mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitch🇨🇦 Author of #scifi thrillers with engaging characters, snarky humor, and (mostly!) plausible science. www.books2read.com/David-M-Kelly
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly"
Scientists in Sweden have created a cartilage scaffold that guides the body to regrow bone. This is almost exactly how I imagined limb regeneration working in my books. One of the amazing things in writing #SciFi is that sometimes what you dream up actually becomes reality. #science #medicine #health
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260305223231.htm
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Scientists mapped vast cosmic structures using hydrogen light emissions. I built my own starmap — only 1300 systems, considerably less impressive, but at least you can click on things 😀 #science #space #astronomy
https://ziply.pk/a7YBnv
Cosmic voids may be driving the universe's expansion through dark energy. Even emptiness has power. Funny, I've been thinking about voids a lot recently. My novel "A Crimson Void" is out this spring. #science #space #scifi #writing #cosmology ziply.pk/cosmicvoids
Scientists have cracked 3D printing tungsten carbide-one of the hardest metals on Earth. In my novels, Joe Ballen is chief engineer on a 3D printed O'Neill cylinder. Two centuries later, habitats like it are standard across dozens of star systems. Turns out the future I've been writing is arriving ahead of schedule — again. https://tinyurl.com/3dpmetal #science #engineering #sciencefiction #scifi #writing #books
Targeted microbes to fight gum disease without killing beneficial bacteria? My Joe Ballen novels have a similar nanomite tooth scrubber called DentiKleen. Should I be worried my dentist is now living in my fiction? 🙂 #SciFi #science #healthcare https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260413043141.htm
Some men are defined by a single decision made in the heat of the moment. For Draeger, it cost him his career, his freedom, and three years of his life - and now someone desperate enough is handing him command of an obsolete ship, a mission deep in enemy territory, and a crew that despises him.
A Crimson Void — Hellhound Series Book One — is out today. https://books2read.com/acrimsonvoid #scifi #books #newrelease See less
Finished my final round of editing before sending my latest novel to my external editor! YAAY! 😊 #writing #books #sciencefiction #scifi
In 2013 I wrote a cyborg character in "The Three Lives of Mary" (https://viewbook.at/TLOM) who could reverse her joints so she never had to turn around. Boston Dynamics just built exactly that. Amazing to see reality catching up! #SciFi #writing #engineering https://youtu.be/29ECwExc-_M?si=vhi6W25AH4Jcc3bx
This is why I love physics-reality keeps finding ways to be stranger than anything we'd think to invent.
A black hole and neutron star just collided in a strange oval orbit
https://tinyurl.com/4xu47pkh
#science #physics #astrophysics #blackhole #neutronstar
A supervolcano nearly wiped out humanity 74,000 years ago, but humans did something incredible https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260510234711.htm
Yeah, they reacted like... humans...🙄 The bigotry of low expectations routinely applied to our ancestors is appalling. #science #history #fail
Next, the Brundlefly! 😆
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260429102030.htm #science #physics #quantum
A black hole growing 13 times faster than it should? Very relatable, my current manuscript has the same problem 😀
#science #physics #astronomy #blackholes #writing
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260124003816.htm
Researchers propose a bold twist to dark matter. It may not be a single particle at all, but a mix of two different ones that interact with each other to produce detectable signals. #science #physics #astrophysics https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260409101101.htm
With the length of time it's taken to write my latest book, A Crimson Void, I'll probably need one of these protein shakes before I'm done. 🙂
"Scientists discover protein that rejuvenates aging brain cells" #science #medicine #health #genome #stemcells
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260212025620.htm
Google's Android Developer Verification program requires government ID, signing key evidence, and a fee for any developer who wants their software installable on Android. The EFF calls app gatekeeping "a pathway to censorship." over 67 organizations have signed an open letter opposing it. @keepandroidopen@techhub.social #KeepAndroidOpen https://keepandroidopen.org
Big thanks to Alan R. Warren and Michael L Hawley for having me on House of Mystery Radio, and to epic fantasy author Richard H. Stephens for sharing the mic. Great conversation about A Crimson Void, Book One in my Hellhound Series and Richard's Witches and Wings series
Listen here:
https://shows.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio/episodes/richard-h-stephens-witches-and-wings
Three research teams recently reached the same conclusion — the brain has natural defenses against Alzheimer's we're only just understanding. Worth paying attention to. #Alzheimers #science #medicine #health https://ziply.pk/7OGzH3 https://ziply.pk/Q9Yfkc https://ziply.pk/rcNiT4
I've added this to my phone calendar.
New dark energy data suggests the universe may not expand forever after all, and ultimately end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. #science #astrophysics #cosmology #astronomy https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260215225537.htm
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