Science!

[Stockcar86]

This is incredible. Heavy reading, but one sentence synopses is "a bacteria that photosynthesises from INFRARED LIGHT FROM A DEEP SEA HYDROTHERMAL VENT"

https://www.pnas.org/content/102/26/9306

[Kruse]

@stockcar86 said in Science!:

This is incredible. Heavy reading, but one sentence synopses is "a bacteria that photosynthesises from INFRARED LIGHT FROM A DEEP SEA HYDROTHERMAL VENT"

https://www.pnas.org/content/102/26/9306

Yeah, I managed to read the one sentence synopsis - but bailed on the full article.
Reminds me of something I heard anecdotally years ago - didn't they discover some new bacteria in one of our geothermal plants - Ohaaki, maybe - which survived by eating concrete? They discovered it because the concrete chimneys of the plant were disintegrating, or something?

[Bones]

Lost in the wilderness and need to find your way out? Why not watch a dog shit.

[nzzp]

@bones said in Science!:

Lost in the wilderness and need to find your way out? Why not watch a dog shit.

Pretty sure there are scientific articles confirming this too. Magnetism is voodoo (or @voodoo or something)

Edit: there we go, primary source! monitored nearly 2,000 poops, nearly 6,000 urinations:

Dec 26, 2013

Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field - Frontiers in Zoology

Introduction Several mammalian species spontaneously align their body axis with respect to the Earth’s magnetic field (MF) lines in diverse behavioral contexts. Magnetic alignment is a suitable paradigm to scan for the occurrence of magnetosensitivity across animal taxa with the heuristic potential...

[Machpants]

@bones said in Science!:

Lost in the wilderness and need to find your way out? Why not watch a dog shit.

Fuck me, I am now going too take notes when I take the dog for a walk

[mariner4life]

@machpants i am calling absolute dog shit right there!!!

my dog shits on east-west all the fucking time.

[Machpants]

@mariner4life mine starts parallel to whatever fence he's nearest at the time, I think. Then often wanders around in circles, mid job, making my bagging job harder, the little bastard. Maybe we've got magnetically defective dogs?

[mariner4life]

@machpants said in Science!:

@mariner4life mine starts parallel to whatever fence he's nearest at the time, I think. Then often wanders around in circles, mid job, making my bagging job harder, the little bastard. Maybe we've got magnetically detectives dogs?

more iron in their diet?

[Bones]

@nzzp yeah I think one of the first replies to the tweet mentioned scientific studies...

[nzzp]

@bones said in Science!:

@nzzp yeah I think one of the first replies to the tweet mentioned scientific studies...

I'm on the Fern. You think I read the tweet or replies? FFS

[Bones]

@nzzp said in Science!:

@bones said in Science!:

@nzzp yeah I think one of the first replies to the tweet mentioned scientific studies...

I'm on the Fern. You think I read the tweet or replies? FFS

It's in the article.

[canefan]

@nzzp said in Science!:

@bones said in Science!:

@nzzp yeah I think one of the first replies to the tweet mentioned scientific studies...

I'm on the Fern. You think I read the tweet or replies? FFS

[Stargazer]

Not sure where else to post this.

Nature can be brutal; but also strangely beautiful. Mount Etna erupting.

This would be too close for comfort:

They even have a live webcam (not much to see at the moment, but that will change with a new eruption, of course):

[Nevorian]

@stargazer

Funnily enough the geology science one is so fake. Jess didn’t look fake though

[Stargazer]

@nevorian I wondered about that Geology science one. The name fooled me! Should have noticed the twitter handle with two "y"s!

[Stargazer]

More footage from an erupting volcano.

[Machpants]

@stargazer Ka mau te wehi! That is so cool, and I guess FPV is First Person View drone, so the pilot will be seeing that on his headset - like being there!

[Bones]

[Bones]

Associated Press  /  Mar 17, 2021  /  Science

Space oddity Oumuamua probably shard of Pluto-like world, scientists say

Interstellar visitor likely made of frozen nitrogen, cookie-shaped rather than cigar, and not a comet or asteroid – while some stick to alien theory

[Stargazer]