Another canary in the collapsing coalmine.

A paper today in Nature by Borlaff et al. on the impact of ever-increasing numbers of satellites in low-Earth orbit on space telescopes like Hubble, SPHEREx, & CHEOPS today, & Xuntian & ARRAKIHS in the future.

The number of proposed satellites is eye-watering, & the effects on astronomy horrendous – there are wider effects on pollution of the upper atmosphere & safety of key orbital assets as well.

nature.com/articles/s41586-025…

#Science #SpaceScience

Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy - Nature

Rapidly growing satellite constellations pose a substantial threat to astronomical observations, with projections indicating that future space telescopes will have more than 96% of their exposures affected by satellite trails, necessitating urgent mi…

^Nature

Scientific publishing may be the biggest scam you've never heard of. A billion-dollar industry built on free labor and public money—then sold back to us at a markup. It's not just broken. It's sabotaging progress.
#Science #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

zmescience.com/science/news-sc…

We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage

Your tax dollars fund the research. You pay again to read it.

^{Mihai Andrei (ZME Science)}

China's huge JUNO neutrino detector turned on three months ago, and has already achieved new levels of sensitivity in studying these mysterious particles.

The detector weighs 20,000 tons & contains 45,000 sensors watching for rare neutrino interactions.

prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/p… #science #tech #nature

Sorry, I don't normally post memes, but I just came across this one I had saved to my computer and wanted to share it. I think it is so funny! (Ya, I know, I'm weird.)

#Paleontology #Life #Evolution #Memes #Science

The best scientific papers are provocations, not results you can rely on. Discuss!

What I mean is that they should try to force progress by making an outrageous statement that the established field wants to be wrong, but do it so well that proving it wrong is a real challenge.

A corollary: the ultimate way to give respect to a scientific paper is to refuse to believe it, and to be engaged by it enough to write a social media rant, blog or full blown paper explaining why it's so stupid.

#science

New study unifies genetic and archeological evidence that humans arrived in Australia about 60,000 to 65,000 years ago.

abc.net.au/news/science/2025-1…

#History #Science #Australia #GeneralNews

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^{Jacinta Bowler (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)}

AI research is "Eating your own dog food" kind of field. It's both amusing and predictable.

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
"Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence. "

How did they find out, you ask? With the help of AI models, of course. "EditLens: Quantifying the Extent of AI Editing in Textmodel." arxiv.org/abs/2510.03154

#ml #science #research #AIResearch #ai

EditLens: Quantifying the Extent of AI Editing in Text

A significant proportion of queries to large language models ask them to edit user-provided text, rather than generate new text from scratch.

^arXiv.org

Three objects spotted by James Webb Space Telescope may be dark stars: massive, luminous and powered by dark matter annihilation.

If confirmed, they could reshape theories of early star formation ⭐ theconversation.com/when-darkn… #space #science

When darkness shines: How dark stars could illuminate the early universe

Some unique ‘stars’ might be fueled by dark matter annihilation.

^{The Conversation}

📡 Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-day from Earth

｢ Launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, becoming the most distant human-made object ever. Traveling at around 11 miles per second (17.7 km/s), it adds roughly 3.5 astronomical units (the distance from Earth to the Sun) each year ｣

scienceclock.com/voyager-1-is-…

#voyager #space #spaceexploration #science

Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-day from Earth

After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km)

^{Piyush Gupta (ScienceClock)}

Final call to apply for ESA Internships 2026!

The clock is ticking! Applications for the ESA Student Internship Programme 2026 close on 30 November. This is your chance to take your first step into the world of space.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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