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When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Max Planck (1858 - 1947)

#OnThisDay May 28, 1936, Alan Turing submitted his paper “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” for publication. It quietly laid the foundations of modern computer science. A thread:

Born on this day in 1912: Ruby Payne-Scott ✍️ A pioneering Australian physicist and radio astronomer, she was one of the first women in radio astronomy and a key figure in developing interferometry for solar observations. 📷Image by Peter Hall

How do knots of DNA help create our sense of smell? Learn more from new research by Joan Pulupa, Natalie McArthur and LomvardasLab in nature. Read: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/how-knots-dna-… @columbia #neuroscience

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. - Carl Sagan

MIT OpenCourseWare is a website that provides course materials from MIT's actual classes...for free for anyone in the world. There is no sign-up or registration. Visit ocw.mit.edu to get started! (Image by Gretchen Ertl/MIT).

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Born on this day in 1929: Peter Higgs (1929–2024)✍️ English-Scottish physicist who predicted the Higgs boson, explaining how particles gain mass. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (2013) after its discovery at CERN.

For decades, astronomers believed that one day, our Milky Way Galaxy would collide with our nearest major galactic neighbor, Andromeda. Now, with the latest Hubble data and computer simulations, our galaxy's fate isn't as certain: go.nasa.gov/4kN9Kul

This is the most detailed model of a human cell ever created, using data from X-ray, NMR, and cryoelectron microscopy. ‘Cellular landscape cross-section through a eukaryotic cell.’ - Evan Ingersoll & Gael McGill.

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” Albert Einstein's life advice in a letter to his son Eduard on 5 February 1930. In the picture, Einstein is riding a bicycle in Santa Barbara, USA in 1933. #WorldBicycleDay

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. - Richard Feynman

What people often get wrong: In quantum teleportation, it's not matter that's teleported. Instead, quantum information describing matter is teleported. Which raises the deep question: Are you the sum of your information? I think so, but would surely hesitate to find out.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. -- Maria Skłodowska-Curie

Is math discovered or invented? Most scientists say discovered. I used to agree. But I’ve come to think we invent systems to impose order, and math is our most powerful language for expressing that order.

Space itself rushes over the edge of a black hole like a waterfall flowing at the speed of light. Since nothing can “paddle” upstream faster than light, nothing can escape this waterfall of space— which is why nothing can escape a black hole.

You never know whom you may see at the MoMath museum National Museum of Mathematics , in a galaxy not too far away. May the force be with the Foundations of Science students (and FroSci students, of course) Columbia University 💫🤩 #science is cool! 😎

"I learned that any difficult problem can be solved by great effort." Chemistry laureate Osamu Shimomura dedicated his life to studying the bioluminescence of the luminous jellyfish Aequorea, and discovered green fluorescent protein, GFP. #WorldOceansDay

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. -- Richard Feynman

What is consciousness? Many see this as the deepest mystery. My guess: One day, when digital systems claim to have inner experiences, we will just shrug and accept that consciousness accompanies sufficiently rich and robust information processing.