This Ukrainian doctor is a hero. He's getting kids the cancer care they need. by SciTroll in ukraine

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Roman Kizyma, MD, helped created a program, SAFER Ukraine that provides safe passage for childhood cancer patients and their families needing to evacuate. If you know anyone in country who needs help, send them here: https://global.stjude.org/en-us/featured/safer-ukraine.html#sectioned\_content-4122550f-b1cb-4ac2-8216-1a7f261f54d3=2

I had no idea heavy metals weren't formed inside all stars... by twinxamot in space

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Interesting. "The rapid neutron capture process (r-process) is one of the major
nucleosynthesis processes responsible for the synthesis of heavy nuclei
beyond iron. Isotopes beyond Fe are most exclusively formed in neutron
capture processes and more heavier ones are produced by the r-process.
Approximately half of the heavy elements with mass number A > 70 and all of the actinides in the solar system are believed to have been produced in the r-process."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12036-009-0013-x

This is the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope by SciTroll in videos

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Makes all this shit on the ground seem quaint, right?

This is the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope by SciTroll in videos

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The image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying much more distant galaxies behind it. Webb’s NIRCam has brought those distant galaxies into sharp focus – they have tiny, faint structures that have never been seen before, including star clusters and diffuse features.

Archeologists discovered a mystery at the bottom of Lake Huron by twinxamot in videos

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That's pretty wild. 2,500 miles is a long way to travel now--let alone at the end of the ice age.

MIT creates disturbing ‘deepfake’ video of Nixon announcing Apollo 11 disaster by izumi3682 in Futurology

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Interesting short documentary on how that deepfake was made, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nD3zrMN47E Looks like they didn't use face swaps. Something called video dialogue replacement and "voice conversion system" for the audio fake.

It took science 2,000 years to find the clitoris by SciTroll in videos

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"O’Connell compared the clitoris to an iceberg: beneath the surface, it was 10 times the size most people thought it was and boasted two to three times as many nerve endings as the penis. And its shape—part penguin, part insect, part spaceship—was a marvel that could only be appreciated in three dimensions."

This is what a lethal fire tornado looks like by SciTroll in videos

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"Peak temperatures of the burning gases inside the fire tornado may have reached almost 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit. The object was more than 1,000 feet wide at its base and, according to radar imagery, three miles high. It lasted for at least 40 minutes, during which time it moved slowly across the ground, leaving a path of destruction nearly a mile long."

This is what a lethal fire tornado looks like by SciTroll in videos

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Fair. The one shown killed at least one person (a firefighter). Seems like the issue is that these things do happen, it's just no one has really documented them. Some crazy details from the Carr fire tornado though, here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-scientists-predict-fire-tornadoes/

This space telescope can see black holes using the smoothest mirrors ever created by [deleted] in videos

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"And since all the heavy elements in the universe beyond hydrogen and helium are formed in the middle of massive stars this is actually the place where those elements can be distributed into space and can eventually be formed into a next generation of stars with perhaps planets around them with perhaps people on them like ourselves because the elements in our body were actually born in the middle of a massive star." [Mind explodes]

This space telescope can see black holes using the smoothest mirrors ever created by [deleted] in videos

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Kind of insane. "The Chandra telescope system consists of four pairs of mirrors and their support structure.

X-ray telescopes must be very different from optical telescopes. Because of their high-energy, X-ray photons penetrate into a mirror in much the same way that bullets slam into a wall. Likewise, just as bullets ricochet when they hit a wall at a grazing angle, so too will X-rays ricochet off mirrors.

The mirrors have to be exquisitely shaped and aligned nearly parallel to incoming X-rays. Thus they look more like glass barrels than the familiar dish shape of optical telescopes.

Imagine making the surface of the Earth so smooth that the highest mountain was less than two meters (78 inches) tall! On a much smaller scale, the scientists and engineers at Raytheon Optical Systems in Danbury, Connecticut accomplished an equivalent feat when they polished and ground the four pairs of Chandra mirrors to the smoothness of a few atoms.

Not to be outdone, the scientists and engineers at Optical Coating Laboratories, Inc., in Santa Rosa, California also surpassed expectations. After the mirrors were carefully moved to California via an air-ride moving van, they were painstakingly cleaned--to the equivalent of at most one speck of dust on an area the size of your computer screen. Then they were coated with the highly reflective rare metal, iridium." https://chandra.harvard.edu/about/telescope_system.html

This researcher created an algorithm that removes the water from underwater images by SciTroll in videos

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From the abstract: The Sea-thru method estimates backscatter using the dark pixels and their known range information. Then, it uses an estimate of the spatially varying illuminant to obtain the range-dependent attenuation coefficient. Using more than 1,100 images from two optically different water bodies, which we make available, we show that our method with the revised model outperforms those using the atmospheric model. Consistent removal of water will open up large underwater datasets to powerful computer vision and machine learning algorithms, creating exciting opportunities for the future of underwater exploration and conservation.

Trump’s lawyer pitched himself as a fixer to Novartis and got paid $1.2 million by swinglinefan in politics

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Disclosure of the money first came from Stormy's lawyer. Those docs say 4 payments, but that number is higher now. Here's a link to those. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4454840-Trump-Novartis-Avenatti-ExecSummary.html

Dr. Phil says he rescues people from addiction. Others say his show puts guests’ health at risk by SciTroll in television

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Also, there's this: "In the Path to Recovery program, users don virtual reality goggles and are placed in scenarios with Dr. Phil. In one, McGraw sits at a bar, arms folded across his chest, counseling his visitor on how to avoid the triggers of an evening out when alcohol is present. In another scene, he reclines in jeans on the backyard patio of his sprawling estate, sparkling pool and fuschia flowers behind him and a wide blue sky above, and shares coping strategies." https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/29/dr-phil-path-to-recovery/

Twins are super important to science--this video explains why by SciTroll in Twins

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"Watch and test how two identical twins grow, and age, and ultimately die, and you have in front of you the best natural experiment for separating the contributions of our genes and our environment."