science

New research in Nature: "We estimate the date of the LUCA at approximately 4.2 billion years ago." A discussion of its characteristics, also in Nature. A more readable description of the research. The last common universal ancestor (LUCA) is the most recent organism from which everything...

Reuters is reporting that a group of scientists and philosophers at the Carnegie Institute for Science have published a paper proposing a new law of nature which describes the way in which systems tend to increase in complexity over time. It's not really a new insight into any particular aspect...

J: So, we've recently acquired a consumer-grade Electroencephalogram headset (the Entertech Flowtime headband). We've taken to recording our brainwaves while doing various system stuff to get some insight on what's going on in here. C: And also to have brainwave data to shove in the face of...

A/N: Should I be doing this instead of updating... Literally  any of my other neglected Quests? Probably not. Am I doing it anyway? You bet your Timber Wolves I Am. In the year 2440, Mankind is at war. For decades now, the Great Houses—powerful dynastic empires which control hundreds of...

The Old Ones were alive in times so ancients costellations shifted and planets came to be since their fall. But they, as mighty as they were, have been hunted to extintion. Or have they? Explore a still untainted Galaxy, and grow quickly to prepeare for the dangers lurking around your home...

Department of Novel Dimensional Physics, May 2000 With the successful summoning undertaken by Project: Green, conclusive evidence of trans-dimensional dynamics has finally been proven enough to be funded. Modern science has no explanation for anything for now, but with sufficient focus and...

https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-revive-mammoth-dodo-colossal-biosciences-2023-2?amp https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-company-invests-150m-to-bring-back-the-dodo/ Admittedly this is less of a "Jurassic park" type deal and instead it's a symbolic victory for scientists...

Owyn was not a good brother. Too quick to bend the organisations rules or reinterpret the sacred codex. He had been a rebellious young initiate, too quick to argue with his superiors, constrained by the Chapters rules. And yet, anointed as a paladin he had protected and defended scribes and...

This just came out yesterday. Not only is it infuriating that research has been misdirected for years, this also shows massive gaps in how science is done, and the lack of work done on replicating results. Daily Kos article Science article

A self insert with most of specific memories of self removed is combined with the memories of a character in a unstated transhuman near-future science fiction character and dropped in the Fallout universe. I'm honestly not sure where this is going or if it is going anywhere. --- Since when did...

Soooo I had an idea. You know A/C's take suck up a lot of power right? So i was thinking of a design that could work with zero emissions and take very little power to run and use no refrigerant. Unfortunately this idea would only be commercially applicable to be installed on top of a Sky...

I think it's known that the universe we live in isn't truly infinite in size, but ever-expanding. But how would a truly infinite sized universe work?

A/N: Me: no, stahp, you've got like three unfinished quests already My Dumb Brain: hee hee new quest go brrrrr To say the trip was routine was a lie- for the vessel's systems were one and all prototypes; many untested, and worse- an ancient enemy had burned away its makers before it could be...

I have a few ideas for possible asoiaf fics, but probably only patience for actually writing one of them, if that, so I wanna put it to a vote what you'd like to see me take a shot at. The story is gonna be about a version of me being reborn in Westeros, with extreme longevity. The excuse...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/lick-it-up-japan-professor-creates-tele-taste-tv-screen-2021-12-23/ :o :whistle: Dem implications...

https://www.space.com/china-yutu-2-moon-rover-cube-shaped-object-photos?utm_campaign=socialflow

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mammoth-elephant-hybrids-could-be-created-within-the-decade-should-they-be https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mammoth-elephant-hybrids-could-be-created-within-the-decade-should-they-be...

I know that I am asking a lot of questions. I looked for various answers including looking for pictures of the local group. Now of the maps of the local group that I have found seem to give directions to know on which side of the Milky Way Earth is to the local group. On the other side of the...

assuming that there was a blue giant star 10 light years away, how bright would it be? Would it be brighter than Jupiter, the moon, etc?

The sound of metal clanging against metal is what wakes me from my slumber, and after a brief flash of annoyance at being woken up I slowly roll over to face my prison cell’s thick steel door, my moldy cot’s rusty springs creaking under my shifting weight in tandem with the incessant clanging of...

Everyone thinks that you just join the Protectorate, start going out on patrols, and are instantly a bastion of parahuman heroism. It's not that simple. There are some legends – Legend foremost among them – who put on a cape and just Do Good, but there are even more horror stories. Everyone's...

SCIENTISTS HAVE TAUGHT SPINACH TO SEND EMAILS AND IT COULD WARN US ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE Through nanotechnology, engineers at MIT in the US have transformed spinach into sensors capable of detecting explosive materials. These plants are then able to wirelessly relay this information back to...

New Scientist See also this link for botanical illustration: It bears a surprising degree of resemblance to the Gravemind from Halo:

An idea that might help solve the Lithium shortage.... You know that desalination plants use reverse osmosis to seperate extract fresh water from seawater. The process also process an equal amount of concentrated brine that has twice the concentration salt and is released back into the ocean...

Today is the day you finally realized you're in love with your very best friend. The feeling you hold for her is so powerful that it burns like a fire. You had always thought that's what friendship was. The jealousy you got when she looked at your rival with the same eyes as you, well, it was...