Why Friday the 13th is a mathematical inevitability No bad luck here—just lots of fascinating math that explains why the 13th of a month so often falls on a Friday

Why Friday the 13th is a mathematical inevitability. Via @scientific_american #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #Math #Mathematics #Statistics

Analyzing Darwin's specimens without opening 200-year-old jars Scientists have successfully analyzed Charles Darwin's original specimens from his HMS Beagle voyage (1831 to 1836) to the Galapagos Islands.

Analyzing Darwin's specimens without opening 200-year-old jars. Via @sciencex.physorg #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

New battery idea gets lots of power out of unusual sulfur chemistry Rather than being used as a storage material, the sulfur gives up electrons.

New battery idea gets lots of power out of unusual sulfur chemistry. Via @arstechnica #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #Chemistry #RenewableEnergy ♻️⚡🌎

CRISPR Slashes ‘Bad Cholesterol’ Levels by 95 Percent in Early Results A range of CRISPR gene therapies are taking aim at chronically high cholesterol, reducing the risk of heart disease.

#CRISPR Slashes ‘Bad Cholesterol’ Levels by 95 Percent in Early Results. Via @singularityhub #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #Health ❤️‍🩹 🧑‍⚕️ #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷

James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died His work was celebrated, but he was ostracized for racist, sexist comments.

RIP 😢

James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died. Via @arstechnica #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

DNA analysis reveals likely pathogens that killed Napoleon’s army Microbial DNA suggests troops suffered from paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever, among other diseases.

DNA analysis reveals likely pathogens that killed Napoleon’s army. Via @arstechnica #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology

The Terrifying Physics of Shaking Hands With an Alien Mark your calendars and go to http://complexlylearnathon.com to check out the schedule of events! This riddle posed by Richard Feynman sounds silly, but the answer contains one of the most important…

The Terrifying Physics of Shaking Hands With an Alien. Via @thescishow #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #Space #Astrophysics #Astronomy #SETI 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ youtu.be/R-6bvBtZ8r8?...

Physicists Predict When The Universe Will End in a Reverse Big Bang If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a finite timeline, new calculations suggest.

Physicists Predict When The Universe Will End in a Reverse Big Bang. Via @sciencealert #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

Generative AI can outperform nature at designing proteins to edit the genome Researchers at Integra Therapeutics, in collaboration with the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) and the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), have…

Generative AI can outperform nature at designing proteins to edit the genome. Via @sciencex.physorg #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠

Could humans and AI become a new kind of evolutionary individual? In a recent op-ed published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening interdependence between…

Neo-sapiens

Could humans and AI become a new kind of evolutionary individual? Via @sciencex.physorg #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠

Tiny 'brains' grown in the lab could become conscious and feel pain — and we're not ready. Via @live_science #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

Want to See Dark Matter? Start with the Bullet Cluster A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that astronomers have ever seen

Want to See Dark Matter? Start with the Bullet Cluster. Via @scientific_american #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #ScienceThreads #Physics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

The True Story of the Bhopal Gas Disaster December 2nd, 1984, thousands of families in Bhopal, India went to sleep, unaware they would wake as victims of the world's deadliest industrial accident... This is the true story of the Bhopal Gas…

The True Story of the Bhopal Gas Disaster. Via @drbenmiles #ClimateChange 🌎♨️ #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #History

Ice In Space Is a Lot Stranger Than We Thought (and Is Quite Important!) Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent…

Ice In Space Is a Lot Stranger Than We Thought (and Is Quite Important!). Via @whatdamath #SpaceThreads 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 youtu.be/BxAvat0PD8g?...

Hundreds of Nasa workers rebuke ‘arbitrary’ Trump cuts in scathing letter Nearly 300 current and former employees signed the letter criticizing the ‘rapid and wasteful changes’ at the agency

Hundreds of Nasa workers rebuke ‘arbitrary’ Trump cuts in scathing letter. Via @guardian #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ #SpaceThreads 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

Australia’s Breakthrough: NEW Quantum Battery Charges Instantly Australia’s Breakthrough: NEW Quantum Battery Charges InstantlyAustralian researchers at RMIT University and Australia’s CSIRO have unveiled a quantum batter...

Australia’s Breakthrough: NEW Quantum Battery Charges Instantly. Via @theelectricvking #ScienceThreads #Physics #QuantumPhysics #QuantumMechanics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #engineeringThreads ⚙️🛠️🔧🔬🧰

Biggest Black Hole Collision Detected!.. and It Doesn't Make Sense. Via @whatdamath #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #ScienceThreads #Physics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

Extreme Conditions of Early Universe Recreated in Collider Experiment A team of researchers have made progress in understanding how some of the Universe's heaviest particles behave under extreme conditions similar to those that existed just after the Big Bang.

Extreme Conditions of Early Universe Recreated in Collider Experiment. Via @sciencealert #ScienceThreads #Physics #ParticlePhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

The dark side of time: Scientists develop nuclear clock method to detect dark matter using thorium-229 For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make up about 80% of the universe's mass and needed to explain a variety of…

The dark side of time: Scientists develop nuclear clock method to detect dark matter using thorium-229. Via @physorg.news #ScienceThreads #Physics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Mainstream mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published. Via @guardian #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #AIThreads 💻 🤖 🧠

The "miracle material" can finally be built safely with this new method The "miracle material" is called so because of its nature, and scientists have now found a way to create it safely.

The "miracle material" can finally be built safely with this new method. Via Neowin #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #engineeringThreads ⚙️🛠️🔧🔬🧰

3D Time Could Solve Physics' Biggest Problem, Says Bizarre New Study Clocks might be far more fundamental to physics than we ever realized.

3D Time Could Solve Physics' Biggest Problem, Says Bizarre New Study. Via @sciencealert #ScienceThreads #Physics #QuantumPhysics #QuantumMechanics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First For the first time, researchers have seen how light behaves during a mysterious phenomenon called 'imaginary time'.

Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First. Via @sciencealert #ScienceThreads #Physics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

'Science refugees': French university welcomes first US researchers Eight American researchers have arrived at a university in southern France, as the country pushes to offer "science asylum" to US academics hit by federal research spending cuts under Donald Trump.

'Science refugees': French university welcomes first US researchers. Via @physorg.news #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

Mice with two fathers have their own offspring for the first time We're a step closer to two men being able to have genetic children of their own after the creation of fertile mice by putting two sperm cells in an empty egg

Mice with two fathers have their own offspring for the first time. Via @newscientist #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

If Your Baby Seems Kinda Dumb at Seven Months, Scientists Have Terrible News About What'll Happen When It Grows Into an Adult Research reveals that cognitive ability in infants can predict their future intelligence when they grow up to be adults.

If Your Baby Seems Kinda Dumb at Seven Months, Scientists Have Terrible News About What'll Happen When It Grows Into an Adult. Via @futurism #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #Parenting

Radio Signals Coming From Inside Ice In Antarctica Have NO Explanation Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads)Alter...

Radio Signals Coming From Inside Ice In Antarctica Have NO Explanation. Via @whatdamath #ScienceThreads 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬