BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

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Check out these brilliant kirigami parachutes youtu.be/6rrDW6YIbXI

Check out these brilliant kirigami parachutes youtu.be/6rrDW6YIbXI

I know what you're thinking and no, that's not how they rescued him.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Mark unread of the beast.

Look what we have here then.

In this podcast mini-series 🔊 we explore why scientific misconduct happens and how to tackle it.

go.nature.com/47u7Zig

Things used to look real nice. Even Croydon.

What do you feed a factory full of mosquitos? Horse/human blood cocktail. Obvs.

Ever heard of a mosquito factory?

Fighting mosquito-borne diseases... with more mosquitoes!

Loved working on this vid with @marilenharo.bsky.social for @nature.com 🧪

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Nc...

How is this possible?

This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species

go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

One mother, two species: a bizarre case of sexual parasitism results in two distinct species of ant being produced from a single mother. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This ant story is absolute cosmic alien horror bananas!

Next level rice cooker.

This week's audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI

Scientists are searching for awareness in all its possible forms — insights from human brains could inform that quest.

go.nature.com/4n2Jk8T

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Some time ago I was asked by a French movie magazine if I could recreate the iconic Alien poster using my miniature photography skills, it's one of my all time favourite movies so I jumped at the chance and obviously I had to do it practically, here's the final image made only from 2 photos...

Light-powered flying saucers, Victorian toys, and @danjfox.bsky.social animations. This video has it all!

And they could help understand a weird part of the atmosphere known as the mesosphere, that's too thin for balloons and too heavy for satellites.

New film. Tiny solar-powered fliers. Mesopheric flotsam youtu.be/r-3OZGuHOvQ

you got it boss

the scenario we all feared

trapped with four strangers in the vestibule of a delayed and overcrowded Avanti train as the Lionesses take to the pitch for the Euros final - my life a state of the nation play for real

Bird sounds.

This photograph series by Mark Cowan documents a phenomenon called 'lachryphagy' ("tear-feeding").

The caiman excretes salt in their tears & the butterflies need the precious minerals for their metabolism & reproduction.

So, they're feeding on crocodilian tears.

(📷: Mark Cowan, Curtin Uni.)