conv.science

“We see evidence of two contrasting facets of human nature — care and violence — juxtaposed in the same individual.”— Dr. Emma Pomeroy, Lead archaeologist, University of Cambridge · Hacker News · full quotes →

“Radio images show the supergiant's atmosphere recovering from its dramatic dimming, while a companion plows through its outer layers.”— Space.com · full quotes →

“It's a super exciting time to be working on this. Neutrinos do not make sense yet and they could open a door to new physics.”— Dr Kate Shaw · full quotes →

“The rapid expansion of battery storage, data centres and the Internet-of-Things may further amplify such cyber–physical power oscillations, highlighting the…”— Nature Energy · full quotes →

“What spooky planet is this? Planet Earth on a dark and stormy night, of course.”— Astronomy Picture of the Day · full quotes →

“Three astronauts are planned for the mission, with two landing on the lunar surface”— Wang Xiang, Deputy chief designer, China manned space program · Reddit · full quotes →

“some good rechargeable battery safety tips in here”— adub@beige.party · full quotes →

“This is a key step toward understanding the inner workings of the center of the retina, a critical part of the eye and the first to fail in people with macular…”— Robert J. Johnston Jr., Associate professor of biology, Johns Hopkins University · full quotes →

“The elevated D/H ratio for methane in 3I/ATLAS is consistent with the hypothesis that its ices formed in a cold, low-metallicity interstellar or protostellar…”— NASA research team, Study authors · ScienceAlert · full quotes →

“Under Mr. Trump, the federal government is still spending roughly as much on research — about $200 billion this year — as the administrations that came before…”— New York Times · Mastodon · full quotes →

“Zombies are real! Parasitic fungi, wasps, worms and amoeba can control the behavior of their hosts in various horrifying ways.”— TheConversationUS · full quotes →

“The robotic dog is a simple demonstration of how progress in biological systems can also be applied into the real world, but it helps make the opportunity…”— Brett Kagan · full quotes →

“Results show that space-grown organoids more closely resemble human glioblastoma tumors than those grown on Earth”— ISS National Lab press release, Research organization · Reddit · full quotes →

“The QGP is believed to be the form of matter that filled the early universe — before the protons and neutrons that make up today's atoms formed.”— Li Yi · full quotes →

“It really was years of detective work. It quickly became clear to us that the cause must be something controlled by the clock.”— Dirk Witthaut · full quotes →

“Even though these telescopes can't see neutrinos, we can use their data to match up IceCube's detections with their potential sources out in space.”— Yjan Gordon · full quotes →

“The 2250 kg NVS-03 is the third satellite in the next-generation navigation satellite system envisaged for providing continuity of navigation services for the…”— ISRO · full quotes →

“This [new study] ties up some of the loose ends from our previous work, where in characterizing the population's genetic structure we found that while these…”— Megan Dillon · full quotes →

“It is unbelievable. They're so fast.”— Anna Abalkina · full quotes →

“Seguramente parte de las publicaciones científicas se volverán más elitistas como consecuencia de la IA. Y no podemos culparles por ello”— jesgar@mamot.fr · full quotes →

“advance research to really support effective conservation measures and science-driven decision-making in the future”— Charles Labuzzetta, Researcher, Fort Collins Science Center · New Scientist · full quotes →

“You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look…”— c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · full quotes →

“We’ve known this day would come since before Swift was launched. At least in low-Earth orbit, what goes up must come down. And that end is catastrophic.”— John Nousek · full quotes →

“We're just going to one day not hear the signal from the DSN, and we're going to rush around and make sure that it's not something on the ground.”— Suzanne Dodd, Voyager Project Manager · full quotes →

“The problem is there are very few targets—like aberrant proteins—that are only found in cancer. Most of the time, the proteins are important for our healthy…”— Edith C. (Phoebe) Glazer · full quotes →

“the first documented case of long-term zinc-induced creep failure despite a long history of usage over a century”— National Academies report, Consensus study report · Hacker News · full quotes →

“I thought I was wrong. How do you go to your science adviser and tell him that you get so much unstable media?”— unnamed researcher quoted in Quanta Magazine · full quotes →

“The dimensions of trade have changed. Without monitoring it in a representative way, we cannot manage it. At the moment, we are completely underestimating what…”— Alice Hughes, Lead author, University of Melbourne · full quotes →

“seeing Earth 'changed' him”— Joshua Kutryk · full quotes →

“Lucid dreaming can benefit people with nightmares by allowing them to transform their nightmares into positive dreams and feel greater agency in their dreams.”— Daniel Morris, Cognitive neuroscientist, Northwestern University · Live Science · full quotes →

“I'd think that these are two independent GRBs, but the chance of having them happen together (in the same direction and around the same time) is so low [that]…”— Bing Zhang · full quotes →

“The Taurids produce only a handful of meteors an hour. That sounds disappointing, but I've learned that expecting almost nothing can make this one of the most…”— Jamie Carter · full quotes →

“Hubble still has important science ahead of it, and we should be looking at every reasonable opportunity to keep it delivering for as long as possible.”— Jared Isaacman, NASA Administrator · NASA · full quotes →

“about the size of a minivan”— NOAA, Research agency · full quotes →