✨🪲 Researchers are studying the mathematical models that allow thousands of #fireflies to blink in perfect unison.

By observing these bioluminescent #insects, scientists can better understand how decentralized systems coordinate complex behaviors without a single leader.

👉 https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/the-science-of-how-fireflies-stay-in-sync/

#biology #physics #nature #science #wildlife #entomology #math #bioluminesence

Job Alert

Scientific-Technical Associate (all genders) Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering  

Deadline: 2026-04-15 
Location: Germany - Darmstadt  

https://www.academiceurope.com/ads/scientific-technical-associate-all-genders-applied-physics-and-electrical-engineering/

#hiring #Physics #EngineeringCareers #electricalengineering #phd #FAIR #associate

St Patrick's Day: Textbooks Might Be Wrong About Why Plants Are Green

https://www.sciencealert.com/st-patricks-day-textbooks-might-be-wrong-about-why-plants-are-green

#science #physics #biology #plants

A Physicist Recreated The Sound Of The Big Bang – And It Sounds Eerily Wonderful

https://www.iflscience.com/a-physicist-recreated-the-sound-of-the-big-bang-and-it-sounds-eerily-wonderful-82841

#science #physics

A 60-year old mystery about the moon’s magnetosphere is finally solved…

#planetaryscience #moon #astronomy #solarsystem #space #physics Source:

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/a-60-year-old-mystery-about-the-moons-magnetosphere-is-finally-solved/

Apparently I am a top #physics #quarks #shitpost

https://jabde.com/2025/08/24/how-quarky-are-you-a-subatomic-personality-quiz/

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A screenshot from a quiz results saying I am top with text: "Oh lawd you comin, you’re a top! You are massive and bulky as hell for a quark. You’re a subatomic particle larger than most atoms. You’re confident and you know what you want which is exactly why you only stick around for about 10^-25 seconds. Keep livin your rare life of fame and infamy"

Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability

If you send a shock wave through a magnetized plasma–something that happens in both supernova explosions and inertial confinement fusion–it can trigger an instability known as the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. The image above shows a form of this, taken from a simulation. Rather than treating the plasma as a single idealized fluid, the researchers represented it as two fluids: an ion fluid and an electron fluid. This allowed them to better capture what happens when certain components of the plasma react to changes faster than others do.

The image itself shows the electron number density across the fluid, where darker colors represent higher electron number density. The interface between high and low-densities shows a roll-up instability that resembles the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, but there are also regions of mushroom-like plumes that more closely resemble Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.

The authors note that these structures don’t appear in simulations that represent a plasma as a single fluid; you need the two-fluid representation to see them. (Image and research credit: O. Thompson et al.)

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Simulation result showing the interface between an ion fluid and electron fluid breaking down.

Today in History, March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born. In addition to being one of the most significant physicists of all time, he was also a pacifist. Yet his letter to President Roosevelt warning of the Nazi progress on atomic weapons research was arguably key to the U.S. implementation of the Manhatton Project, a decision he later lamented. In 1955, well after the Cold War and nuclear arms race had begun, he and ten other intellectuals and scientists, including other Nobel Prize laureates, like Bertrand Russell and Linus Pauling, wrote a manifesto warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons. Einstein also participated in the U.S. Civil Rights movement, calling racism America’s “worst disease.” Later in his life he began to support socialism, and he criticized the Bolsheviks for their barbarism. Einstein was also a Zionist, and supported Jews’ right to return to Palestine. However, he did not support a Jewish state, or an Arab state, to replace Mandatory Palestine. Rather, he wanted a free, bi-national Palestine in which Jews and Arabs shared sovereignty, living peacefully and equally with each other.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #einstein #nazis #fascsim #pacifism #antisemitism #zionism #palestine #israel #physics #atomicbomb #nuclear #socialism #civilrights #racism #nobelprize

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Image of an older Einstein, with wispy gray hair and bushy mustache, with the following quote: The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae

Frame-dragging may explain an odd pattern seen in the brightest supernovae.

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/r57ms
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/magnetars-drag-spacetime-to-power-superluminous-supernovae/#astrophysics #general-relativity #magnetar #physics #science #supernova

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Job Alert

Research Assistant (m/f/d) – Professorship for Hydromechancics

Deadline: 2026-04-12 
Location: Germany - Hamburg  

https://www.academiceurope.com/ads/research-assistant-m-f-d-professorship-for-hydromechancics/

#hiring #Hydromechanics #ResearchAssistant #civilengineering #STEM #geoscience #physics

AI just verified a proof that earned one of math’s most prestigious prizes. Math will never be the same

The introduction of AI into mathematics represents a seismic shift in what it means to do math.

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/ai-just-verified-a-proof-that-earned-one-of-maths-most-prestigious-prizes-math-will-never-be-the-same-opinion#mathematics #physics-&-mathematics

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6 Freaky Particles That Could Fix Physics—If They Exist

https://gizmodo.com/6-freaky-particles-that-could-fix-physics-if-they-exist-2000732052

#science #physics

Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals

https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-some-see-strings-she-sees-a-space-time-made-of-fractals-20260311/

#science #physics

It's time for an #introduction, having just moved over from another instance.

I'm a career changer, after three decades teaching physics and computer science in schools and colleges. I'm now an instructor in the aviation industry and enjoying the change of pace.

I'm interested in #Rugby, #Cricket,, #pedagogy, #physics, science, technology and #education in general. I've run a local #astronomy society, a target shooting range and a badminton club.

I have an occasionally updated #Gemini log, a set of #RaspberryPi computers running network services, and I started programming on a Sinclair ZX81 microcomputer.

I enjoy winge-bonding about the failures of politics, irritatingly smug tech billionaires and the stupidity of the #england national rugby team manager. I prefer calming countryside photos, happy tales and stories of positive experiences.

#uk, #sussex, #worthing.
We wunt be druv.

#Photography #Android #Small #Sensor #Instant #Photo #Technology #Light #Physics #Chemistry

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This is the composition with proper correction photographs composed very close to a very bright light source need some density correction

Reference
https://ioc.exchange/@Radio_Azureus/116211265634657907

#Photography #Android #Small #Sensor #no #Instant #Photo #Technology #Light #Physics #Chemistry

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#WritersCoffeeClub #Physics #Aliens #FTL #ScienceFiction

Bonus question from me to science fiction writers:

I have been watching various videos by renowned physicists detailing in very understandable terms why we haven't and *won't meet aliens, and why interstellar travel isn't possible. I'll link to a couple at the end. My question for you, and for me, is can we write science fiction that abides by the laws of physics?

https://youtu.be/UKWgu_AMdik?si=Ze2cNg5v4R2e501s

https://youtu.be/X1gE6O9qstw?si=OtiBeny3EuXSWbOZ

@farbel #WritersCoffeeClub #Physics #Aliens #FTL #ScienceFiction

This shit absolutely infuriates me, because it proves these physicists are a goddamn detriment to science. Because they have no imagination at all.

NGC 7217 is ~50 light years or less, +- a lot. If they launched a probe toward us, accounting for movement in space, it could conceivably reach our solar system in ~100-150 years. That's only ~500,000km/h, and the Parker probe hit 690,000km/h.

Before Newton: How the Islamic Golden Age Shaped the Physics We Know

Remarkable discoveries were made during the Islamic Golden Age, which laid the foundation for the study of physics as we know it.

by Matt Whittaker

https://www.thecollector.com/how-did-physics-begin-islamic-golden-age/

Books in Physics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/103

#books #science #physics #history

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An illustration from al-Biruni's astronomical works, explains the different phases of the Moon, with respect to the position of the Sun, from manuscript of the Kitab al-Tafhim by Al-Biruni (973-1048). The illustration demonstrates: The Moon's orbit shown by the elliptical path with red lines; Different phases of the Moon represented by the circles divided into black and illuminated (red/white) portions; The Sun's position (indicated by the Arabic text on the right: "al-shams" meaning "the sun"); Geometric lines showing the relationship between the Sun's light and the Moon's appearance from Earth; Arabic annotations explaining the astronomical concepts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Biruni#/media/File:Lunar_phases_al-Biruni.jpg

Oh my god well done Quanta magazine, amazing article.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-ice-slippery-a-new-hypothesis-slides-into-the-chat-20251208/

#physics #science