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A science communication project by physicist, journalist & author @PltBRos & physicist A. Ewers!

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Find out about the ideas behind the almost 50 yr long search for the #Higgs Boson, its discovery at the LHC, and why it is so important! Check out the "The Mystery of the Higgs Boson" #eBook in English amazon.com/Mystery-Higgs-Bos… or German amazon.de/dp/B01N4F8L9E #scicomm #wisskomm
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The ‘doomsday’ glacier’s giant ice shelf is about to break away The floating ice shelf of world’s widest glacier ― Thwaites glacier in Antarctica ― is detaching, with worrying implications for global sea-level rise newscientist.com/article/252… docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Dass die CO2-Emissionen nicht mehr so stark ansteigen wie 2011 im 'worst-case' Szenario (RCP8.5) angenommen, ist mindestens teilweise Erfolg der Klimapolitik. Es ist ein wichtiger Schritt in die richtige Richtung, aber keineswegs Grund zur Entwarnung. theclimatebrink.com/p/on-the…
On the death of RCP8.5

On the death of RCP8.5

We should celebrate progress, but not overstate it

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Scientists Discover Over 1,000 New #Ocean Species In Landmark Deep Sea Exploration via @forbes #science forbes.com/sites/melissacris…
Scientists Discover Over 1,000 New Ocean Species In Landmark Deep Sea Exploration

Scientists Discover Over 1,000 New Ocean Species In Landmark Deep Sea Exploration

From deep sea ghost sharks to symbiotic worms and unusual crustaceans, scientists have identified 1,121 new marine species in a single year through the Ocean Census initiative.

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AAS Press Office@AAS_PressMay 19
NASA: MAVEN Makes 1st Discovery of Atmospheric Effect at Mars science.nasa.gov/missions/ma…
NASA’s MAVEN Makes 1st Discovery of Atmospheric Effect at Mars - NASA Science

NASA’s MAVEN Makes 1st Discovery of Atmospheric Effect at Mars - NASA Science

In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected — observations of an atmospheric effect never before seen in

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ALMA Observatory📡@almaobsMay 19
✨What you see is a pair of colliding galaxies known as UGC 4211, which allowed scientists to detect two rapidly growing black holes separated by a mere 750 light-years. almaobservatory.org/en/press… 📷Illustration: M. Weiss ALMA (@NRAO / AUI / @NSF )
ALMA Scientists Find Pair of Black Holes Dining Together in Nearby Galaxy Merger

ALT ALMA Scientists Find Pair of Black Holes Dining Together in Nearby Galaxy Merger

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This is your sign to visit the CMS detector from the comfort of home🏡 Join two CMS physicists as they guide you through the experimental site and answer your questions live from 100m underground! ℹ️ Register to be notified when the live stream starts: indico.cern.ch/event/1688958…
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Bill McGuire@ProfBillMcGuireApr 15
Literally devastating news And almost certainly even worse because the models don't include the effects of huge volumes of Greenland meltwater pouring into the North Atlantic at a rate of 30 million tonnes AN HOUR theguardian.com/environment/…
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

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LIVE: Back at home in Houston, our Artemis II astronauts are talking about their mission around the Moon. teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/1dKrPEwAB…
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Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere break new records in human history yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/… via @MichaelEMann #globalwarming #climate
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere break new records in human history

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere break new records in human history

We know that net zero emission pathways will help us limit global temperature increases. Why are they not a priority for politicians?

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Record-Breaking Cosmic Structure Discovered in Colossal Galaxy Cluster cfa.harvard.edu/news/record-… #astronomy #science #astrophysics via @CenterForAstro
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LIGO@LIGO10 Jun 2025
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LIGO & @ego_virgo will resume observing on 11 June joined by @KAGRA_PR! All four #GravitationalWave detectors will observe at the same time Our observing run (O4) has been extended until 18 November 2025. We look forward to many discoveries ligo.org/ligo-virgo-kagra-to… #O4IsHere
Aerial views of the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA detectors Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab; The Virgo collaboration/CCO 1.0; ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo

ALT Aerial views of the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA detectors Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab; The Virgo collaboration/CCO 1.0; ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo

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Tell Congress: Save NASA Science planetary.org/advocacy-actio…
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LPItoday@LPItoday9 Jun 2025
Join us for a hybrid presentation discussing NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and its 1.8-billion-mile journey to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. This event will take place on Tuesday, June 17, at 7:30 p.m. CT, at the LPI and streamed on YouTube. More information: ow.ly/2lCy50VMkz8
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New observations from the Very Large Telescope in Chile may have caught a Jupiter-like planet at its moment of birth around another star. The universe just keeps on building more cool things. eso.org/public/images/potw25…
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I just published an explainer on aerosols and their role in the climate that I've been working on for the past few months! It includes both how aerosols work, how emissions have changed, and how thats driven recent warming (link below).
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PPPL@PPPLab5 Jun 2025
Another fusion world record was set with help from PPPL — this time in the German fusion system Wendelstein 7-X. The Lab, an @ENERGY national lab managed by @Princeton, played a key role in the experiment, developing a diagnostic and control system. ➡️ bit.ly/4dCglW2
Interior view of Wendelstein 7-X, a stellarator fusion device, featuring detailed wall panels with numerous rivets and a complex structure illuminated in red and blue lights.

ALT Interior view of Wendelstein 7-X, a stellarator fusion device, featuring detailed wall panels with numerous rivets and a complex structure illuminated in red and blue lights.

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Fusion powers the sun and could one day make electricity on Earth. To do so, devices must maintain the plasma that powers fusion’s reaction. Researchers @PPPLab developed a new computer code to help design a future fusion device: pppl.gov/news/2025/new-compu…
An illustration of how a new computer code could refine the design of stellarator fusion machines, showing a geometric grid over a twisted donut-shaped object

ALT An illustration of how a new computer code could refine the design of stellarator fusion machines, showing a geometric grid over a twisted donut-shaped object

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Transforming lead nuclei into gold nuclei is not a dream anymore! The ALICE experiment has measured the production of gold and other nuclei obtained from the emission of a few protons from the original lead nucleus! home.cern/.../alice-detects-…
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Milky Way galaxy might not collide with Andromeda after all tinyurl.com/ynvc9rmk
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📡📡"Astronomers observe pair of galaxies in deep-space battle" by @ESO News
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