conv.science

“The largest analysis of bat genomes and fossils suggests that the first bats emerged in Europe roughly 65 million years ago and that echolocation evolved early.”— Emily Anthes · full quotes →

“We may be looking at one of the most important remains ever discovered for understanding Gallic Lutetia”— Catherine Pegard, French Culture Minister · full quotes →

“The dynamics of submarine caldera-forming eruptions and, thus, the hazards they pose are not well understood, owing to the relative inaccessibility of the…”— Research paper · full quotes →

“humans will never live on Mars. no atmosphere. no magnetosphere. lower gravity. no water.”— transitfossil.bsky.social · full quotes →

“The sunburn you feel isn't a distress signal from cells warning that they can't be trusted, it's tissue death and an inflammatory reaction triggered by a…”— EA-3167 · full quotes →

“A legionary would therefore have had to save all of his disposable income for about six years to amass the Wesseling hoard.”— Rahel Otte · full quotes →

“The 4-minute mile was long thought to be impossible. But once accomplished, it only took weeks to be broken again.”— Angela Oliverio, Senior researcher, Syracuse University · full quotes →

“It's a little bit non-humble to name your microscopes after gods, but we're pretty confident in its abilities.”— Tracy Lovejoy · full quotes →

“If their results hold—and I'm confident they will—then we'll have taken a step further in investigating planets we can't yet visit in person.”— Paul Byrne · full quotes →

“sPL.001 shows that, crucially and very specifically, what's in the dirt isn't going to be the dealbreaker!”— Pioneer Labs · full quotes →

“The destruction of the system is programmed at a very early stage.”— Junyue Cao, Cell biologist, Rockefeller University · Hacker News · full quotes →

“Methane concentration is among the key factors determining the composition of microbial communities at the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet.”— Charles University researchers · full quotes →

“We're only doing good deals, and we haven't always done good deals. There was absolutely a time where we were trying to make everyone happy.”— Jared Isaacman, NASA Administrator · Mastodon · full quotes →

“Historic sighting: A rare olive ridley sea turtle has laid eggs in Orange County, marking the first documented nesting of its kind on the West Coast.”— ABC7 Los Angeles · full quotes →

“The next generation of American scientists is fading away”— Financial Times · Financial Times headline · full quotes →

“Long-tailed Broadbill 23-25 cm Himalayas, northeastern India, and Southeast Asia. monogamous pairform long-term bonds for their life time both the male and…”— joycomes.bsky.social, Bluesky poster · Bluesky · full quotes →

“Nearly half of your genome is a wild drama: mobile, repetitive, disruptive, even viral.”— Quanta Magazine · full quotes →

“Walker's size and experience has, so far, given him an advantage over most of those competitors, but that won't last forever.”— explore.org · full quotes →

“As the U.S. prepares to enter the fall season, different parts of the country will display their peak fall foliage.”— Katherine Rodriguez, Reporter · full quotes →

“It would be great maybe within the next five years to start at least one new project, you never know maybe two”— Dr Martin Gaywood · full quotes →

“The salty slab within the secondary Era Kohor crater is up to 3,300 feet (1,000 m) across and several feet thick. It was left behind by an ancient lake that…”— Live Science · full quotes →

“A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms…”— Science Daily · full quotes →

“Two Tasmanian devil specimens came out of Juukan 2, the Pilbara rock shelter Rio Tinto blew up in 2020... the first direct evidence devils ever lived in that…”— RealJournalism@mastodon.social, Mastodon user · Mastodon · full quotes →

“The 3-pound cat is a member of the first living wild cat species to be identified in more than a century.”— Associated Press · full quotes →

“It's the challenge of the deep sea. Most people never go there, and yet it's a huge part of our planet we need to connect with. That was the motive behind the…”— Eleanor Mortimer · full quotes →

“Maybe we can figure out what to do about all that plastic waste? But hey, maybe not that?”— PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social · full quotes →

“Our recent research has also shown that on-average sex differences are present in brain structure at birth and emerge prenatally. This new study tells us that…”— Yumnah Khan, PhD student, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge · University of Cambridge news release · full quotes →

“The Full Moon is now just a few days away, so the surface of the Moon is mostly illuminated.”— Mashable · full quotes →

“Welcome to the Artemis Accords, Albania 🇦🇱 Earlier today, the Republic of Albania became the 73rd country to sign the Artemis Accords”— @NASA · full quotes →

“Let me show you how quantum physics works. This globular springtail is so fast is looks like it teleports itelf: this happens thanks to its spring-like furcula…”— @Rainmaker1973 · full quotes →

“A special Pikachu plush has even travelled to the International Space Station with ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot!”— ESA · full quotes →

“Those materials are known to be relatively safe. That was the biggest driver, thinking about materials that can be tolerated by humans.”— Traverso, Senior author, MIT researcher · Mastodon · full quotes →

“The location of the U.S. Space Academy is foundational to its success.”— NASA · full quotes →

“When we went out into the field, and we saw a whole bunch of different individuals that looked morphologically different, and they were also living in ……”— Dr Braxton Jones, Lead researcher, University of Sydney · The Guardian · full quotes →