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Time's up, science enthusiasts! ⏳ The correct answer to our Wordle Challenge is... GRAPHENE! 🎉 Did you get it right?

Dr. Singidas and her team at NIP are doing incredible things combining this material with Gallium Arsenide right here in the Philippines! 🇵🇭

We are currently tallying all the correct entries. Stay tuned as we spin the wheel and announce our lucky ₱50 GCash winner very soon! 💸🎡

Meet Our Third Scientist!

Dr. Kevin Grosvenor is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Physics. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from Harvard University, his Masters at the University of California, Berkeley, and he continued his post-doctorate studies in Europe.

Even as a child, he had wanted to become a physicist, a dream that his parents were supportive of. He continued on with this dream as he entered Harvard, and continues to do so now. While Dr. Kevin is not aligned with any specific Physics field, his recent work is focused on the concept of quantum gravity. A force that is not immediately felt, but one that is integral to answering questions about the universe’s beginnings.

Getting into physics, according to Sir Kevin, means that one must realize what it means to be interested in the subject. You can’t be interested in the subject and expect someone to make you interested, you’re either intrinsically interested in Physics or you’re not. Researching in this field requires that same agency and dedication.

Doing research in physics is “less about waiting for motivation, and more about building discipline and working regularly, even when work feels slow.” The passion for physics in research should drive you, since you learn something with every project, even if it does not lead immediately to results. Sir Kevin leaves us with this piece of advice as well: “You owe it to yourself to find what it is that you really want to do that you’re passionate about.”

Did you catch our interview with Dr. Soli? His work on “Outer Trench Slope Flexure and Faulting at Pacific Basin Subduction Zones” explains how scientists use ships 🚢 to provide measurements of sea floor depth and satellites 🛰️ to gather gravity data, helping reveal how much an ocean plate is bending and faulting as it descends.

Now it's your turn to dive into the science 🌊 with our Wordle Challenge! The secret word is straight from his interview 📽️, and guessing it right gets you a chance to win ₱50 GCash! 💵

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3️⃣ Put your answer in the caption of your shared post (Format: "My answer is [WORD]! ").

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Did you catch our interview with Dr. Singidas? Her team at NIP patented a brand-new material system combining Graphene and Gallium Arsenide, and they did it all right here in the Philippines! 🇵🇭

Let's celebrate with a Wordle Challenge! The secret word is straight from her interview 📽️, and guessing it right gets you a chance to win ₱50 GCash! 💵

Mechanics:
1️⃣ Follow our page.
2️⃣ Like and share this post publicly.
3️⃣ Put your answer in the caption of your shared post (Format: "My answer is [WORD]! ").

⏳ You only have 24 hours to lock in your guess.

Anyone with the correct answer within the timeframe goes into our Spin the Wheel lucky draw!

Drop your shares and good luck! 🎡👇

To Dr. Singidas, everything we have in our lives comes because of research 🔎 Understanding the fundamental properties of things allows us to build upon them, leading us to solutions for many of our problems. She also believes that half of the work in research involves showing up; not just physically, but in terms of performance as well.

She also emphasizes that producing scientific research from the Philippines 🇵🇭 is an impactful step. For a group that is still emerging scientifically, any progress or paper 📃 that we produce here makes us more literate and capable in solving problems 📚🔎

That’s all for today! Stay tuned for our post tomorrow and witness Filipino Brilliance in Motion! ⚛️

Meet our Second Scientist!

Dr. Bess Singidas is a post-doctorate Physicist Researcher from the National Institute of Physics. She earned all of her degrees from the NIP ⚛️, from her Bachelor’s Degree all the way to her Doctorate. Her specialization is in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, and she has a fondness for experiments and equations 👩‍🔬

She began her journey wanting to be a medical doctor 🏥, but her interest and love for numbers 🔢 led her towards physics. After taking an entrance exam to a science high school, she learned that only a small number of people had a PhD in physics, stoking her interest even further. Her journey towards her own PhD was a difficult one, but she says that “to have those degrees, you have to have the character to get them.”

Stay tuned for our post after this which includes Dr. Bess’ advice to students and aspiring scientists! 👩‍🏫📚

Have you ever wondered what goes on under the Sea? 🌊

Dr. Soli’s research deals in just that! Along with two of his co-scientists, he developed a full nonlinear inversion approach for estimating the bending moment, curvature, and outer trench wall fracturing using shipboard bathymetry and satellite altimetry-derived gravity data.

To put it simply, the ships 🚢 provide measurements of sea floor depth and the satellites 🛰️ provide gravity data to figure out how much an ocean plate is bending and faulting as it descends. Across the circum-Pacific region, 26 sites were subjected to this method. The seafloor age in these areas ranged from 15 -148 million years old, and it covers a large range of the Pacific.

From this, they found that the oceanic plate bends to its maximum stress-bearing capacity right at the trench’s deepest point. This weakens the plate and makes it a lot less rigid than it was before the bending began.

For the full details of Dr. Soli’s work, you can access his full work, titled “Outer Trench Slope Flexure and Faulting at Pacific Basin Subduction Zones” using the link below: https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/218/1/708/5420374

That’s all for this post. Stay tuned for a special video post from Dr. Soli’s interview! ⚛️