Plants don’t have nerves. But when they’re injured, they send an electrical “SOS” that looks very familiar. When a leaf is cut or bitten, glutamate (the same amino acid that acts as a neurotransmitter in humans) spills out of the damaged cells. In plants, that glutamate flips on

We need the equivalent of the 20th-century clean water revolution, except for clean indoor air. People with post-infectious chronic illnesses have known for a while how insane it is that, as a society, we continue to find it perfectly acceptable to breathe air full of viruses

Meteor shower, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Milky Way

Reporter accidentally nails the same half court shot he was there to report on

Hey all — this is a huge, huge deal. It typically takes 1-2 years to enroll 1k trial participants. If we can get this trial full within a month of launch, it could drastically change the landscape of #LongCovid trials moving forward — & timeline to proven treatments. Pls share!

This is part of our universe. An area of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length. The spiked features are stars in the Milky Way. EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY. Image by James Webb

i really wish Gmail had an option to ask it to display everyone's LAST NAMES i'm so tired of seeing something like "Steve" and thinking of 10 different people, all from different contexts, some alarming, until I actually open the email... it's so exhausting and annoying

XScreenSaver for Android was released, but Google required a privacy policy page. So, the author of XScreenSaver decided to follow "malicious compliance" in order to get XScreenSaver approved for the Play Store. The privacy page turned into a funny thing.

Nothing belonging in your life long term should feel like a rational business negotiation with your soul. You deserve to rave about where you live, how you make a living, and the people who adorn it. That version of you already exists. Don't deny yourself the chance to meet them

TIL that when you 'delete' a chat in chatgpt, it just sends a PATCH request to /conversation/<id> endpoint with is_visible field set to false. i knew they won't delete your data, but this feels even more spooky now. doing "delete all" also just calls /conversations with the same

Imagine receiving a normal WhatsApp message from someone… and later discovering that the message secretly contained their exact location, even though they never shared it. That’s exactly what happened during a recent forensic extraction I performed on my iPhone 12 Pro Max.

May we have them, may we be them.

i could never leave twitter. very sincerely it feels like living in a very very large house with so many younger siblings learning how life works still and older ones that should have left long ago but don’t trust our ailing parents not to kill us in our sleep

dear november.

This time-lapse video from the NACO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile shows stars orbiting the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of the Milky Way over a period of nearly 20 years. 🤩 #Science

Imagine this: 300 light-years away, there’s a star almost identical to our Sun, and around it orbits an entire alien planetary family. And for the first time in human history, we’re not just detecting a blip, a wobble, or a dip in brightness; we’re looking at a real,

Something wild is happening on the Sun’s hidden side right now.For days, the far side has been vomiting one colossal coronal mass ejection after another, an almost unbroken firehose of billion-ton plasma clouds blasting into space at millions of kilometers per hour. The dark limb

And just like that, the age of photographic evidence is over. 1826-2025. Update your epistemology accordingly.

i did this once and then found the paper like 2 years later. it listed potential positives and negatives. every negative i worried might happen, happened - it was a rough year. finding the paper later was at least validating, as far as future predictions.

NASA just dropped a jaw-dropping animation that squeezes twenty-two confirmed black holes into a single frame, each one lurking inside its own X-ray binary system. These aren’t random monsters; they’re real, catalogued beasts like Cygnus X-1, GRS 1915+105, and V404 Cygni, all