Octopuses are colorblind, yet they’re some of the most skilled camouflage artists in the animal kingdom. 🐙​ Their skin is covered in chromatophores, tiny pigment organs they control to shift color and texture on command, blending perfectly with their surroundings. Their eyes don’t detect color at all, but nearly two-thirds of their brains are devoted to processing visual information. So how does a colorblind animal visually match its environment so precisely? This question remains one of the mo
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Octopuses are colorblind, yet they’re some of the most skilled camouflage artists in the animal kingdom. 🐙​ Their skin is covered in chromatophores, tiny pigment organs they control to shift color and texture on command, blending perfectly with their surroundings. Their eyes don’t detect color at all, but nearly two-thirds of their brains are devoted to processing visual information. So how does a colorblind animal visually match its environment so precisely? This question remains one of the mo
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If you stood on the Moon, you’d see Earth frozen in one spot in the sky. 🌍 Astrophysicist Erika Hamden unpacks how tidal locking, a gravitational effect that causes the Moon to rotate once for every orbit around Earth, keeps one side of the Moon permanently facing us. It’s why we always see the same lunar face from Earth, and why Earth would stay fixed in the sky for anyone standing on the Moon. You’d still see Earth slowly rotate, with different continents turning into view, but it would never
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If you stood on the Moon, you’d see Earth frozen in one spot in the sky. 🌍 Astrophysicist Erika Hamden unpacks how tidal locking, a gravitational effect that causes the Moon to rotate once for every orbit around Earth, keeps one side of the Moon permanently facing us. It’s why we always see the same lunar face from Earth, and why Earth would stay fixed in the sky for anyone standing on the Moon. You’d still see Earth slowly rotate, with different continents turning into view, but it would never
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The universe is packed with galaxies, but still most of it is astonishingly empty. 🌌 Astrophysicist Erika Hamden breaks down how our galaxy alone contains hundreds of billions of stars, and the observable universe holds hundreds of billions of galaxies spread across an unimaginably vast volume of space. When scientists calculate the average density of the universe, it comes out to roughly one proton per three cubic meters. The matter we see stands out because gravity pulls it into dense cluster
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The universe is packed with galaxies, but still most of it is astonishingly empty. 🌌 Astrophysicist Erika Hamden breaks down how our galaxy alone contains hundreds of billions of stars, and the observable universe holds hundreds of billions of galaxies spread across an unimaginably vast volume of space. When scientists calculate the average density of the universe, it comes out to roughly one proton per three cubic meters. The matter we see stands out because gravity pulls it into dense cluster
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Unsinkable metal sounds impossible, but nature did it first. 🌊 Scientists at the University of Rochester etched microscopic pits into metal tubes that trap air and create a buoyant shield powered by surface tension, keeping water out. Inspired by diving bell spiders and floating fire ants, this biomimicry breakthrough allows the metal to rise back to the surface even when forced underwater or punctured. This discovery could strengthen offshore wind and wave energy platforms.By mimicking nature’
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Unsinkable metal sounds impossible, but nature did it first. 🌊 Scientists at the University of Rochester etched microscopic pits into metal tubes that trap air and create a buoyant shield powered by surface tension, keeping water out. Inspired by diving bell spiders and floating fire ants, this biomimicry breakthrough allows the metal to rise back to the surface even when forced underwater or punctured. This discovery could strengthen offshore wind and wave energy platforms.By mimicking nature’
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The music of Radiohead meets amazing visuals at the Charles Hayden Planetarium this fall! Join us for an amazing sensory experience. | Museum of Science, Boston
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The music of Radiohead meets amazing visuals at the Charles Hayden Planetarium this fall! Join us for an amazing sensory experience. | Museum of Science, Boston
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A giant rocket just blew up at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center! Blue Origin was doing a full test fire of their New Glenn rocket as preparation for an upcoming flight when something went very, very wrong. Fortunately no one was injured, but this is the biggest explosion ever seen at Kennedy Space Center. The launch pad is badly damaged, and NASA's upcoming Project Artemis plans for building a moon base depend on both the New Glenn rocket and this pad. This is a big setback for both Blue Origin and N
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At the center of our galaxy lives a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. 🔭 Amanda Peake, a PhD candidate at the MIT Kavli Institute, explores Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Astrophysicists are deeply fascinated by it because it controls our entire galaxy. The Sun is in orbit around it, and everything in the Milky Way is arranged in a spiral around the massive black hole at the center. #BlackHole #SpaceX #SpaceTok #SpaceFacts #ScienceExplained
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