How do you talk to individuals that do not believe in science?

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Is black hole a 4th dimensional object?

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The medical staff at Wuhan Union Hospital have been risking their lives fighting the coronavirus. True medical heroes. Great news that 11 medical staff at the hospital who were infected have turned negative for the virus and symptoms were controlled after treatment!

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cool bath bomb i found in a dumpster should i test those out ?

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On International Women's Day, let us thank Katalin Kariko, inventor of the mRNA Vaccine tech that is saving billions of lives around the globe

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The smallest movie ever made, A Boy and His Atom, was created using individual atoms and a scanning tunneling microscope.

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Nature spoiled. Plankton-sized plastic at the base of the marine food chain. You can see easily how it can be mistaken for food

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A is a brain's neural network. B is a map of the universe. Other examples of similar structures appearing on micro and macro scales?

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Prehistoric bird once thought extinct returns to New Zealand wild

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What is it?

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I did not know this

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An AI algorithm can now predict faces with just 16x16 resolution. Top is low resolution images, middle is the computer's output, bottom is the original photos.

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On this day 98 years ago, a 14 yr. old boy, Leonard Thompson, dying of diabetes (he weighed 65 lb), was given the first injection of insulin. It saved his life; he lived 13 more years. The before & after pics of his insulin treatment are below. A great achievement of our species.

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A gecko trapped in amber, almost perfectly preserved after 54 million years.

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How does gravity create motion?

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Saturn rising from behind the Moon

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is it dangerous if i keep 13 gram of mercury in a glass jar closed ? can mercury vapor escape it and i should get rid of it ? the photo is the jar.

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CT scan of a patient who had swallowed 63 packets of cocaine. The packets were successfully evacuated using laxatives.

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CT scan of a patient who had swallowed 63 packets of cocaine. The packets were successfully evacuated using laxatives.

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First photo of a black hole in the heart of the M87 galaxy taken by the Event Horizon Telescope

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A stomata from the underside of a leaf opening and closing in response to water availability

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Jupiter photographed by NASA's Juno probe this Tuesday

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The human who took this photo of Earth passed away earlier this year - RIP Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden

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The cardiovascular system of a pigeon: a novel, noninvasive imaging method renders blood vessels and capillaries in beautiful detail.

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CERN’s proposed next hadron collider

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A gecko trapped in amber, almost perfectly preserved after 54 million years.

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The cardiovascular system of a pigeon: a novel, noninvasive imaging method renders blood vessels and capillaries in beautiful detail.

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Gotta get some theories

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Jupiter this week

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The heart of a blue whale, the largest animal on Earth. Weighing in at 440 lbs, technicians at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto were able to preserve the specimen after a blue whale carcass washed ashore in Newfoundland.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the planet Uranus, highlighting 11 of 13 rings of the planet.

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“It’s just mind boggling.” More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered

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Image taken from the surface of the asteroid, Ryugu, by the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft.

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The US has performed its first double lung transplant for lung damage caused by COVID-19. The recipient is a 20 yr old woman. She remains on a ventilator at this time. The damage inflicted by SARSCoV2 is stunning.

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Hi, I'm a high school biology student and I know that doesn't mean much but I love science and was told I could possibly get extra credit for posting this here. This is a double helix DNA model with toothpicks, licorice and corresponding colored marshmallows (A: green/T: pink | G: orange/C: yellow.

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The heart of a blue whale, the largest animal on Earth. Weighing in at 440 lbs, technicians at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto were able to preserve the specimen after a blue whale carcass washed ashore in Newfoundland.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has imaged Jupiter. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt.

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We know that governments pump billions into tech R&D that isn't disclosed to the public. What are some theoretical technologies that are likely fully developed, and maybe even have been tested in the field?

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CT scan of a patient who had swallowed 63 packets of cocaine. The packets were successfully evacuated using laxatives.

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I was just gifted an electron microscope. Anything I need to know?

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Science Summary for last month

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What people actually die from, what they Google and what the media covers.

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Cancer patient goes into spontaneous remission after COVID-19 infection

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A healthy society should not have only one voice”: Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, one of the eight whistleblowers who tried to warn other medics of the coronavirus outbreak but were reprimanded by local police, dies of coronavirus on Thursday in Wuhan. RIP.

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The world's smallest house - assembled inside a scanning electron microscope’s vacuum chamber, the house is just 20 micrometers long. It was built to test whether a robot could achieve nanometer accuracy in building.

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hi guys, did you ever seen a Atom?

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The Pillars of Creation by Webb Telescope

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Then and now

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Resolution of fingernail clubbing after treatment of lung cancer

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Literally Starting a year with a Bang

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Jupiter by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera. NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team, Judy Schmidt

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Science Summary for last month

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Monthly photo of sunrise from fixed point. Shows the tilt of the earth or the obliquity of the ecliptic.

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New Earth-mass planet found 16 light years away

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Killer T cell destroying huge ovarian cancer cell

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Chameleons’ long, elastic tongues are one of the fastest muscles in the animal kingdom, extending more than twice their body length and packing 14,000 watts of power per kilo.

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Aluminum powder in organic solvent is mesmerizing

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X-ray of a patient who attempted suicide by injecting themselves with mercury. The patient recovered with oral chelation therapy.

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A lethal dose of heroin vs. a lethal dose of fentanyl.

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Science Summary for last month [OC]

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023. NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS

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The various types of spider eye arrangements

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What do you think about my cell?

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The cardiovascular system of a pigeon: a novel, noninvasive imaging method renders blood vessels and capillaries in beautiful detail.

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What's Using Up All The Water in the Colorado River (Source: NYT)

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The near-infrared & mid-infrared images of the pillars of creation (taken by James Webb Space Telescope) were fused together in order to highlight new details. J. DePasquale, A Pagan, A M Koekemoer

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Hey scientists, could ozone generators heal the ozone hole?

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Mendeleev was born today - a chemist, physicist, metrologist, economist, technologist, geologist, meteorologist, oilman, teacher, aeronaut. Among the most famous discoveries is the periodic law of chemical elements, one of the fundamental laws of the universe, integral to all natural science.

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Hungry eyes: Spiders lose vision when they're starving - Biologists at the University of Cincinnati discovered that underfed jumping spiders lose light-sensitive cells that are key to their vision

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How much would earth's orbit need to change to add our subtract days from the calendar year

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Measles Cases in The United States, 1944-Present

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How a star fish moves around

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NASA's Perseverance Rover spotted drifting clouds just before sunrise. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M Gill

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Researchers found a grain of silicon carbide, dug out of the Murchison meteorite, that is seven billion years old. This presolar grain was belched into the universe by a dying star during the final stage of its life. It eventually hitched a ride to Earth on an asteroid that produced the meteorite.

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A stomata from the underside of a leaf opening and closing in response to water availability

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Science Summary for June

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The Pathogenesis of COVID-19 (Detailed explanation in the comment section)

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Chemotaxis: Bacteria attracted by a sugar crystal

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Last month in science // Science Summary

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The smallest movie ever made, A Boy and His Atom, was created using individual atoms and a scanning tunneling microscope (STM).

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What your skull looks like before adult teeth grow in

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Merino sheep are normally shorn annually. One such sheep - named Shrek - avoided being caught and shorn for six years letting his coat grow to an impressive length.

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This image from ESA’s MarsExpress shows a beautiful slice of the Red Planet from the northern polar cap downwards, and highlights cratered, pockmarked swathes of the Terra Sabaea and Arabia Terra regions.

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The Daily Mail is at it again. We need better scientific journalism if we want people to better understand science.

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Cat's tongue under an electron microscope

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The first image of the Earth from the Moon. Taken by NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966.

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Are electrons small balls? As I heared, they can appear with certain propability according to a propability distribution. But what appears there? A small ball of something or what?

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Science Summary for last month [video version in the comments]

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Schematic of cranial and upper cervical venous systems.

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In the picture below, the trajectory of 800 bike launches without a passenger.

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Jupiter's moon, Io, casts a shadow on the gas giant

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Mars will be close to earth. It won't be like this again until 2035. It will be closer to Earth this week than at any other time during the next 15 years. It is almost perfectly positioned to be seen from both hemispheres and will glow brightly in the evening sky. (via NASA)

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A very productive week.

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For people who ask which came first? The chicken or the egg? Well, the short answer is, eggs existed long before chickens even walked the surface of the earth, chickens came somewhere near the end of evolution of birds for as we see and know them now

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Tardigrades in progress

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The night side of Pluto, its thin atmosphere illuminated by the Sun from 4.9 billion kilometers away. Captured by the departing New Horizons spacecraft after its closest approach 19 minutes earlier.

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Real or fake mandible bone? Found while walking .

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A 43-year-old man presented to the ophthalmology clinic with a 3-month history of redness of the eyelids and was found to have multicolored irises. He reported that his irises had appeared this way since birth. On ophthalmologic examination, the visual acuity was 20/25 in each eye.

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Science Summary for last month // Major science news in brief

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Bacterium eats and digests Polyethylene plastic (PE) in seawater, find Dutch researchers (https://www.packaginginsights.com/news/bacterium-eats-and-digests-pe-in-seawater-find-dutch-researchers.html)

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Ghost Pipe (Monotropa uniflora) is a non-photosynthetic plant. What you see is the whole above-ground plant body, it will never be green. It obtains energy from mycorrizhal fungi, who in turn get their energy from trees.

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Science Summary for last month, September [OC]

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The world's smallest house - assembled inside a scanning electron microscope’s vacuum chamber, the house is just 20 micrometers long. It was built to test whether a robot could achieve nanometer accuracy in building.

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James Webb Space Telescope acquired this view of Saturn's largest moon Titan and its atmospheric haze around the moon. The two bright spots near its top limb are clouds. A. Pagan, W. M. Keck Observatory, NASA...

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Can Your AI Differentiate Cats from COVID-19? There is a recent interest in using AI to detect COVID-19 from Chest X-Ray images. However, recent work serve as a warning to practitioners by showing that these AIs are susceptible to making overconfident and wildly in accurate predictions.

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Simulations with a machine learning model predict a new phase of solid hydrogen - a new kind of high-pressure solid hydrogen that past theory and experiments missed

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This is the first picture of Europa taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Revealing surface features in a region near the moon’s equator called Annwn Regio, the image was captured at a distance of about 219 miles (352 kilometers).NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI/MSSS

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Despite its flaws, Niels Bohr’s atomic model made some important advances in our understanding of atomic structure and the diagrams from his 1923 lectures are stunningly detailed [x-post r/ScientificArt]

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The physics of entropy and the origin of life

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What is it like to stand in a cloud that starts raining?

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Sensible

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Pinhole images of an Eclipse?

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Close-up of Europa -- Jupiter's icy moon. The image was taken at a distance of about 412 km (256 miles) over the icy moon’s darkened hemisphere. Juno/NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI.

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Oxycodone consumption, US vs. Europe.

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First helium ion microscope image of SARS-CoV-2. Credit: Bielefeld University/N. Frese

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Nature spoiled. Plankton-sized plastic at the base of the marine food chain. You can see easily how it can be mistaken for food

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Guns work in space but we know space is a vacuum and guns are air cooled could there be a chance that guns melt in space after a few rounds?

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CT scan of a patient who had swallowed 63 packets of cocaine. The packets were successfully evacuated using laxatives.

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Hi people can I know what this thing is on the fish tank and what’s causing it?

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Heart transplant: a bad heart going out and a new heart going in.

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Io and its shadow on the Jupiter. Seen by Voayager-1 in 1979. Credit: NASA/JPL /Ian Regan

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Scientists found 1 billion-year-old fossil cells so well preserved they could see structures inside. The fossils were likely marine bacteria from rivers or ocean water near the Rodinia supercontinent.

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Science Summary for July 2020

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