venetians established "trentino," a 30-day isolation period for ships entering ports.
It was eventually extended to 40 days, and called "quarantino"—the Italian word for 40, and the root of the English "quarantine."
"On that blue dot, that's where everyone you know, and everyone you ever heard of, and every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives, the very small stage in a great cosmic arena."
Happy birthday, Carl Sagan.
🔬 Researchers are working on the next generation of coronavirus vaccines that aim to protect us against multiple emerging variants—and even prevent future pandemics.
Researchers Dr. Pamela Bjorkman &
@VirusesImmunity
join
#SciFriLive
📻 to share more.
🥳 Celebrate
#WomenInScience
with a brand new season of
#BreakthroughFilms
, dropping today!
Discover the innovative research & deeply personal stories of six women working at the forefront of their STEM fields.
🌋🦕🧠Get inspired at 🌌🌎🍄
Join us TODAY, June 21 at 6:00pm ET, to talk about the squiddy science featured in SciFri Book Club pick for June 2023: "Monarchs of the Sea" with author
@DannaStaaf
and science communicator
@SarahMackAttack
RSVP here:
@ehtelescope
@NSF
The M87 black hole is one of two black holes
@ehtelescope
is working on. Data from the other black hole, Sagittarius A* at the core of the Milky Way, may be released later as the team continues to hone in on its complexities, says Doeleman.
#EHTBlackHole
While he may not have come up with peanut butter, George Washington Carver invented some 300 uses for the peanut—from soaps, lotions, and shaving cream.
Happy
#NationalPeanutButterDay
!
"Nature is really funny. It's never not funny." In our latest SciArts video,
@RosemaryMosco
shows us the seriously silly natural world in her science comics!
Almost time for the Oscars! You may know actress Hedy Lamarr from old movies. But did you know that one of her greatest roles was laying the foundation for today’s wireless internet?
Earlier this month, more than 1,000 acres of land in central New York were returned to the Onondaga Nation, the original steward of the land. This decision marks one of the largest returns of land to an Indigenous nation in US history.
The mRNA innovations used to fight COVID-19 could be harnessed for nasal spray vaccines and even protection against other diseases.
@EricTopol
joins us to talk about this approach and the advantages of nasal vaccines.
Peter Kalmus (
@ClimateHuman
) went viral when video of him protesting was likened to the film
#DontLookUp
.
On
#SciFriLive
📻, Kalmus & ecologist Rose Abramoff (
@ultracricket
) share why scientists are turning to civil disobedience to fight climate inaction.
We really wanted to make a chemistry joke today.... but all the good ones arrrrrr-gon 🏴☠️
(Did you really think we'd let
#TalkLikeAPirateDay
go by without making that joke?)