@cstark.bsky.social - Here you go mate. Sound track added.
Simone Barr
@simonebarr.bsky.social
audience producer @ quanta magazine imbuing scientific research with a sense of excitement and urgency. also writes short fiction.
Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 3mo agoCows can eat up to 100lbs daily, thanks to the bustling microbiome in their gut pouch. All that digestion results in a whole lot of cow burps. And all those cow burps are warming our planet. Scientists are exploring new ways to squelch the belch. www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-way-th...
We've been getting a little DIY in the office lately... 🧶
Jon Turney@jonturney.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe illustrations for this piece should get some kind of award - the intricacies of gene expression are as hard to picture as to conceptualise (the difficulty is related of course). A new take is refreshing!
OMG! Cells across the tree of life can swap short-lived messages encoded by RNA — missives that resemble a quick text message rather than a formal memo on letterhead.
Cells Across the Tree of Life Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNA | Quanta Magazine
Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between organisms widely separated by evolution.
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Do you ever feel like you’re living life in a loop? That everything blurs together? Life’s redundancies, it turns out, are the building blocks of memory formation.
How ‘Event Scripts’ Structure Our Personal Memories | Quanta Magazine
By screening films in a brain scanner, neuroscientists discovered a rich library of neural scripts — from a trip through an airport to a marriage proposal — that form scaffolds for memories of our…
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Parallel universes, mysterious collapses, divided worlds. These are among the interpretations of quantum theory’s relationship with reality. It’s no wonder that everyone still has questions.
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.
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Sometimes, the only way to build back up is to let everything fall apart. This is certainly true at the cellular level. www.quantamagazine.org/break-it-to-...
Break It To Make It: How Fracturing Sculpts Tissues and Organs | Quanta Magazine
Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.
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Meet the ultimate gatekeeper of the nucleus. This molecular machine determines what compounds are welcome inside and which shall not pass. The mechanism behind its selectivity remains a mystery. www.quantamagazine.org/disorder-dri...
The artist Salvador Dalí, known for surrealist paintings such as his 1952 “Galatea of the Spheres,” experimented with boosting his creativity by waking himself during his brain’s transition into sleep. www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brai...
This one is a fiery love story: Pairs of volcanoes across the world are interconnected. And each couple has their own quirks.
When Coupled Volcanoes Talk, These Researchers Listen | Quanta Magazine
Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that could lead to improved eruption forecasts.
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How can you tell two knots apart? It’s a tougher question than you might think. www.quantamagazine.org/a-powerful-n...
“Decay” is a word that shows up often in science. 🧵 1/12
The strange way that fluid behaves When it flows in an ocean of waves Stays oddly mysterious And makes experts delirious But new findings give math what it craves. www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-m...
The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View | Quanta Magazine
The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major advances toward understanding it.
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From methane-eaters to rain-makers, the microbial powers of the Earth’s smallest organisms read like something out of a fantasy novel.
Microbes Also Change the Climate. Could That Help Us? | Quanta Magazine
A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life forms make to our climate system, and how we can work with them to address…
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After a long break, my podcast 'Why This Universe?' is starting up again! In our first episode of the season, Nobel prize-winner Adam Riess shares his story of the discovery that dark energy is powering the expansion of space. Listen to the whole episode here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9...
A photoessay by @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social highlights researchers' labor & collaboration: "Through the haze of doom that shrouds climate science shines the passion behind the quest to understand and solve one of the greatest challenges humanity has faced." www.quantamagazine.org/photos-captu...
Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science | Quanta Magazine
Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.
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This summer, staff writer Charlie Wood (@walkingthedot.bsky.social) joined hundreds of physicists on the island of Helgoland, the birthplace of quantum mechanics. There, he encountered a bewildering array of opinions about what quantum mechanics means: 🧵
Strong new evidence suggests that liquid metal from the center of the Earth is making its way up to the planet’s surface, potentially ferried through two monster-size blobs sitting at the core-mantle boundary. @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/earths-core-...
Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface | Quanta Magazine
Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved.
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Most organic molecules have a mirror-image twin. This concept is known as chirality. 🧵 1/10
The impacts of climate change will not be distributed evenly across the globe. How can regional models help individual communities adapt? Tune in to “The Joy of Why” from @prx.org and @quantamagazine.bsky.social with co-host @stevenstrogatz.com. www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-regi...
How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science? | Quanta Magazine
Elfatih Eltahir explains why we need more local and social data, like disease spread and population growth, to better predict and address climate-related challenges.
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Mmmmm, what's that smell? Oh! It's the whiff of a delicious new @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social story, fresh from Quanta Bakery. www.quantamagazine.org/how-smell-gu...
How Smell Guides Our Inner World | Quanta Magazine
A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that enter your nose and the individual neurons that translate them into percep...
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I found an article here yesterday that fascinated me so much it inspired today’s tune. Link to original article included. #originalmusic #composition #composer #music #musician #sheetmusic #originalmusicSky #compositionSky #composerLife #composerSky philipdewalt.substack.com/p/177-monost...
177 - Monostable Tetrahedron
This fascinated me today - after way more time, energy and money that you would think necessary, somebody finally made a monostable tetrahedron.
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Roses are red, Violets are blue, My friend @mollyherring.bsky.social wrote another banger for you: www.quantamagazine.org/when-did-nat...
When Did Nature Burst Into Vivid Color? | Quanta Magazine
Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them.
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Termites build self-ventilating mounds that can be as tall as seven meters. L. Mahadevan digs into the environmental and biological interplay that sets the size and shape of these miraculous structures. Tune in to "The Joy of Why": www.quantamagazine.org/does-form-re...
How do human brains fold? Some of the clues may lie in the palm of your hand — specifically in its creases. Tune in to "The Joy of Why" with L. Mahadevan and co-host @stevenstrogatz.com from @prx.org and @quantamagazine.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/does-form-re...
Does Form Really Shape Function? | Quanta Magazine
From brain folds to insect architecture, L. Mahadevan explains how complex biological forms and behaviors emerge through the interplay of physical forces, environment and embodiment.
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Nobody asked, but here’s a video of me explaining the Penrose diagram I embroidered on my pants.
Shalma Wegsman@shalmawegs.bsky.social · 2y agoIn college Penrose’s books inspired me to dig into the more abstract side of physics. I love the spacetime diagrams named for him so much that last year I embroidered one onto a pair of pants. So it’s unfortunate to learn the (frankly unsurprising) truth about how he treated the women in his life.
Today, we’re launching something new. The Quanta Podcast is your weekly dispatch from the frontiers of science and mathematics. In each episode, editor in chief @pateljournalist.bsky.social will talk to the writers and editors behind our stories.
