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Frontiers of Science is a required science course for first-year Columbia College (@CC_Columbia) students

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History of the day (@hist_of_the_day) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#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:

#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. 
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Physics In History (@physinhistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

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
Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute (@zuckermanbrain) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Saganism 📚 (@saganismm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

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

- Carl Sagan
MIT OpenCourseWare (@mitocw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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).

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).
Physics In History (@physinhistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

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.
Hubble (@nasahubble) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Physics In History (@physinhistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

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.
The Nobel Prize (@nobelprize) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“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

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

<a href="/AlbertEinstein/">Albert Einstein</a>'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
Brian Greene (@bgreene) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

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.
Brian Greene (@bgreene) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

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.
Brian Greene (@bgreene) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

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.
Frontiers of Science (@foscolumbia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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! 😎

You never know whom you may see at the MoMath museum <a href="/MoMath1/">National Museum of Mathematics</a> , in a galaxy not too far away. May the force be with the Foundations of Science students (and FroSci students, of course) <a href="/Columbia/">Columbia University</a> 💫🤩 #science is cool! 😎
The Nobel Prize (@nobelprize) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"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

"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
Physics In History (@physinhistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

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
Brian Greene (@bgreene) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

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.