Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
4 posts total
Flipboard Science Desk

What would a Kamala Harris presidency mean for the climate? Grist takes a look at her record in California, the Senate and the White House, and statements she's made in the past. "We must do more,” Harris said at last years' COP28. “Our action collectively, or worse, our inaction will impact billions of people for decades to come.”

flip.it/eg6fbY

#ClimateChange #Climate #ClimateCrisis #KamalaHarris #USPresidency

Flipboard Science Desk

DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago for a period lasting 6,800 years, Live Science reports:
livescience.com/archaeology/ne

#DNA #Anthropology #Prehistoric #Neanderthals

Patrick

@ScienceDesk
6,800 years of inter-breeding?
Wow, and that was before Viagra!

DB

@ScienceDesk @gwendolenau Interesting that there was such a long period of time. Lots of people have Neanderthal DNA. Always thought my dad had more than most…

Gemma 👽

@ScienceDesk
...and that's why we still have conservatives... :blobcatfingerguns:

Flipboard Science Desk

There is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe. Scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have triple-checked and confirmed that depending on where we look, the universe is expanding at bafflingly different rates. Live Science explains more, including how scientists are ruling out a measurement error as the cause of the “Hubble Tension.” flip.it/VDvM6g
#Science #Space #Hubble #HubbleTension #Universe #JWST

Show previous comments
Ricardo Wilcke

@ScienceDesk ist doch normal. Dunkle Materiemasse ist ungleich verteilt im Universum und deswegen gibt es verschieden schnelle Ausdehnungen. Hat schon Einstein in seiner Formel festgehalten. Ausserdem müssen wir erst lernen, das es Sachen gibt, die wir mit unserem Erkenntnisstand nicht erklären können, weil unser Intelekt noch zu Jung ist, um in Ansätzen, das Firmament zu verstehen. Bis wir das rausfinden, sind wir vorher aus Dummheit und Gier ausgestorben. Puh. Schwere Kost

Carl

@ScienceDesk Except the conference presentation mentioned in this video, which used James Webb data to show that it *was* measurement error.

youtu.be/yKmPJmaeP8A?si=eRZw-u

Flipboard Science Desk

The science journal Nature announced it won't use AI-generated images in the publication.

In an editorial, the editors wrote: "Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and intellectual-property protection."

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

#Science #AI #AIArt #Journalism #Media

William Gunn

@ScienceDesk People complain about how conservative academia is, but every now and then, we get an example of how that can be a good thing.

Go Up