Tootfinder

Ubiquitous Small-scale Dynamics in the Slow #SolarWind Formation Region Observed by Proba-3/ASPIICS: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae469b -> First Proba-3 science - surprisingly speedy solar wind: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/First_Proba-3_science_surprisingly_speedy_solar_wind

Considering that the US currently lacks the capability to safely land payloads on the moon, the timeline seems rather aggressive.
NASA, Department of Energy To Develop Lunar Surface Reactor By 2030 - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/

😕 Questions are being raised about microplastics studies—here's what's solid science and what isn't
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-microplastics-solid-science-isnt.html

Questions are being raised about microplastics studies—here's what's solid science and what isn't
Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been detected in human blood, lungs, placentas, arteries and even the brain. But a recent investigation by The Guardian suggests that some of these claims may be less robust than they first appeared.

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

Dr. Marthe Gold, a NASEM member, is calling for the removal of RFK Jr.
Join the fight for science by vitising
https://standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
to contact your rep and demand they support the articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.!

Stand Up for Science Campaign to Impeach and Remove RFK Jr — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
RFK Jr. is endangering our families, threatening our health, and destroying our place as the world leader in biomedical research. Impeachment is an extreme option, but Bobby is an extreme threat and must be removed.

Science isn’t enough. We also need a system that listens to the science with actual consequences for politicians who don’t.

Today I woke up to see a leading Science Fiction author
re-posting the toot of another well-known Science Fiction author,
criticising the statement of A BANK for being poor-quality -
yes, you guessed - Science Fiction.

Did an "AI" (LLM) write that report? @… https://flipboard.com/@npr/science-uk3a4d92z/-/a-2dzVqOFxTxGIIGWtXjFa7Q:a:319544…

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education. The sweeping study includes focus groups and interviews with K-12 students, parents, …

African climate science policy has a serious blind spot: The slowing Atlantic circulation #Africa

African climate science policy has a serious blind spot: The slowing Atlantic circulation
The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate change on Earth. The plot dramatizes the consequences of a shut-down in an ocean current, and features the Northern Hemisphere plunging, within a few weeks, into an ice age.

"Plötzlich Wissen!" ist ein guerilla #WissKomm Projekt von Dr. Julia Schnetzer, Inga Marie Ramcke und mir, gestartet in 2017 (Wissenschaftsjahr 2016*17 Meere und Ozeane), das sich zur Pandemie auf online verlegen musste, einiges hin & her hinter sich hat und immernoch läuft. Heute kam unser Paper darüber raus, im Journal of Science Communication, Sonderedition "

Three scientists walk into a bar... Approaching new audiences for informal science communication: the project “Plötzlich Wissen!” (Sudden Knowledge!)
Sudden Knowledge! (Plötzlich Wissen!), a science communication format established throughour own initiative as scientists, implemented science communication in a spontaneousconversational setting. It combined elements of guerilla science/street science, science buskingand pub science events. Between 2017 and 2020 the

"Science Ltd. – Research Enterprise in the Age of Machines"
https://www.routledge.com/Science-Ltd-Research-Enterprise-in-the-Age-of-Machines/Borghini-Severini/p/book/9781041131069
[erscheint (wen…

Neben #startrek Starfleet Academy ging's in meinem Science-Fiction-Januar auch um diverse Weltraumsagas (von 1968 bis 2025) und um Ken Lius Thriller in einer AI-gesättigten Welt, All That We See or Seem.
https://

Science Fiction und Fantasy im Januar 2026
Ich fange mit dem Bildschirm an, das ist einfacher, weil in den letzten Wochen recht reduziert - zum einen deswegen, weil meine Kinder mehr Lust auf Gesellschaftsspiele als auf das gemeinsame Filmgucken hatten, zum anderen, weil ich meine freie Zeit neben Arbeit und Wahlkampf dann lieber in Lego ges

U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/03/14/033215/us-state-bans-on-lab-grown-meats-challenged-in-court

Internal memo: CNN hires Chris Wiggins, who was chief data scientist at the NYT for more than a decade, for a newly created role as head of ML and AI science (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cnn-chris-wiggins-head-ai-machine-lea…

CNN Hires NY Times Chief Data Scientist Chris Wiggins to Head AI Team
CNN hired Chris Wiggins, former chief data scientist at the New York Times, for a newly created role as head of machine learning and AI science.

Universal energy limits of #RadiationBelts in planetary and brown dwarf magnetospheric systems: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea4945 -> A new model defines an upper limit to planetary radiation belt intensity: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/mathematics-and-science/new-model-defines-upper-limit-planetary-radiation-belt-intensity

Yet another example of the endless, ever-descending spiral stairs to hell that is #infosec...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/…

Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online
Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
A recent review in #Science highlights knowledge gaps of the "calcifying plankton" role for biogenic carbon removal in #climate models. Coccolithophores (algae), f…

(paywalled) The sensorimotor theory of phenomenal consciousness https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/referencework/abs/pii/B9780443292583000021 "a way of reconceptualizing the notion of qualia so that the experienced quality of phen…

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

Google updates Gemini 3 Deep Think to better solve modern science, research, and engineering challenges and expands it via the Gemini API to some researchers (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gem…

Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering
We’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, our specialized reasoning mode.

🙊 Spider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best food
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/25/spider-monkeys-found-to-share-insider-knowledge-to-help-locate-best-food

Spider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best food
Researchers observed the primates switching social groups and passing information on where to find the ripest fruit

For reasons I am revisiting an old classic: Manabe and Stouffer, 1980.
The field of climate science is now effectively mostly about proving how correct those first simulations of the gigantic carbon experiment in the atmosphere were.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247488071_Sensitivity_of_a_Global_Climate_Model_to_an_Increase_of_CO2_Concentration_in_the_Atmosphere

For decades, we have pressured junior scholars to pump out publishable articles in a race to attain scarce tenure track lines.
...
Journal articles aren’t ... science. They’re just a unit of measurement. They’re how we keep score. Producing journal articles isn’t what we are actually meant to be doing — we’re supposed to be learning meaningful things...
academia as “the only profession where people are paid to think slowly.” stole my heart ❤️

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?
No. No it can't. Come on, now.

"No field of science should be associated with a face." Sabrina Imbler on what happens with a scientific field is overrun by charismatic megafauna.
https://defector.com/vibrations-from-interstellar-meteor-ac…

Vibrations From 'Interstellar Meteor' Actually From Local Truck; Or, Fact-Checking The Celebrity Scientist | Defector
On Jan. 8, 2014, an extraordinarily bright meteor plummeted from space to Earth and crumbled into confetti over the ocean near Papua New Guinea. Sensors from the U.S. government that track bright meteors called fireballs dutifully recorded this fireball’s breathtaking speed—nearly 28 miles per second. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies logged this fireball,…

Me, in my fedi-hole: It seems like the tide is finally shifting and academics are rejecting GenAI.
Academics in my work email: Join the revolution! Produce more papers faster with AI! This is Science!
#genai #science #academia

I had a question about Olympic success and wealth, and I’m glad someone else did too. And, they brought all the Python!
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-price-of-gold-is-olympic-success-reserved-for-the-wealthy-adade0233d61/…

The Price of Gold: Is Olympic Success Reserved for the Wealthy?🥇 | Towards Data Science
Analyzing 30 years of Olympic Games medals distribution and national wealth indicators

Hopefully some how, someway, we'll have a future and it will be like Star Trek.
Speaking of which I am really excited to find out that Thomas Jane, who played Joe Miller in The Expanse, my other favorite Science Fiction TV, will be playing Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the final episode of Series 5 of Star Trek: Next Generation!
Unfortunately even though its in production now, it won't be shown for at least 1 years from now (Season 4 is supposed to come out some time this year).
#StarTrekSNW #TheExpanse
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/characters/nm0005048/?ref_=tt_cst_c_10
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-ending-alex-kurtzman-thomas-jane-bones-perfect/
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-bones-thomas-jane-spinoff-good-news/

Recall the case of Indiana University Bloomington computer science professor XiaoFeng Wang who was abruptly terminated from the university along with this wife, and had his two homes searched by the FBI. The case is ongoing.
He is a co-author of a recently submitted report dated January 23, 2026 entitled "Trojans in Artificial Intelligence", for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the depa…

Trojans in Artificial Intelligence (TrojAI) Final Report
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) launched the TrojAI program to confront an emerging vulnerability in modern artificial intelligence: the threat of AI Trojans. These AI trojans are malicious, hidden backdoors intentionally embedded within an AI model that can cause a system to fail in unexpected ways, or allow a malicious actor to hijack the AI model at will. This multi-year initiative helped to map out the complex nature of the threat, pioneered foundational detecti…

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab (Eric Niiler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/climate/ncar-breakup-plan-nasa-noaa.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p78#a260313p78

Der neue Co-Trainer beim SV Darmstadt 98 trägt keinen Trainingsanzug, sondern verarbeitet Daten. GPS-Westen, Data Science und KI helfen laut Arnd Zinnhardt und Paul Fernie (im Gespräch mit Carsten Knop, FAZ), Training, Scouting und Verletzungsprävention zu verbessern. Der Fußball bleibt emotional – aber statistisch besser informiert.
#Bundesliga

The Arctic’s ‘last ice area’ is showing signs of weakness #Arctic

A short sci-fi story for the news of these few weeks (aka about the stupid attack on Iran) ...
"Superiority" by A. C. Clark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story)

#CFP: The 2026 AAR-EIR and RSGS Conference at McGill University Beyond Science and Religion
https://ift.tt/AjxEXkV
CALL FOR PAPERS
via Input 4 RELCFP

#CFP: The 2026 AAR-EIR and RSGS Conference at McGill University Beyond Science and Religion
CALL FOR PAPERS

When the truck pulls away from the building at CERN,
the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva,
all eyes will be on its precious cargo,
a one-tonne device containing some of the most exotic material on Earth.
The 20-minute test run around the campus, pencilled in for later this month,
will mark the world’s first attempt to transport #antimatter,
a substanc…

The Fusiform Imagery Node: where vision meets concepts in the left temporal lobe https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393226000448
• FIN in left fusiform is a key hub for voluntary visual mental imagery.
• Lesions or disconnection of FIN r…

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
TARRANT: Thank you, Zen.
DARVID: [On screen] And so everything is ready. The formalities are complete. The Champions are prepared. The Arbiters have activated the combat computer which will control the conditions of battle. Only the computer knows when it will begin and where. [the screen fades to black. A computer display prints up:

"Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’"
#Accusations&Confessions: "Zeldin said, a “cabal” of elites promoted climate science to further their agenda."

For those who have been hearing of a Fly Brain being uploaded, the work you've been hearing of is impressive, yet as always the pop science media has warped what happened a bit:
„The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.”
https://…

The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.
Scientists mapped a fruit fly’s 139,255 neurons in extraordinary detail. Then a startup turned that milestone into a story about brain…

How much do you a) drive, b) walk/bicycle/etc, or c) take transit?
#ModeShift

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
Have you seen this? This recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips that are by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001272

Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/ig-nobels-ceremony-moves-to-europe-over-security-concerns/

Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns
Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."

So... #StarTrek: #StarfleetAcademy
CGI: 10/10
Some kind of [noun]: 10/10
Shallow main villain with ridiculous face prosthetics: 10/10
Some good episodes–for me, mostly the light-hearted ones. Mediocre science fiction plots–come on, there're plenty …

A rogue AI enrolls in your online class, then publicly shames you when you remove it. This just happened in a dev forum. Are we ready if it happens to our courses?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_a-rogue…

Why are all the "spiritual" people and other pseudo science quacks always talking about vibrations?
When I meet someone who believes that stuff I often try to ask them what it is that they believe is vibrating, but I've never gotten an answer.
I have a friend like this (I know they believe in astrology and telepathy, probably other things too), but I try to avoid this topic with them because as soon as we talk about anything pseudoscience-related it just turns into a…

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

Science That's Actually Interesting
A fun, light-hearted deep dive into topics from climate and environment to health, technology, space and human behaviour. Informative, entertaining and refreshingly human, this is science for curious listeners who love stories and want to stay curious about the world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory:

"Congress has thwarted devastating budget cuts to key US government research funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (#NSF), that were proposed" 🧪

Dramatic reductions proposed for US science agencies by Trump administration evaporate
Final 2026 budget figures, passed by Congress and signed into law, reject significant cuts that the White House had proposed

Nobody mentioned cars and motorbikes?
"Half of pedestrians feel unsafe walking in Barcelona, new survey finds"
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/half-of-pedestrians-feel-unsafe-walking-in-b…

Half of pedestrians feel unsafe walking in Barcelona, new survey finds
Electric scooter users cited as causing most sensation of insecurity in Catalan capital

Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175M at a $1B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex-anthropic-r…

Ex-Anthropic Researchers Are Raising Capital For New Startup at $1 Billion Valuation
Former Anthropic researchers are in talks to raise $175 million at a $1 billion valuation for a new startup that aims to conduct AI-driven research and development for scientific fields such as biology and materials science, according to people who have spoken to them. Andreesseen Horowitz and ...

from my link log —
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do.
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-one-science-reform-we-can-all
saved 2026-03-04

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
OR: the long overdue forest fire

This led to great discussion in an MA class on crowdsourcing and citizen science today
From: @…
https://hcommons.social/@mia/116053173459026787

The launch of #Crew12 is planned for 10:15 UTC today: webcasts from NASA and ESA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCM-Kwq91cc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_5RWX-GsQo from 8:15 UTC plus the ESA Launch Kit at https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/HRE/EPSILON_LaunchKit_EN.pdf and updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/ and the latest timelines at https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Watch_live_Crew-12_launch_and_docking_updated and https://www.spacex.com/launches/crew12 and https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-agencys-spacex-crew-12-launch-docking/

Recently during Star Trek Adventures:
V'Lorr: »Can I use crisis management for this roll?«
GM: »No, you are not managing the crisis. You ARE the crisis.«
*later*
To the First Officer: »Your science officer has gone full Rambo. What do you do?«
#rpg #ttrpg

Musk over-promises and under-delivers.
Again.
And again.
Everyone laughs at him, but he's still the richest person on Earth and press reports do not continually ridicule him.
WTF is wrong with the world?
https://science.s…

SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says - Slashdot
"Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a 'self-growing city' on the moon," reports Reuters, "which could be achieved in less than 10 years." SpaceX still intends to start on Musk's long-held ambition of a city on Mars within five to seven years, he wrote on his X s...

Story advice please!
I have a character, an elderly senior official in a roughly bronze-age city with roughly bronze-age medical science.
I want him to have a progressive medical condition which he is trying to conceal, which will eventually kill him, and which requires him to take frequent, sometimes extended, lavatory breaks.
What is his illness, and what would people around him be able to observe?

Woman with three deadly diseases has ‘remarkable’ recovery after cell therapy;
Treatment reset wayward immune system of patient with life-threatening conditions, say scientists, in a world first
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/09…

Woman with three deadly diseases has ‘remarkable’ recovery after cell therapy
Treatment reset wayward immune system of patient with life-threatening conditions, say scientists, in a world first

Oxygen Made From Moon Dust For First Time - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/04/11/2250208/oxygen-made-from-moon-dust-for-first-time

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

Even as Integrity, the mission moniker for the Orion capsule of Artemis II, ascended into the heavens days ago,
Donald Trump was announcing his intention to slash Nasa’s budget by 23%,
including a 46% cut for space science initiatives.
And the Artemis program that has run years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget offers no guarantees that the next, far harder stages will run as smoothly.
“The path to the lunar surface is open, but the work ahead is gr…

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change (Matthew Daly/Associated Press)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/watch-live-trump-zeldin-to-announce-end-of-scientific-basis-for-u-s-action-on-climate-change
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p88#a260212p88

Frank Holz Q&A on the PRIMA retinal implant of Science Corp. https://science.xyz/news/frank-holz-questions/ "Here, patients have to learn how to read again, so it requires effort after the surgery, and training over weeks and months to have the best possible outcome."

Expert Opinion: Frank Holz, M.D. on Science’s PRIMA Implant and the New Reality of Restoring Vision to Clinical Trial Patients Who Had Been Functionally Blind | Science Corporation
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

"COSiE: Community for Open Science in Education" @ OSCU (Open Science Community Utrecht)
https://openscience-utrecht.com/cosie/
"COSiE is an interdisciplinary community of UU and UMC staff members who want to make the process of sharing and using Open Education Resources (OERs) …

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
KLEGG: You were supposed to have searched the ship. These two should have been found. Where were you hiding?
DAYNA: We weren't hiding. We've...
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/5 B7B3

Disappearance of a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy due to formation of a black hole: #BlackHole in Andromeda galaxy: https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/astronomers-witness-vanishing-star-collapse-into-a-black-hole-in-andromeda-galaxy

How much do you a) drive, b) walk/bicycle/etc, or c) take transit?
#ModeShift

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
Have you seen this? This recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips that are by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001272

Over 200 Doctors And Nutrition Researchers Call For Return To Science-Based Dietary Guidelines https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/health/doctors-call-science-based-dietary-guidelines/

Over 200 Doctors And Nutrition Researchers Call For Science-Based Dietary Guidelines
Hundreds of doctors and nutrition researchers have called for a return to science-based recommendations in US dietary guidelines

Musk makes another totally unrealistic plan. And let‘s not forget the strategy shift here: originally it was the moon, then it was Mars, now it‘s the moon again. With a rocket which still is in development.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/…

My department is looking to hire a professor of practice in CS, with a focus on AI. Job posting below. If you have questions I'll do my best to answer them, else find someone who can! We are in Providence, easy commute access from Boston.
https://

Professor of the Practice in Computer Science with a Focus on Artificial Intelligence - Providence, Rhode Island job with Computer Science | 37970844
The Department of Computer Science at Brown University is seeking applicants for a Professor of the Practice position at the assistant, associate, ...

The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race (Ali Breland/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/epstein-race-science-watson-pinker-chomsky-musk/685965/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8NL7Rf5F6iPj5drDx91LO5k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p52#a260212p52

On Feb. 11, NASA’s Neil Gehrels #Swift Observatory temporarily suspended most science operations in an effort to reduce atmospheric drag and slow the spacecraft’s orbital decay: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/02/11/nasas-swift-mission-transitions-ops-to-prep-for-orbit-boost/ - halting these activities will enable controllers to keep the spacecraft in an orientation that minimizes drag effects, extending its time in orbit in anticipation of a reboost mission.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
With the safe return of NASA's Artemis II, it is time to talk about plankton space #science 🛰. PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) is the latest advanced observing satellite launched Feb 2024 which carries the OCI Ocean Colour Instrument measuring hyp…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: I see, yes of course.
TRAVIS: It is the fastest, the most powerful ship in existence.
BLAKE: Not a chance, Travis.
TRAVIS: We'll see.
[Exbar. Avon running, like a sleek silver colussus]

🤏 CRAFT printing method makes affordable, realistic replicas as structurally complex as a human hand
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-craft-method-realistic-replicas-complex.html

CRAFT printing method makes affordable, realistic replicas as structurally complex as a human hand
Researchers have developed a new method for 3D printing objects with very different properties, including levels of hardness and transparency, on a pixel-by-pixel basis while using commonly available materials and inexpensive 3D printers. The method, described in the journal Science by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, Sandia National Laboratories and two other national laboratories, could lend itself to the creation of realistic models of body parts for medical students to pr…

CNN plans to debut a six-episode series called Kara Swisher Wants To Live Forever about longevity science, with interviews of Sam Altman and others, on April 11 (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/kara-swisher-cnn-series-debut-1236751160/

CNN To Debut ‘Kara Swisher Wants To Live Forever’ On April 11
The show will be the latest from its Original Series unit.

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 300 nodes and 1155 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…

(from China) 2026: How high can the brain-computer interface soar in the spotlight? #BCI #NeuroTech

2026: How High Can the Brain-Computer Interface Soar in the Limelight?
Science fiction turns into reality.

The best piece I've read lately on AI in science is Minas Karamanis's "The machines are fine. I'm worried about us." I disagree w/ his take on evaluation, but the rest is thoughtful, trenchant, and has several fine turns of phrase and useful litmus tests.
https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-mach

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
SERVALAN: I'm going to the flight deck. Get rid of him.
VILA: Eh?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/418 B7B2

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering supplies, new research, and a module to advance quantum science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnNGVjOy33U with updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/

Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced.
But where does that lost tire material go?
The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways,
where the tiny microplastic particles from the tires’ synthetic rubber carry several chemicals that can transfer into fish, crabs and perhaps even the people who eat them.
Millions of metric tons of plastic waste enter the world’s oceans every year.
In recent times, tire wear particles have been found t…

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources revealed – and it’s not straws or bags
Tire wear particles have been found to account for about 45 per cent of all microplastics in both terrestrial and aquatic systems

C09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: [Approaches Avon and hands him the calculator.] Here, take a look at this. That asteroid's less than thirty- two hours away, but we'll still be cutting it fine.
AVON: Let's get going then. There's nothing keeping us here.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/22

EPA to repeal its own conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the planet and threaten health (Evan Bush/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/epa-to-repeal-endangerment-finding-climate-change-emissions-rcna258250
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p169#a260210p169

(Flashback, 2012) Real-life science closes in on Star Trek as scientists show they can to hack into blind people's visual cortex to let them 'see' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar

Real-life science closes in on Star Trek: TNG with new device to hack into blind people's visual cortex to let them 'see'
he Sensory Substitution Device, which uses an algorithm to translate visual data into sound, can actually activate the visual cortices of congenitally blind people, giving them the opportunity to see.

We recently joined Astronomers Without Borders for a live conversation during Global Astronomy Month with Andrew Fazekas and Laura Trouille, #Zooniverse Principal Investigator and VP of Science Engagement at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, highlighting the breadth and impact of Zooniverse’s astronomy projects: https://daily.zooniverse.org/2026/04/13/zooniverse-in-conversation-astronomers-without-borders/

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
BLAKE: Come on, come on.
VILA: They won't fire. The fail-safes keep cutting in.
BLAKE: Override them.
CALLY: Twenty seconds.
VILA: The whole system is locked into negative.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/105 B7B5

Guided by her conviction that science is for everybody,
Prescod-Weinstein renders accessible some of the most abstract concepts of theoretical physics
and draws on poetry and popular culture
—from Queen Latifah to Lewis Carroll to Big K.R.I.T. to Sun Ra and Star Trek
— to tell fascinating stories about the fundamental quantum nature of space-time and everything inside of it.

The Edge of Space-Time // Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie

Integration and testing of the #Dragonfly Titan helicopter, the activities involved in assembling the mission’s rotorcraft lander and testing it for the rigors of launch and extreme conditions of space, is officially underway in clean rooms and control rooms at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/dragonfly/2026/03/10/nasas-dragonfly-mission-begins-rotorcraft-integration-testing-stage/

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
JENNA: Why indeed?
[Whispers something to Raiker]
[Raiker slaps her across the face]
RAIKER: You'll come round! I can be VERY persuasive!
[Avon takes a note from his top pocket]
[Jenna walks back to Vila, Avon & Nova]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/78

dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
VOICE: [V.O.]Right.
FARREN: Send the commander straight up. Make sure he's not armed.
VOICE: [V.O.] Understood. [Blake teleports in]
BLAKE: Don't worry, I'm not armed.
FARREN: How did you do that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/363…

A new Republican House bill proposes sweeping changes to US toxic chemical laws
🔥that would gut protections for consumers, workers and the environment, public health advocates mobilising against the legislation warn.
Among other changes to the
"Toxic Substance Control Act" (TSCA), the bill would
❌limit the type of science that is used to determine health risks,
❌stop legally requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to ensure chemicals won’t harm p…

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
DAYNA: Yes, he is. Quite impregnable. You'll never get to him.
SERVALAN: I need him, Dayna. I need him alive. The animals are no use to me without him. I have to have him, Dayna. You do see that.
DAYNA: I can't help you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/321

A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex (VTC) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt8343 On mental imagery. "While imagining the objects, around 40% of the visually responsive VTC neurons were also robustly activated."

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
C.A. ONE: Look, we already have distress calls out on constant transmission. Just obey orders!
FRANTON: With respect, sir. You and Cally are from the same sibling group, aren't you?
ZELDA: Yes, Cally's my twin.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/144

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 16726 nodes and 47594 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboratio…

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
VILA: He won't like it.
TARRANT: It's a pity about that. [they exit]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/362 B7B3

Does the Measured Abundance Suggest a Biological Origin for the Ancient Alkanes Preserved in a Martian Mudstone? #Mars Organics: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/02/06/nasa-study-non-biologic-processes-dont-fully-explain-mars-organics/