The Scent of Veneration: Study shows Ancient Statues were Perfumed ~ New research suggests that ancient statues were not only painted and adorned but also covered with oils and perfumed.
https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/the-scent-of-veneration-study-shows-ancient-statues-were-perfumed.html
Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd.
From @ConversationUS: "Newly published research introduces a way to create audible enclaves – localized pockets of sound that are isolated from their surroundings."
This is the best map yet of what Antarctica looks like under the ice. Ice thickness shown at left; ice-stripped topography of the continent shown at right.
Let's hope we never get to see what an ice-free Antarctica looks like for real.
https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/new-map-of-landscape-beneath-antarctica-unveiled/ #science #nature #climate
Researchers are rushing to build AI-powered robots. But will they work?
From @npr: "There are few parts of science and engineering that have a larger gap between expectation and reality than robotics."
Neighborhood dispute among cells: Whoever successfully transmits force wins
Cells constantly compete, eliminating weaker ones to maintain tissue health. Researchers from #MPZPM, #InstitutJacquesMonod and #NielsBohrInstitute discovered a new strategy in mechanical cell competition: the ability to transmit force determines the winner. Their findings challenge classical views on #CellCompetition.
#science #research #cellbiology
Lucas Anger
Mission mode change detected, now in Monument Mode.
Goodnight friends.
Blue Ghost’s final message as it signs off from the Moon
@aram Sputnik. A generation before me. Blind panic from top to bottom, opening a short window during which the broad society, and relevant institutions, were willing to make sacrifices to commit resources to science education.
Primary result: total failure.
Secondary result: every five or ten years, another comprehensive report appears that details the previous cycle's failures, and makes recommendations that are invariably ignored in the next cycle.
Wow, several initiatives are being proposed in the EU (also more tomorrow, I guess) in order to host scientists fleeing from the US (meaning from Trump and Musk, basically):
Climate change not only means warming temperatures. It means a total breakdown in how we've always expected the climate to behave...
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Climate whiplash is hitting major cities around the world, bringing deadly swings between extreme wet and dry weather as the climate crisis intensifies, a report has revealed.
Cities across the world are affected but the data shows some regional trends, with drying hitting Europe, the already-parched Arabian peninsula, and much of the US, while cities in south and south-east Asia are experiencing bigger downpours.
The analysis illustrates the climate chaos being brought to urban areas by human-caused global heating. Too little or too much water is the cause of 90% of climate disasters.
The savage wildfires in Los Angeles in January were an example of a single whiplash event, with a wet period spurring vegetation growth, which then fueled the fires when hot and dry weather followed. Such events are increasing due to human-caused global heating.
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DOGE’s Cuts at the #USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise & Invasive Species to Spread
Thousands of #US Dept of #Agriculture employees, including food inspectors & disease-sniffing #dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports & pests to proliferate.
https://www.wired.com/story/usda-food-supply-chains/
"the losses could cause #food to go rotten... even higher grocery #prices... potentially devastating invasive species getting into the country."
After 98 Years, Archaeologists Found the Missing Torso of an Ancient Buddha Statue https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a64176054/ancient-buddha-statue-torso/ #Science #Archaeology #Buddhism
I’ve been posting weekly reminders about Business As Usual every Monday morning for about two years now.
But you know what? I could legitimately have been doing it each week for the past 30 or 40 years! Because that’s how long the ‘elite’ rulers of our society have been fully aware of what they are doing and yet continued pushing non-stop in a destructive rapacious exploitative colonial capitalist frenzy — completely ignoring the science and dooming the rest of us to a disastrous ecological breakdown.
All in the name of profits.
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It's time for another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, sponsored by Toyota, Comcast, and the U.S. military-industrial complex.
"Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying!
We've got this, everything's fine." 
Today I'll be tooting for #science....
ESO analysis confirms that the INNA industrial megaproject would have a devastating and irreversible impact on the facilities at Paranal Observatory in #Chile.
Light #pollution would increase by at least 35% above ESO's Very Large Telescope, by a minimum of 5% above ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope and by at least 55% above the south site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory
Air turbulence would also increase, degrading seeing conditions by up to 40%
Vibrations from the project could seriously impair the functioning of the ELT and the VLT Interferometer, which are both extremely sensitive to micro-seismic noise.
Dust during construction is also problematic as it settles on the telescope mirrors and obstructs their view.
Full story here: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2506/
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Today's Featured Links blog post has links to ten articles about the magical humanism of Sir Terry Pratchett, how Earth's orbit is filling up with junk and what that means, a deep dive into Musk's digital coup, and more.
https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/03/featured-links-may-17-2025.html
#Books, #Finance, #Movies #TV, #Politics, #Science, #Security, #SFF, #Software, #Space, #Technology
The lasers our Very Large Telescope (VLT) pierce the Milky Way… but what is that vertical glow just below? 
That’s the zodiacal light: caused by dust grains in the Solar System, it's so faint that it’s only visible in the darkest skies, such as those of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
And the pristine night sky 
in this region has always been intertwined with the culture and traditions of its indigenous people, discover how: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2511a/
F. Millour/ESO
I had #CornedBeef and cabbage at two different restaurants today.
For #Science.
#ChunderRoad
DATE: March 16, 2025 at 09:00AM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG
TITLE: Merely Watching Scenes of Nature Can Reduce Pain, Says New Study
URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/merely-watching-scenes-of-nature-can-reduce-pain-says-new-study/
A new neuroimaging report says merely looking at nature can help ease how people experience pain by reducing the brain activity linked to pain perception. It is well known to reduce feelings of anxiety and depression as well, and the report serves as a reminder of how much good the great outdoors can do for […]
The post Merely Watching Scenes of Nature Can Reduce Pain, Says New Study appeared first on Good News Network.
URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/merely-watching-scenes-of-nature-can-reduce-pain-says-new-study/
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#psychology #depression #goodnews #goodnewsthread #happy #happynews #SpreadJoy #PositiveVibes #CommunityLove #SpreadLight #goodnewnetworkorg #positivescience #science @goodnews
This feels like an alien invasion of the United States.
"NIH officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.
'Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,' the scientist told his colleague.
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https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-grants-mrna-vaccines-trump-administration-hhs-rfk/
#Politics #Science
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Flying over the line between day and night in the International Space Station.
