Science Furs

Schedule | Golden State Fur Con Plan your weekend at GSFC with our online convention schedule!

Attending @gsfurcon.com ?

How to REALLY Not Get Con Crud!
Friday 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Panel 3
Hosts: @yatchi.bsky.social
gsfurcon.org/schedule/#1090

Thirty-six solutions to stabilize Earth’s climate An updated visual assessment tool can bridge the gap between climate research and political action

Thirty-six solutions to stabilize Earth’s climate | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

From peptides to DNA: All required steps can be catalyzed | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A universal brown dwarf desert formed between planets and stars | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Navigating the mysterious space of evolutionary histories | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Attending @vancoufur.bsky.social ?

Furry Botany 6: A Wonderland of Whimsical Flora
Sat. March 7th 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Host: @xylem.bsky.social

#FurriesInSTEM #STEMFurs #STEM

Cavity-altered superconductivity - Nature A new platform making use of hexagonal boron nitride interfaced with the molecular superconductor κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br is demonstrated for realizing cavity-altered materials, confirmed by magneti...

Cavity-altered superconductivity
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sub-part-per-trillion test of the Standard Model with atomic hydrogen - Nature Measurement of the 2S–6P transition in cryogenic atomic hydrogen using laser spectroscopy reveals a proton radius value that is 2.5-fold more precise than previous determinations and in excellent agre...

Sub-part-per-trillion test of the Standard Model with atomic hydrogen
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Multiple formation pathways for amino acids in the early Solar System based on carbon and nitrogen isotopes in asteroid Bennu samples | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Temperature and sex ratios at birth | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Free quantum computing | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Chen Ning “Frank” Yang (1922–2025): Profound proponent of symmetry | PNAS Chen Ning Yang made important contributions to the theory of solvable models in statistical mechanics, including generalizations of the Bethe Ansat...

Chen Ning “Frank” Yang (1922–2025): Profound proponent of symmetry | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

When I lost my university email, my identity as a scientist took an unexpected hit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

Private money cannot replace public funding of science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Surprising partner preference found in matings between Neanderthals and modern humans Male Neanderthals tended to pair up with female modern humans, but whether intercourse was consensual is unclear

Surprising partner preference found in matings between Neanderthals and modern humans | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Protected area management has significant spillover effects on vegetation - Nature Analysis of effect sizes of vegetation spillovers from protected areas in Australia shows that 71% of over 3,063 analysed protected areas had a positive spillover effect, and that these effects c...

Protected area management has significant spillover effects on vegetation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context - Nature Single-neuron recordings in humans reveal largely separate content and context neurons whose coordinated activity flexibly places memory items in context.

Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spin-wave band-pass filters for 6G communication - Nature A spin-wave ladder architecture based on single-crystal yttrium iron garnet requiring only one external magnetic bias for manufacturing tunable compact filters using modern micromachining fabrication ...

Spin-wave band-pass filters for 6G communication
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage - Nature An optical archival storage technology based on femtosecond laser direct writing in glass addresses the practical demands of archival storage.

Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi - Nature A hand stencil painted on a cave wall on a small island off the coast of Sulawesi more than 67,800 years ago suggests a very early occupation of Wallacea.

Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research Around the world, governments are demanding that research funding follow broader political priorities. They should be careful what they wish for.

Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Engineering chimeric antigen receptor CD4 T cells for Alzheimer’s disease | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Charge acceleration without radiation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Scaling laws for function diversity and specialization across socioeconomic and biological complex systems | PNAS Function diversity, the range of tasks individuals perform, and specialization, the distribution of function abundances, are fundamental to complex...

Scaling laws for function diversity and specialization across socioeconomic and biological complex systems | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Next-gen geothermal could bring clean power to much more of the planet | PNAS Next-gen geothermal could bring clean power to much more of the planet

Next-gen geothermal could bring clean power to much more of the planet | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reporting on Flaws in Science in an Era of Mistrust - The Open Notebook Science journalism that reports on flaws in the scientific process operates in a fraught environment, with attacks on science and scientists worldwide and increasing concern about public mistrust in s...

Reporting on Flaws in Science in an Era of Mistrust
‘Journalists may worry that stories shining a light on scientific misconduct may stoke public mistrust in science or be weaponized to justify cuts to the research enterprise.’
@cathleenogrady.bsky.social

www.theopennotebook.com/2026/02/10/r...

A method to study and enhance the energy efficiency of soft electrostatic actuators | PNAS Actuators drive robotic motion, and their energy conversion efficiency is a key performance metric that informs power consumption. Soft electrostat...

A method to study and enhance the energy efficiency of soft electrostatic actuators | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...