conv.science

“Earth is constantly humming with an ultra-low-frequency vibration that can be picked up right across the globe which has puzzled seismologists for decades…”— ABC News, News outlet · ABC Australia · full quotes →

“We have, for too long, said conservatives are going to stay in the current system and just continue to fight and hope our ideas are heard.”— Heidi Overton, Trump's FDA nominee · Scientific American · full quotes →

“Antarctica is one of the driest, coldest places on Earth. Very little life survives its extremes. In the soils scattered around the frozen ice sheets, however…”— Phys.org · full quotes →

“Mummified remains sold online exhibit signs of biodeterioration, yet sellers provide no safety guidance.”— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica science writer · Ars Technica · full quotes →

“Salmon are not simply a resource. Salmon are relatives. They are a part of our culture, our identity, our laws, our responsibilities.”— Dolleen Logan, Lheidli T'enneh Chief · CBC News · full quotes →

“There was one day last week where there was 22,”— Scott Kempton, Portland slipway operator · bluesky (ABC News) · full quotes →

“Over the past 50 years, the Gibbon Conservation Center has become a globally recognized institution dedicated to the care and well-being of gibbons”— Philadelphia Inquirer · full quotes →

“A colossal cliff system created as the supercontinent Rodinia broke apart may have exposed the heart of the Grand Canyon nearly a billion years before the…”— Science Daily · full quotes →

“We figured we were bad at extracting RNA and simply had made a mistake.”— Nicholas Bellono, Molecular biologist, Harvard · Smithsonian Magazine · full quotes →

“Peppercorn-sized clumps of human brain cells grown in a lab for a record seven years aged similarly to those inside our heads, suggesting they "recorded the…”— Scientists, Researchers · Phys.org · full quotes →

“A massive test of gravity across the cosmos found that it behaves almost exactly as Newton and Einstein predicted, even across galaxy clusters hundreds of…”— Science Daily · full quotes →

“The brain generates waves, and wave dynamics are a highly efficient way to coordinate and perform computation”— Earl K. Miller, Picower Professor, MIT · MIT Picower Institute · full quotes →

“Jupiter's gravity could trigger an outburst of Perseid meteors as the 2028 shower hits its peak.”— Space.com · full quotes →

“The Qurayyah Painted Ware of Bronze Age Arabia had distinct visual identity, material consistency, technological continuity, and cultural reputation—all…”— 404 Media · full quotes →

“It turns out that Uzbekistan wasn't even the biggest outlier, but that the version they had published had the axes cropped so you couldn't see the outliers.”— Aurornis, HN commenter · Hacker News · full quotes →

“On 28 August a partial lunar eclipse of magnitude 0.93 will be visible across the country and will not require special eye protection.”— Euronews · full quotes →

“Composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse over San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain on, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026”— NASA · Reddit · full quotes →

“His body was under siege.”— NY Post · full quotes →

“It's part of the fabric of astronomy research now. When you're working with astronomical objects today, you often start by pulling up the Legacy Imaging Viewer…”— David Schlegel, Co-lead of Legacy Surveys, Lawrence Berkeley Lab scientist · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory news center · full quotes →

“Now there are many satellites all the time. I really could notice the change that was happening.”— Samantha Lawler, Astronomer, University of Regina · Scientific American · full quotes →

“It's one of our closest cosmic neighbors. 25 light-years sounds like a long way, but the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, so in that respect it's…”— Paul Robertson, Lead researcher, UC Irvine · Forbes · full quotes →

“Two very different types of quantum particles may be able to form stable droplets that hold themselves together, challenging decades of conventional thinking.”— Science Daily, Science press release · full quotes →

“Researchers from the "Balance of the Microverse" Cluster of Excellence at # UniJena have shown how Collodaria plankton survive in nutrient-poor seas…”— sciencenews@idw-online.social, Science news social account · Mastodon · full quotes →

“A U.S. government lab has recreated the truly alien conditions that melt diamonds deep inside ice giant planets—and the technique could triple the energy gains…”— Matthew Phelan, Science journalist · Gizmodo · full quotes →

“We didn't expect the species to prefer different people when we started the study. Each species having a distinct microbial signature that they use as a cue…”— Kaylee Marrero, Study author · Nautilus · full quotes →

“Stars scattered across the cosmos sparkle in the appropriately named Chandelier Cluster.”— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com writer · Space.com · full quotes →

“Total Solar Eclipse. If you were in Southern Illinois, like I was in the middle of a farm, you saw the eclipse on this day in 2017.”— barrybutler9.bsky.social, Eclipse observer · Bluesky · full quotes →

“Domestic cats identify each other by sniffing their urine, as their urinary composition profiles are individually distinctive.”— Bangkok Post · full quotes →

“motion and formations”— NOAA, Forecasting agency · Forbes · full quotes →