Clara Moskowitz

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Fall Migration Is Here! Tips to See It Birds are starting to make their way south for the winter, and you’ve got a front-row seat to the show

It’s only early August but the fall migration of birds is already under way! Here’s what I’ve been seeing lately and how you can watch this incredible spectacle 🧪🪶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Teen Hannah Cairo's Mathematical Discovery Sends Ripples through Harmonic Analysis When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old mathematical assumption

I had an enlightening conversation with mathematician Hannah Cairo about how she broke a huge conjecture in Harmonic Analysis at just 17 years old, what being a transgender mathematician means to her and how math has supported her along her journey! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌊 ✨

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Celebrating 180 Years of Scientific American Since 1845, SciAm has chronicled the science shaping our world. Explore our legacy in this special anniversary package.

Scientific American is turning 180! 🎉

Celebrate with us:

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Wow! I didn’t quite conceptualize that

I knew the days were feeling shorter!

515-Mile-Long Lightning Megaflash Sets New World Record A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ever measured, according to the World Meteorological Organization

New world record longest lightning strike just dropped! 🧪

(by @dodecalemma.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)

Double Meteor Showers Make for Magical Night Sky The Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids are due to peak at the same time and may add up to something magical

A rare celestial treat is in store tonight: two (maybe even three?) meteor showers will be visible in the early morning sky! www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

The First Antimatter Qubit Could Help Solve Cosmic Mystery The first antimatter qubit will help search for differences between matter and antimatter

The first antimatter qubit probably won't mean an antimatter quantum computer any time soon, but it could just help solve one of the biggest mysteries in the universe www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

‘Arsenic Life’ Microbe Study Retracted after 15 Years of Controversy A controversial arsenic microbe study unveiled 15 years ago has been retracted. The study’s authors are crying foul

‘Arsenic Life’ Microbe Study Retracted after 15 Years of Controversy

A controversial arsenic microbe study unveiled 15 years ago has been retracted. The study’s authors are crying foul

www.scientificamerican.com/article/arse...

Federal Science Workers Say Agencies Are ‘Going in the Wrong Direction’ Hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation have signed public letters to leadership opposing the direction in ...

“I thought I would be helping people,” says Michael Pasqua, a life scientist and program manager for the EPA’s safe drinking water efforts in Wisconsin. 🧪

(by @meghanbartels.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social)

Really enjoyed this conversation with Lee about the benefits and risks of commercial space travel! Relatedly, I am now fascinated with the issue of space trash...

Superheated Gold Hits Temperatures Higher Than the Sun’s Surface—Without Melting Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits of solids

Wild! Scientists turned the world's largest X-ray laser on superheated gold and found that it had reached 33,000 degrees Fahrenheit without melting. The discovery seems to upend longstanding predictions of thermodynamics. www.scientificamerican.com/article/phys...

How Logical Are You? Test Your Skills With These Problems from the New International Logic Olympiad In only its second year, the International Logic Olympiad is already booming as logic becomes more and more crucial in our ever changing world

Feel like breaking your brain a little? The latest from @dodecalemma.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/try-... - try the puzzles reliable sources say it's "too 'after 4pm' for"!

The Large Hadron Collider Discovers Mysterious Antimatter Physics The LHCb experiment has observed a new difference between matter and antimatter in particles called baryons

Why is there matter instead of antimatter? It's one of the biggest mysteries in physics. Now scientists are a small step closer to solving it: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Scientists detect biggest ever merger of two massive black holes Ripples in space-time from collision recorded by gravitational wave detector forces a rethink of how the objects form

🔊 Two really massive black holes, COLLIDING💥!

LIGO has seen ~300 of these collisions since 2015, but this one is HUGE creating a black hole 256x the mass of the Sun. It's likely the merging black holes were themselves the by-product of previous mergers 🤓🔭🧪

ℹ️: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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We finally made it to Bluesky—just a few billion years after the Big Bang, and only slightly late to the party ✨🌌

We’re sharing some of our best stories from the year so far to kick off our Bluesky journey!

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

Writing MURDERBOT "taught me about my own neurodiversity. ... I have had a lot of people tell me that it helped them work out things about themselves and that it was just nice to see a character who thought and felt a lot of the same things they did." @marthawells.com with @clarakm.bsky.social

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

There's an interview with me in Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

In which I try not to fangirl completely but totally fail because I am speaking to the ACTUAL, AMAZING @marthawells.com www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

Not currently, but that's something to think about!

Early-Career Researchers Reflect on the Emotional and Societal Fallout of Trump’s Funding Cuts Canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior health researchers, dealing a major blow to the future of science and society in the U.S.

“I saw an image of a floating pair of scissors clipping my future,” one postdoc said of losing his NIH funding. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Mathematicians Come Up with ‘Mind-Blowing’ Method for Defining Prime Numbers Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also connecting two areas of math in an unexpected way

"It’s almost like our work gives you infinitely many new definitions for prime,” Ono says. www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

This Revolutionary New Telescope Will Observe the Whole Sky Every Three Days The game-changing Vera Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes combined

As you can imagine, we at SciAm are extremely excited about the upcoming Vera Rubin Telescope. What's it going to do? "something revolutionary, rare and relatively old-fashioned: it will just look out at the universe and see what there is to see." (by @rboyle31.bsky.social) 🧪

Behold the First Images of the Sun’s South Pole Solar Orbiter isn’t the first spacecraft to study the sun’s poles—but it’s the first to send back photographs

I am once again here to tell you the sun is cool and weird: 🧪 🛰️ www.scientificamerican.com/article/sola...

Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs

Only on @sciam.bsky.social!
“I was not prepared to be contending with an LLM like this... That’s what a scientist does. That’s frightening.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/insi...

Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs

Mathematicians are jittery after AI proves shockingly good at outsmarting them www.scientificamerican.com/article/insi...