Scientists discover guidance system for migratory songbirds(news.exeter.ac.uk)

18 points by bit_economist 3 months ago | 5 comments

Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons(fu-berlin.de)

87 points by geox 1 month ago | 49 comments

Freie Universität Berlin press release on two Science Advances studies suggesting Saturn's moon Enceladus may be more habitable and that life could be detectable by planned spacecraft.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai(nobelprize.org)

291 points by sasvari 19 days ago | 55 comments

Official Nobel Prize press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announcing the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai.

Brownian Motion(gregorygundersen.com)

57 points by signa11 20 days ago | 8 comments

A blog post building intuition for Brownian motion by deriving its marginal distribution from a discrete-time random walk.

Moon(ciechanow.ski)

2976 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 248 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining the Moon, its phases, and its orbital path around Earth.

Moon (2024)(ciechanow.ski)

245 points by simonebrunozzi 2 months ago | 38 comments