A moving and persuasive argument about the need for better global maternal healthcare from actress and great writer ashley judd scientificamerican.com/article/we-nee…

It was fun recording this with Rachel Feltman & Clara Moskowitz. Huddle up, listen in, and get ready for more fantastic podcasts from The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week & from Scientific American. (Also be ready for Rachel to do a flying slam jam elbow drop on Hank Green & 🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 off the turnbuckle).

NASA's Parker Solar Probe peers into a coronal mass ejection for the 1st time trib.al/tgmKmg1

In quantum mechanics, everything changes when someone makes a measurement. But who counts as "someone"? A human? An AI? This fascinating feature by Anil Ananthaswamy investigates: Can AI Save Schrödinger’s Cat? scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai…

Happy birthday to astrophysicist and former IOP president, Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who donated her £2.3m Breakthrough Prize to support PhD #physics students from under-represented groups. This year, over £1m has been granted to awardees of the Fund. Read more here:

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As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the moon, doesn't it seem like it's taken longer, cost more and been so much harder than Apollo? Turns out there are good reasons for that: scientificamerican.com/article/why-is…

Black holes! Dark matter! Jostling planets! This story is wild but actually plausible: scientificamerican.com/article/dark-m…

The rapid surge in orbital launches could add 50,000 satellites by 2030, increasing risks like space junk, metallic pollution, and threats to science, security, and the environment. Join Space & Physics Editor Lee Billings for a panel on space junk at #SDGLive during #UNGA.

It's so amazing to me that humans have built machines that can detect something so small and rare that it has less than 1 in 10 billion chances of happening: scientificamerican.com/article/first-…

Timelapse this image was taken from: x.com/dominickmatthe…

A hidden form of dark energy might have reshaped the early universe. By Nobel laureate Adam Riess and theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski: scientificamerican.com/article/could-…

It's been an amazing year for math! Researchers discovered a new prime number this year, a novel formula for pi, mathematical messages in music, and more: scientificamerican.com/article/the-7-…

NEW: Does Planet 9 exist? No telescope has been capable of finding it—but in 2025, the Rubin Observatory will come online, and with its remarkable eye, it will find out, once and for all, if the elusive world is truly there. My cover story for Scientific American: scientificamerican.com/article/if-pla…

Yeah, if I had to bet I'd say the path to any viable interplanetary or interstellar future doesn't run through cryptocoin grifts, disinformation memes, pay-to-win video games, grievance-based policymaking, and a shameless embrace of neofascism. SpaceX makes nice rockets, though.

Excellent article in Scientific American about the impending opportunity to redefine the second using optical clocks, including the friendly competition between ions and neutral atoms. scientificamerican.com/article/worlds…