eSagan 🇮🇳 @crackurbones@qoto.org

#NowPlaying প্রিয়তমা ৩ – রূপঙ্কর বাগচী
https://gaana.com/song/priyotoma-3-1

#Coronavirus: #India 'requests' #China to permit Indian students stuck in #Wuhan to leave
https://m.timesofindia.com/world/china/coronavirus-india-requests-china-to-permit-indian-students-stuck-in-wuhan-to-leave/amp_articleshow/73615369.cms

#NowPlaying तू ही यार मेरा
https://gaana.com/song/tu-hi-yaar-mera-from-pati-patni-aur-woh

140 years ago this month, a teenage farm-boy with a sensitive curiosity about the world, a microscope, a camera, and a fiercely supportive mother awakened humanity to the art and science of snow with his pioneering photomicroscopy of snowflakes https://t.co/6zYvE08cuH https://t.co/wPCjY9y5C8

https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1221122819255414785?s=09

An electron microscope has filmed a chemical bond between two rhenium atoms breaking and forming for the first time https://t.co/cBcm73EZ7F https://t.co/EMPlNpJ36s
https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1221118803016405004?s=09

“This is the first study suggesting that bee decline is a global process, and that the most significant changes have occurred in recent years.”
https://t.co/kskHyGd7hg

https://twitter.com/ScienceNews/status/1221115516670136326?s=09

Climatic fluctuations impact climatic niches of owlets
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/climatic-fluctuations-impact-climatic-niches-of-owlets/article30631890.ece
ZSI documents another new snake eel species in Odisha
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/zsi-documents-another-new-snake-eel-species-in-odisha/article30635222.ece

A donor’s kidney structure may predict the success or failure of #kidneytransplant in the recipient’s body, a new study as suggested. The findings will appear in the upcoming issue of JASN. The study may help clinicians as they evaluate the quality of organs at the time of transplantation. The quality of donated kidneys obtained from living donors is often inferred from their age, risk factors, and #kidney function.
https://www.thehealthsite.com/news/structural-features-of-donors-kidney-may-predict-recipients-compatibility-724065/

India begins coral restoration in Gulf of Kachchh
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/india-begins-coral-restoration-in-gulf-of-kachchh/article30645770.ece

Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong this whole time
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-gravity-wrong.html
Gravity is the only force still unexplainable at the quantum level. Its effects on big objects, such as planets or stars, are relatively easy to see, but things get complicated when one tries to understand gravity in the small world of elementary particles.

Finally, the explanation around some unidentified features of one of the brightest stellar explosions one has ever come across is here. The Max Planck Institute for #Astrophysics came up with the data on SN 2006gy.
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/science-environment/844304-research-advances-in-understanding-the-brightest-explosions-in-the-universe

A research team led by University of Konstanz scientists has demonstrated that light waves can be used to transport electrons at sub-femtosecond speeds (i.e. faster than 10^-15 seconds).

http://www.sci-news.com/physics/ultrafast-electrons-07960.html

Astronomers Find Huge Amount of Oxygen in Ancient Dwarf Star
http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/ancient-dwarf-star-oxygen-08048.html
“The primitive composition of the star indicates that it was formed during the first hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, possibly from the material expelled from the first supernovae of the Milky Way,” said Dr. Jonay González Hernández, a postdoctoral researcher in the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Universidad de La Laguna, Spain.

@freemo Is \(Z\) complex?

Today in science: Voyager 2 met Uranus
https://earthsky.org/space/voyager-2-meets-uranus-jan-24-1986

Oldest mushroom fossil discovered, will help better explain evolution of organisms
https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/science/story/oldest-mushroom-fossil-mycelium-congo-rocks-evolution-organisms-1639516-2020-01-23

Ancient never-before-seen viruses discovered locked up in Tibetan glacier
https://www.livescience.com/amp/unknown-viruses-discovered-tibetan-glacier.html

Can I mix those chemicals? There's an app for that!
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-chemicals-app.amp