conv.science

“No single signal, and no fixed threshold, determines the outcome. A signal is a prompt to investigate, and where needed the journal is put forward for…”— Elsevier spokesperson · full quotes →

“Deep-sea animals capture the imagination, creating wonder and awe that we hope will inspire stewardship of the largest living space on Earth.”— Steven Haddock · full quotes →

“really the holy grail”— Gregory Holland, Chemist and spectroscopist, San Diego State University · Hacker News · full quotes →

“UVEX is a bold leap forward in our exploration of the ultraviolet universe.”— Ray Jayawardhana · full quotes →

“I've explored the furthest reaches of what a human can explore at NASA — and there were truly no words in the English vocabulary to describe seeing the Sun…”— Reid Wiseman · full quotes →

“Noah's Ark was a giant wooden boat, according to the Bible. As wood decays, you're gonna find elevated organic matter.”— Andrew Jones · full quotes →

“may hold the key to understanding a major evolutionary turning point.”— Utah Geological Survey · full quotes →

“Despite this abundance, the hydrogen atom has been almost completely inaccessible in the chemistry lab for over a century.”— The Conversation · The Conversation article · full quotes →

“Researchers are exploring novel ways to treat, even prevent, the brain disease C.T.E. One of the most surprising: near-infrared light.”— The New York Times, Science section · full quotes →

“In the heart, lactate can enter mitochondria directly through a specific transporter protein and this process is essential for cardiac function under stress.”— Trace Thome and Zolt Arany, Cardiovascular researchers · Nature News · full quotes →

“We're hoping to understand how things like climate change, fire and urbanization might be impacting the genetic diversity of species.”— Jason Bond · full quotes →

“Most comets would have been traveling too fast and at too steep an angle to Earth for prebiotic compounds to survive impact with the planet, researchers…”— Scientific Reports, Journal · Mastodon · full quotes →

“Information about a physical system can itself be used to extract useful work from that system.”— ScienceAlert (reporting Bechinger's research) · full quotes →

“A landmass that broke away from northwestern Australia about 150 million years ago and drifted north for the next 100 million years helped lay the foundations…”— Phys.org · full quotes →

“Apeiron, the Boundless, captures the ambition of human spaceflight and the possibilities it opens for humanity.”— Michael Colglazier, CEO, Virgin Galactic · Investing.com · full quotes →

“Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138! Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier this…”— Rubin Observatory · full quotes →

“Palaeolake deposits were recorded at 55 of 125 localities investigated, yet no lithic artefacts and no knappable raw materials were found along the transect…”— Rudolf W. Dellmour et al., Lead researchers · Nature · full quotes →

“The best ones rely on platinum, ruthenium and iridium, which are scarce and expensive. We wanted to know whether a small amount of iron and nickel oxides…”— Research team, Study authors · Phys.org · full quotes →

“A real thermal cloak should work no matter where the heat comes from. Our device can hide a complex 3D object in an infinite number of directions while keeping…”— Shelly Zhang, Lead researcher, University of Illinois · Science Daily · full quotes →

“The asteroid impact had dramatic consequences for the environment. We have now found the genomic mechanism that connects these ecological upheavals to the…”— Dr. Lukas Schrader, Study lead · Science Daily · full quotes →

“Tumors are often dense and physically difficult for immune cells to penetrate. Understanding how T cells adapt to these environments could help researchers…”— Judith Mandl · full quotes →

“Unlike in similar systems previously found, the debris—the leftovers of planets that once orbited the star—is organized in a double disk, the two parts…”— ESO/Phys.org · full quotes →

“Our results show that eastern and western European populations were not as genetically isolated as previously assumed.”— Pere Gelabert, Evolutionary anthropologist, University of Vienna · full quotes →

“I knew that making a glass of this type was likely to be a complex task, as it is not just a case of adding nanoparticles to glass.”— Lisa Hollands · full quotes →

“Most materials burn up or break apart, but some dense or heat-resistant components can survive and reach the ground.”— NASA · Hindustan Times · full quotes →

“Before this acquisition the spacecraft was still resolving the Didymos system as a single dot. But now, even though Dimorphos is made up of only around one…”— Michael Kueppers, Hera team member · Mastodon · full quotes →

“When a seven-eared stem emerged from the ground, it seemed like a miracle. What Claudio Grossi had unearthed was an ancient grain that proved to be an answer…”— Smithsonian Magazine · full quotes →

“was for a very long time believed to be sort of a teenager of T. rex. But it's a lot smaller and its a lot more gracile. So it's very sort-of sleek, slender…”— Megan Jenkins, Paleontologist, University of Portsmouth · BBC Radio 4's Today programme · full quotes →

“Earth may have produced much of its water during the planet's formation, as rocky pebbles reacted with the hydrogen-rich atmosphere surrounding the young planet”— Phys.org · full quotes →

“What you describe is pretty close to how we formalised this proof, which is scattered across more than 500 articles and books: a swarm of agents was tasked…”— jonath_laurent · full quotes →

“Pretty fun, and I imagine kids would really like this (Countryman's daughter inspired him to create it).”— Phil Plait · full quotes →

“Both Odyssey and MRO are some of the most productive spacecraft that have ever existed”— Briony Horgan · full quotes →

“I'm on the monarch migration path and had wild milkweeds with monarch butterflies for a few years but the last 2-3 years oleander aphids exploded in population…”— lovich, Hacker News commenter · Hacker News · full quotes →

“The spacecraft is designed to drag two dead satellites into Earth's atmosphere, where they are expected to disintegrate.”— Smithsonian Magazine · full quotes →