eSagan 🇮🇳 @crackurbones@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2019
An Earth-size planet in the habitable zone? New NASA discovery is one special world
https://www.space.com/amp/nasa-tess-exoplanet-habitable-zone-discovery-milestone.html
The Oldest Known Material on Earth Is Officially Older Than The Solar System
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-meteorite-discovered-in-australia-contains-oldest-known-material-on-earth/amp
India should lead in the fight against multidrug-resistant pathogens
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/india-should-lead-in-the-fight-against-multidrug-resistant-pathogens/article30544299.ece
#TIL On the etymology/origin of the word ‘titration’.
The word "titration" descends from the French word tiltre (1543), meaning the proportion of gold or silver in coins or in works of gold or silver; i.e., a measure of fineness or purity. Tiltre became titre,[4] which thus came to mean the "fineness of alloyed gold",[5] and then the "concentration of a substance in a given sample".[6] In 1828, the French chemist Gay-Lussac first used titre as a verb (titrer), meaning "to determine the concentration of a substance in a given sample".[7]
ITAP of Cenotaph in Drinking tea at least three times a week is linked with a longer and healthier life, Chinese researchers have found -- but the benefits of green tea are more pronounced https://t.co/qveP7nFWuG
The universe was filled with fog until three galaxies started clearing it out. https://t.co/74mx95dZl2
Earth's most invasive species is a frog-killing fungus
http://pops.ci/qQ2DAj
https://twitter.com/PopSci/status/1216080099809906688?s=20
Meet the Mainframe - Meet My #Mainframe
https://youtu.be/C1YGE7m33iQ
A lack of sleep makes your brain eat itself, new research suggests. Glial cells are your brain’s loving caretakers -- until you deny them sleep: https://t.co/GHIDRPY1c7 https://t.co/nTY9mQz83O
https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1215941051162267649?s=19
This material could camouflage objects from infrared cameras: Made of samarium nickel oxide, the thin coating “hides temperature information of surfaces from infrared cameras,” and could therefore be used as a privacy shield, says applied physicist Mikhail Kats of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-material-could-camouflage-objects-from-infrared-cameras/amp?__twitter_impression=true
🐤 https://twitter.com/ScienceNews/status/1215760980862521344?s=19
Just how there is a movement among IT professionals for Free and Open-Source Software (#FOSS), books and research papers must also be free (to obtain, distribute) and open for all. #Libgen and #SciHub must not be considered 'illegal' and piracy websites. They must be endorsed and celebrated by all. And (more) mainstream scholars must make their works free.
That said, scholars should have the right to get credit for their intellectual work -- just how Linus Torvalds gets acknowledged for creation of the Linux kernel -- but intellectual works must be made open and free for all.
🔥 Peacocks spotted on the outskirts of Mangalore, India 🔥
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/elsusq/peacocks_spotted_on_the_outskirts_of_mangalore/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
This Human Brain Tissue Survived Intact For 2,600 Years, And We May Finally Know How
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-study-could-explain-how-human-brain-tissue-remained-intact-for-2-600-years
Astronomers Have Tracked a Repeating Radio Signal Across Space to an Unexpected Origin
https://www.sciencealert.com/that-newly-discovered-repeating-frb-has-been-tracked-to-a-really-puzzling-origin/amp
The origin of this repeating signal is a spiral galaxy, located 500 million light-years from Earth, making it the closest known source of what we call fast radio bursts (FRBs) yet.
Initially, Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for download, named Torvalds's directory linux.[45]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
Interstellar idlis: Desi meals for #Gaganyaan space explorers. See photos
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/gaganyaan-mission-packed-food-fluid-containers-photos-1634605-2020-01-07
Fat-dissolving bile acids may help regulate gut immunity and #inflammation
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-01-fat-dissolving-bile-acids-gut-immunity.html
Clusters of gold atoms form peculiar pyramidal shape
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-clusters-gold-atoms-peculiar-pyramidal.amp
Someone made a flag of #Norway with the NOR gate.
https://cybre.space/@haskal/103434041959654589
Joined Nov 2019
