Space Inspired

09/10/2025

"One of the underlying reasons that the cell phone works is because of all this work" - Briton John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley.
https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-tunneling-experiments-earn-team-the-nobel-prize-in-physics

09/10/2025

As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds like these rock pigeons took note.

For most birds, changes in light are used to appropriately time their behavior. Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.”

Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4q2YqOa

29/03/2025

27/08/2023

Exciting stuff!!

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26/08/2023

26/08/2023

Since the 17th century, when Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens first debated the nature of light, scientists have been puzzling over whether light is best viewed as a wave or a particle—or perhaps, at the quantum level, even both at once. Now, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have ...

26/08/2023

John Hopkins - alternative views on telomeres!

Long Telomeres, the Endcaps on DNA, Not the Fountain of Youth Once Thought — Scientists May Now Know Why 05/04/2023 Credit: Getty Images In a study of 17 people from five families, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found that ultra-lengthy DNA endcaps called telomeres fail to provide the...