happy lunar new year to all who celebrate! how I wish I could be up there with you

we’ve solved our killer asteroid problem

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Carl Anderson on how positrons got their name aip.org/history-progra…

A cool new atom has entered the quantum realm - and researchers expect to be surprised by whatever new forms of matter it ends up making. I was excited to write about an experiment that may produce truly new, unpredictable discoveries for New Scientist newscientist.com/article/246250…

As one researcher said: "This is starting to look like the perfect system to democratize high-end fluorescent microscopy and bring it to classrooms." For New Scientist, I wrote about a device that could bring biochemical science to so many new places newscientist.com/article/246261…

Job Opening at the University of California Riverside Tenure Track Faculty Position in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics/Quantum Information Science jobs.physicstoday.org/job/41863331

"Despite political divergence, there is strong scientific consensus that effectively tackling plastic pollution requires coordinated interventions across the entire plastics life cycle," write Stephen Fletcher and Tegan Evans in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3PwQ4NG

This is the 1st time the sound of a meteorite impact has been heard! Sound up. From Prince Edward Island, Canada. cbc.ca/news/canada/pr…

Happy birthday to Wikipedia, which launched #otd in 2001. Their homepage has changed a bit in the past 24 years.

Remember last year's briefly famous so-called mini moon? It's actually likely a chunk of the Moon itself! go.nasa.gov/42lG0P5

Something that makes me really sad is seeing the teachers who write the testimonials on AI edtech products having to get second jobs as stock photography models. Teachers like "Michelle (8th Grade Teacher)" deserve a living wage!

LIVE: Experts provide an update on science results from the OSIRIS-REx mission, which brought samples from asteroid Bennu back to Earth in September 2023. youtu.be/TLmJYgUHTD8

Government-censored science ruined the USSR. Is the USA next? Back in 1928, the Darwin-and-Mendel rejecting scientist, Trofim Lysenko, was put in charge of Soviet agriculture. This is why you don't want a government that embraces anti-science policies! bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. - Freeman Dyson

I spend a lot of time looking down, but it pays to look up sometimes! These carbon dioxide ice clouds appear seasonally and offer clues about the Red Planet’s atmosphere and climate. go.nasa.gov/3EvY2nT

The return-on-investment for the SDSS surveys is truly extraordinary. It is mid-scale, it is efficient, it is open, it is reasonable, it is diverse, it is inclusive. All of the data is returned to all of humanity for the benefit all of humanity.

This goes on my list... really enjoyed "Some Assembly Required"

Something happened in year 774 that was so powerful we can measure the radioactivity in old tree rings. Best guess is a solar flare, 10 times more powerful than the Carrington Event in 1859 that zapped telegraph wires. Worth considering the effect of the next one. Details: