WRITER FUEL: Do blind people 'see' images in their dreams?
https://www.limfic.com/2025/03/26/writer-fuel-can-blind-people-see-in-their-dreams/
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WRITER FUEL: Scientists found signs of organic molecules in the first samples of potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, as well as a 'head scratching' material that has yet to be identified. Some of it has the texture of cauliflower.
https://www.limfic.com/2024/01/03/writer-fuel-what-do-cauliflower-and-asteroid-bennu-have-in-common/
WRITER FUEL: GPS data can track slight tremors underground that could help predict earthquakes two hours in advance, according to a new study.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/11/18/writer-fuel-could-gps-help-us-predict-earthquakes/
WRITER FUEL: It's long been assumed that men were hunters and women were gatherers, but a new study reveals that both sexes have been equally adept at hunting in hunter-gatherer cultures.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/10/26/writer-fuel-what-we-thought-about-hunter-gatherers-is-all-wrong/
WRITER FUEL: A new study has revealed that 380 zettajoules of energy was trapped by global warming between 1971 and 2020 - the equivalent of 25 billion atomic bombs.
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How cool is this? The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found polka-dot sand dunes on Mars. What's next? A plaid volcano? :P
zzzt zzzt.
WRITER FUEL: A relative of the tuberculosis bacterium has long been known to convert hydrogen from the air into electricity. Now, scientists have discovered how.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/04/29/writer-fuel-enzyme-turns-hydrogen-into-electricity/
This "guest star" was visible in Earth's skies for almost a year. Amazing.
WRITER FUEL: The National Science Foundation zooms in on the tattered scraps of SN 185, which appeared over our planet 1,800 years ago and was the first supernova ever recorded in Earth's skies.
The whole universe is dancing. :)
WRITER FUEL: Astronomers have detected enormous shockwaves rattling the cosmic web that connects all galaxies in the universe, offering vital clues on how the largest structures in space were shaped.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/04/24/writer-fuel-the-whole-universe-is-dancing/
DISCUSSION
Riffing off of today's writer fuel topic, what's your vavorite Viking tale? Writers, what have you written?
Weren't they the big guys with the beards and pointy metal hats? :P
Who were the Vikings, the warriors who raided Europe and explored the New World? Live Science gives us a history lesson.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/04/23/writer-fuel-all-about-the-vikings/
So just how big could an animal be?
WRITER FUEL: Animals, especially those on land, can't grow indefinitely. The reason has to do with the square-cube law. LiveScience has the details.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/04/21/writer-fuel-how-big-can-land-animals-get/
DISCUSSION
How would a truly galactic civilization manage to hold itself together? What tools would be required? What are your fave stories, and writers, how have you managed yours?
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Oooh. Next they'll discover that the Loch ness monster is really a giant piece of spaghetti...
WRITER FUEL: Scientists in Australia think that a sea monster called a "hafgufa" in 13th-century Norse manuscripts was actually an accurate description of a whale using trap feeding.
Oooh. Now I don't feel so old. :)
Writer Fuel: The "Building blocks of life" recovered from asteroid Ryugu are older than the solar system itself.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/04/19/writer-fuel-building-blocks-of-life-found-in-asteroid-sample/
DISCUSSION
What if your next door neighbor WAS AN ALIEN??? What are your fave "aliens among us" trope stories? Writers, what have you written?
DISCUSSION
Fetus of doom! What are your fave demon baby/devil child/harbinger of doom tales? Writers, what have you written using this trope?
Awww... the sun has a heart(beat). :)
After studying an unusual solar eruption from 2017, researchers think they've pinpointed the likely origin of mysterious heartbeat-like signals emitted by the sun during solar flares.
DISCUSSION
What are your fave spec fic tales featuring fallen heroes? Writers, what have you written?
And I thought Beyonce was a mega star...
WRITER FUEL: When the universe's first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth's sun, new research suggests.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/04/15/writer-fuel-the-era-of-the-megastars/