This is talented stuff

#NZtwits
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture/dunedin-teen-stuns-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-competition

Years ago, I was on vacation in Hawaii and went on a hike up an extinct volcano (no real threat aside from the "threat" of the hike alone).

The hike wasn't the hardest I've ever done, but I came to this point where I had to traverse through a narrow tunnel that was poorly lit with uneven ground.

The entire time I was going through it, I was terrified because it was pitch black and I had to feel the walls to make my way through and I almost fell several times.

I eventually made my way to the end and finally saw light so I found a place to rest and I was thinking "WTF that was so dangerous how do they let average people go on that hike?" and I took off my hat and sunglasses to relax and embrace my survival and that's when I realized that it was only pitch black because I was wearing my sunglasses the entire time.

Heat dome moving to Nova Scotia

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/hot-and-humid-tuesday-maritimes-1.7568713?cmp=rss

#heatwave #Canada #NovaScotia #heat

The fridge that runs without electricity! Mitticool, made of terracotta, cools using ancient evaporative cooling, just add water. Invented by Mansukhbhai Prajapati post-2001 quake, it’s eco-friendly, off-grid, and keeps food fresh for days. Low-tech meets timeless wisdom. 🌍💧

@V_and_A #globalmuseum #LowTech #museums

Mexico’s president threatens to sue over SpaceX debris from rocket explosions | Mexico | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/mexico-president-lawsuit-spacex-debris-rocket-explosions

UBC hires top U.S. doctor to lead faculty of medicine
https://vancouversun.com/news/ubc-hires-top-us-doctor-lead-faculty-medicine?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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3D printing is 10% printing and 90% staring at a wall of filament whispering "what color do I feel emotionally today?"

#3dprinting

Io’s Missing Magma Ocean

In the late 1970s, scientists conjectured that Io was likely a volcanic world, heated by tidal forces from Jupiter that squeeze it along its elliptical orbit. Only months later, images from Voyager 1’s flyby confirmed the moon’s volcanism. Magnetometer data from Galileo’s later flyby suggested that tidal heating had created a shallow magma ocean that powered the moon’s volcanic activity. But newly analyzed data from Juno’s flyby shows that Io doesn’t have a magma ocean after all.

The new flyby used radio transmission data to measure any little wobbles that Io caused by tugging Juno off its expected course. The team expected a magma ocean to cause plenty of distortions for the spacecraft, but the effect was much slighter than expected. Their conclusion? Io has no magma ocean lurking under its crust. The results don’t preclude a deeper magma ocean, but at what point do you distinguish a magma ocean from a body’s liquid core?

Instead, scientists are now exploring the possibility that Io’s magma shoots up from much smaller pockets of magma rather than one enormous, shared source. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/USGS; research credit: R. Park et al.; see also Quanta)

#fluidDynamics #geophysics #Io #magma #physics #planetaryScience #science #subsurfaceOceans #tidalHeating #volcano