conv.science

“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 →

“Another quantum step forward.”— ScienceAlert · full quotes →

“You're also obsessed. They're even worse imo, bc they waste their time and energy on people that they hate. Atleast the stans spend it in those they love.”— sansabum · full quotes →

“From the surface, these features can look remarkably like shallow valleys or drainage channels, but our evidence shows they have a very different origin.”— Dr. Matej Lipar · full quotes →

“That information will help engineers harden structures so one won't have to worry about damage, or maybe worry less.”— Mark Robinson · full quotes →

“We've never seen anything quite like this in Saturn's southern hemisphere. The northern hexagon has been there every time we looked for more than 40 years…”— Dr. Amy Simon · full quotes →

“The opening to the last Jurassic World flick was one big pile of Hollywood bunk. That film premised that dinosaurs could not survive in the modern world…”— Scott Persons · full quotes →

“Astronomers estimate that there are about 70 stars in a compact cluster inside the pillar. This cluster is now thought to be only around 1.3 million years old.”— NASA · full quotes →

“The furthest it gets from the Sun is 937 AU. Sedna is the first and by far the biggest object that orbits the Sun beyond the heliosphere”— PolarRanger · full quotes →

“With the digital revolution, a sensor, a camera, you can just go.”— Benedikt Pleyer · full quotes →

“Scientists discovered a giant 10-sided atmospheric wave—a decagon—encircling Saturn's south pole! Captured by Hubble Space Telescope, this is the first large…”— nasaupdates.bsky.social, NASA/ESA space updates account · Bluesky · full quotes →

“Xenocortication with human neurons enables circuit- and behaviour-level analysis of neurodevelopment in mice.”— Nature · full quotes →

“This kind of research can isolate some brain mechanisms that are related to specific symptoms in some psychiatric conditions.”— Pablo Billeke · full quotes →

“A real pivotal moment”— High school science teacher, Discoverer of T. rex trackway · full quotes →

“The team faced many challenges in the first year of cheetah reintroduction. During this time, they gained experience in cheetah behaviour, health, and…”— Project Cheetah official · full quotes →

“this robot has been wandering around Mars for FOURTEEN YEARS and we get to watch it trundle about and poke rocks and send home postcards”— aussiastronomer.bsky.social · full quotes →

“It’s almost becoming a meme now.”— Arie Matsliah · full quotes →

“Asgard are by far the coolest thing to happen to microbiology in the last 30 to 40 years.”— Paul Carini · full quotes →

“Neutrinos play a key role in our current models of supernovae, and right now, those models don't take into account one of neutrinos' most striking features…”— John Timmer · full quotes →

“It's probably the case because it's easier to vilify young men who believe in bad things rather than do the extra work of getting through to them and try and…”— AmuseDeath, Reddit commenter · Reddit · full quotes →

“six-foot-tall bundle of joy”— ABC News · full quotes →

“This achievement marks the starting point for a new era of antiproton precision measurements in dedicated low-noise offline laboratory environments.”— Leonhardt et al. (BASE collaboration) · Nature · full quotes →

“Elias 2-24 b shows us that even our best planet-formation models are still missing some important processes.”— Lucas Cieza · full quotes →

“It's pretty heartbreaking to watch this female making continuous contact with the deceased calf.”— Olaf Meynecke · full quotes →

“Over the past decade, ctenophores have helped answer long-standing questions about fundamental biology, from how early nervous systems evolved to the origins…”— Quanta Magazine · full quotes →

“We wanted to understand the biochemical tricks these fungi use to overcome such a hostile chemical environment, especially since some of these fungi may…”— Ruo Sun, Study lead author · Phys.org / Max Planck Institute · full quotes →

“Heavy, noisy air traffic, operating without air traffic control, yet somehow, no accidents.”— swalexander.bsky.social · full quotes →

“For many U.S. scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the agency they know and loved died on 10 September.”— Science.org reporting · Mastodon · full quotes →

“An ethereal and magnificent display of gas and dust stretches across the cosmos in a spectacular new image captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.”— Chelsea Gohd · full quotes →

“I do think it might be the oldest myth that we have, apart from religion.”— Alain Goriely · full quotes →

“Our discovery marks the first confirmed record of the genus Dinodontosaurus outside South America. The finding links the Tanzanian and South American…”— Hady George, PhD student, University of Bristol, lead author · Science Daily · full quotes →

“Men and women have different perceptions of how often young women experience sexual objectification, with men sometimes estimating higher frequencies than…”— PsyPost · Reddit · full quotes →

“The Math does not hold up. 300 feet diameter circular area is 1.62 acres. So at max you would need about 1130 x 2 = 2260 acres and not 45000 acres as projected!”— tmellon2 · full quotes →

“It was a flawless launch, with an excellent climb to orbit by the Soyuz booster.”— NASA's Rob Navias · full quotes →