Clara Moskowitz
@clarakm.bsky.social
Senior Editor at Scientific American, covering astronomy, physics and math. She/her 🏳️🌈
I'm hooked. I'm four books into Dungeon Crawler Carl and CANNOT STOP! #SciAmSummerReading
Bri 💝@breezybrik.bsky.social · 3w agoRead anything good lately? Use hashtags #SciAmBookBingo and #SciAmSummerReading to tell us how you're participating in our Summer Reading Challenge 📚🧪🏆 www.scientificamerican.com/article/join...
"We’ve got the world’s biggest economy, in my view, not because of real estate developers but because of science," says @captmarkkelly.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/mark... #SciAmYoungScientists: sciam.com/youngscientists @sciam.bsky.social
Senator Mark Kelly reveals why science is critical to America’s future
On steering the path forward for research and innovation
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Just learned about this game -- you're given 10 artifacts / day (from The Met's collection) and have to guess where they were made and when. 🏺🧪 And it's hard! I only got top 35%, which is kinda sad as an archaeologist & author of our Astonishing Artifacts column @livescience.com. anthropeum.com
Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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OK, have to admit that “Find your superposition in Finland” is a brilliant slogan. @sciam.bsky.social @sarahscoles.bsky.social #SciAmYoungScientists: sciam.com/youngscientists
The U.S. is losing its scientists. These countries are cashing in
The great American brain drain could define science for a generation
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As a proud supporting sponsor of @sciam.bsky.social #SciAmYoungScientists 2026, the Reeve Foundation congratulates the remarkable scientists recognized for their groundbreaking work and commitment to a better future. #SciAmYoungScientists
The Young American Scientists
Meet the researchers who may one day change the world
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I’m honored to be selected as one of Scientific American’s inaugural Young American Scientists, a recognition of 28 early-career researchers whose work is shaping the future of science. My interview is here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/trev... #SciAmYoungScientists @sciam.bsky.social
Trevor GrandPre
Building models to understand how self-organizing structures in cells lead to disease
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More than anything I've read, this piece explains the state of science in the U.S. and how--and why--we got here. It's part of @sciam.bsky.social's special package on #SciAmYoungScientists: sciam.com/youngscienti...
America’s compact between science and politics is broken, and we’re all going to pay
How did we get here?
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It's summer reading time! Join the @sciam.bsky.social challenge. We've got fun themes! Fun prizes! #sciambookbingo www.scientificamerican.com/article/join...
When I heard the theory that the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak originated at a landfill in Argentina that is popular with birders, I had questions. I visited that dump on a bird-watching trip last year. It seemed like an unlikely infection site. So I did some digging. Here's what I found out 🧪 🪶
Did a bird-watching visit to this Argentine landfull spark the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak? Experts raise doubts
The hantavirus cruise outbreak may not have started in a garbage dump in Ushuaia, Argentina, after all
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Pretty wild that we're still learning new things about chemistry and physics from the Trinity Test 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/stra...
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test
The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure inside it
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Another @sciam.bsky.social reader sent me this pic of them reading this memoir meets quantum physics by @kpc.bsky.social 🧪 Come hangout with me on June 1st for a nonfiction panel with Karmela and two other exciting nonfiction writers! @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social at 7:30pm ET 📚
Fun bit of news: my @sciam.bsky.social Juno/Jupes feature, "A Planet Revealed", won the @aas.org 2026 Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism award! Thanks aplenty to my glorious editor @clarakm.bsky.social for shaping it, and always letting me write big space-y tales. :)
What does SpaceX's focus on AI mean for its exploration plans?
SpaceX’s AI pivot promises the stars. Could it cost NASA the moon?
Massive investments in AI may bring synergy and revenue to SpaceX, or could create problems for it and NASA, especially if the AI bubble pops
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Happy Earth Day! 🌍 We've got several stories @sciam.bsky.social, including a look I took at where some blast-from-the-past environmental issues stand. (Hint: not all are in the past, though there has definitely been progress.) 🧪
Whatever happened to the ozone hole, acid rain and DDT?
The environmental crises of the past often seem to disappear—have problems like acid rain and smog been solved?
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I'm feeling genuinely stoked about NASA's attempt to send humans on a trip back to the moon today. Go #Artemis! Keep up to date on the mission with us at @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
NASA’s Artemis II moon mission heads to launch
The U.S. space agency is targeting Wednesday evening to loft four astronauts on what may be a record-breaking trip around the moon—see the spacecraft live
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As @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explains here, when the US admin ended the NASA climate modeling group's office lease, they were kicked out of their building -- and "have been kind of couch surfing at various NYC universities and libraries" since then. Unbelievable. Read more here:
A top climate scientist just resigned from NASA. Here's why
Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges
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Just how massive can a star get? Pretty danged massive... but it depends on when you look. A thing I wrote for Scientiifc American, just like I do every Friday! www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... 🔭🧪
What’s the most massive star in the universe?
Just how big can a star become? The answer depends on when in cosmic history you’re asking the question
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In our latest SciAm issue, Melinda Wenner Moyer explores a topic that is newly resonant with me: whether today’s kids are “all right”—socially, emotionally and mentally. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The kids are all right
Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways
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I loved working on this fascinating story about galaxies that seem to defy our understanding of dark matter, part of the April issue out today www.scientificamerican.com/article/gala...
These strange galaxies without dark matter break all the rules
Bizarre objects that seem to lack all dark matter present a cosmic mystery
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If you’re a worrier like me, it may surprise you to know that kids these days are doing better than previous generations in many ways. Join me to discuss the latest research during a live webinar this Thursday at 1pm ET, open to @sciam.bsky.social subscribers www.scientificamerican.com/page/events/
The Kids Are All Right | Scientific American
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NEW: Sad news for those wanting the Moon to be hit by a sizeable asteroid: it ain’t happening, at least not in 2032. But at least we now that JWST is a surprisingly good asset for tracking dangerous space rocks! :) Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/noto...
Notorious asteroid 2024 YR4 won't crash into the moon after all
Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid. Future lunar inhabitants won't have to worry about a strike in 2032 either
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In a "Jeffrey Epstein and the scientists" podcast w/ @iansample.bsky.social of The Guardian, we delve into the ugly world of Epstein and the scholars hurt by the misogyny in science that the files reveal: www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
Jeffrey Epstein and the scientists – podcast
The release of the latest batch of documents relating to the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has shed further light on his close relationship with the world of science. To find out why he cult...
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Now on @sciam.bsky.social: The Schrödinger equation just turned 100, but that doesn’t mean quantum physicists have solved all its mysteries. Chief among them: What, exactly, does it mean to incorporate observers into the gnarly math? By Joseph Howlett. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Schrödinger equation is getting a glow-up for its 100th birthday
A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking what happens when the observer is part of that world
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NASA astronaut and ISS leader Mike Fincke transferred station command to a Russian cosmonaut ahead of an unprecedented medical evacuation
Sick Astronaut on ISS Forces Early Command Transfer from NASA Crew Member to Russian Cosmonaut
NASA astronaut and ISS leader Mike Fincke transferred station command to a Russian cosmonaut ahead of an unprecedented medical evacuation
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This is a first for NASA--hope the astronaut is ok!
In Unprecedented Move, NASA to Rush Astronauts Home after Medical Incident on ISS
NASA on Thursday announced it would take the unprecedented step of bringing four crewmembers back to Earth from the space station before their official mission end
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The first full-fledged private space telescope could launch as early as 2029--here's a thoughtful look at what that might say about and mean for astronomical science: www.scientificamerican.com/article/schm... 🧪 🔭
Lazuli, a Billionaire-Funded Private Space Telescope, Signals a New Strategy for Astronomy
Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private space telescope
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This is such a cool finding--the oldest direct evidence of poisoned arrows. Poisoned hunting weapons were a game-changing innovation for our ancestors. Absolutely incredible that researchers found traces of plant toxins on these tiny arrowheads from 60,000 ago 🤯🏹 🧪
Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known
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May I recommend this lovely long read, from one of my favorite writers on the planet, @annfinkbeiner.bsky.social, about the strange and surprising explosions astronomers are discovering in the night sky 🧪
These Cosmic Flashes Can Burn Brighter Than Galaxies—But Last Only Moments
Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers are just beginning to understand them
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