Who has ever seen a LOX/Kerosene liquid 🚀 engine with a blue plume 💎💎💎💎? Not only does it look spectacular, but it also serves as undeniable proof of the 99%+ combustion efficiency achieved in this test.

Enjoy this 3-minute, 20-second test of E-2, a mostly 3D-printed 22k…

A trans sixteen year old has (inferentially) identified as trans for five years. They* have socially transitioned. They are supported by their GP, a charity, their school and (inferentially) their Mother. The Times still doesn't think they should be able to. Presumably it thinks…

Some brain cells fire both when a mouse behaves aggressively and when it watches others fight — a new finding that sounds intriguingly like the mirror neurons scientists had hyped and then abandoned nearly a decade earlier. quantamagazine.org/overexposure-d…

Neural networks can only train so much before they simply memorize data. But when OpenAI researchers severely overtrained a network, it seemed to develop a deeper understanding. quantamagazine.org/how-do-machine…

We are born unwilling into a world of violence

🦙 Jason Steele is giving us answers with an epilogue for 'Llamas with Hats'

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Physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. He quietly revolutionised particle physics, then lived to see his theory about the forces that give particles mass proved, leaving behind a clearer view of how the universe works. newscientist.com/article/242650…

The many-worlds hypothesis suggests that each decision we make splits the universe in two, creating an ever-expanding multiverse. A new interpretation of quantum mechanics goes even further, suggesting many more worlds in the multiverse. newscientist.com/article/mg2623…

Do you feel aimless and numb inside? Is it hard to pinpoint what’s wrong? Then you could be languishing. Here's how to turn this around and flourish. newscientist.com/article/mg2623…

What is that swirling at the centre of the Milky Way? It’s a new picture of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. newscientist.com/article/242450…

I suspect a lot of people welcoming the #CassReport were sent the summary in advance and based statements off that, but when you read the actual report it’s quite different - pathologising, unevidenced, and authoritarian, in line with NHS England’s output of the last few years

1. Two years ago, Hillary Cass met with DeSantis picks and collaborated on a trans care ban in Florida.

Now her review targets trans people in England.

It is filled with flawed claims over evidence, toys, and social transition.

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I made a space station animation - Orbital Megastructure. Procedural and real time of course. I tried to make it feel big. It was difficult to get the complexity of the structure to feel organic and not grid-like.
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I relate to the eclipse because I too erased a son once 🌚🌞

The end of the world is coming, just a little sooner than expected. FALLOUT, now arriving April 10 @ 6 p.m. PT.

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

Magnetic levitation: New material offers potential for unlocking gravity-free technology @oistedu Applied Physics Letters phys.org/news/2024-04-m…

Most cringe thing people say in therapy: “I don’t want to kill myself, but I want to die.” Wow, you’re so cool and edgy. As if I haven’t heard that 10 times this week from someone with that exact same jacket.

Must be nice to have the privilege of caring about an eclipse. I miss getting excited about trivial things, back when 100% of my mental and physical energy wasn’t spent on trying to survive every day.

This isn’t meant as a slight. I’m honestly happy for you.

The total solar #eclipse is now sweeping across Indianapolis.

This is the first time in more than 800 years that the city is experiencing this celestial event!