Notable—unlike other schools, Wesleyan Uni says it will not clear an encampment so long as it remains non-violent: "This morning you can find pro-Palestinian protestors camped out…as long as we all reject violence, we have opportunities to listen and to learn from one another."

BREAKING: Students at University of Houston spring up their Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Texas.

Downtown Houston this afternoon. Buffalo Bayou peaked at 29 ft. That’s 26 ft above normal, but also not an unusual flood. We’ve hit this mark 5 times in 25 years. At this level there is minimal building damage in Downtown. This is what bayous naturally do— we need to plan for it.

Top left includes my building! Fortunately it did not flood... #byebyeberyl

After a high dose of psilocybin, the brain desynchronizes at a massive scale, causing loss of our sense of self, time, and space. This may drive the burst of plasticity caused by psychedelics. The next day, brain activity has largely returned to normal, but an echo remains – a

Kepler-186f: Another Earth Discovered Astronomers have officially discovered an Earth-like planet, Kepler-186f, located in the habitable "Goldilocks zone" of its star—where conditions could allow liquid water to exist on its surface. This remarkable exoplanet lies 500

Christmas cells.

Jupiter is Officially at its Closest Point to Earth Today. Here it is Through my Telescope. By Correct_Presence_936

If an alien in a galaxy 65 million light years away is looking at us through a telescope right now, then they are seeing the dinosaurs 🦖🦕 Dinosaurs appeared about 250 to 235 million years ago and became extinct 66 million years ago in the end-Cretaceous extinction. This means

In case anyone is wondering what happened to the dinosaurs, here's a baby blue heron

Happy Friday, Longhorns! In today’s issue: + Homeland Security announced on April 9 a guidance to screen non-citizens’ social media accounts for “antisemitic activity.” + The second annual Austin Texas Book Trail will invite the community to explore and support 29 local independent

Let the data show. With thanks to Edward Tufte, 2020, and the data contributors.

The role of metabolism in shaping enzyme structures over 400 million years nature.com/articles/s4158… nature

The cat font. It is beautiful. 😍

The clearest image ever taken of Venus! NASA

WOW. This is SO, SO COOL!

A 2024 Science study in mice identifies a novel non-synaptic signaling mechanism between the brain and peripheral sensory system important for migraine. Learn more: scim.ag/4lgBacH #SciencePerspective

Connection between π and Fibonacci numbers

You are looking at the first ever image of another multi-planet solar system

How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth's radius. The featured illustration shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the