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Math and science in unconditional service of liberal democratic enlightened civilization. 💫 *If you have developments that would fit this account and believe the followers would benefit knowing about, feel free to send it to me to review and maybe share.🤞

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · May 22

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Rousseau

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 4h

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The Story of Quaternions and the Dirac Equation

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 7h

Magnificent supermoon, rising up from behind the majestic Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile.

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The fantastic image shows a bright, large full supermoon that rises behind Chile’s Cerro Armazones mountain, casting a silvery glow. The zigzagging road seems to lead to the Moon. Captured in the Atacama Desert, the image shows a dark mountain against the sky, with the Moon dominating.

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 11h

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China wants to be the first country to drill on Saturn's moon Enceladus

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 1d

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High-intensity bunches for the HL-LHC

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 2d

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Quantum networks bring new precision to dark matter searches

Detecting dark matter—the mysterious substance that holds galaxies together—is one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics. Although it cannot be seen or touched directly, scientists believe dark...

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 2d

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Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data

Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 2d

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Why Do Stories Outlast Civilizations? | Brian Greene & Ian McEwan

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 2d

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Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization

Marcin Jakubowski is compiling a DIY set of society’s essential machines and making it open-source.

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 2d

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Triplets born from proton collisions found to be correlated with each other

For the first time, by studying quantum correlations between triplets of secondary particles created during high-energy collisions in the LHC accelerator, it has been possible to observe their coheren...

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 3d

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Phoebus: keeping the smallest molecule in the Universe contained

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 3d

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Scientists Just Took a Giant Step Toward Scaling Up Nuclear Fusion

Using a combination of physics and machine learning, the researchers predicted how the plasma inside a tokamak reactor would behave given a set of initial conditions.

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 3d

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Compact laser-plasma accelerator can generate muons on demand for imaging

Muon beams can now be created in a device that is the length of a ruler.

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 3d

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Nobel laureate shares research exploring the origins of life | Cornell Chronicle

Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak, Ph.D. ’77, shared decades of research into one of biology’s most puzzling mysteries to a crowded room Oct. 9 during the 2025 Ef Racker Lecture.

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 3d

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Scientists Extend Lifespan by over 70% in Elderly Male Mice with New Treatment

These findings demonstrate that OT+A5i has a significant ability to extend health span and highlight the sex-specific differences in aging and in responses to longevity treatments. A new study feature...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 3d

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit." This Collection celebrates the contributions by the awardees. ⚛️ 🧪

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical ...

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 4d

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The 30-year fight over how many numbers we need to describe reality

In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly long-running quarrel takes us to the heart of what’s truly real

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 4d

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 4d

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The scientific mind of Leonard Da Vinci - with Martin Kemp

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 5d

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Chow Lectures 2025 by Nima Arkani-Hamed: Geometry & Combinatorics of Scattering Amplitudes Part I

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 5d

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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics (quantum tunnelling) - Sixty Symbols

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 5d

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Nobel Prize-Winning Philosopher Bertrand Russell Biopic in Development, Amanda Curdt-Christiansen to Pen Script (EXCLUSIVE)

Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell gets first feature biopic.

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 5d

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Education Department lays off roughly 20% of its workforce amid shutdown

The number was made public Friday from the Justice Department, after the White House delivered on its threat of a fresh wave of firings

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Kleroterion @kleroterion.bsky.social · 5d

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory lays off 550 workers

The director of the California lab said the layoffs — around 10% of the JPL workforce — aren't a result of the government shutdown.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 5d

🌍 Carbon offsets largely fail to cut emissions

A 25-year review found most carbon offset schemes do not reduce global heating, with systemic flaws like double counting and temporary projects undermining real progress.

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#SciComm #Climate #CarbonOffsets 🧪

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 6d

Why do imaginary numbers appear at the foundation of quantum mechanics? | https://bit.ly/46ZzHBv

Join Tim Maudlin as he explores why complex numbers appear in Schrödinger’s equation, revealing how they’re essential to creating the wave-like structure at the heart of quantum dynamics.

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Why imaginary numbers are central to quantum physics

Why do imaginary numbers appear at the foundation of quantum mechanics? This question, which puzzled even great physicists like Eugene Wigner, opens up deeper issues about what it means to explain fea...

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