Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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**Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn**
"_Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/.
🇪🇸 **Scientists find microplastics in semen and ovaries**
"_Spanish researchers have identified different types of plastics in seminal plasma and ovarian follicular fluid_"
📚 **See The 4 Books Scientific American Loved Reading In June**
**Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin**
“_Our findings reveal minor East Asian ancestry in the Carpathian Basin (CB) Sarmatians, distinguishing them from other regional populations. Using F4 statistics, qpAdm, and identity-by-descent (IBD) analysis, we show that CB Sarmatians descended from Steppe Sarmatians originating in the Ural and Kazakhstan regions, with Romanian Sarmatians serving as a possible genetic bridge between the two groups._”
Schütz, Oszkár et al., (2025). Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.009.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Archaeogenetics #Genetics #Roman #Migration #Academia #Academics @science
📖 **Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Newton**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404.
#ProjectGutenberg #Read #IsaacNewton #Newton #Science #Physics #Ebook #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science
#Image attribution: John Vanderbank, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Sir_Isaac_Newton_(4670220).jpg.
🧬 **Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch**
"_But critics fear the research opens the way for unscrupulous researchers seeking to create enhanced or modified humans._"
💻 **AI will make you a dumber writer, says science.**
🔗 https://lithub.com/ai-will-make-you-a-dumber-writer-says-science/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Science #Research @ai @science
🔭 **Astronomy**
On this day in 1675 the Royal Observatory Greenwich was founded.
**A century of science history: the Museo Galileo in Florence celebrates its first 100 years with an exhibition**
💻 **Energy costs of communicating with AI**
"_Our results reveal strong correlations between LLM size, reasoning behavior, token generation, and emissions. While larger and reasoning-enabled models achieve higher accuracy, up to 84.9%, they also incur substantially higher emissions, driven largely by increased token output._"
Dauner M and Socher G (2025) Energy costs of communicating with AI. Front. Commun. 10:1572947. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1572947.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Research #Article #Energy #Science #Academics @ai @science
'Your rectum isn't designed for coffee': A very serious doctor probes TikTok's new enema trend | BBC Science Focus Magazine https://www.sciencefocu...
💻 **AI Perceived More Negatively than Climate Science or Science in General**
"_They found that people perceived AI scientists more negatively than climate scientists or scientists in general, and that this negativity is driven by concern about AI scientists’ prudence – specifically, the perception that AI science is causing unintended consequences._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Science #Climate @ai @science
☀️ **Sun’s south pole revealed for first time, in images from Solar Orbiter spacecraft**
**Nearly 40% of the world’s glaciers are already doomed, scientists say**
"_Researchers estimate glaciers will eventually lose 39% of their mass relative to 2020, a trend that is already irreversible no matter what comes next and will likely contribute a 113-millimeter increase to global sea level rise._"
🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/02/climate/worlds-glaciers-future-study-intl-scli.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Envirnoment #Glaciers #Science #Research @climatechange @science
**Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts**
“_We found that learning constrained to the language domain captures human-level conceptual representation in non-sensorimotor dimensions such as valence and emotional arousal but yields impoverished representation of sensorimotor knowledge._”
Xu, Q., Peng, Y., Nastase, S.A. et al. Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02203-8.
#OpenAcces #OA #Article #DOI #Language #Linguistics #Science #Technology #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Psycholofy #Academia #Academics @ai @psychology
🔬 **Scientists Warns That AI Images May Cause Havoc in Medical Research**
“_The authors argue that the growing sophistication of AI image-generation tools makes it harder to detect fraudulent data through traditional means._”
#Science #Research #Fake #Images #Data #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @science @ai
**Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa**
“_For the first time, we also demonstrate the persistence of North African ancestry in a Christian cemetery until the seventeenth century, in addition to evidence of slave trafficking from North Africa._”
Oteo-Garcia, G., Silva, M., Foody, M.G.B. et al. Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa. Genome Biol 26, 108 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03570-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Biology #Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Genomes #History #Medieval #Iberia #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons
**Scientists stunned to find Earth’s core leaking gold and other precious metals**
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/earth-core-gold-leaking-precious-metals-b2756421.html.
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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