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Science and Technology Editor @1440daily.bsky.social Portuguese-American, Astrophysics Educator, Dog Dad, RPG Lover, FC Porto Fan, and Dessert Aficionado | Always open to learning and growing but will never stop advocating for people's rights πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺ

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Last week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter analyzed DNA, the molecular instructions for all life on Earth. We also looked at how greenhouse gases work and explored the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Last week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the Challenger Disaster on the 40th anniversary of the tragedy. We also broke down quantum computing and shared what we've learned about Google.

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Last week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter illuminated the science behind lightning. We also broke down comets to help explain I3/Atlas and discussed OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT.

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Last week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the CRISPR gene editing tool. We also celebrated the 25th anniversary of Wikipedia and broke down everything there is to know about nuclear power.

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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored what we understand about light, its properties, and its applications. We also broke down how brain implants work and the physics of turbulence.

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10.01.2026 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week we're covering time. With the new year causing many of us to reflect on the past and ponder the future, we were inspired to share the current understanding of this all-too-familiar but hard-to-define concept. We're also celebrating the occasion with a look at the science of fireworks before exploring the space tourism industry.

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the familiar yet hard to define concept of time, as well as fireworks in honor of New Year celebrations. We also covered the space tourism industry.

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03.01.2026 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter is headlined by our write-up on 3D Printing. We also explore the Hubble Space Telescope and explain how mixed reality works.

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25.12.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter is headlined by our write-up on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. We also explore the engineering behind fracking and preview the future of smart cities.

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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter is headlined by our write-up on General Relativity, Albert Einstein's theory of gravity. We also explore volcanoes and the history of the Tesla car company.

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This past week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter is headlined by our write-up on the Environment Protection Agency for its 55th birthday. We also explore deepfakes and discuss the impact of space trash.

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This past week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter is headlined by Bill Nye to celebrate the science communicator's 70th birthday. We're also exploring generative AI and breaking down tropical cyclones.

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25.11.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This past week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored Microsoft to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Windows 1.0. We also took a look at Pollinators and explored what we know about Mars. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the Biosphere 2, known as the largest Earth Science experiment on Earth. We also took a look at the history and impact of Apple and the science of self-driving cars. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

11.11.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dear readersβ€”Welcome to our new email format!Β Our team has heard your feedback, and we will now cover a wider variety of topics with more links to explore in our weekly Science & Technology newsletter. As always, thanks for being a reader!

Last week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored Tardigrades, the seemingly indestructible water bears. We also took a look at the impact of Nikola Tesla and the science behind earthquakes. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

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Dear readersβ€”Welcome to our new email format!Β Our team has heard your feedback, and we will now cover a wider variety of topics with more links to explore in our weekly Science & Technology newsletter. As always, thanks for being a reader!

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the International Space Station to celebrate 25 years of uninterrupted human occupancy in space. We also took a look at electric vehicles and large language models. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

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Good morning. It'sΒ Tuesday, Oct. 21,Β and we're bringing you the latest Science & Technology newsletter. Every week, we provide fascinating deep dives into the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience, computer science, and more.

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored Lasers. Learn how these devices work and how they've been used to develop laser printers, create tweezers made of light, and redefine how we measure time via atomic clocks: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

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Good morning. It'sΒ Tuesday, Oct. 14,Β and we're bringing you the latest Science & Technology newsletter. Every week, we provide fascinating deep dives into the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience, computer science, and more.

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the life of Marie Curie. Learn about the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person with multiple Nobels in different sciences here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

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Good morning. It'sΒ Tuesday, Oct. 7,Β and we're bringing you the latest Science & Technology newsletter. Every week, we provide fascinating deep dives into the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience, computer science, and more.

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the Standard Model. Learn about the most comprehensive theory of particle physics and what's keeping it from becoming the theory of everything: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

08.10.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, Sept. 30,Β and we're bringing you the latest Science & Technology newsletter. Every week, we provide fascinating deep dives into the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience, computer science, and more.

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored Plate Tectonics. Learn about the evidence behind moving continents and how the theory explains geological activity here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

03.10.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, Sept. 23,Β and we're bringing you the latestΒ Science & Technology newsletter. Every week, we provide fascinating deep dives into the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience, computer science, and more.

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter provided a breakdown of the discovery, origins, and life of Dinosaurs. Learn about the prehistoric kings of Earth's surface here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0....

25.09.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, Sept. 16,Β and today we're covering bioluminescence. Our team was inspired by the light shows made by fireflies (or lightning bugs) this past summer and sought to explore the brilliant phenomenon in detail.

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the phenomenon of bioluminescence. Learn how some organisms create their own light here: link.join1440.com/view/67a2456...

19.09.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, Sept. 9,Β and today we're covering microchips. With AI dominating much of the technology news of today, we wanted to take a look at the critical hardware powering it and all other electronics in the modern world.

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the history and manufacturing of the integrated circuit. Learn how microchips work here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

11.09.2025 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, Sept. 2,Β and today we're covering turbulence. Most commonly associated with uneasiness while flying, the phenomenon has been described as the most important unsolved problem in classical physics, and its solution is tied to a million-dollar bounty by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the phenomenon of Turbulence, which has been described as the most important unsolved problem in classical physics: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

06.09.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the story of Wind Power, including its history, how wind turbines work, and what the future holds for this renewable energy source: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

27.08.2025 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, Aug. 19,Β and today we're covering the Viking project. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Viking 1 tomorrow, we were inspired to look back at the first successful US effort to land a spacecraft on Mars.

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the Viking Project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first spacecraft to successfully land and transmit data from Mars: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

21.08.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, Aug. 12,Β and today we're covering Jupiter. Continuing the ongoing explorations of the solar system that began with Earth and Mars, we now travel beyond the asteroid belt to investigate the king of planets.

Today's @1440daily.bsky.social Science and Technology Newsletter took a trip to Jupiter to explore the science behind its appearance and structure. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

12.08.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, Aug. 5,Β and today we're covering climatology. Because of the scale of this branch of science, this will be the first of several newsletters about climate. We start with an overview of the field's origins and explore how scientists collect and use climate data to understand Earth's past and predict its future.

Today's @1440daily.bsky.social Science and Technology Newsletter provided an overview of Climatology, including its history and how scientists collect and use climate data for modeling. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...

05.08.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, July 29,Β and today we're covering quantum mechanics. In honor of the 100-year anniversary of the mathematical formulation and the United Nations recognizing 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, we wanted to explore the origins of this remarkable field.

This week's @1440daily.bsky.social Science and Technology Newsletter provided an overview of the origins of Quantum Mechanics. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/67a2456...

03.08.2025 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, July 22,Β and today we're covering Rosalind Franklin.Β In honor of what would have been her 105th birthday this week, we wanted to explore the life of the scientist who made discovering DNA's structure possible but whom history nearly erased.

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22.07.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, July 15,Β and today we're covering microplastics. With the number of headlines about these particles surpassed only by their abundance in the environment, we thought we'd explore their origins and effects on our world.

In case you missed last week's @1440daily.bsky.social Science and Technology Newsletter, where we explored "Microplastics," check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/67a2456...

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