2025 was a stellar year for the Hubble Space Telescope! From tracking "blue lurker" stars to catching colliding asteroids in nearby Fomalhaut, Hubble has added to its list of discoveries from the last three decades. 🔭

🎂 It's #ScienceSocks 6th anniversary! 🥳 Celebrate with me by raising money for #STEM! 🤑 For the next 48h I will donate: * 20% of sales on sciencesocks.co#ScienceSocks👈 * $1 per repost Get a head start on #holiday shopping 😎 Please like, repost and let's party🕺💃 🔭🐡🧪🎨#bsnm

Joro spiders want 3 things: to not be touched or held, to not be in your house, and to not bite you. Great new article by Gayoung Lee @gizmodo.com! gizmodo.com/theyre-huge-...

Really nice coverage on our research on ancient scents by @sciam.bsky.social and @gayoung.bsky.social 🏺🧪👩‍🔬 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

This morning, we published @gizmodo.com's Best Tech of 2025 Awards! My team chose winners for 45 product categories (some more coming soon in next few weeks). It was a big undertaking but I'm proud of the list. Check it out and lemme what you think! gizmodo.com/gizmodo-best...

"The past often gets presented to us as odorless. But that overlooks the huge roll smell likely played in many historical realities..." 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

A recent @nature.com depicts life in the Kuril–Kamchatka & W Aleutian Trenches, two hadal trenches in the W Pacific that were explored with submersible Fendouzhe. @sarafnovak.bsky.social www.discovermagazine.com/using-deep-s...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum computing

After stretching a bit last year, this year the Nobel committee was determined to give the prize to the physicsiest physics that ever physicsed.

VAR! In the early morning hours #OTD in 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photo plate of M31 that showed a Cepheid variable star. Using Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s distance-luminosity relationship, Hubble concluded that M31 is another galaxy outside the Milky Way. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Image: Carnegie Observatories

This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000! To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: NASA’s next-gen Habitable Worlds Observatory may be our best chance to find alien life. But can a nation busy ripping itself apart unite to launch a mission to solve life’s cosmic mysteries? By @nadiadrake.bsky.social (and me). www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...

"Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace" @gayoung.bsky.social writes in @gizmodo.com about #GW250114 gizmodo.com/ligos-sharpe... #O4IsHere #EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight #KerrWasRight 🔭🧪⚛️

Gizmodo just had a Glow Up!✨ The new site is bold, modern, faster, cleaner, and built for connection with sleeker layouts, quicker load times, and a smoother mobile experience. Every detail was designed to make it easier than ever to read, engage, discover, and share. Explore the new www.gizmodo.com

It's that most wonderful time of the year for us at Gizmodo's science desk: The Gizmodo Science Fair! Every year, we get the chance to highlight research projects and achievements on the cusp of changing lives or shaking up their scientific fields—or that already have! gizmodo.com/the-winners-...

Oh this is very cool #MathNerds

LIGO's Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory https://gizmodo.com/ligos-sharpest-detection-yet-confirms-famous-stephen-hawking-theory-2000656839

My 2-month Nintendo Switch 2 review video with @kylebarr.bsky.social is now live on @gizmodo.com's YouTube channel. We're getting back into "regular" tech review videos so go easy on us. Each video will get better. I promise! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdpc...

Today, Scientific American turns 180—the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S. 🎉 Since 1845, we’ve shared the wonders of science with the world. 💫 Dive into 180 years of discovery: sciam.com/180 🧬 Explore pivotal moments in science: bit.ly/4mNTpGY 🎁 Win prizes: sciam.com/180contest

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

15 years of radio observations yielded this amazing view down the throat of a black hole. We're looking into a jet of plasma shooting out from a supermassive black hole, called PKS 1424+240. The lines depict intense magnetic fields threaded through the jet. 🧪🔭 www.mpg.de/25171297/eye...

Meschers got picked up by Gizmodo! gizmodo.com/meet-mescher... Thanks to @gayoung.bsky.social for the story!

A timely paper for #HWO25: is it enough to find Earth-like planets around other nearby stars? No! We need their planetary system contexts. Does life on Earth depend on Jupiter? @sabinastro.bsky.social led this nice analysis of HWO requirements to detect Earths + Jupiters. arxiv.org/abs/2507.21443

If you want know all things #HabitableWorldsObservatory then follow @drjovian.bsky.social for the next two days as she posts from the #HWO25 meeting in Washington DC. Thanks Jo for keeping us posted ☺️

Bird sounds.

this is very cool but also contains the truest thing anyone has ever said "I’m very thankful that I get to blow stuff up with giant lasers for discoveries. And that’s my job, you know."

While we're posting fresh space vids, I've gotta give a shout to this excellent @wired.com Q&A with NASA astrobiologist @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social fielding all the internet's burning queries about alien life. Watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r_p...

In case you needed some good news this week: We now have OVER A THOUSAND spectra of PLANETS AROUND OTHER STARS. This is our training ground for modeling extreme weather. For understanding the diversity of planets across our Galaxy. For searching for biosignatures. This is very, very cool.

All of these are supposed to be present in the standard models of particle physics & cosmology - but the actual numbers are far too small. So people invent physics beyond that to make baryons - "baryogenesis." (We haven't ever observed baryon number violation, but theory predicts it should happen.)

Decades back Andrei Sakharov formulated the recipe to generate an asymmetry: 1) violation of baryon number itself 2) departure from thermal equilibrium 3) violation of C and CP almost-symmetries (C=particle/antiparticle exchange; P=parity=reflection in a mirror).

To be slightly more explicit: "matter" comes in the form of baryons (protons, neutrons, etc) and leptons (electrons, neutrinos, etc) and their antiparticles. Observation indicates that there are many more baryons than anti-baryons in the universe - the "baryon asymmetry." We're not sure why.

New result from CERN (@lhcb.bsky.social) finds CP violation in the decay of baryons for the first time. Not unexpected - and not violation of baryon number itself! - but hopefully one more step in understanding why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe. gizmodo.com/cern-physici...

Astronomers Detect a Black Hole Merger That's So Massive It Shouldn’t Exist https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-detect-a-black-hole-merger-thats-so-massive-it-shouldnt-exist-2000628197

It's forking outside. Here's how to keep your house as cool as possible (and not paying a crazy high electricity bill): 🧪 Are all the blackout shades down in my house? Yup. Ceiling fan is going to circulate cooled air from the portable AC. We don't run the dishwasher during the day or use the oven.

Silly-sounding science is what happens when researchers do exactly what they are supposed to do, which is thinking freely and exploring new ideas with wide-open curiosity. 🧪 www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...

Here's how they made that nice white smoke for the new pope: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/chem...

Cannibalistic, carnivorous caterpillars that scavenge on spiderwebs and wear what they can't eat: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/carn...

Lion bite to the butt: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/roma...

Baaaabeeee squid do do do do do do ... 🧪

We asked mathematicians what their favorite, most beguiling, intriguing and endearing shapes -- and they sent back a zoo! www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...

Amidst all the hoopla about "dire wolves" some potentially quite important developments for protecting endangered species is being a bit lost. Wrote about that and other aspects of this whole thing: 🧪 (Thanks to Beth Shapiro, Matt James & @jacquelyngill.bsky.social for speaking with me)

How many rogue planets haunt the galaxy's deepest black? www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🔭🧪

In January, an iceberg broke off of Antarctica and some scientists happened to be right there and decided to go see what had been living below it. Kind of like turning over a rock to see what's wriggling underneath. (by @ashleybvigil.bsky.social) 🧪

@leebillings.bsky.social explains the science behind D-Wave's controversial claim of a "quantum advantage" and why quantum hype is dangerous to the field. @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...

What do(es the air around) mummies smell like and...erm, why check? 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/mumm...

Here's your regularly scheduled Voyager update: 🧪 🛰️ www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

Hi. I know the vibes are very bad. If you’re having trouble with the news, this might help? 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/feel...

Running the Tokyo marathon this Sunday? Bad air quality can make race times slower, a recent study finds. By @clairemaldarelli.bsky.social for @sciam: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Because we all need breaks from *wave hands* everything, as one of my colleagues just noted, the SciAm home page is pretty blessed right now www.scientificamerican.com