In the fourth episode of the Climate Chronicles' first season, Becoming Human, Professor Dagomar Degroot explores how our hominin ancestors learned to cope with, and even exploit, the wildly fluctuating climate of the Pleistocene. He uses the extraordinary migration of a hominin species named Homo erectus to introduce the concept of resilience: a key but contested term that can help us understand our fate on a warming world.

Listen here: https://theclimatechronicles.com/2025/02/04/episode-5-miracles-of-resilience/

Just finished this book I picked up many years ago at a used bookstore.

“By understanding the thresholds at which physical defects become detectable in brewed #coffee, this #research has the potential to refine #coffee grading practices, offering more scientifically grounded criteria for assessing green #coffee quality”

#Coffee #Science Foundation Leading More Defects Research with #UCDavis ️
https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/03/17/coffee-science-foundation-leading-more-defects-research-with-uc-davis/

Necklace allergies
do NOT make you an expert
in chain reactions.

Why did the iguana cross the ocean?

Science News reports: The mystery of how iguanas crossed the Pacific Ocean may be solved.

https://flip.it/MlPa5c

From order to chaos: Understanding the principles behind collective motion in bacteria https://phys.org/news/2025-03-chaos-principles-motion-bacteria.html #science

'More and faster': UN calls to shrink buildings' carbon footprint https://phys.org/news/2025-03-faster-carbon-footprint.html #science

The Scent of Veneration: Study shows Ancient Statues were Perfumed ~ New research suggests that ancient statues were not only painted and adorned but also covered with oils and perfumed.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/the-scent-of-veneration-study-shows-ancient-statues-were-perfumed.html

Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd.

From @ConversationUS: "Newly published research introduces a way to create audible enclaves – localized pockets of sound that are isolated from their surroundings."

https://flip.it/pyCqhH

This is the best map yet of what Antarctica looks like under the ice. Ice thickness shown at left; ice-stripped topography of the continent shown at right.

Let's hope we never get to see what an ice-free Antarctica looks like for real.

https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/new-map-of-landscape-beneath-antarctica-unveiled/ #science #nature #climate

Witnessing beauty and climate change from the top of the world. It’s “Amazing Arctic” this week on Big Picture Science.

Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/amazing-arctic

https://dialogue.earth/en/food/5193-decline-of-bees-forces-china-s-apple-farmers-to-pollinate-by-hand/

Bees are virtually extinct in China. People pollinate by hand. Wow. I didn't know that.

#stem #Science #archaeology #history #Buddhism #spiffy #Cambodia

After 98 years, archaeologists finally found the missing torso of an ancient Buddha Statue... about 164 feet away. It's always in the last place you look

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a64176054/ancient-buddha-statue-torso/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

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Last chance - 7.3. - to apply for a POSTDOC position at the junior group of Rico Friedrich

Topic: Data-driven and DFT methods for designing novel 2D and high-entropy materials

www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

#compchem #chemsky #postdoc #science #chemjobs #phdlife
https://www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/stelle.asp?id=11965&lang=en&style=cms2

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Last chance - 7.3. - to apply for a POSTDOC position at the junior group of Rico Friedrich

Topic: Data-driven and DFT methods for designing novel 2D and high-entropy materials

www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

#compchem #chemsky #postdoc #science #chemjobs #phdlife
https://www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/stelle.asp?id=11965&lang=en&style=cms2

Please share:
Last chance - 7.3. - to apply for a POSTDOC position at the junior group of Rico Friedrich

Topic: Data-driven and DFT methods for designing novel 2D and high-entropy materials

www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

#compchem #chemsky #postdoc #science #chemjobs #phdlife
https://www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/stelle.asp?id=11965&lang=en&style=cms2

#science #Technology #space

The James Webb Space telescope has spotted four giant planets orbiting a nearby star. The nearby star is about 130 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. The main thing is that it shows just how powerful the telescope is. It is also helping astronomers to understand the constellation more, which has long been intriguing them.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/james-webb-space-telescope/james-webb-space-telescope-sees-four-giant-alien-planets-circling-nearby-star-images

UNB scientist checks in from first all-Canadian Antarctic mission
A group of 15 researchers have been gathering data for the last two weeks as part of the first all-Canadian Antarctic mission. 
#science #research #Canada #Antarctica #Antarctic #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-researcher-kevin-wilcox-all-canadian-antarctic-mission-1.7484432?cmp=rss