conv.science

“What a marvelous teaching tool for visually impaired people or anyone else whose learning is enhanced by senses beyond sight and sound.”— latho17.bsky.social, Bluesky commenter · Bluesky · full quotes →

“Mars isn't always red. New images from Mars Express reveal striking purple swirls near the planet's south pole.”— ESA, Space agency · Bluesky · full quotes →

“Tool transfers thus appear to be a form of teaching, together with observation and supervised practice. It appears that mothers are the main models and…”— Andreu Sánchez-Megías · full quotes →

“We present the first finished connectome of an entire male Drosophila central nervous system, encompassing the central brain, optic lobes (analogous to…”— HHMI Janelia / Google Research team, Research team press release · full quotes →

“Our results force us to reconsider how dynamic small bodies with rings may be, even those far from planetary gravitational influences.”— Pablo Santos-Sanz · full quotes →

“Some bacteria have transformed these infectious invaders into gene transfer agents (GTAs) that help them exchange genetic material among themselves.”— The Conversation Africa · full quotes →

“NASA has released never-before-seen 16mm high-speed film footage of the Artemis II launch 🎥”— @latestinspace, Space news social media account · X · full quotes →

“brown dwarfs with masses as low as just twice the mass of Jupiter or only 0.19 percent of the Sun's mass — far smaller than theory predicts brown dwarfs should…”— NASA · full quotes →

“We show that Roman roads tend to be straight where topography allows but less so than modern roads; provincial capitals were more centrally located than other…”— study authors, researchers, Nature Communications paper · Hacker News · full quotes →

“The results show that this treatment approach has an excellent safety profile and is feasible”— Researchers, University of Murcia study authors · Cell (via ScienceAlert) · full quotes →

“Without more specific data from the paper, this amounts to little more than speculation based on the wording of informal comments.”— henryptung · full quotes →

“Most of them feed on Antarctic krill. And if they don't, they feed on something else that feeds directly on Antarctic krill. So they are absolutely fundamental…”— Kim Bernard, Biological oceanographer, Oregon State University · Mastodon · full quotes →

“My study shows Venus didn't require a catastrophe to arrive at what we can see today. It turns out the gravity of the planet itself combined with the rate at…”— Stephen Kane, UC Riverside astrophysicist, study lead author · Hacker News · full quotes →

“Structure is a layer of information, and potentially of biology, that sequencing alone cannot see.”— Robert Hänsel-Hertsch · full quotes →

“Nothing here is pre-recorded, and nothing was trained. The brain runs on your machine, and every order you see comes from its spikes.”— Open Fly creator · pr1nted.itch.io · full quotes →

“Playing video games grows your brain.”— Time Extension (via Reddit post) · full quotes →

“This discovery outside North America hints at deeper ancient land connections and broader Jurassic ranges than we thought. Love a good geological puzzle!”— astra99.bsky.social · full quotes →

“We want to measure the gravitational interaction of the muon.”— Anna Soter · full quotes →

“This is the first confirmed record of a living mesophotic coral ecosystem on the Gulf of Guinea continental shelf… If we were able to find this reef again…”— Gérard Zinzindohoué · full quotes →

“This is truly surprising: 1,067 microproteins never seen before in the human brain! Hundreds show altered levels in Alzheimer's, often higher.”— biologist077.bsky.social · full quotes →

“Both of our workspaces this week contained features unlike quite anything we have seen in the past.”— Curiosity team · full quotes →

“The other day, I found myself wondering how big 52! (52 factorial) is, and that led me to ponder how these could be estimated without a calculator or a…”— Eli Bendersky, Author · Hacker News · full quotes →

“China on Monday formally presented a lunar sample collected from the far side of the Moon by its Chang'e-6 mission to the United Nations (UN) in Vienna, where…”— China Space Watch · full quotes →

“For the first time, we have shown that black holes influence the broader cosmic environment through a shock wave of astonishing power. Black holes are key…”— Satoshi Yamada, Tohoku University · full quotes →

“Hostia, leí 2026 y pensé "bah, no lo verán mis ojos"; pero resulta que es ESTE PUTÍSIMO MISMO AÑO!!”— senyorq.bsky.social · full quotes →

“Astronomy Picture Of the Day - APOD Title: A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus Date: 2026-09-15 Image by: Arnaud Mariat”— astronomybot.bsky.social · full quotes →

“NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several…”— NASA employees, engineers and lab staff · full quotes →

“White people = most dangerous invasive alien species in Australia.”— wood5y@mastodonapp.uk · full quotes →

“The material found in Chile consists only of damaged genetic fragments preserved for centuries.”— The Conversation Africa · full quotes →

“It opens up several possibilities, such as exploring how gut infections might affect neurological disorders, and developing therapies that harness that…”— Francisco Quintana · full quotes →

“If it had a moon, and it likely did at some point, it could not have kept it. That moon would have crashed down on the planet in a relatively short time scale.”— Stephen Krane, Lead author, UC Riverside astrophysicist · full quotes →

“They are superior to humans. He is changing, not on,y color but, texture. And at times reverts to his " regular" color. Almost as if he is playing with his…”— joiksinger.bsky.social · full quotes →

“Liquid water is the key component of Earth's habitability.”— Alfred Wilson · full quotes →

“This is a really exciting outcome, for a project that started off looking for the historic distribution of oysters along the West Coast.”— Dr Anna McGregor, Coastal ecology expert, Project Eisirean lead · Mastodon · full quotes →