Luna de año nuevo en Valle de Bravo, México.

🌹 random rose 🌹 April 23rd 2024

From our family to yours, merry Christmas! We hope your day is filled with good people and good food.

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Iain M. Banks's classic sci-fi novel The Player of Games. In this extract, we meet protagonist Gurgeh for the first time

Charla en TEDx Durango! @stedxujed @wtcdurango @tedx_official www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8u2...

El premio Nobel de física este año va para el descubrimiento de efectos cuánticos en sistemas electrónicos macroscópicos. Es decir, que ciertos efectos cuánticos pueden aparecer en sistemas compuestos de millones de partículas a la vez, y no solo en sistemas de pocas partículas.

"For every 1,000 measles cases, there are between 1 and 3 deaths from breathing complications or brain swelling. If there are a million cases, that’s about 1,000 deaths that doctors consider preventable with the use of vaccines" Also: about 200,000 hospitalized (1 in 5 cases in unvaccinated people)

This man is a monster. Of all the things Trump has done, picking him to head HHs will cause the most suffering and death.

I am such a sucker for pics of Earth and the Moon taken from deep space missions. This one from Psyche, when it was *290 million km* from our planet, really puts things in perspective. Here's my take on it 👇 badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-portrait... 🧪🔭

Hey cool, astronomers found a new moon of Uranus (steady there, jokesters) in JWST images of the planet! science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2...

Miguel Alcubierre. The Dirac equation in general relativity and the 3+1 formalism. #GenRelativGravit 57, 122 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s107... #OpenAccess #ReviewArticle by @miguelalcubierre.bsky.social

I bet it's been a while since you've had your mind vaporized by a JWST image so here's one of a cluster of galaxies so immense it's visibly warping space. Bonus: I explain what you're seeing! Because that's kinda my thing! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-incredi... 🔭🧪

Una entrevista en profundidad con Miguel Alcubierre donde se discuten las tripas de la Relatividad General. Tal vez te sorprenda esta entrevista más allá de burbujas. Gracias a @miguelalcubierre.bsky.social por su tiempo y por su forma de hablar de Física. Ha sido un placer. youtu.be/TxyXJ_gnVMM

This is an article I wish I could've written, but halfway through it would've been laden with cursing and random letters as I pounded on my keyboard with my fists.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Nebulosa de Orión. Tomada ayer con un Seestar S50 desde la Cd. de México.

I look at a lot of space images, but this one made my eyes bug out like a cartoon character. What you see here isn't a spiral galaxy, exactly. It's a spiral galaxy bent into a circle by the gravity of an elliptical galaxy at the center of the bullseye. Warped space! 🧪🔭 esawebb.org/images/potm2...

There's a #LunarEclipse tonight! If you're in the dark region here, and if you have a view of the Moon at the right time, you'll see the eclipse. Check www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna... for more info and timings for the eclipse in your location. (Here on the East Coast, totality peaks around 3am.)

A materials scientist 🔬, an aerospace engineer 🛰️ and a medical doctor 🩺 These remarkable women - @astromeganne.bsky.social, Anthea Comellini and Carmen Possnig- from @esa.int's Astronaut Reserve have completed their first training block at the European Astronaut Centre. 🔗 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Simi Alcubierre

Nos vemos en Morelia!

The pub of course!

New Pharaoh's tomb just dropped. The tomb of King Thutmose II has been uncovered, Egyptian officials announced on Tuesday, marking the first discovery of a royal resting place since King Tutankhamun’s was unearthed in 1922.

A reminder that if you send me an email where the subject header is some variation of "great story idea you can have for free" I immediately delete it unread. Don't pitch me story ideas. I have enough on my own, and for legal reasons I don't want yours. You're not being helpful when you do this.

New from me in BBC Science Focus: how slippery little neutrinos are threatening to mess up our search for #DarkMatter www.sciencefocus.com/comment/neut... 🧪🔭

Jamelle Bouie hits it out of the park. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...