[8/8] Aujourd’hui, la géodésie s’appuie sur les satellites pour mesurer la Terre avec une précision centimétrique. Cette longue histoire montre que la connaissance scientifique est collective, évolutive et liée aux enjeux politiques et économiques. #geography #geodesy #scientifichistory #earthshape

[1/8] Étienne Ghys, mathématicien au CNRS et à l’ENS de Lyon, retrace l’histoire de la mesure de la Terre. Il montre comment la détermination de sa forme mêle sciences, expéditions et rivalités politiques entre France et Royaume-Uni. #geography #geodesy #scientifichistory #earthshape

VINTAGE POSTCARD Holy Genis Laval Observatory of Large Equatorial

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#NewZealand Has A Unique [#OpenData] #FossilRecord [#Online #Database] Named #FRED
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Schrödinger's Hidden Biology Legacy

#Schrödinger #Quantumphysics #Genetics #Dna #Scientifichistory

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This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern #scientifichistory in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota. “These are going to be huge losses to the #researchcommunity.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

VINTAGE POSTCARD Magnifying glasses Roger Bacon Astronomy

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In honor of Blood's 80th anniversary, we're looking back at all of the journal's past Editors in Chief. Today we're kicking off with our Founding Editor, Dr. William Dameshek (served 1946-1969). Learn more about him in this special feature: linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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In this month's episode of Tipperary's Hidden History, broadcast earlier today on @tippfm.bsky.social I take a look at the work and world of the Nenagh-born scientific genius, J.D. Bernal.

#IrishHistory #IrishResearch #ScientificHistory

7/11 US scientists have led mRNA research including Nobel Prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman's foundational work.

Paul Krieg and Douglas Melton first synthesized mRNA in US laboratories during the 1980s, establishing the field.
#NobelPrize #ScientificHistory

An expert paleontologist demonstrates ChatGPT's inability to accurately answer questions about...
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Is the Big Bang a Myth? Part 2: The Primaeval Atom #Science #Space #Cosmology #BigBangTheory #ScientificHistory

A history of the determination of the figure of the earth from arc measurements #EarthScience #HistoryOfScience #Geodesy #ArcMeasurements #ScientificHistory

This Day In History
(14th Dec 1940CE):
Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
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"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton, 1675

Even history's greatest scientific mind acknowledged he didn't work alone. True innovation builds on what came before.

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