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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that stars are mostly made of hydrogen(aps.org)
128 points by _Microft 2y ago|53 comments
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What happens when you touch a pickle to an AM radio tower(jeffgeerling.com)
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by _Microft 2y ago
Paper: „Achieving optical transparency in live animals with absorbing molecules“, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm6869
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Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent(theguardian.com)
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by _Microft 2y ago
The „Ölfleckversuch“ („oil stain experiment“) is very similar in setup but you use a drop of oil instead of detergent. Its volume and the covered area on the water surface are used to estimate molecular sizes: https://de.m.wikipe
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Tasks(another.rodeo)
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Many of us can save a child's life, if we rely on the best data(ourworldindata.org)
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Google AI summary: „parachute effectiveness"(mstdn.social)
2 points by _Microft 2y ago|1 comments
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by _Microft 2y ago
Beside the already linked-to article on the confusion matrix, you can also have a look at the one on sensitivity and specificity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity
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by _Microft 2y ago
There is a thread by one of the authors on Mastodon about it: https://mastodon.social/@mbonsma/111564828670828672
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July 2024 Temperature Update(berkeleyearth.org)
7 points by _Microft 2y ago|1 comments
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Timelapse of Juice's lunar-Earth flyby [video](youtube.com)
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by _Microft 2y ago
You can read more about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41372225 (I just happened to have replied there first)
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by _Microft 2y ago
"Since the attenuation of VLF waves is smaller for west to east propagation and during the night, thunderstorm activity up to distances of about 10,000 km can be observed for signals arriving from the west during night time conditions
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Catatumbo Lightning(en.wikipedia.org)
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by _Microft 2y ago
Have you tried searching Github? I bet there is tons of stuff happening on Github as well. https://www.google.com/search?q=open+soure+hardware+site%3Ag... Are you interested in developing a particular type of hardware? Mech
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by _Microft 2y ago
Ah, that Helene Fischer published works on nocturnal respiratory issues though.
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Ocean Acidification Stripes(oceanacidificationstripes.info)
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by _Microft 2y ago
> riding an ebike with a triangular battery pack that looks identical to one some HNer built here You might be thinking of jacquesm and this bike: https://jacquesmattheij.com/long-range-ebike/
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by _Microft 2y ago
You‘re lucky! Not only has OP been posting that for a while already but dang is also supportive of it. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=david927
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by _Microft 2y ago
Cool, this look great, thanks for sharing. Scanning the front page, I actually think the maker of this [0] is active here on HN and [1] also made it here before. [0] https://howtoware.co/invisible-computers [1] https:&#x2F
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by _Microft 2y ago
The discussion you are thinking about is neither dead nor flagged. Overly active discussions get downranked automatically: „ Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussion
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by _Microft 2y ago
He’s also covering space topics for Ars Technica and you can certainly expect an article on this in the next few days. This one is from yesterday, maybe it will receive an update? https://arstechnica.com/space/2024&#x2F
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by _Microft 2y ago
OP might not have been correct but ranting like this hardly makes anything better, do you think?
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Why Star Trek's Graphic Design Makes Sense [video](youtube.com)
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by _Microft 2y ago
Wasn’t there news not long ago that China has been building solar power (peak capacity) with an equivalent power of five nuclear power plants per week ? Even accounting for much lower cumulative output, this is far more than they have in t
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What makes a good laboratory assignment?(vanhunteradams.com)
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High-Dimensional Sudoku Puzzle helps overturn a long-standing tiling conjecture(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by _Microft 2y ago|2 comments
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Town urges curfew over mosquito-spread disease that kills up to 50% of people(arstechnica.com)
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by _Microft 2y ago
Russia controls almost 40% of the uranium conversion capacities and 46% of the enrichment capacities. China is also controlling some amount, leaving only 36% of the conversion (Canada, France) and about 42% of the enrichment capacities unde

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