Washington's 'forgotten giant' volcano stirs(gizmodo.com)

67 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 28 comments

Paleontologists Are Fuming over AI Depictions of Prehistoric Animals(gizmodo.com)

5 points by rntn 2 years ago | 1 comments

Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs(gizmodo.com)

28 points by giuliomagnifico 24 days ago | 12 comments

Gizmodo article about scientists deploying underwater umbrella-like shades to protect coral reefs from bleaching, with early results suggesting it works.

Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars(gizmodo.com)

91 points by domofutu 11 months ago | 50 comments

Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)(spinoff.nasa.gov)

365 points by gumby 1 month ago | 62 comments

Article on how NASA's decorrelation stretch color-enhancement technique, developed for planetary imagery, is used to reveal faded ancient rock art.

America's Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision(gizmodo.com)

42 points by ourmandave 10 months ago | 14 comments

Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable(404media.co)

6 points by saikatsg 22 days ago | 1 comments

A 404 Media article on a study finding the solar system is dynamically unstable over long timescales and will eventually be destroyed.

The concurrence of three climatic events(climatecasino.net)

360 points by xemoka 3 years ago | 192 comments

A blog post on Eliot Jacobson's climate blog giving an overview of concurrent climate anomalies in 2023, including record global temperature departures.

Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity(noahpinion.blog)

526 points by bankershill 3 years ago | 485 comments

Noah Smith's Noahpinion essay arguing that eliminating or delaying advanced math instruction in public schools will not improve educational equity.

Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone(ssoready.com)

1051 points by noleary 2 years ago | 424 comments

SSOReady engineering blog post explaining a conceptual model of timezones by examining the weirdest ones, such as Australia/Lord_Howe's 30-minute DST shift.

In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels(e360.yale.edu)

656 points by speckx 9 months ago | 676 comments

Yale Environment 360 digest article reporting that wind and solar power generated more electricity than fossil fuels in Europe.

DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade(dbreunig.com)

444 points by dbreunig 1 year ago | 139 comments

Blog post by Drew Breunig arguing that DuckDB's spatial extension has made geospatial data accessible to far more people than specialized GIS tools.