For World Octopus Day🐙, let's learn a weird fact about the three hearts of our eight-legged friend. The SYSTEMIC HEART of an octopus STOPS BEATING while they swim / jet. Seems like a design flaw, doesn't it? Let's talk about it.
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The @natureportfolio.nature.com Collection for the #ChemNobel is now live. I've included a screenshot of the top three articles - no reason, just because 😜. www.nature.com/collections/... #ChemSky
20 early career researchers joined us for #IceLabCamp last week, bringing together an impressive range of disciplines, perspectives and ideas. As one participant reflected, interdisciplinary work requires “patience and communication”, but is ultimately rewarding in how it broadens your horizons.
Imagine losing species before we've even discovered them. For fungi, that's already happening. Fungi help plants thrive, store carbon and support ecosystems. Yet they're being lost before we even know they exist. Donate today and help bring fungi out of the shadows🍄- joinplantlife.org/46Ofr6m
The Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has Died www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o... 🧪 #WomenInSTEM
A new collaboration between the International Astronomical Union's Centre for the Protection of Dark and Quiet Skies, of which ESO is a member, and @esa.int was launched. They'll work on technologies to reduce the impact of spacecraft on astronomy 🔭🛰️
The methods used for synthesising science have become so complex over the past 20 years that evidence synthesis has become a profession in its own right aeon.co/essays/the-l...
Sensing the skeleton: sensorineural regulation in bone — a Review by Zhao Li, Manyu Zhu, Neelima Thottappillil, Sowmya Ramesh & Aaron W. James #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
first evidence that neanderthals were able to julienne, chiffonade, and perhaps even brunoise
US scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led development of the computer system used by NASA's Apollo lunar programme, has died at the age of 90, her former employer said
Tübingen researchers discover a new species of giant isopod in the depository Press release of the University of Tübingen and Senckenberg Nature Research Society: Researchers trace evolutionary history of dried specimen from the Caribbean ... weiterlesen
🪐 A dead star has a day-night rhythm Astronomers tracking a white dwarf found a 4.4-day brightness dip of just 0.12%, likely a planet's day-night cycle, or the tail of a comet evaporating as it orbits the dead star. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41550-026-02983-7 #Space #Astronomy #WhiteDwarf 🧪
Exciting. Evidence of #Neanderthal #woodworking. '62-40 KA Middle Palaeolithic site of Abric Romaní (Capellades, Barcelona) provides exceptional evidence of Neanderthal woodworking preserved through travertine incrustation' https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh2287
A solid magnesium zincate for hydrogen-methane evolution | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Solar Orbiter tracks the origin of the Sun's mysterious magnetic switchbacks ☀️ Back in 2022, Solar Orbiter spotted a kink in the solar wind’s magnetic field known as a ‘switchback’ and confirmed it to be S-shaped: something scientists had predicted but not seen directly. 🔭 🧪
A prehistoric cold case near Drumheller reveals either a small-time raptor scavenged on an apex predator, or a baby Albertosaurus engaged in a shocking act of cannibalism. www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202... #AbSci #UAlberta #palaeontology #science #SciChat
As a test of planetary defense, NASA's DART mission moved an asteroid in 2022. Now ESA's Hera mission will go back to the scene to study the asteroid's binary system in detail and how the test affected it.
“I have a colleague in neuroscience I’ve started working with and we’ve figured out that we can apply gravitational wave detection technology to identifying changes in brain waves that indicate [when] someone’s experiencing tinnitus” particle.scitech.org.au/atoms-galaxi... #tinnitus #keeplistening
#News: Indigenous #Australians, the world’s first #astronomers – are losing access to the night sky as light #pollution drowns out #stars. Protect dark skies and 60,000 years of knowledge #IndigenousRights #HumanRights @palmoildetect.bsky.social
Real-time single-molecule imaging in zebrafish embryos uncovers noncanonical translation | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New paper out! "Crystal structure of hexamethylborazine and the possible impact of directionally preferred rotational dynamics on 14N overtone solid-state NMR Spectra" doi.org/10.1080/0026... #nmrchat
#XRONOS now includes 802 new radiocarbon dates from 207 new sites in the Canary Islands, from the 14Canarias database compiled by Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Paloma Vidal-Matutano, María del Cristo González-Marrero, and María Esther Chávez-Álvarez. https://xronos.ch/news/14canarias-import […]
Sentinel-3C sent its first views of Earth! 🔗 esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-3/Sentinel-3C_returns_its_first_views_of_Earth
Scientists analysed the DNA of world’s oldest land animal. What they found was staggering Jonathan the Aldabra giant tortoise is around 194 years old – making him a contemporary of Charles Darwin
Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry www.wired.com/story/life-i...
Brake! Time for ESA’s Hera asteroid mission to go slow www.esa.int/Space_Safety... Launched two years ago today, the European Space Agency’s Hera mission for planetary defence has been hurtling away from Earth ever since
Alexander O. Averianov & Maxim S. Arkhangelsky (2026) The North American pterosaur Pteranodon in the Upper Cretaceous of Eastern Europe Cretaceous Research: 106501 doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2026.106501 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #41 2026 #Climate
"How can we learn to recognize — and communicate with — unconventional intelligences in cells, tissues and other unfamiliar substrates?" -Michael Levin, developmental and synthetic biologist, Tufts University and @wyssinstitute.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...
