conv.science

“If NGC 4698 funneled in gas from an outside source, the newly collected gas could have formed a disc of gas and stars in the galaxy's centre, at an angle…”— European Space Agency · full quotes →

“Finding it alive and well among particles as heavy and short-lived as Z bosons, created in some of the most violent collisions we can produce on Earth, shows…”— Professor Alan Barr, University of Oxford · full quotes →

“A bacterial infection is wiping out Florida's citrus trees. Growers hope a rootstock developed with gene-editing technology could keep the disease at bay.”— NPR · full quotes →

“Turning the tumor's own protection against it is wild.”— biologist077.bsky.social · full quotes →

“Lo que quiero ahora mismo es aprovechar la inteligencia artificial (IA) para que sea algo más que una máquina de respuestas, para construir una representación…”— Sabrina González-Pasterski · full quotes →

“"not having a known etymology" is weak evidence for borrowing, full stop, let alone for borrowing from a substrate language. Languages invent new words and…”— empath75 · full quotes →

“We're working to build a world where a cure for a new disease is created in weeks, not decades. Where our air, water, and soil are clean because we removed…”— David Baker · full quotes →

“You probably also think that conscious experience would be present in a wide range of naturally-evolved alien beings behaviorally very similar to us even if…”— f30e3dfed1c9 · full quotes →

“The discovery of "hypersoft" X-ray beacons could help solve some mysteries about the universe.”— Kenneth Chang, New York Times science reporter · full quotes →

“I just stopped, dropped everything, and started looking into what that spot was.”— Robert Wagner, NASA scientist · full quotes →

“The Shark Nebula is already a striking object, but when it is resolved to the point where even detail-rich distant galaxies can be seen through it, you know…”— Steve Marsh, Judge and art editor, BBC Sky at Night Magazine · Bluesky · full quotes →

“This is how he managed to reduce the costs by 90%.”— WalterBright · full quotes →

“the sort of place one gets into in bad dreams”— colonial Victorian-era explorers, historical description quoted in the article · Bluesky · full quotes →

“Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more powerful.”— Carl Zimmer · full quotes →

“You have to do a lot to get bit by one.”— Hayley Crowell, Snake expert, San Diego State University · full quotes →

“After developing the biggest-ever map of Roman roads, a team of archaeologists has found that some of our most basic assumptions about them may be way off.”— Gayoung Lee, Gizmodo writer · Mastodon · full quotes →

“Nikon's annual Small World In Motion competition is open to anyone around the world with an interest in film or time-lapse photography through a microscope.”— BBC · BBC News · full quotes →

“This perception of dolphins as the 'good guys of the sea' has more to do with anthropomorphism—our tendency to assign human characteristics to them—and perhaps…”— Asia Haines · full quotes →

“We had to continually develop new processes to make this extremely long-lived, vibrating object and then integrate it with the qubit, without ruining either…”— Takuma Makihara · full quotes →

“UCD can now claim to have the oldest standing building on any university campus in Ireland.”— Professor Tadhg O'Keeffe · full quotes →

“We really need to bring in a public campaign of shaming the wankers who choose to buy these yank tanks.”— Real_RobinGoodfellow, Reddit commenter · Reddit · full quotes →

“The sorts of multi-carbon products we generate with this approach are really useful for a lot of chemical industries.”— Lea Winter, Yale assistant professor · Reddit · full quotes →

“Black holes are 'actually very messy eaters'—only about half of the star that gets too close will end up being swallowed.”— Dr. Adelle Goodwin · full quotes →

“Yes, i have always hated this about physics. It is the only scientific field that apparently feels no responsibility to explain "why", deciding that "what" is…”— daishi55 · full quotes →

“Most journals and conferences require authors to ensure correctness and integrity of their papers and take responsibility for them. This is particularly…”— Nihar B. Shah, TMLR editor-in-chief · Medium (quoted on Mastodon) · full quotes →

“I was pushed to use "Enslaved person" instead of "Slaves" in my masters thesis. I didn't fight it because it was ultimately part of an aside point anyway. But…”— BonerPorn, Reddit commenter · Reddit · full quotes →

“The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.”— Galileo Galilei, Physicist and mathematician · Hacker News · full quotes →

“The Little Red Dots are black holes growing at a rate that would be impossible today because of conditions in the early universe.”— Phys.org · full quotes →

“Finding a capybara tooth in a marine deposit in what today is one of the driest regions on Earth is just freakish.”— Priscilla Martinez, Lead author, University of Arizona doctoral student · Reddit · full quotes →

“If the brain in the mouse is 100% human tissue, is that a person?”— Lazarou@mastodon.social · full quotes →

“If approved, careful drilling to deploy miniature tractors equipped with cameras could start in November.”— George Ballard · full quotes →

“All sturgeon species now need to be reassessed for their age because of this paper.”— Prosanta Chakrabarty · full quotes →

“I felt that I could not sign the letter, despite agreeing with much of what it said. Also, I agree on the fundamental point that we are facing a crisis: I just…”— Tim Gowers · full quotes →

“While ordinary computers famously store data as binary digits that can take on a value of either zero or one, quantum computers harness the laws of quantum…”— Steven Melendez, Fast Company reporter · full quotes →