Plant people, come to BlueSky. We will give you plants and science. And #plantscience and weird plants, and maybe some weird bugs for good measure. 🧪 🧪🌱🌱
Hey nerds! One week from today at 6:30 p.m. I'm giving my Under Alien Skies talk in Washington DC. It's a tour of Saturn, its rings, and its weird moons, as if you were on a spaceship touring the system. And it's free! carnegiescience.edu/events/under...
Join us for an entertaining Neighborhood Lecture with astronomer, author, and communicator Dr. Phil Plait—also known as The Bad Astronomer—at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, in the Greenewalt L...
And I made the news again.
I can't be clear enough in this... WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. Not wanting to overload us is terrible a reason for authors to avoid submitting their own (non-"AI") work. You have the stories we want to see.
Because people keep asking, the Story of The Lizard In That Dude's Leg. Some caveats: 1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
Insects sense color and smell in ways that humans can’t. They also use static electricity in creative ways in order to survive. Did electroreception arrive by coincidence, or did evolution favor it? www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-w...
Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more. New experiments explore how evolution may have influenced this phenomenon.
Social media companies kinda gave up on letting users find *other users* based on their self-stated interests (meaning you consent to being found), and I think it might be cool if we brought that back.