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[conuly]

Leafhoppers use tiny light-absorbing balls to conceal their eggs

We may have found 20 habitable worlds hiding in plain sight

Folding circuits just atoms thick using the principles of origami

Babies can use context to look for things

How do adult brain circuits regulate new neuron production?

Artificial insulin-releasing cells may make it easier to manage diabetes

Physicists Discovered Such an Explosive Type of Fusion They Almost Hid The Results

Learning a mother tongue: A universal process?

How life arose from primordial muck: Experimental evidence overturns accepted theory

Left or right? Like humans, bees have a preference

Cancer cells can be targeted and destroyed with the metal from the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs

Gut bacteria 'boost' cancer therapy

How chromosomes 'cheat' for the chance to get into an egg

We’re surprisingly unaware of when our own beliefs change

Scientists Solve 50-Year-Old Mystery About Breakbone Fever

Alzheimer’s may be able to spread through blood transfusions

Humans are driving climate change, federal scientists say

Climate science update: bad news gets worse

Autumn isn’t cold enough to kill bugs anymore—find out what pests will persist in your region

Winners and losers of forest fragmentation

Explosion of rats, clovers, bedbugs, mosquitoes unintended evolutionary consequence of urbanization

Comments

[thewayne]

My wife was telling me about a program on her telescope (as in study program, not computer program) to try and detect the MOON of an exo-planet. My brain did a little *POP*. Exo-planets are less than a pixel large, so they're nit directly visible. They're imaged by seeing their shadow as they pass between the telescope and their sun, so seeing them is a crap shoot until you can develop some orbital mechanics. But a MOON?

It's an interesting profession.

And I got to see raw imaging take from that extra-solar object that's passing by! Honestly, it's kinda boring, just a bunch of smeared pixels until lots of post-processing happens. But I got to see it the morning after those smeared pixels were captured!