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We didn’t make this decision lightly. We had many wonderful years on X/Twitter and have enjoyed thoughtful audience conversations, banter, and questions in this space. Thank you for supporting SciFri over the years—your curiosity fuels everything we do. We hope to see you in other spaces.
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Who will be the next to step foot on the moon? Here's what the head of @NASA has to say: scifri.me/3z1
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House stalls on a bill to compensate victims of nuclear testing. So what happens now?
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For the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, let's write women back into science history. scifri.me/pvusvx
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Today in 1942, Hedy Lamarr patented frequency-hopping, the basis for modern WiFi & Bluetooth. scifri.me/Vcuwbq
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Dr. Jane Goodall turns 85 today. Over half a century ago, she journeyed into the Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanzania for the first time. scifri.me/ha1
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Fashion industry journalist @dieworkwear explores how cheap cashmere led to an environmental disaster in Mongolia.
Learn more about the science of clothing:
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Humans first landed on the moon 40 years ago this July. Just three years later, the last human mission left the lunar surface. We remember Apollo astronaut Alan Bean in this archival interview from 2009. scifri.me/8m1
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Tomorrow is #NationalPuppyDay!!! We can't help but celebrate a tad early with these very good coyote pups. scifri.me/mn1
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Did you know: Hedy Lamarr invented frequency hopping, the basis of modern wi-fi scifri.me/Vcuwbq #womensday2015
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Meet the remarkable group of women coders who helped #Apollo11 land on the moon nearly half a century ago today. scifri.me/1h
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Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid? This Ig Nobel winner used fluid dynamics to find out: scifri.me/8d1
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Birds don’t just see the world from higher up than the rest of us; they also see a whole range of light that we can’t. Birds have a fourth color cone in their eyes that lets them see ultraviolet wavelengths. scifri.me/t52
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📺The new show #TheLastOfUsHBO takes viewers to a world taken over by a fungus that turns people into zombies. When it comes to the zombifying fungus, what’s science and what’s fiction?
Geek out with us and mycologist @queendom_fungi on #SciFriLive📻!
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Legendary scientist Dr. Carl Sagan introduced the world to “nuclear winter,” the terrifying climate changes that might be brought on by nuclear war.
Dr. @AlanRobock joins us to discuss the science of nuclear winter.
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Alan Alda on empathy and communication: "You have to listen better than the person you’re communicating with. The other person becomes your communicating partner, not the target of your communication. It’s ping pong instead of archery."
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Vacuum decay is a theory that proposes how everything, and we mean everything, will end.
Somewhere in the universe, a quantum event will create a bubble that expands outward at about the speed of light and destroys everything in it.
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Alright everybody, that's it for #SciFriLive today...and for #CephalopodWeek!
Thanks for such a fun poddy over these last 8 undersea days. We'd say it went swimmingly. We'll leave you with this "adorabilis" for now.
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“The scientists of the world are being ignored. And it’s got to stop. We’re going to lose everything. And we’re not joking. We’re not lying. We’re not exaggerating.”-@ClimateHuman
Why scientists are turning to civil disobedience to fight climate inaction.
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Happy #IndependenceDay! Take a moment to meet these African American women mathematicians and engineers who crunched the calculations that got the U.S. to the moon. scifri.me/sm
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We want to contribute to #TalkLikeAPirateDay with some chemistry puns but all the good ones ARRRRGON.
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Today is the first day of #WomensHistoryMonth .And it’s time to write women back into science history. scifri.me/4i1
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Happy #LeftHandersDay! But... what does it actually mean to be left-handed anyway? Let's talk about the science of handedness for a minute.
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Because it's officially #CEPHALOPODWEEK: 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 🐙 🦑 sciencefriday.com/cephalopod
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This actress's frequency hopping system became the foundation for GPS and Wi-Fi. scifri.me/s21
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Say hello to the juvenile orchid mantis, a predator that mimics the perennial to lure in bees and other pollinating insects for a meal. scifri.me/nk
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Allow us to introduce you to Steve. He’s kind of a loner, and he doesn’t come out in winter. But he attracts plenty of attention. scifri.me/vi1
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It is Wednesday afternoon, we are halfway through the week, and you deserve this pic of a baby coyote
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"I think everything in nature is very funny. Science people are encouraged to be serious, but there's just so much funny stuff." - @RosemaryMosco #SciFriLive
ALT a cartoon of a small owl that slowly builds up a collection of prey it kills
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They can jet, swim, and float. But have you ever seen an octopus walk away? scifri.me/jl5kzx #CephalopodWeek
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A new documentary starring Diane Kruger will shed light on the life of Hedy Lamarr, the 'Mother of Wi-Fi.' scifri.me/s21
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Did you know that when a leaf on a plant is snipped, crushed, or chewed, it transmits distress signals to other healthy leaves?? Yeah, we didn’t either. Mind = blown. scifri.me/lr1
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Good morning! Please allow this Adorabilis octopus to ease you into the first workday of 2018.
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Put this one in the win column! California blue whales are back up to their pre-whaling levels scifri.me/ziw2lx
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Astronauts are allowed to bring special “crew preference” items to space. This astronaut chose candy corn. scifri.me/t2
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Don't forget to look up for the #Perseids tonight!
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The COVID pandemic continues to reveal many existing biases in medical care. Disabilities advocates are saying their community is often belittled and denied medical attention.
On #SciFriLive📻, @KALW reporter @chrisegusa joins us to spotlight their story.
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Say hello to... pocket prairies!
These patches of native prairie grass can be planted anywhere—from front yards to traffic medians—and can hold up to *nine inches* of rainwater during a storm, reducing the likelihood of catastrophic floods. scifri.me/f12
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Do clothing recycling programs work?
With: @dieworkwear
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A passenger in a commercial airplane flying across the Pacific saw an odd gray mass floating in the ocean.
It turned out to be a giant pumice raft from an eruption of an underwater volcano.
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Don’t forget to look for Mars tonight! (It’s closer to Earth than it’s been in nearly 20 years.) Planetary scientist @BonnieMeinke has some Marsgazing tips for you. scifri.me/ep1
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This is Tobias. He’s a very good boy. He’s also the only dog in the world trained to track down a specific invasive species of ant in the wild. 😍 scifri.me/2t1
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There's so much beauty to be found in the brain. scifri.me/a12
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Decades of research shows that expanding highways increases travel times. Some cities are reducing their highways in response.
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When the plague hit Europe, the Venetians established "trentino," a 30-day isolation period for ships entering ports.
It was eventually extended to 40 days, and called "quarantino"—the Italian word for 40, and the root of the English "quarantine." scifri.me/1r1
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"On that blue dot, that's where everyone you know, and everyone you ever heard of, and every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives, the very small stage in a great cosmic arena."
Happy birthday, Carl Sagan.
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Oh, it's #WorldTurtleDay you say? Did you know that sea turtles navigate using earth’s magnetic field? scifri.me/tl1
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After 20 years of coordinating a global network of radio dishes, @ehtelescope imaged the shadow of a black hole. #EHTBlackHole sciencefriday.com/m87
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🔬 Researchers are working on the next generation of coronavirus vaccines that aim to protect us against multiple emerging variants—and even prevent future pandemics.
Researchers Dr. Pamela Bjorkman & @VirusesImmunity join #SciFriLive📻 to share more.
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Stephen Hawking has died. He spoke with us on SciFri in 2013: sciencefriday.com/segments/s…
Physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, a spokesman for his family has said bbc.in/2GpapQF
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🥳 Celebrate #WomenInScience with a brand new season of #BreakthroughFilms, dropping today!
Discover the innovative research & deeply personal stories of six women working at the forefront of their STEM fields.
🌋🦕🧠Get inspired at BreakthroughFilms.org 🌌🌎🍄
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Today is #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience. To celebrate, let us introduce you to the scientists in our Breakthrough video anthology. #WomenInScience sciencefriday.com/breakthrou…
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Sometimes, a rare book is more interesting because of the people who owned it in the past.
With: @rebeccaromney
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Up next: astronaut @Astro_Flow reflects his journey to the @Space_Station. #SciFriLive scifri.me/g21
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I spy with my little eye... #CephalopodWeek right around the corner.
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Here's to all the science educators out there–we salute you! #NationalTeachersDay
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Join us TODAY, June 21 at 6:00pm ET, to talk about the squiddy science featured in SciFri Book Club pick for June 2023: "Monarchs of the Sea" with author @DannaStaaf and science communicator @SarahMackAttack
RSVP here: secure.everyaction.com/lJtD8…
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The M87 black hole is one of two black holes @ehtelescope is working on. Data from the other black hole, Sagittarius A* at the core of the Milky Way, may be released later as the team continues to hone in on its complexities, says Doeleman. #EHTBlackHole sciencefriday.com/m87
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Did you know that the first edition of Darwin's ‘Origin of Species’ does not include the word' evolution'?
Rare book expert @rebeccaromney tells us the history behind this legendary book.
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For Navajo hydrologist Karletta Chief, water is sacred. When a mine spill contaminated a vital river in the Navajo Nation, she decided to investigate. scifri.me/yf1
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While he may not have come up with peanut butter, George Washington Carver invented some 300 uses for the peanut—from soaps, lotions, and shaving cream.
Happy #NationalPeanutButterDay!
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What lives in a mucus house under the sea?
A giant larvacean! scifri.me/d11
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Most countries fail on their initial trip to Mars.
Meet the female scientists that got India there on the first try scifri.me/qp
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What is it like using hearing assistive technologies? These simulations give insight. scifri.me/xu
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Happy #WorldTurtleDay! Please enjoy these baby turtles from @KQEDscience's #DeepLook pbs.org/video/2365687904/
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"Nature is really funny. It's never not funny." In our latest SciArts video, @RosemaryMosco shows us the seriously silly natural world in her science comics! sciencefriday.com/videos/sci…
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A new imaging technology allows us to visualize anatomy like never before. scifri.me/tc1
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Paleontologists have a very scientific way of telling a rock from a bone. They check if it sticks to their tongues 👅 scifri.me/vr1
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Almost time for the Oscars! You may know actress Hedy Lamarr from old movies. But did you know that one of her greatest roles was laying the foundation for today’s wireless internet? scifri.me/s21
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Earlier this month, more than 1,000 acres of land in central New York were returned to the Onondaga Nation, the original steward of the land. This decision marks one of the largest returns of land to an Indigenous nation in US history.
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