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Bob Nicholls Art

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "A Portrait of Malignance," showing a Telmatosaurus with an ameloblastoma tumour.

#Art#Painting#PaleoArt
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Shaula Evans

My frustration with this study, at least as reported, is that the diet recommendations are founded on outdated assumptions about food quality.

E.g., the recommendaion of one serving of fish per week: where do mercury and microplastics fit in? Or the diet that recommends peanut oil but doesn't mention afflatoxin.

When experts fail to put recommendations into a bigger context, I have to do that myself -- which takes the "public" part out of public health (again). 2/n

#PublicHealth#SciComm
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Mindy Weisberger (she/her)

Conditions on Earth may have been capable of supporting life as early as 4.3 billion years ago. But where did the first organic molecules come from?

My latest for CNN looks at a new hypothesis: microlightning.

Amino acids may have been produced in chemical reactions caused by flashes of electrical energy in mist, between water droplets smaller than the width of a human hair.

cnn.com/2025/03/28/science/mic

CNN · Scientists redid an experiment that showed how life on Earth could have started. They found a new possibilityBy Mindy Weisberger
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The Inquisitive Biologist

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Some second-hand treasures - The Great #Comet Crash: The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and #Jupiter from Cambridge UP, and two books from Rutgers UP: Upheaval from the Abyss: #Ocean Floor Mapping and the Earth Science Revolution (sans dust jacket), and Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant #Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Astronomy #Oceanograph #Geology #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalHistory #History @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. On the left, standing up, The Great Comet Crash, showing a picture of Jupiter taken with a telescope. In the middle, lying down, Upheaval from the Abyss, showing a marine blue spine with silver lettering (the dust jacket is missing). On the right, standing up, Mass Destruction, showing an golden/honey coloured aerial photo of an open-pit mine. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.
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SETI Institute

seti.org/exploring-hd-20794-d-

The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed exoplanets, HD 20794 d in particular, recently attracted attention for a unique characteristic – an eccentric orbit that moves in and out of the parent star’s habitable zone. Astronomers are studying this planet to gain insights into habitability beyond Earth.

SETI InstituteExploring HD 20794 d: A Super-Earth Laboratory for HabitabilityThe confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed exoplanets, HD 20794 d in particular, recently attracted attention for a unique characteristic – an eccentric orbit that moves in and out of the parent star’s habitable zone. Astronomers are studying this planet to gain insights into habitability beyond Earth.
#science#space#scicomm
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SETI Institute

#PPOD: This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope image features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies that are separated by a large distance. The closer foreground galaxy sits at the center of the image, while the more distant background galaxy appears to be wrapped around the closer galaxy, forming a ring. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler

In the center is an elliptical galaxy, seen as an oval-shaped glow around a small bright core. Around this is wrapped a broad band of light, appearing like a spiral galaxy stretched and warped into a ring, with bright blue lines drawn through it where the spiral arms have been stretched into circles. A few distant objects are visible around the ring on a black background.
#space#science#scicomm
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