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#PPOD: Portrait of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in natural color. This image was taken with the OSIRIS NAC camera on ESA's Rosetta mission on 5 August 2014 from a range of 123 kilometers. Credit: ESA / MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA / Daniel Macháček 🧪 🔭
April 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#PPOD: Portrait of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in natural color. This image was taken with the OSIRIS NAC camera on ESA's Rosetta mission on 5 August 2014 from a range of 123 kilometers. Credit: ESA / MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA / Daniel Macháček 🧪 🔭
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A very shiney #cryoEM structure of the MCR Activation Complex from anaerobic archaea. It’s the complex that makes methane. Or as I prefer to call it— the Fart Complex 💨. Big congrats to @schullerjm.bsky.social and the whole team! 🧪🧶🧬🔬🌊🌍 #ArchaeaSky
One of the largest open questions in anaerobic metabolism solved. The best work of my lab yet, performed by the incredible hard working, talented and motivated coworkers: @fidelormz.bsky.social , @sophia-pa.bsky.social and @rnfr2d2.bsky.social. I am a proud PI today!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Structure of the ATP-driven methyl-coenzyme M reductase activation complex - Nature
The structure and function of the MCR activation complex from Methanococcus maripaludis were revealed, demonstrating its ATP-dependent ability to activate MCR and form methane while uncovering a uniqu...
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April 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A very shiney #cryoEM structure of the MCR Activation Complex from anaerobic archaea. It’s the complex that makes methane. Or as I prefer to call it— the Fart Complex 💨. Big congrats to @schullerjm.bsky.social and the whole team! 🧪🧶🧬🔬🌊🌍 #ArchaeaSky
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Give ‘em hell, Harvard.
April 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Give ‘em hell, Harvard.
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SETI Institute in the News: March Roundup
www.seti.org/seti-institu...
This month, the SETI Institute announced exciting news about research and innovations that expand our understanding of the universe and bring us closer to answering one of humanity’s most enduring questions: Are we alone? 🧪 🐡
www.seti.org/seti-institu...
This month, the SETI Institute announced exciting news about research and innovations that expand our understanding of the universe and bring us closer to answering one of humanity’s most enduring questions: Are we alone? 🧪 🐡
April 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
SETI Institute in the News: March Roundup
www.seti.org/seti-institu...
This month, the SETI Institute announced exciting news about research and innovations that expand our understanding of the universe and bring us closer to answering one of humanity’s most enduring questions: Are we alone? 🧪 🐡
www.seti.org/seti-institu...
This month, the SETI Institute announced exciting news about research and innovations that expand our understanding of the universe and bring us closer to answering one of humanity’s most enduring questions: Are we alone? 🧪 🐡
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"As an exoplanet passes in front its host star, its atmosphere, if it has one, is illuminated. Its gases change the color of the starlight that reach the Webb telescope. By analyzing these changing wavelengths, scientists can infer the chemical composition of the atmosphere."
That is so, SO cool.
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That is so, SO cool.
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April 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"As an exoplanet passes in front its host star, its atmosphere, if it has one, is illuminated. Its gases change the color of the starlight that reach the Webb telescope. By analyzing these changing wavelengths, scientists can infer the chemical composition of the atmosphere."
That is so, SO cool.
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That is so, SO cool.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has returned to an old time favourite for its #Hubble35 anniversary!
The enigmatic Sombrero Galaxy has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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The enigmatic Sombrero Galaxy has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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April 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has returned to an old time favourite for its #Hubble35 anniversary!
The enigmatic Sombrero Galaxy has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
🔭 🧪
The enigmatic Sombrero Galaxy has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
🔭 🧪
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Many smaller, quieter species who are not at the top of the food chain also play leading roles in keeping an ecosystem running. 🧪
The Big Impact Small Creatures Can Make
Bats, rats, fish, bivalves, and butterflies are just as important for ecosystems as apex predators.
nautil.us
April 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Many smaller, quieter species who are not at the top of the food chain also play leading roles in keeping an ecosystem running. 🧪
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Native American land loss in the United States of America from 1776 to 1930.
April 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Native American land loss in the United States of America from 1776 to 1930.
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Reports of diverse stoichiometries have complicated our understanding of the complex between ALK kinase and its #cytokine ligand ALKAL2. @janfelix.bsky.social @savvideslab.bsky.social &co reanalyze #cryoEM data to clarify the situation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lvRfvu
April 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Reports of diverse stoichiometries have complicated our understanding of the complex between ALK kinase and its #cytokine ligand ALKAL2. @janfelix.bsky.social @savvideslab.bsky.social &co reanalyze #cryoEM data to clarify the situation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lvRfvu
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The M5.2 Julian, California, #earthquake was felt at least weakly all over San Diego and Los Angeles, according to more than 32,000 DYFI? reports. Few reports on weak shaking from San Fransisco and Las Vegas. 🧪⚒️
April 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The M5.2 Julian, California, #earthquake was felt at least weakly all over San Diego and Los Angeles, according to more than 32,000 DYFI? reports. Few reports on weak shaking from San Fransisco and Las Vegas. 🧪⚒️
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Tattooing goes back 4000 years in Nubia and Egypt and was primarily done on and by women. While we have almost no writing about it, we do know certain jobs favored it and that these practices survived into Coptic and Islamic Egypt. Male dancers had tattoos too. #FolkyFriday
April 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Tattooing goes back 4000 years in Nubia and Egypt and was primarily done on and by women. While we have almost no writing about it, we do know certain jobs favored it and that these practices survived into Coptic and Islamic Egypt. Male dancers had tattoos too. #FolkyFriday
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Ammit is thr Devourer of the Dead, the Eater of the Dead who devours the impure who are found wanting before Osiris in death. With the head of an alligator, torso and legs of a big cat, and haunches of a hippo, she embodied the three great man-eaters of Egypt. #FolkyFriday
April 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Ammit is thr Devourer of the Dead, the Eater of the Dead who devours the impure who are found wanting before Osiris in death. With the head of an alligator, torso and legs of a big cat, and haunches of a hippo, she embodied the three great man-eaters of Egypt. #FolkyFriday
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Göbekli tepe. C osa. T-pilarissa 'dodoja' ja villisika. Huimat nää rituaalitilat, korkeutta liki 5m. Kivikausi rocks!#mesoptamiatour25
April 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Göbekli tepe. C osa. T-pilarissa 'dodoja' ja villisika. Huimat nää rituaalitilat, korkeutta liki 5m. Kivikausi rocks!#mesoptamiatour25
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Buried under the Turkish desert for over ten thousand years, Gobekli Tepe is the oldest known human site. Its function is unclear, with evidence of animal-faced and giant statues, clock-like steles, and potential dwellings: is it a city, a temple, or something more? #FolkyFriday
April 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Buried under the Turkish desert for over ten thousand years, Gobekli Tepe is the oldest known human site. Its function is unclear, with evidence of animal-faced and giant statues, clock-like steles, and potential dwellings: is it a city, a temple, or something more? #FolkyFriday
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That's quite a lot of bird poo! Hope is doesn't harm the structures (does it?😣)
April 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
That's quite a lot of bird poo! Hope is doesn't harm the structures (does it?😣)
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New paper from me and my colleagues on ancient irrigation at Eridu, Iraq www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Identifying the preserved network of irrigation canals in the Eridu region, southern Mesopotamia | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Identifying the preserved network of irrigation canals in the Eridu region, southern Mesopotamia
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February 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
New paper from me and my colleagues on ancient irrigation at Eridu, Iraq www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The oldest known civilization on Earth is Sumer, which emerged in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) around 3100 BCE.
The Sumerians developed the first known writing system (cuneiform), built city-states like Ur, Uruk, & Eridu, & created advanced irrigation, law, & trade systems. 🌍📜🏺
#Sumer #History
The Sumerians developed the first known writing system (cuneiform), built city-states like Ur, Uruk, & Eridu, & created advanced irrigation, law, & trade systems. 🌍📜🏺
#Sumer #History
March 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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I am fortunate to have remarkable colleagues at Kent State. It was a pleasure to work with Metin Erin of our Anthropology Department on this groundbreaking study. 🧪https://www.kent.edu/cas/news/researchers-suggest-new-hypothesis-hominin-invention-stone-cutting-tools
Researchers Suggest New Hypothesis for Hominin Invention of Stone Cutting Tools
The use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes — knapping — is traditionally thought to be a process that ancient humans started doing intentionally or by accident before looking for things, s...
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April 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I am fortunate to have remarkable colleagues at Kent State. It was a pleasure to work with Metin Erin of our Anthropology Department on this groundbreaking study. 🧪https://www.kent.edu/cas/news/researchers-suggest-new-hypothesis-hominin-invention-stone-cutting-tools
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Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
April 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
The theory that the universe is inside a black hole proposes that each black hole contains a “baby universe.” This theory suggests that our cosmos is just one part of something much larger. The theory also proposes that black holes could be portals to other universes.
Did A Black Hole Give Birth To Our Universe?
And do our black holes give birth to baby Universes?
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April 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The theory that the universe is inside a black hole proposes that each black hole contains a “baby universe.” This theory suggests that our cosmos is just one part of something much larger. The theory also proposes that black holes could be portals to other universes.