eSagan 🇮🇳 @crackurbones@qoto.org

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/geochemistry
Victor Goldschmidt (1888–1947) is often considered the ‘father of geochemistry’. One of Goldschmidt’s achievements was to begin to systematize the behaviour of the chemical elements in an Earth Sciences context via his classification of them according to their preferred host phases on silicate Earth (Lithophile, siderophile, chalcophile and atmophile). This is still one of the most widespread geochemical classifications of the elements today and was an important step in terms of bringing the principles of chemistry to bear on the study of the Earth.

A real Green Apophyllite Flower. Jalgaon, #Maharashtra, India (with reference to a fake on Mineralgore)
https://www.reddit.com/r/MineralPorn/comments/mw9ite/a_real_green_apophyllite_flower_jalgaon/

Another real Green Apophyllite Flower. Jalgaon, Maharashtra, #India (with reference to a fake on Mineralgore)
https://www.reddit.com/r/MineralPorn/comments/mw9jm8/another_real_green_apophyllite_flower_jalgaon/

#MineralPorn

Deposits of Copper And Magnetic Iron Found in #Alzheimer's Patients' Brains. Researchers spotted the tell-tale glint of copper and iron in their elemental forms using a form of X-ray microscopy (STXM) on samples of neural plaques taken from the frontal and temporal lobes of Alzheimer's patients.
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/nz5jpa/deposits_of_copper_and_magnetic_iron_found_in/

Pinpointing how cancer cells turn aggressive
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2021/06/pinpointing-how-cancer-cells-turn-aggressive.html

Fighting dust with dust: Ingenious hack saves InSight Mars lander, gives critical power boost - SCIENCE News
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/mars-insight-lander-power-boost-nasa-jpl-1810935-2021-06-04

Japanese researcher developed a drug that uses a virus to attack brain tumor cells, say it could be applied to many other types of cancer. The drug uses a herpes virus that is genetically engineered to replicate only in cancer cells and destroy them
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/nxe925/japanese_researcher_developed_a_drug_that_uses_a/

Some Scientists Believe the Universe Is Conscious - Sounds like a bad trip ... but what if it's true?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/nx62c7/some_scientists_believe_the_universe_is_conscious/

“Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger

[As quoted in The Observer (11 January 1931); also in Psychic Research (1931), Vol. 25, p. 91]

Low doses of 'laughing gas' could be fast, effective treatment for severe depression
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/nw2xjc/low_doses_of_laughing_gas_could_be_fast_effective/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

वर्तमान टेक्नोलॉजी से नजदीकी तारे तक पहुंचने में लगेंगे 6 हजार साल, वैज्ञानिकों ने सुझाया नया तरीका - Science AajTak
https://www.aajtak.in/science/photo/mission-to-alpha-centauri-become-more-realistic-tstr-1269664-2021-06-09

Watch "Can you GROW an Opal?" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/d7MvGFX_VKo

New Research Shows Māori Traveled to #Antarctica at Least 1,000 Years Before Europeans. A new paper by New Zealander researchers suggests that the indigenous people of mainland New Zealand - #Māori - have a significantly longer history with Earth's southernmost continent.
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/nu9idw/new_research_shows_māori_traveled_to_antarctica/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Israeli scientists extend life of mice by 23%, say method may work on humans
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/nsuwly/israeli_scientists_extend_life_of_mice_by_23_say/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Scientists Overhear Two Atoms Chatting: Magnetic Quantum Interactions – SciTechDaily
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-overhear-two-atoms-chatting-magnetic-quantum-interactions/

Best from science journals: How memories are strengthened during sleep - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/best-from-science-journals-how-memories-are-strengthened-during-sleep/article34649974.ece

India’s deep seas are home to 4,371 species of fauna, reveals ZSI - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/indias-deep-seas-are-home-to-4371-species-of-fauna-reveals-zsi/article34626143.ece

Bellatrix Aerospace successfully tests India’s first privately developed hall-effect thruster - The Economic Times https://m.economictimes.com/tech/startups/bellatrix-aerospace-successfully-tests-indias-first-privately-developed-hall-effect-thruster/articleshow/82999401.cms

Chemistry gets put to a quantum test – Physics World
https://physicsworld.com/chemistry-gets-put-to-a-quantum-test/

The Bakhshali Manuscript: the oldest surviving Indic mathematical text and the oldest extant manuscript in the world to use zero and decimal place values. (currently kept in Bodleian Library, UK)
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaNonPolitical/comments/nldylz/the_bakhshali_manuscript_the_oldest_surviving/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Nasa joins hands with Isro to develop Earth Observatory to mitigate climate change, better disaster management - SCIENCE News
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/nasa-isro-disaster-management-system-climate-change-cyclone-1806655-2021-05-25