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"Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues." https://nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8 #Neuroscience #Philosophy #Science @philosophy @science

Kelsey E Witt and others, The Impact of Modern Admixture on Archaic Human Ancestry in Human Populations, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2023, evad066, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad066 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Biology #ResearchPapers #Article @science

"One of the biggest certainties with an El Niño is that global temperature will ratchet up, as they always do during El Niño years, because the ocean releases exceptional amounts of heat into the atmosphere." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/el-nino-may-break-a-record-and-reshape-weather-around-the-globe/ #Climate #Science #ElNiño @science

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"this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture." https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/211143 #OpenAccess #OA #history #histodon #histodons #science #bookstodon #books #book #maths #technology #medicine #culture @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science

Source: https://twitter.com/UCLpress/status/1671503733564358656

Sousa da Mota, B., Rubinacci, S., Cruz Dávalos, D.I. et al. Imputation of ancient human genomes. Nat Commun 14, 3660 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39202-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Biology #Genetics #Archaeology #Population #Haplotypes #Science @archaeodons @science

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"It’s the pinnacle of 400 years of science and gives the correct answer to hundreds of thousands of experiments." https://youtu.be/Unl1jXFnzgo #Video #Science #Physics @science

Source: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1670863540423360520

"Research on ancient genomes has moved way beyond population mixture into broader questions about how ancient people lived and interacted with their environments." https://johnhawks.net/weblog/the-top-10-discoveries-about-ancient-people-from-dna-in-2022/ #Ancient #DNA #Genetics #Science @science

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"He became the first to report the phenomenon of coupled oscillation in two pendulum clocks (which he invented) in his bedroom while recovering from an illness in 1665." https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201706/history.cfm #History #Science #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science

Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1669812115920568320

Nall, J., Taub, L., & Willmoth, F. (Eds.). (2019). The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108633628 #History #Science #Technology #Medicine #histodon #histodons #openaccess #oa #books #bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science

"By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east in the last thirty years." https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2023/06/16/humans-are-pumping-so-much-water-out-of-the-ground-that-earths-tilt-is-changing/ #Earth #Science @science

Source: https://twitter.com/ForbesScience/status/1669713983366987778

CUMMINGS, V., & FOWLER, C. (2023). Materialising Descent: Lineage Formation and Transformation in Early Neolithic Southern Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2023.2 #Ancient #DNA #History #Archaeology #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Britain #histodon #histodons #archaeodons @histodon @histodons @science @archaeodons

"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