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Remoras hold on tight to humpback whale through breaching, diving, and rocketing to the surface at breakneck speeds.
(footage credit: Griffith University/Dr Olaf Meynecke).
(footage credit: Griffith University/Dr Olaf Meynecke).
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Remoras hold on tight to humpback whale through breaching, diving, and rocketing to the surface at breakneck speeds.
(footage credit: Griffith University/Dr Olaf Meynecke).
(footage credit: Griffith University/Dr Olaf Meynecke).
DYK that a bee's good mood is contagious? And that they overthrow their queen when she gets sick? Bees have social systems more complex than we ever imagined.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
DYK that a bee's good mood is contagious? And that they overthrow their queen when she gets sick? Bees have social systems more complex than we ever imagined.
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103 years ago, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. This intact tomb provided unprecedented insights into ancient Egyptian civilization, culture, burial practices.
Learn more on @NatGeo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VANT...
Learn more on @NatGeo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VANT...
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
103 years ago, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. This intact tomb provided unprecedented insights into ancient Egyptian civilization, culture, burial practices.
Learn more on @NatGeo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VANT...
Learn more on @NatGeo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VANT...
📅 ON THIS DAY: Henry Farman made history by completing the first cross-country flight in Europe, soaring from Bouy to Reims in just 20 minutes. Just five years after the Wright Brothers' first flight, Farman showed the world that aviation had a future as real transportation.
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
📅 ON THIS DAY: Henry Farman made history by completing the first cross-country flight in Europe, soaring from Bouy to Reims in just 20 minutes. Just five years after the Wright Brothers' first flight, Farman showed the world that aviation had a future as real transportation.
Oct '69: The day the world changed with two letters 💻
When UCLA sent "LO" to Stanford over ARPANET, it wasn't just a technical milestone. It was the spark that ignited a revolution in how humanity shares knowledge.
Tap into the history of networking: www.computerhistory.org/timeline/net...
When UCLA sent "LO" to Stanford over ARPANET, it wasn't just a technical milestone. It was the spark that ignited a revolution in how humanity shares knowledge.
Tap into the history of networking: www.computerhistory.org/timeline/net...
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Oct '69: The day the world changed with two letters 💻
When UCLA sent "LO" to Stanford over ARPANET, it wasn't just a technical milestone. It was the spark that ignited a revolution in how humanity shares knowledge.
Tap into the history of networking: www.computerhistory.org/timeline/net...
When UCLA sent "LO" to Stanford over ARPANET, it wasn't just a technical milestone. It was the spark that ignited a revolution in how humanity shares knowledge.
Tap into the history of networking: www.computerhistory.org/timeline/net...
60 years ago today, an icon was born! The Gateway Arch—that stunning 630-foot steel curve gracing the St. Louis skyline—was completed on Oct. 28, 1965. This architectural marvel is more than just beautiful—it's a triumph of math and physics.
Learn more: www.history.com/this-day-in-...
Learn more: www.history.com/this-day-in-...
October 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
60 years ago today, an icon was born! The Gateway Arch—that stunning 630-foot steel curve gracing the St. Louis skyline—was completed on Oct. 28, 1965. This architectural marvel is more than just beautiful—it's a triumph of math and physics.
Learn more: www.history.com/this-day-in-...
Learn more: www.history.com/this-day-in-...
THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE: restoring sight, seeing atoms, and breakthroughs hiding in plain sight 👁️🔬
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October 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE: restoring sight, seeing atoms, and breakthroughs hiding in plain sight 👁️🔬
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🗓 ON THIS DAY: At Palomar Observatory, data leading to the discovery of Eris, a dwarf planet beyond Pluto, was collected. This sparked a debate resulting in Pluto's reclassification as a dwarf planet.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🗓 ON THIS DAY: At Palomar Observatory, data leading to the discovery of Eris, a dwarf planet beyond Pluto, was collected. This sparked a debate resulting in Pluto's reclassification as a dwarf planet.
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🗓 ON THIS DAY: At Palomar Observatory, data leading to the discovery of Eris, a dwarf planet beyond Pluto, was collected. This sparked a debate resulting in Pluto's reclassification as a dwarf planet.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🗓 ON THIS DAY: At Palomar Observatory, data leading to the discovery of Eris, a dwarf planet beyond Pluto, was collected. This sparked a debate resulting in Pluto's reclassification as a dwarf planet.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's 'throw a baby puffin off a cliff' season in Iceland.
Seriously, that's what it's called.
Photo and story from NatGeo and Marti Trgovich.
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Seriously, that's what it's called.
Photo and story from NatGeo and Marti Trgovich.
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
September 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It's 'throw a baby puffin off a cliff' season in Iceland.
Seriously, that's what it's called.
Photo and story from NatGeo and Marti Trgovich.
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Seriously, that's what it's called.
Photo and story from NatGeo and Marti Trgovich.
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
ON THIS DAY: 56 years ago, NASA's Mariner 7 spacecraft completed its flyby of Mars, transmitting detailed photographs of the Martian surface. The spacecraft got within 2,130 miles of the "Red Planet" and found the center of Hellas to be devoid of craters.
Read more: science.nasa.gov/mission/mari...
Read more: science.nasa.gov/mission/mari...
August 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
ON THIS DAY: 56 years ago, NASA's Mariner 7 spacecraft completed its flyby of Mars, transmitting detailed photographs of the Martian surface. The spacecraft got within 2,130 miles of the "Red Planet" and found the center of Hellas to be devoid of craters.
Read more: science.nasa.gov/mission/mari...
Read more: science.nasa.gov/mission/mari...
📆 ON THIS DAY: French soldiers found the Rosetta Stone in Egypt during Napoleon's campaign. This trilingual artifact would later enable Champollion to decipher hieroglyphs, revolutionizing archaeology and linguistics.
Dive deep into the Rosetta Stone: www.britishmuseum.org/blog/everyth...
Dive deep into the Rosetta Stone: www.britishmuseum.org/blog/everyth...
July 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
📆 ON THIS DAY: French soldiers found the Rosetta Stone in Egypt during Napoleon's campaign. This trilingual artifact would later enable Champollion to decipher hieroglyphs, revolutionizing archaeology and linguistics.
Dive deep into the Rosetta Stone: www.britishmuseum.org/blog/everyth...
Dive deep into the Rosetta Stone: www.britishmuseum.org/blog/everyth...
ON THIS DAY: Nobel laureate Marie Curie died from aplastic anemia, likely caused by radiation exposure from her pioneering radioactivity research. Her laboratory notebooks remain radioactive and won't be safe to handle for another 1,500 years.
www.britannica.com/biography/Ma...
www.britannica.com/biography/Ma...
July 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
ON THIS DAY: Nobel laureate Marie Curie died from aplastic anemia, likely caused by radiation exposure from her pioneering radioactivity research. Her laboratory notebooks remain radioactive and won't be safe to handle for another 1,500 years.
www.britannica.com/biography/Ma...
www.britannica.com/biography/Ma...
📆 ON THIS DAY: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's natural selection papers were read at the @linneansociety.bsky.social, though neither attended. This joint presentation would catalyze Darwin to complete "On the Origin of Species" within a year.
Read more: www.linnean.org/news/2018/07...
Read more: www.linnean.org/news/2018/07...
July 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
📆 ON THIS DAY: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's natural selection papers were read at the @linneansociety.bsky.social, though neither attended. This joint presentation would catalyze Darwin to complete "On the Origin of Species" within a year.
Read more: www.linnean.org/news/2018/07...
Read more: www.linnean.org/news/2018/07...
ON THIS DAY: 120 years ago today, Albert Einstein’s paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” was received by Annalen der Physik. It fused space-time and set c as nature’s speed limit.
Read Einstein's original paper: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
Read Einstein's original paper: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
June 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
ON THIS DAY: 120 years ago today, Albert Einstein’s paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” was received by Annalen der Physik. It fused space-time and set c as nature’s speed limit.
Read Einstein's original paper: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
Read Einstein's original paper: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
ON THIS DAY: On 27 June, 1954, the 5 MW(e) Obninsk AM-1 reactor near Moscow fed power to the Soviet grid, ushering in the civilian nuclear-energy era. ⚛️
June 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
ON THIS DAY: On 27 June, 1954, the 5 MW(e) Obninsk AM-1 reactor near Moscow fed power to the Soviet grid, ushering in the civilian nuclear-energy era. ⚛️
🎧 Listen: Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
June 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🎧 Listen: Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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June 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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📺 Watch: Great white sharks have nothing on these terrifying jaws. Some marine animals have adaptations that turn their jaws into harpoons, fishing nets, claw machines, and more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNr2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNr2...
June 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
📺 Watch: Great white sharks have nothing on these terrifying jaws. Some marine animals have adaptations that turn their jaws into harpoons, fishing nets, claw machines, and more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNr2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNr2...
ON THIS DAY: A Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, rang up Wrigley’s gum with a laser scanner, inaugurating universal product codes and revolutionising retail data automation.
Chew on this technological innovation: www.history.com/this-day-in-...
Chew on this technological innovation: www.history.com/this-day-in-...
June 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
ON THIS DAY: A Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, rang up Wrigley’s gum with a laser scanner, inaugurating universal product codes and revolutionising retail data automation.
Chew on this technological innovation: www.history.com/this-day-in-...
Chew on this technological innovation: www.history.com/this-day-in-...
ON THIS DAY: 347 years ago, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia defended Aristotle in Padua Cathedral, earning a doctorate—the first woman so honoured—breaking a barrier in academia.
Learn more about Elena on @britannica: www.britannica.com/biography/El...
Learn more about Elena on @britannica: www.britannica.com/biography/El...
June 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ON THIS DAY: 347 years ago, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia defended Aristotle in Padua Cathedral, earning a doctorate—the first woman so honoured—breaking a barrier in academia.
Learn more about Elena on @britannica: www.britannica.com/biography/El...
Learn more about Elena on @britannica: www.britannica.com/biography/El...
Quipu is just the latest entry in a list of structures that are too big for cosmologists to explain without revisiting one of the most fundamental assumptions they have about the universe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0H3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0H3...
June 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Quipu is just the latest entry in a list of structures that are too big for cosmologists to explain without revisiting one of the most fundamental assumptions they have about the universe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0H3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0H3...
ON THIS DAY: NASA climatologist James Hansen told senators that warming was “99 % certain” anthropogenic, vaulting climate change onto the public and policy agenda.
Read more: climate.nasa.gov/news/33/what...
Read more: climate.nasa.gov/news/33/what...
June 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
ON THIS DAY: NASA climatologist James Hansen told senators that warming was “99 % certain” anthropogenic, vaulting climate change onto the public and policy agenda.
Read more: climate.nasa.gov/news/33/what...
Read more: climate.nasa.gov/news/33/what...