Science Cabaret

03/25/2025

In the past two months, hundreds of terabytes of digital resources analyzing data have been taken off government websites, and more are feared to be at risk of deletion. While in many cases the underlying data still exists, the tools that make it possible for the public and researchers to use that data have been removed.

Vast quantities of climate and environmental information have been removed from official websites in the past months. Scientists are trying keep it available.

02/21/2025

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity & is the torch which illuminates the world. -Louis Pasteur

02/16/2025

STAT is backing up and monitoring CDC data in real time: See what’s changing

01/31/2025

Like wowzers! In case you need a fun science story in your life....this has got it all! 🕷️ 🍄 🧬🔬🧟 ☘️🇮🇪⟡

Dr. Harry Evans, Emeritus Fellow at CAB International, led scientists—including from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and Royal Botanical Gardens Kew—in a study to investigate the identity of a fungus found on a spider during filming of the BBC Winterwatch series in Northern Ireland. The wo...

03/21/2024

Fruit Chaos

Climate change is threatening to turn sublime summer stone fruits disgusting, or rob us of their pleasures entirely.

03/21/2024

Sympathy, Empathy, and Compassion: How do they differ and which one do people prefer?

Sympathy, empathy, and compassion are words that have not only remained largely uncontested in society but are often used synonymously. In this illustrated ...

03/13/2024

“Ironically, our aversion to failures makes experiencing them more likely. When we don’t admit or point out small failures, we allow them to turn into larger ones.”

— Amy Edmondson, “Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well” (2023)

02/12/2024

Katalin Kariko, “In Pfizer's Superbowl commercial I appear together with scientists including, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, Marie Maynard Daly and Rosalind Franklin 💫🎉 It can't be better than that.”

Here’s to science. Here’s to the next fight. Learn more at https://letsoutdocancer.com

02/10/2024

Inspired by nature

02/10/2024

In case you have ever wondered why, oh why, in a tight spiral pass, the front nose of the football points up when it leaves the quarterback’s hand and then tilts down when it lands in the hands of a receiver?

If you've ever watched part of a professional football game, you've probably seen a tight spiral pass. Those passes seem to defy fundamental physics. And for a long time, scientists couldn't figure out exactly why — until more recently.

02/14/2023

From our friends at the Carl Sagan Institute:

❤️Valentine’s Day may bring to mind hot-pink hearts, purple chocolate boxes, and red rose bouquets… but why not tinge it with a bit of blue?

🔵Today is also the anniversary of the “Pale Blue Dot” image—a portrait of Earth from 3 billion miles away. Read more below about the romance of space and pictures of faraway planets!