Science communicator at Caltech, covering black holes, exoplanets, quantum physics, and more!
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Twin Primes. They go on forever...
Modulo 270 creates 9 groups.
The outer diameter is 70,000 numbers tested.
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#AAS248 California Institute of Technology: A Star's Death Throes Involves a Lot of Kicking caltech.edu/about/news/a-sta…
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Caltech Readies to Build World's Most Sensitive Radio Telescope.
Schmidt Sciences has greenlit the construction of the @deepsynoptic, a game changer for radio astronomy.
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Astronomers are reporting evidence for a possible second kilonova event, but the case is not closed. In fact, this situation is much more complex.
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6,100 qubits gathered for a laser-light party! Caltech researchers break records with a large array of neutral-atom qubits. youtube.com/watch?v=ij_cGdu_… @Caltech
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Chi Nguyen remembers the moment she plugged her laptop into a large monitor in a conference room and onlookers began to cheer. She was presenting a team with the first "aliveness test" image taken by the agency's space telescope SPHEREx.
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Quantum computers promise to outperform today's traditional computers in many areas of science, but proving they will be superior has been challenging. Researchers have identified a physics problem where these futuristic machines would have the advantage.
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Go SPHEREx! Jamie Bock's talk about the mission's first images was packed. @Caltech
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For those who celebrate, November 7 is the birthday of two scientific giants: Marie Curie (1867-1934) and Lise Meitner (1878-1968), justly renowned for their world-changing investigations of radioactivity and nuclear fission.
A Caltech mathematician, Matilde Marcolli, teamed up with Noam Chomsky to figure out the algebraic structures underlying his latest theories of language. "Noam's work was so precise that it was easy to translate into math," she said. magazine.caltech.edu/post/ma…
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Astronomers have discovered that a well-studied brown dwarf is in fact two that are orbiting closely around each other.
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Drinking beer and learning about astro visualizations with @AstroRob ! @lincolnbeerco
In case you missed it, @pholderness's video about jumbo black hole jets blasting through space is really good! @MartijnOei youtube.com/watch?v=1QsG9v_Q…
Monstrous black hole jets span 140 Milky Ways and may have shaped the formation of other galaxies! caltech.edu/about/news/garga…
Look at how the intense gravity of a neutron star is warping our view of its partner star in this cool, new animation by @AstroRob! (It's for a Caltech news story about newfound pairs of neutron stars and Sun-like stars) youtube.com/watch?v=B_YINjtv…
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A new computer simulation upends ideas about feeding black holes that astronomers have held since the 1970s.
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It's time to pop champagne because Fiona Harrison and her UVEX mission team were selected for flight by NASA yesterday! caltech.edu/about/news/new-c… @caltech @NASA @UCBerkeley
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We’ve selected a new @NASAUniverse mission! UVEX — UltraViolet Explorer — will conduct a deep survey of the whole sky in two bands of ultraviolet light, providing new insights into galaxy evolution and the lifecycles of stars. Congratulations to Principal Investigator, Fiona Harrison and her team! nasa.gov/news-release/new-na…