🌕✨ The #sun is 400 times farther away than the #moon and also 400 times its size. This unlikely coincidence makes them appear nearly identical from #Earth.

This #video shows how #humans see the moon as a god, an artistic symbol, and a stabilizing force across many centuries.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/what-is-the-moon-bbc-ideas-cultures-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=moon-meanings-cultures

#astronauts #astronomy #astrophysics #biology #culture #history #moons #myths #nasa #rockets #science #space #tksst

Tomography of magnetic field strength in my latest favourite cluster of galaxies simulated with ENZO and constrained transport, the scanned region is approximately (2 Mpc)^3.

I am constantly trying to step out of the world of clusters of galaxies, but they keep looking very nice from the point of view of simulations!

#astronomy #astrophysics #science #SimulatedUniverses

Quantum security keeps improving. Science News reports that scientists have used photon entanglement to demonstrate 'quantum position verification' for the first time.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-physics-location-security

It means an information recipient can know the actual location of the information sender. Thus, we may ultimately be able to dox all the spammers and scammers! 👹 🍄

#science #quantum #security

Quantum physics can confirm where someone is located

The concept of entanglement links far-flung particles. That relationship can prove that someone is in the location they claim to be.

Science News

Academic Freedom index:
- good are northern countries;
- worst is Saudi Arabia;
- Pakistan, the USA and France have the same trend to zero;
- Germany and Israel are not shown because good and unchanged in the recent years, which demonstrates bias.

Try it: https://v-dem.net/data_analysis/VariableGraph/

#science #agnotology #ignorance #academicChatter #academicFreedom #NL #university #research #Pakistan #India #France

We are continuing our @WWF stream series! We are fundraising with @[email protected] to conserve species of the planet, while chatting with the scientific experts! Today, prarie dog conservation! 2pm EDT #science #twitch #live #stem #sciants #scicomm twitch.tv/sciants_Stre...
a natural contract has an advantage over its ancestor the social contract, because its written on the world, no longer as it once was through neolithic farming or the industrial revolution, for the natural contract is written in the negative, in our destroying of the biosphere, carbin, ozone holes, mass extinction... we will have to rewrite this into a natural contract we can live with... #philosophy #science #politics

It's Time to Take Down your Smart Cameras 😬

https://peertube.nadeko.net/w/mLXKxHtFjmF4ZzqheiSAXB

It's Time to Take Down your Smart Cameras 😬

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The Spirited Revolutionary Who Led the Fight for Independence in Corsica Also Inspired America’s Colonial Rabble-rousers https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spirited-revolutionary-led-fight-independence-corsica-inspired-america-colonial-rabblerouser-180988408/ #science
The Spirited Revolutionary Who Led the Fight for Independence in Corsica Also Inspired America’s Colonial Rabble-rousers

Pasquale Paoli was a “small fish fighting an entire empire.” Four thousand miles away, the founding fathers were watching and taking notes

Smithsonian Magazine
In our latest episode of Together for Legendary Women in STEAM 2026, we sit down with @[email protected], an archaeologist, science communicator, and longtime Twitch community member and friend! #archaeology #pokemon #womeninstem #history #stem #science youtu.be/hHdidjIW018

History & Pokémon: Digging Up ...
History & Pokémon: Digging Up One Archaeologist's Journey - Women in STEAM 2026

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⟦McGhee, Sidorovskaia, & Orbach⟧ Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) whistles and clicks across foraging contexts https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2026.1771116/full 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Dolphins #Science
Frontiers | Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) whistles and clicks across foraging contexts

Common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) rely on whistles for group cohesion and coordination and on echolocation for prey detection and capture. In T...

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