/sci/ - Science & Math

Will AI cure cancer?: >Some AI Researchers Are Taking Up Smoking as a 'Flex', Believing AI Will Cure Cancer, Palantir CTO Says >Sankar described the behaviour as a sign of what he called 'mass psychosis' and 'social delusion' around AI. He argued that some people in Silicon Valley treat artificial general intelligence (…

Human Cheese: We got human cheese before GTA VI https://youtu.be/xgHKpFC8f8s?is=GdKk0fBog-6vTtuI

Scorpion venom is valued at roughly $39 million per gallon (3.8 liters), making it the most expensive liquid on Earth. In 2-3 weeks, the scorpions will provide another drop.

Heart beating outside the body while waiting to be transplanted.

Penguin egg whites turn clear when boiled

Cameron Underwood before and after receiving a face transplant in 2018.

A truck driver's face after 28 years of sun coming through his side window. Only the window side aged.

From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth/

Most Populous Mammals in the World are the Humans, slightly over Rats https://www.worldatlas.com/animals/the-most-populous-mammals-in-the-world.html

Three gorges dam in china , so massive that it slowed down the earth rotation , increasing the day length by 0.06 microseconds when filled completely

NASA named a crated on the moon "Wan-Hoo", after 'Wan-Hu', an ancient Chinese official who strapped kites and 47 rockets to a chair in order to reach space. His body was never found. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan-Hoo_(crater)

The implosion of the Titan submarine (OceanGate) was so rapid that the pain wasn't even registered by the brain. They didn't feel anything at all. Utterly instantaneous.

NASA released the clearest images of Mars

The tides of the Qiantang river makes patterns exactly like a tree , it is called dendritic pattern

Scientists Create Female Clones From Male Mice In "Strange And Fascinating" Experiment That Could Help Endangered Species https://www.iflscience.com/gene-editing-technique-produced-fertile-female-clones-from-male-mice-in-strange-and-fascinating-experiment-that-could-help-endangered-species-84437

Using 3D holograms to help doctors get real -time tracking of inside the body.

all it takes for the end times of humanity is a transmissible prion disease like the one we already see in american deer (chronic wasting disease)

In severe cases of hydrocephalus, fluid buildup can compress the brain into a thin layer lining the skull

What's stopping one of these from destroying an entire city?

Jamais vu: phenomenon of experiencing a situation that one recognizes in some fashion, but that nonetheless seems unusual and unfamiliar. It is often described as the opposite of déjà vu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu

Ibn Sina

Donating blood is the only known way to get rid of PFAS (that is per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances fyi, fyi stands for "for your information") already in your body. You should donate blood as often as you can to get rid of PFAS. There's no other way, unfortunately. It's sad, took us centuries to…

you need this phenotype to make it as a mathematician

This laser can't escape the water. Physics won't let it.

In 1925, two medical students spent 1,500 hours dissecting an entire human nervous system. It is one of only four in the world.

China's nuclear fusion research has completed a massive magnet weighing 582 tons, the largest in the world. The goal is an unlimited energy "artificial sun". They plan to start the first power generation by 2030.

The 12ft t-rex skeleton with 60% of its bones that someone paid 50.1 million dollars for.

Bryan Johnson, the millionaire biohacker who wants to live forever, diagnosed with incurable autoimmune disease https://www.techspot.com/news/113035-bryan-johnson-millionaire-biohacker-who-wants-live-forever.html

Have you felt anything?: CERN has shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for "Long Shutdown 3" (LS3). This is a major 4-year upgrade phase designed to transition the accelerator into the new High-Luminosity LHC. The refurbished machine will dramatically increase collision rates and is scheduled to start up in 2030. http…

Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić achieved one of the most extraordinary feats in human history by holding his breath underwater for 29 minutes and 3 seconds, a new Guinness World Record.

a flexible rock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itacolumite

Scientists thought the platypus was a hoax when it was first discovered. It lays eggs, produces venom, detects electricity, and even glows under UV light.

Humans are 200,000 times more sensitive to petrichor, the smell that follows rain, than sharks are to the smell of blood.

Restaurant in Japan conducted an experiment to show how fast a virus can spread unnoticed

A comparison of climatic analogues across the Northern Hemisphere

Tattoos used to be much less common, and where they were once more common among men, they are now more common among women. Source: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-025-10215-3

Alsomitra macrocarpa flying seed: Alsomitra macrocarpa has seeds which use paper-thin wings to disperse like giant gliders

New Species of Chimaera discovered in Coral Sea Marine Park: https://www.vox.com/climate/488948/deep-sea-creatures-photos-ocean-census

NASA building a Moon Base >NASA is advancing development of Moon Base, a long-term lunar exploration and infrastructure initiative designed to enable sustained human presence and expanded scientific and commercial activity at the lunar South Pole. >NASA will send astronauts on increasingly difficul…

ufo files: what do you guys think https://www.war.gov/UFO/

PISS PLANET FOUND: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/pee-planet-scientists-discover-distant-planet-with-atmosphere-that-actually-smells-like-urine-3361785/

I HECKING LOVE SCIENCE!!!

Demographics: >Humans have been alive for +300k years and we are about to experience the first time in history that the global birth rate is going to start dropping below replacement level (currently it is estimated to be 2.25) without it being caused by a natural disaster, disease or rapid climate change. Think…

Dinosaurs were better when they didn't have feathers, paleontology be damned. https://alphynix.tumblr.com/tagged/retro%20vs%20modern%202022

you don't still believe in math right anon?

Scientifically speaking, what is the meaning of life?