Just discovering that painter Isabella Kirkland has a whole series on my favorite sea creature -- nudibranchs! www.isabellakirkland.com/collections/...

Thank you @christophermichel.com 😊 🙌

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One cool cat. @astroengine.bsky.social, space scientist turned science storyteller at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And yes, the Deep Space Optical Communications shirt is entirely appropriate. @nasajpl.bsky.social

Wonderfully inspiring by @francesarnold.bsky.social cen.acs.org/people/award... @nationalacademies.org

Priestley Medal address 2025: A random (mostly) uphill walk

A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting by 2025 Priestley Medal winner Frances H. Arnold, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioeng...

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Imagine standing on Io. Jupiter hangs enormous in a black sky. The ground is stained yellow with sulfur, broken by dark lava flows. This is the place Caltech Prof Katherine de Kleer studies. More: explorers.com/katherine-de... @caltech.edu @nationalacademies.org

New Heroes: Katherine de Kleer

How do you read the history of a place that keeps burying its past? Katherine de Kleer faces that problem on Io, Jupiter’s volcanic moon. Eruptions cover old ground with fresh material. Evidence di…

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“Publicly funded research belongs to all of us.” @aratip.bsky.social led DARPA, NIST, and the White House science office. Now she is defending the public commitment to research, and what it means for democracy. My portrait and her story: explorers.com/arati-prabha... @nationalacademies.org

New Heroes: Arati Prabhakar: Architect of the Possible

What Democracy Makes Possible I photographed Arati Prabhakar at her home on May 9, 2022. I couldn’t help but notice a telescope on the deck, something you don’t see every day in downtown Palo Alto.…

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Space is the intersection of our imagination and science. Those who seek it always get more rewarded than they expect. Keep looking up.

After 30 years at JPL, Kareem Badaruddin volunteered for one of the toughest jobs in space exploration: keeping Voyager 1 and 2 alive. Nearly 50 years after launch, these aging spacecraft are still sending messages home from billions of miles away. explorers.com/kareem-badar... @nasajpl.bsky.social

Kareem Badaruddin: Leading NASA's Voyager Mission Innovation

Meet Kareem Badaruddin, NASA's Voyager mission manager, leading ingenuity in spacecraft engineering to sustain Voyager 1 and 2 for nearly 50 years.

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Alone on a faraway beach. White water over dark sand, wind off the sea, the horizon lost in fog. Hard not to think of a dear friend who would have found a whole world in these few shades of gray, and made a more beautiful photograph of it.

Coastal California.

Les Éditions du Désastre. How long must we stand at the end before it becomes the beginning?

“So much mystery now finally seems on the brink of elucidation.” @deisseroth.bsky.social, awarded the 2026 @nobelprize.org in Medicine. After years of photographing Karl, I’m so happy to see this day. His story and downloadable portraits: explorers.com/karl-deisser...

Where the Cypress Fall. Fallen limbs hold their old twists, pale against the dark earth. There is something tender about this place, the way the forest keeps its dead. #SeaRanch #Photography

Join me for a walk? The fog is caught in the trees at Sea Ranch, and a little light still reaches the grass. We can take our time. I love how much there is to notice here, how a familiar path can feel different when you give it your full attention.

M42, the Orion Nebula, through a little fog at Sea Ranch.

Bob Pappalardo is the project scientist for NASA’s Europa Clipper, now crossing the solar system toward Jupiter. explorers.com/robert-pappa...

Exploring Europa: The Journey Toward Potential Life Beyond Earth

Explore Bob Pappalardo's journey from a curious child to a NASA scientist studying Europa's ocean, geology, and habitability potential.

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Congratulations to #NASmembers Karl Deisseroth and Peter Hegemann on receiving the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine! They are honored alongside Georg Nagel for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. Left photo by @christophermichel.com

Dr @deisseroth.bsky.social is a remarkable writer and a devoted physician. Today, he's a @nobelprize.org laureate. Congratulations, Karl! Photographed for New Heroes. Portrait and story: explorers.com/karl-deisser... @nationalacademies.org @nasonline.org

Exploring the Mind: Karl Deisseroth's Journey in Neuroscience

Discover the profound insights of Karl Deisseroth, a pioneer in neuroscience and psychiatry, exploring the brain's mysteries and mental health intervention.

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Robert Reich has spent more than fifty years asking a simple question: Who is the economy actually working for? I had the great pleasure of making his portrait in Berkeley. explorers.com/robert-reich/ @rbreich.bsky.social

Isn't this pic a stunner!? We at CICLOPS made a video of this flyby that blew everyone away. Check it out! ciclops.org/s3.amazonaws... Caption: ciclops.org/view/3803/Fl... Enjoy!! 🧪📰🛰️

European Space History@eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#ThisWeek in 2007, the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft took this close-up of saturnian moon Iapetus on 10 September. This mountainous terrain reaches 10 km in height along the unique equatorial ridge of the moon 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @science.esa.int @carolynporco.bsky.social @esa.int

Scott Bolton, principal investigator of NASA’s Juno mission, helped send a spacecraft to Jupiter. When they arrived, the planet confounded expectations. More: explorers.com/scott-bolton/ @swri.org @nationalacademies.org @nasajpl.bsky.social

Hot Havana afternoons seem to stretch forever.

People I admire: Mack Tilling. Mack’s Finest Gelato in Park City is getting a reputation as the nation’s best gelato. If you’re in Park City, stop by Mack’s Finest on Bonanza Drive. One spoonful and you’ll understand what all the fuss is about.

Tony Hawk, in a rare moment of stillness. I grew up watching him make the impossible look almost casual. Decades later, he’s still pushing, still skating, still unmistakably himself. explorers.com/tony-hawk/

Melancholia on the Moscow subway. Everyone together, everyone somewhere else. A whole carriage of people moving through the dark, each caught inside their own small world.

I’m deeply inspired by the kick-ass engineers at @nasajpl.bsky.social. If you can imagine it, they can build it. Autumn Lui stands in front of a model of the MoonFall moon drone. A machine for a place with no air, no easy footing, and no room for mistakes. More explorers.com/autumn-lui/

In the footsteps of Feynman. John Preskill at Caltech, where he holds the Richard P. Feynman Professorship of Theoretical Physics. Preskill arrived at Caltech in 1983 and knew Feynman during their years together on the faculty. More: explorers.com/john-preskill/ @nationalacademies.org

Caltech Professor John Preskill has spent decades figuring out how to make quantum computers actually work. He helped develop fault-tolerant quantum computing, coined NISQ, and pushed quantum information into black holes and spacetime. More: explorers.com/john-preskill/ @nationalacademies.org

One cool cat. @astroengine.bsky.social, space scientist turned science storyteller at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And yes, the Deep Space Optical Communications shirt is entirely appropriate. @nasajpl.bsky.social

If you want to get your robot into space, Keyur Patel is the guy. He’s spent more than four decades at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory figuring out how to make extraordinarily difficult missions actually work. More: explorers.com/keyur-patel/ @nasajpl.bsky.social @nationalacademies.org

Jonathan Keats photographed at The Interval at the @longnow.org Artist, philosopher, and professional provocateur, Keats has spent years making us think differently about time, technology, civilization, and what it means to be human.