Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language. -- W. Heisenberg

Sox5 gene controls neural stem cell activity ensuring balance between full quiescence & being primed for action 📷 Cristina Medina-Menéndez, Paula Tirado-Melendro & Lingling Li, et al Centro de Neurociencias Cajal - CSIC in PLOS Biology ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025/1… with Ant Lewis

Researchers have recorded the briefest interval of time ever measured: 247 zeptoseconds—the duration for a photon of light to traverse a hydrogen molecule. That's 0.000000000000000000247 seconds.A zeptosecond equals one trillionth of a billionth of a second, a realm where

there are exactly 99 stars in that blue disc. the count isn’t random; in liturgical art writing it’s taken as a pointed echo of the Gospel parable of the ninety‑nine sheep, with the missing one made present as Christ in the jeweled Cross. the cross itself is a word‑puzzle in

Color wheel symbolizing the human spirit and soul. Artist: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Date: 1809. Medium: watercolor on paper; diameter under seven centimetres. Collection: Freies Deutsches Hochstift – Frankfurter Goethe‑Museum, Frankfurt.

New paper! How do matter and electromagnetic fields interact with curved spacetimes in general relativity? For a long time, there have been two basic models: GR kinetics, and GRMHD. Neither entirely satisfactory. In this paper, we show a third way. arXiv link below... (1/10)

Yuri Kovalenok, @jurij0001, is a physics teacher who represents physics and mathematics concepts (and formulas) in an artistic fashion. Here are pages from his seemingly infinite notebook. Artwork used with permission.

St. Hildegard von Bingen, Book of Divine Works, Part 1, Vision 4: Cosmos, Body, and Soul c.1230.

In the 1960s, Stanislaw Ulam, while doodling during a boring presentation, discovered a surprising pattern when he arranged numbers in a spiral and highlighted the primes. This spiral revealed a striking pattern and structure in the distribution of prime numbers. 📷visualizing

A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy. go.nature.com/4nZaZId

Netherlands-born Canadian artist Henri van Bentum (1929-2022): acrylic and Chinese ink, "Global Warning", painted sixty-one years ago, in 1964. #COP30 #Belem © Natasha van Bentum, Private Collection Kimberly Kowal Arcand

Our mathematical universe. Fractals. Reminds me of an inside-out Mandelbrot set, with delicate filigree that reveals a zoo of intricate and infinite structures. A meditation on ((Csin(Z) * ((Ccos(C)-P1)/C)) + (Ccos(Z) * (Csin(C)/C)))/P2. By gdsentropy, used with permission.

"Micro Macro 71" painted fifty-seven years ago in 1968, acrylic on canvas by Netherlands-born Canadian painter Henri van Bentum (1929-2022), "Micro-Macro 71". #COP30 #Belem BWEJ ©Natasha van Bentum. chandra.harvard.edu/art/color/

Area-minimizing surfaces are an important mathematical tool, so long as mathematicians can guarantee that singularities are rare, and can be wiggled away when they do appear. For decades, no one could prove this beyond dimension 8. Now that’s finally changed.

🌋Experience several hundred million years of Earth's history in just minutes. How? Through a #StoryMaps team experiment with scroll-driven animation: ow.ly/ajIT50XqMmJ #science #geology

The hunt for a quantum spin liquid has involved many different material families and models. Now, Zn-barlowite has been found to have similar behaviour to another candidate material, herbertsmithite, hinting there may be universal physical behaviour. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Did you know? An explosion of zinc fireworks occurs when a human egg is activated by a sperm enzyme, and the size of these “sparks” is a direct measure of its ability to develop into an embryo. In other words, life begins with a flash of light.

Kingfisher on the River Kelvin in Glasgow's west end again today. Even closer for even longer, even more spectacularer. #birds

The Carrington Event—the most powerful solar storm in history In 1859, Earth was hit by the most powerful geomagnetic storm ever recorded. It was called the Carrington Event. It was caused by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The cloud of solar plasma reached the planet in just

#OTD in 1989, the Cosmic Microwave Background Explorer, or COBE, was launched. The satellite was a crucial stepping stone in understanding the cosmic microwave background — the baby picture of our universe. go.nasa.gov/4r6ESsx