Clara Moskowitz

Excellent article in @sciam about the impending opportunity to redefine the second using optical clocks, including the friendly competition between ions and neutral atoms. scientificamerican.com/article/worlds…

Yeah, if I had to bet I'd say the path to any viable interplanetary or interstellar future doesn't run through cryptocoin grifts, disinformation memes, pay-to-win video games, grievance-based policymaking, and a shameless embrace of neofascism. SpaceX makes nice rockets, though.

NEW: Does Planet 9 exist? No telescope has been capable of finding it—but in 2025, the Rubin Observatory will come online, and with its remarkable eye, it will find out, once and for all, if the elusive world is truly there. My cover story for @sciam: scientificamerican.com/article/if-pla…

@raminskibba @SquigglyVolcano Agreed on the name. And yeah, for a variety of reasons I'm getting very excited for Rubin! 🔭

@SquigglyVolcano @ClaraMoskowitz That's great, Robin! It'll be a fun story to keep following. The Rubin Observatory isn't getting as much attention as Webb did, but I think it'll have a big impact. (And the NSF made a better name choice there than NASA did, but that's a separate issue.)

It's hard to believe there could be a giant planet in the solar system that we haven't seen. But these are exciting times! We should know within the next two years either way 🪐

It's been an amazing year for math! Researchers discovered a new prime number this year, a novel formula for pi, mathematical messages in music, and more: scientificamerican.com/article/the-7-…

A hidden form of dark energy might have reshaped the early universe. By Nobel laureate Adam Riess and theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski: scientificamerican.com/article/could-…

Timelapse this image was taken from: x.com/dominickmatthe…

It's so amazing to me that humans have built machines that can detect something so small and rare that it has less than 1 in 10 billion chances of happening: scientificamerican.com/article/first-…

The rapid surge in orbital launches could add 50,000 satellites by 2030, increasing risks like space junk, metallic pollution, and threats to science, security, and the environment. Join Space & Physics Editor @LeeBillings for a panel on space junk at #SDGLive during #UNGA. Watch live at 2 PM ET: bit.ly/SDGzone

Black holes! Dark matter! Jostling planets! This story is wild but actually plausible: scientificamerican.com/article/dark-m…

As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the moon, doesn't it seem like it's taken longer, cost more and been so much harder than Apollo? Turns out there are good reasons for that: scientificamerican.com/article/why-is…

Tune in!

Happy birthday to astrophysicist and former IOP president, Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who donated her £2.3m Breakthrough Prize to support PhD #physics students from under-represented groups. This year, over £1m has been granted to awardees of the Fund. Read more here: iop.org/about/news/bel…

@tariqjmalik @SPACEdotcom Yay, space.com! And great letter, Tariq! Congrats 🎉

Hey, Space Fans! @SPACEdotcom turns 25 this week and what a journey it's been. Thank you all for checking us out for something amazing every day & here's to the next 25! Thank you for 25 amazing years of Space.com: A letter from the editor space.com/25-years-of-sp…

In quantum mechanics, everything changes when someone makes a measurement. But who counts as "someone"? A human? An AI? This fascinating feature by @anilananth investigates: Can AI Save Schrödinger’s Cat? scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai…

It was fun recording this with @RachelFeltman & @ClaraMoskowitz. Huddle up, listen in, and get ready for more fantastic podcasts from @Weirdest_Thing & from @sciam. (Also be ready for Rachel to do a flying slam jam elbow drop on @hankgreen & @johngreen off the turnbuckle).

NASA's Parker Solar Probe peers into a coronal mass ejection for the 1st time trib.al/tgmKmg1