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"Much of the modern physical description of electrical forces comes from careful experiments done by the French scientist Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806)." https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201606/physicshistory.cfm #History #Science #Physics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science @physics

Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1669374285939367937

"A skull fragment and shin bone suggest that early modern humans might have passed through southeast Asia earlier than thought." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01903-3 #Science #Archaeology #Anthropology @archaeodons @science

Source: https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1669023321092923392

"He wrote and lectured widely, often on the theme that religion and science were not incompatible. He also chased down 600 copies of Copernicus’s landmark book." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/science/space/owen-gingerich-dead.html #Science #Religion @science

Source: https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1668290864077066241

The Making of ChatGPT: From Data to Dialogue.https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2023/the-making-of-chatgpt-from-data-to-dialogue/ #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Science #Technology

Source: https://twitter.com/SITNBoston/status/1667898108548661248

"One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information." https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-lossless-data-compression-works-20230531/ #Computer #Science

Source: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1667903514025029632

"Abu'l-Wafa is best known for the first use of the tan function and compiling tables of sines and tangents at 15' intervals. This work was done as part of an investigation into the orbit of the Moon, written down in Theories of the Moon." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abul-Wafa/ #History #Maths #Science @science

Source: https://twitter.com/StA_Maths_Stats/status/1667473952032030720

"A new study published in Lancet estimates that over 100 million people in India are living with all forms of diabetes. The survey commissioned by the health ministry also found that 136 million people could be living with pre-diabetes." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ft8kyd #Science #India

Source: https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice/status/1667495390243848193

"On average, El Niño years are warmer globally than La Niña years – El Niño’s opposite. Globally, a strong El Niño can boost temperatures by about 0.7 degrees Fahrenheit (0.4 Celsius). But in North America, there is a lot of local variation." https://theconversation.com/el-nino-is-back-thats-good-news-or-bad-news-depending-on-where-you-live-205974 #Science #Weather #Climate #ElNino

Source: https://twitter.com/ConversationUS/status/1667172371646537733

Simões, L.G., Günther, T., Martínez-Sánchez, R.M. et al. Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant. Nature (2023). https://rdcu.be/decJv #OpenAccess #OA #Biology #History #Archaeology #Science #Anthropology #Genetics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons

"Free and easy to use, the platform — a powerful kind of database that maps relationships — helps users find clear pathways through the collections and uncover links between objects that might otherwise seem unconnected," https://news.yale.edu/2023/06/01/17-million-reasons-love-lux-yales-new-collections-search-tool #library #science #technology #arts

Source: https://twitter.com/BeineckeLibrary/status/1665407567684591619

"Study takes a step toward cell or gene therapy for cystic fibrosis". https://hms.harvard.edu/news/researchers-make-ionocytes-mysterious-lung-cells-dish #Science #Biology #Therapy #Medicine @science

Source: https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1665399271808552961

"I think the magic of our capsule is that it is going to transform how people think about the gut microbiota's relationship to diseases," https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2023/05/15/scientists-get-a-new-view-of-digestion/ #Science #Microbiology #Biology #Technology @science

Source: https://twitter.com/Stanford/status/1665395702736863237

"Such geodynamic models could help highlight diamond-filled areas and the locations of future kimberlite eruptions...." https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a43841348/supercomputers-reveal-earth-diamond-engine/ #Earth #Science #Diamond #Mining

Source: https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1664288400545923073

Scientist of the Day - Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/anaxagoras-of-clazomenae #History #Science #Philosophy #histodon #histodons
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Source: https://twitter.com/bhgross144/status/1664267627345379329

Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early #medieval #Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early #medieval and the modern people of the #UK https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010360 #Genetics #Genomics #OpenAccess #OA #Science

What is AI and why are experts terrified about its future? | 60 Minutes ... https://youtu.be/OTwdrMAq-Fk #YouTube #Video #Science #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics @science

Swali, P., Schulting, R., Gilardet, A. et al. Yersinia pestis genomes reveal plague in Britain 4000 years ago. Nat Commun 14, 2930 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38393-w #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Archaeology #Genomics #Biology #Article #Academia #Research #Britain @archaeodons @science @academicchatter

The 16th and 17th centuries constituted a period of drastic change in the way humanity conceptualized and sought to understand the world. Scholars made massive leaps in fields such as mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and, perhaps most notably, physics. Arguably, no city contributed more profoundly to that new understanding than Cambridge." https://www.humanprogress.org/centers-of-progress-pt-38-cambridge-physics/ #History #Science #Physics #Cambridge #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (2023) The two ‘strongest pillars of the empiricist wing’: the Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916–1939), Annals of Science, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2023.2203049 #history #science #histodons #histodon #openaccess #oa @histodon @histodons

"After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%." https://science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common #Science #Medicine #Research #NeuroScience #Academia