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✳ Science. The good, the bad, and the quantum. Plus, a spicy touch of #RealArchaeology, ancient Egypt, and yes, gaming related to history. Join in!

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The Neutron Cube 🏅 @neutroncube.bsky.social · Dec 14
✳️🏅WELCOME TO THE NEUTRON CUBE🏅✳️

Hello 👋 to new followers!! Thank you for being here! Your presence is very much appreciated. 👍🔥

This space is new and growing, so be sure to interact & share!

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The valley in Zion National Park, as seen from the summit of Angel's Landing, 2015

#photography #scape #naturephotography #landscapephotography
June 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Mathematician, computer scientist, and WWII code breaker Alan Turing was born #OTD in 1912.

His work helped establish the theoretical foundation for just about every modern computing device, making it possible (among other things) for you to read this. 🧪 💾

Image: The Guardian
A black and white photo of Alan Turing. He is looking at the camera and the top of his head is not visible in this closely cropped image. He has dark eyes and bold eyebrows. Turing's hair is very short, which accentuates his ears. He is wearing what appears to be a gray flannel jacket, with what might be a plaid shirt.
June 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
neutroncube.bsky.social
Umm...
astronomy.bsky.social Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · Jun 5
Latest image of the Sun taken today by NASA 🌞
Latest image of the Sun taken today by NASA 🌞
June 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
neutroncube.bsky.social
Kind of a catchy term, actually.
May 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
neutroncube.bsky.social
What a blast! A fun and interesting talk by Flint and Ken. A must listen!👌 👇
May 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Archaeology with Flint Dibble is expanding to Spotify. Give us a subscribe over there

If you missed yesterday's episode, The Ruins of Civilizations with Dr Paul M.M. Cooper @paulmmcooper.bsky.social it is available there

We will port older episodes over soon

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The Ruins of Civilizations with Dr. Paul M.M. Cooper
Archaeology with Flint Dibble · Episode
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April 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jack A. Reeves, Ferdinand Schweser, et al:

IRONMAP: Iron network mapping and analysis protocol for detecting over-time brain iron abnormalities in neurological disease

doi.org/10.1162/imag...
April 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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debborahdonnelly.bsky.social
Egypt, major discovery in #Saqqara: tomb of Prince Userefra found
#Egyptology #archaeology
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Egypt, major discovery in Saqqara: tomb of Prince Userefra found
Important discovery in Egypt, in the archaeological area of Saqqara, where the tomb of Prince Userefra, son of King Userkaf, the first king of the Fifth Dynasty, has been discovered. This was reported...
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April 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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wantedinrome.bsky.social
Rome is creating a new 50-km cycle path that will weave its way past archaeological sites, historic parks, Roman aqueducts and riverbanks.
Rome’s GRAB: A new way to experience the Eternal City by bicycle
Rome is creating a new 50-km ring road for cyclists and walkers as part of an ambitious project known as Grande Raccordo Anulare delle Biciclette, or GRAB.
www.wantedinrome.com
April 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
neutroncube.bsky.social
✳ Amazing discovery ⬇️

www.yahoo.com/news/scienti...
Scientists Found a 520-Million-Year-Old Miracle: a Fossil With Brains and Guts Intact
Scientists discovered a 520-million-year-old fossilized larva with brains and guts intact, offering unprecedented insights into early arthropod evolution.
www.yahoo.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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flintdibble.bsky.social
These are the coolest features at Pompeii!

youtu.be/dWHuaSCb86I
Pompeii. HIDDEN in Plain Sight 👀 WHAT are these!? ⛏️⛏️ #RealArchaeology
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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April 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Declining water levels in the Caspian Sea are set to have profound implications for biodiversity and people. 🧪🌍🦭🦩
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Toxic dust and stressed seals: What the shrinking Caspian Sea could mean for people and nature
An area larger than Iceland is likely to dry up, even if the climate ‘only’ warms up by 2C. Here’s what that means in the Central Asian region.View on euronews
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April 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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This is a piece of one of those busily decorated yellow 21st Dynasty coffins, with every bit of it covered in vignettes and protective symbols. It has no provenance, but it is now in the Ashmolean Museum (or at least it was when I photographed it in 2018). 🧵1/6

#Egyptology
A photograph of a piece of an ancient Egyptian coffin. This a single slightly curved board from the side of a coffin set upright with the decorated face towards us as if it were still part of a whole item. The background of the decoration is yellow, and the motifs are painted on to it in blue, black, white & red. At the top of the piece is a strip with alternating feathers & snakes. Below this is a rather busy scene with 7 deities, 6 of them standing or sitting on a boat and one behind the boat. They all face to the right, and as we look that way we see 2 rows of 4 ba birds one above the other pulling two ropes attached to the front of the boat to pull it along towards the right. A ba bird is a bird with a human head, and all of these birds are drawn with their bodies facing to the right but their heads craned round looking back towards the boat. The birds have bird legs, but as well as their wings (which are folded on their backs) they have little human arms which extend up & backward to pull the ropes. The are several short bits of hieroglyphic text above the heads of the deities.
April 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Painting as tribute. Wonderful. Powerful.
vickypaintsspace.bsky.social Vicky Paints Space @vickypaintsspace.bsky.social · Apr 10
This is possibly the most meaningful painting I've ever done, even though it is nearly 4 years old. My Dad always told me lost loved ones are the brightest stars in the night sky.💜

Happy birthday Dad, I miss you so much.💫
A painting of a girl reaching for a star with a galaxy in the background.
April 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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This is possibly the most meaningful painting I've ever done, even though it is nearly 4 years old. My Dad always told me lost loved ones are the brightest stars in the night sky.💜

Happy birthday Dad, I miss you so much.💫
A painting of a girl reaching for a star with a galaxy in the background.
April 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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astronomy.bsky.social
This new Webb image shows an edge-on protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star, surrounded by jets and a disc wind, in unprecedented detail.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Tazaki et al.
April 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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nautil.us
About 466 million years ago (long before the dinosaurs), our planet may have had rings like Saturn. 🧪
When Earth Had Rings
A new way of thinking about the history of the Earth.
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April 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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nautil.us
More than 200 light years away from Earth, the planet LTT 9779 b reflects 80 percent of the light that hits it due to clouds made of titanium molecules and silicate. 🧪
The Shiniest Planet Has Clouds of Metal and Glass
This exoplanet’s sun should have obliterated its atmosphere. It's still going strong.
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April 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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According to Plutarch, on 7 April c.331 BC, Alexander the Great founded the Egyptian city of Alexandria, which, became the site of his own tomb, home to the Ptolemaic dynasty, the famed Library, and the Pharos lighthouse; a bustling metropolis of high culture and higher drama. #Egyptology
37 cm tall, marble portrait head of Alexander the Great, said to have been discovered in Alexandria and acquired by the British Museum in 1827, where it is currently displayed. Colossal pink granite statue of a Ptolemaic king, wearing the Double Crown and chendyt kilt, excavated from the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria between 1995-6, now displayed outside the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Egyptianising, 41” tall, black basalt statue of Cleopatra VII, wearing a tight ankle-length shift dress, a tripartite wig, topped by a triple uraeus and holding a double cornucopia. Held by the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, since 1929. Ancient map of Alexandria, according to Mahmud Bey, superimposed over a nineteenth century map of the city, created by Wagner & Debes for Baedeker’s Guide to Egypt, 1885.
April 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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How Small Can You Get? Another New-To-Science Flea-Toad Wows Scientists

by @grrlscientist.bsky.social via #Substack

#frogs #FleaToad #amphibians #NewSpecies #SmallestVertebrates #evolution #ecology #SciComm🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-small-...
April 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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🔔🧪 Good news!
Researchers have developed a #prototype #pacemaker that fits inside a syringe and #dissolves when no longer needed! It requires no external power and is controlled using #light shone through the skin.
#heartdisease
#heartsurgery

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
World’s tiniest pacemaker could revolutionize heart surgery
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 02 April 2025
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April 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Thanks to more than a decade of Uranus 🔵 observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have measured the planet’s internal rotation rate with a level of accuracy 1000 times greater than previous estimates!

Read more 👉 esahubble.org/news/heic2503/

🧪 🔭 ☄️ #planetsci
This visual shows three panels that each show Uranus and dynamic aurora activity. The images were captured in October 2022 on the 8th, 10, and 24th respectively. Each image shows a centred planet with a strong blue hue and a visible white region. A faint ring is also visible around the planet in each image. Each image shows fuzzy blue/purple regions hovering over the planet in different locations to indicate the aurorae.
April 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The Most Controversial Rule In Math

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The Most Controversial Rule In Math
YouTube video by Veritasium
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April 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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debborahdonnelly.bsky.social
Excavations in Ancient Leucas Fully Reveal the First Theater Discovered in the Ionian Islands
#Greece #archaeology
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/04/e...
Excavations in Ancient Leucas Fully Reveal the First Theater Discovered in the Ionian Islands
Excavations in the ancient city of Leucas have brought to light the first theater discovered in the Ionian Islands. This majestic monument, situated in a privileged position, dominates the landscape o...
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April 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Parenting has always been a challenge, and yet our species and others related to us have always found special ways for us to raise our children and successful ways to allow our species to continue on. Find out how our ancient hominin relatives did it. worldofpaleoanthropology.org/2025/03/20/a...
At the Dawn of Parenting: An Evolutionary Tale of Love and Survival
Imagine a small band of early humans huddled around a flickering fire on the African savanna 1.8 million years ago. In the dim glow, a young mother cradles her infant, who fusses quietly. Ther…
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March 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM