Jenna Ahart
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Science journalist As seen in Nature, Science, Quanta, MIT TR, SciAm, Space .com, etc Jennaahart.com
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Jenna Ahart
Scientific American
1 day ago
Many different bird species have been affiliated with the Seattle Seahawksâ mascot, but none is technically a âseahawkâ
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Thereâs no such thing as a seahawk, actually
Many different bird species have been affiliated with the Seattle Seahawksâ mascot, but none is technically a âseahawkâ
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-seahawks-real-the-science-behind-seattles-super-bowl-team/
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Jenna Ahart
Nature
3 days ago
The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets
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NASAâs latest telescope is a feat of early-career leadership
The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets.
https://go.nature.com/4tfz7dr
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More than half of the Pandora missionâs leading scientists and engineers are early-career researchers This is âreally unheard of elsewhere in the NASA mission spaceâ, says one. By
@jennaahart.bsky.social
@nature.com
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NASAâs latest telescope is a feat of early-career leadership
The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00253-0
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New for
@nature.com
: the early-career researchers behind NASA's newest telescope, Pandora. âPeople talk about having a seat at the table. I think that Pandora has taken a step further and helped early-career people be involved in choosing the menu of what weâre eating at the table.â
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NASAâs latest telescope is a feat of early-career leadership
The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00253-0
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: Behind astronomers' recent victory protecting Chile's skies, and why other battlesâincluding those against satellite megaconstellationsâmay not be so easily won
www.scientificamerican.com/article/astr...
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Astronomers have won the latest battle over dark skies, but the global conflict continues
After a year of protests from astronomers, authorities have abandoned plans for a giant, light-polluting renewable-energy facility in Chileâs Atacama Desert
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-triumph-over-telescope-threatening-energy-project-in-chile/
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Alexandra Witze
about 1 month ago
Still reeling from the finale of
#StrangerThings
? Dive back into the physics of parallel universes with
@jennaahart.bsky.social
over at
@nature.com
:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Are we living in a parallel universe? The strange physics of Stranger Things
Nature speaks to theoretical physicists to explore the real theories that inspired the hit series. Warning: contains spoilers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04088-z
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Nature
2 months ago
Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes
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Satellite swarms set to photobomb more than 95% of some telescopesâ images
Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes
https://go.nature.com/3XxRL1u
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In the latest from Nature: with half a million satellites set to launch in the next decade, more than 96% of images from some space telescopes could be obscured. âWe will have fewer discoveries, less interesting images, and in general, less knowledge.â đđ§Ș
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Satellite swarms set to photobomb more than 95% of some telescopesâ images
Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03953-1
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Jenna Ahart
Alexandra Witze
3 months ago
NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up
science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
This is the HiRISE/MRO image âŹïž
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Dan Garisto
4 months ago
New: Researchers are broadly rejecting the Trump administration's compact. In faculty votes and student protests, they have mobilized to pressure their universitiesâto some effect: 6 of the original 9 universities have rejected the compact With
@alexwitze.bsky.social
and
@jennaahart.bsky.social
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How scientists are pushing back against Trumpâs funding âdealâ for universities
Six institutions have so far rejected the administrationâs list of demands over academic freedom concerns.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03427-4
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Is this the elusive ultra-long GRB ???
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Pavel
4 months ago
babe wake up, an entirely new type of object just dropped
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ICYMI: Astronomers are finally solving the mystery of JWSTâs little red dots, and they seem to be a hybrid sort of black hole star!! đđ§Ș âItâs almost a shame that weâre starting to figure them out,â Anna de Graaff told me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Mysterious âlittle red dotsâ are baffling astronomers. What are they?
A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03352-6?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=17293547
4 months ago
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Jenna Ahart
Nature
4 months ago
A consensus is emerging that these mysterious little red dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.
go.nature.com/4hjIGm4
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Mysterious âlittle red dotsâ are baffling astronomers. What are they?
A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.
https://go.nature.com/4hjIGm4
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First exoplanet story since Augustâreclaiming my brand
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Dan Garisto
4 months ago
Not common to see a 7-byline story in the wild, but that's what the situation calls for when the government shuts down and every science agency needs to be checked in on for RIFs, grant terminations, and general dysfunction. Our update on what the chaos means for science here:
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Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll
Hundreds of people at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices, and work at many federal laboratories has been suspended.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03365-1
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Jenna Ahart
Nature
4 months ago
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.
go.nature.com/4hj9NNV
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Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.
https://go.nature.com/4hj9NNV
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Reuters
4 months ago
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.
https://reut.rs/4302N2L
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Jenna Ahart
Magdalena Skipper
4 months ago
Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. âMobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problemsâ đ§Ș
#academicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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More than 30% of this centuryâs science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03247-6
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Who said the science part of Nobel week is over!? In my new analysis for Nature, over 30% of science laureates from this century have immigrated, and two thirds came to the US.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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More than 30% of this centuryâs science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03247-6
4 months ago
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Jenna Ahart
Nature
4 months ago
Of the 202 Nobelists who have been awarded prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine this century, less than 70% hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize, a Nature analysis shows.
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More than 30% of this centuryâs science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
https://go.nature.com/48UbZJp
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Jenna Ahart
Alexandra Witze
4 months ago
You've probably heard how a high percentage of
#Nobel
laureates are immigrants. The US in particular has benefited from the influx of bright minds.
@jennaahart.bsky.social
ran the data for this century's Nobel prizewinners â and shows more than 30% immigrated. đ§Ș
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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More than 30% of this centuryâs science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03247-6
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Dan Garisto
4 months ago
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Big day for physics teachers who tell their students âIf you slap the desk, thereâs a 1 in 5.2^61 chance that your hand will pass right throughâ
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Jenna Ahart
Nature
4 months ago
Researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable. Read the full story:
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Happy Nobel week to you and yours!đ In the latest from
@nature.com
: Could AI take home a science Nobelâno human needed? Some say yes, and soon. đ§Ș For more:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Will AI ever win its own Nobel? Some predict a prize-worthy science discovery soon
Other researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03223-0
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Katie Mack
4 months ago
That's quite the chart annotation.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NPR
5 months ago
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
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On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
https://n.pr/466IzGj
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Jonathan O'Callaghan
5 months ago
That's quite the headline
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Jenna Ahart
LIGO Scientific Collaboration
5 months ago
"This detection will quickly 'become one of my favourites', says David Reitze, executive director of the LIGO laboratory"
@jennaahart.bsky.social
reviews some of our greatest discoveries, including the new
#GW250114
in Nature News
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#GW10Years
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Jenna Ahart
LIGO Scientific Collaboration
5 months ago
Happy birthday to GW150914, our first (of many)
#GravitationalWave
discoveries, detected 10 years ago today!
#GW10Years
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Jenna Ahart
Alexandra Witze
5 months ago
Ten years ago, the
#LIGO
gravitational-wave detectors in Louisiana and Washington first heard the ripples in spacetime created by some of the most violent cosmic collisions. For
@nature.com
,
@jennaahart.bsky.social
looks back at LIGO's greatest hits:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#physics
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Clearest gravitational-wave detection yet confirms Hawkingâs black-hole theory
Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect gravitational waves.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02872-5
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New from Nature: Latest LIGO results from GW250114 confirm Hawkingâs black hole area theorem with 99.999% confidence!! âIt was the perfect 10-year anniversary present.â More on this detection and LIGOâs other greatest hits from its first decade of discovery đ§Șđ
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Clearest gravitational wave detection yet confirms Hawkingâs black hole theory
Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect gravitational waves.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02872-5
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Amazing early birthday present for GW detections !!
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Jenna Ahart
Alexandra Witze
5 months ago
Do you drink Budweiser or Sam Adams? Here's
@jennaahart.bsky.social
with the latest science on what that says about the chemistry of your taste preferences đ»đ§Ș
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Beer lovers fall into two flavour camps â which one are you in?
Research shows that beer drinkers are split depending on which types of flavour chemicals they prefer.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02709-1
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New from Nature on last weekâs ACS meeting: the science behind your favorite beer Can next yearâs meeting explain the magic of pink whitney
@acs.org
?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Beer lovers fall into two flavour camps â which one are you in?
Research shows that beer drinkers are split depending on which types of flavour chemicals they prefer.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02709-1
5 months ago
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Jenna Ahart
Reuters
6 months ago
OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97
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OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97
American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the hit movie "Apollo 13," has died at the age of 97, NASA said on Friday.
https://reut.rs/3UPKubN
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Alexandra Witze
6 months ago
Trump's new executive order "looks like an explicit attempt to destroy peer review for federal science grants,â a physicist in Texas tells
@dangaristo.bsky.social
. đ§Ș
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants
Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02557-z
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Paul Byrne
6 months ago
The marketing for Avatar 3 is getting a bit ridiculous
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen
6 months ago
WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, ALPHA CEN A b!!! First hinted at in Wagner+21, now Chas Beichman, Aniket Sanghi and team have published new JWST images of alpha Cen A showing another hint of this Saturn-sized planet candidate!
exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/alp...
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New from Nature: âI had to take a moment of silence to appreciate what I was seeing.â Astronomers reveal what could be the first ever image of a planet in its starâs habitable zoneâand in the same star system as Avatar, no less
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Alien planet glimpsed in star's 'habitable zone'
A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever to be imaged directly.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02549-z
6 months ago
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âItâs a ransom to release funds.â During my conversations with Columbia scientists about the universityâs new settlement, the word âforebodingâ came up in just about every interview. Hear their thoughts in my
@nature.com
story with
@alexwitze.bsky.social
:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Columbia researchers eager to restart science after universityâs deal with Trump
The institution agreed to increased federal oversight in exchange for restored grants and an end to government investigations.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02403-2
6 months ago
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Jenna Ahart
Nature
6 months ago
Columbia scientists say they are relieved, yet unsettled, after last weekâs deal with the US government to restore university research funding â and theyâre figuring out how to get back to work.
go.nature.com/3Ja40wY
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Columbia researchers eager to restart science after universityâs deal with Trump
The institution agreed to increased federal oversight in exchange for restored grants and an end to government investigations.
https://go.nature.com/3Ja40wY
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Peter Aldhous
7 months ago
NEW from our
@ucscscicomm.bsky.social
classes for
@nature.com
:
@jennaahart.bsky.social
and Rita Aksenfeld on the early-career foreign scientists now planning to leave the US
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Meet the early career scientists planning to leave the United States
Decreased funding, reduced opportunities and growing uncertainty has made life tough for international postdocs living in the US.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01900-8
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Alexandra Witze
7 months ago
"I wanted to stay here." - an early-career stem-cell biologist who is now looking to leave the US for a career in Europe. Reporting by Rita Akensenfeld &
@jennaahart.bsky.social
, for
@nature.com
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Meet the early career scientists planning to leave the United States
Decreased funding, reduced opportunities and growing uncertainty has made life tough for international postdocs living in the US.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01900-8
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Looking for Columbia researchers to talk to for a Nature story on the universityâs recent settlement! If you/anyone you know might want to share their experiences, please message me!
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Lee Billings
7 months ago
Now on
@sciam.bsky.social
, by
@nadiadrake.bsky.social
: The U.S. has axed CMB-S4, its boldest cosmology experiment in generations. Tight budgets and crumbling infrastructure helped doom the project, which was meant to test cosmic inflation. RIP.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...
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U.S. Pulls Back from Quest to Confirm Cosmic Inflation
Researchers hoped CMB-S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead itâs become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-ends-support-for-cmb-s4-project-to-study-cosmic-inflation/
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How fittingly ironic it was to write this story on a Friday!
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Being Left Behind Enjoyer
7 months ago
We should add a slop factor to the Drake equation, 9 out of 10 alien civilizations fail because they drown in self-made AI slop
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