ScienceSational
@sciencesational.bsky.social
I appreciate science's practical aspects, but I prefer knowing and learning more stuff just because it feels good.
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Robert Bateman(1) spent 20 y teaching Geography in high school. He chose the discipline as an excuse to be outdoors. (2) was originally an abstract artist (3) has never had his works displayed at the National Gallery (4) his foundation uses art to promote a connection to nature and the environment.
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Robert Bateman(1) spent 20 y teaching Geography in high school. He chose the discipline as an excuse to be outdoors. (2) was originally an abstract artist (3) has never had his works displayed at the National Gallery (4) his foundation uses art to promote a connection to nature and the environment.
This is may have served as the inspiration for the #BatSignal: In 1875, from the roof of the Siemens Halske factory in Berlin, electrically-generated rays were bounced off a large mirror and projected onto dark clouds while an awe-stricken crowd looked on. (Shown: 1875 Scientific American article)
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is may have served as the inspiration for the #BatSignal: In 1875, from the roof of the Siemens Halske factory in Berlin, electrically-generated rays were bounced off a large mirror and projected onto dark clouds while an awe-stricken crowd looked on. (Shown: 1875 Scientific American article)
Oceanus Procellarum is the largest of the #Moon's seas, and the only one classified as an 'ocean', its area is greater than that of the Gulf of Mexico on Earth. All "mare" are large, dark basaltic plains formed when ancient lava-flows filled impact basins. Photo credit: greg dunlap
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Oceanus Procellarum is the largest of the #Moon's seas, and the only one classified as an 'ocean', its area is greater than that of the Gulf of Mexico on Earth. All "mare" are large, dark basaltic plains formed when ancient lava-flows filled impact basins. Photo credit: greg dunlap
In vivo CAR T therapy for killing cancer cells has several advantages over the ex vivo approach www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... Nobelist Drew Weissman described it at the 2025 Trottier Public Science Symposium last night @mcgilloss.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In vivo CAR T therapy for killing cancer cells has several advantages over the ex vivo approach www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... Nobelist Drew Weissman described it at the 2025 Trottier Public Science Symposium last night @mcgilloss.bsky.social
Scientific American has a beautiful graphic based on a 2025 study on the perception of smells. More complex mixtures tend to be more pleasant. The Nature paper is freely available: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #chemsky
October 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Scientific American has a beautiful graphic based on a 2025 study on the perception of smells. More complex mixtures tend to be more pleasant. The Nature paper is freely available: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #chemsky
'Love #nerdyFacts. The chemistry consultant for the Breaking Bad series, organic chemist Donna J. Nelson from Oklahoma State University, was also 2016 ACS President and is currently on the Scientific American's board of advisors. Not every chemist gets their pic flashed on 7th Av! I ❤️ NY. #chemsky
October 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
'Love #nerdyFacts. The chemistry consultant for the Breaking Bad series, organic chemist Donna J. Nelson from Oklahoma State University, was also 2016 ACS President and is currently on the Scientific American's board of advisors. Not every chemist gets their pic flashed on 7th Av! I ❤️ NY. #chemsky
Robert Bunsen was the co-inventor (along with Kirchhoff)of the flame spectroscope.The invention relied on the Bunsen burner, developed by Bunsen after asking the university mechanic, Peter Desaga, to build a prototype that improved on Michael Faraday's version . uwaterloo.ca/chemistry/co... #chemsky
October 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Robert Bunsen was the co-inventor (along with Kirchhoff)of the flame spectroscope.The invention relied on the Bunsen burner, developed by Bunsen after asking the university mechanic, Peter Desaga, to build a prototype that improved on Michael Faraday's version . uwaterloo.ca/chemistry/co... #chemsky
"I’m a former creationist. Here’s why ‘follow the science’ failed." archive.ph/2025.09.23-0...
October 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"I’m a former creationist. Here’s why ‘follow the science’ failed." archive.ph/2025.09.23-0...
How about the fact that most Israelites do not support the authoritarian and corrupt Netanyahu?
October 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
How about the fact that most Israelites do not support the authoritarian and corrupt Netanyahu?
Merely because she was a woman, PhD Maria Goeppert Mayer, spent 1930 to 1960 without a permanent paid post. But 3 years later, she was the cowinner of the #Nobel Prize in #Physics for realizing that spin orbit coupling of nucleons led to magic numbers-why oxygen is more common than elements 3 to 7.
October 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
From the Globe and Mail's Business Section: (Even)oil executives don't approve of Trump's unfounded attacks on wind energy--- which, of course, is one of the key, albeit several, solutions to climate change.
September 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
From the Globe and Mail's Business Section: (Even)oil executives don't approve of Trump's unfounded attacks on wind energy--- which, of course, is one of the key, albeit several, solutions to climate change.
The Swiss Water Process is a clever way of removing most caffeine from coffee without relying on CO₂ or toxic solvents. It's used to produce #decaffeinated Kirkland&Loblaws coffees. Max Morgenthaler came up with the method in the 1930s, but it was only commercialized in the 1980s in British Columbia
September 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Swiss Water Process is a clever way of removing most caffeine from coffee without relying on CO₂ or toxic solvents. It's used to produce #decaffeinated Kirkland&Loblaws coffees. Max Morgenthaler came up with the method in the 1930s, but it was only commercialized in the 1980s in British Columbia
Poplar leaves go from green to yellow. Why? After chlorophyll is broken down to recycle nitrogen and magnesium, #autumn exposes oxygenated #carotenoids known as xanthophylls in cottonwood leaves. Lutein is their main xanthophyll, which, in the summer, protects them from high light intensity.
September 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Poplar leaves go from green to yellow. Why? After chlorophyll is broken down to recycle nitrogen and magnesium, #autumn exposes oxygenated #carotenoids known as xanthophylls in cottonwood leaves. Lutein is their main xanthophyll, which, in the summer, protects them from high light intensity.
The early bird catches the #sunrise. Aren't you glad that Rayleigh scattering is inversely proportional to the 4th power of wavelength? That way, when you look more directly towards the sun, through a longer path- length of air molecules, you get more scattering of blue & more leftover red?
September 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The early bird catches the #sunrise. Aren't you glad that Rayleigh scattering is inversely proportional to the 4th power of wavelength? That way, when you look more directly towards the sun, through a longer path- length of air molecules, you get more scattering of blue & more leftover red?
September 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I think this should be posted all over the White House.
September 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I think this should be posted all over the White House.
