Whitney Clavin
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Science communicator at Caltech, covering black holes, exoplanets, quantum physics, and more!
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Joined October 2008
Astronomers are reporting evidence for a possible second kilonova event, but the case is not closed. In fact, this situation is much more complex. https://t.co/K8t8GkSRM3
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6,100 qubits gathered for a laser-light party! Caltech researchers break records with a large array of neutral-atom qubits. https://t.co/dzgBMWiOZM
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Chi Nguyen remembers the moment she plugged her laptop into a large monitor in a conference room and onlookers began to cheer. She was presenting a team with the first "aliveness test" image taken by the agency's space telescope SPHEREx. https://t.co/5RZeANgTNB
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How a NASA space telescope came together in a university lab
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Quantum computers promise to outperform today's traditional computers in many areas of science, but proving they will be superior has been challenging. Researchers have identified a physics problem where these futuristic machines would have the advantage. https://t.co/Pr4NP2jK5o
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A new quantum algorithm that simulates nature outperforms its classical counterparts.
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Go SPHEREx! Jamie Bock's talk about the mission's first images was packed. @Caltech
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For those who celebrate, November 7 is the birthday of two scientific giants: Marie Curie (1867-1934) and Lise Meitner (1878-1968), justly renowned for their world-changing investigations of radioactivity and nuclear fission.
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A Caltech mathematician, Matilde Marcolli, teamed up with Noam Chomsky to figure out the algebraic structures underlying his latest theories of language. "Noam's work was so precise that it was easy to translate into math," she said.
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Using ideas from theoretical physics, Matilde Marcolli has created a new mathematical framework for Noam Chomsky's model of language. by Whitney Clavin When mathematician Matilde Marcolli worked as a...
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Astronomers have discovered that a well-studied brown dwarf is in fact two that are orbiting closely around each other. https://t.co/ZxnQ4Rh8hS
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Astronomers have discovered that a well-studied brown dwarf is in fact two that are orbiting closely around each other
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In case you missed it, @pholderness's video about jumbo black hole jets blasting through space is really good! @MartijnOei
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Monstrous black hole jets span 140 Milky Ways and may have shaped the formation of other galaxies!
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The jumbo jets blast hot plasma well beyond their own host galaxy.
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A new computer simulation upends ideas about feeding black holes that astronomers have held since the 1970s. https://t.co/W2xhdf4kWk
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A new computer simulation upends ideas about feeding black holes that astronomers have held since the 1970s.
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It's time to pop champagne because Fiona Harrison and her UVEX mission team were selected for flight by NASA yesterday! https://t.co/b4gtQwHsoz
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Go @caltech!!
We’ve selected a new @NASAUniverse mission! UVEX — UltraViolet Explorer — will conduct a deep survey of the whole sky in two bands of ultraviolet light, providing new insights into galaxy evolution and the lifecycles of stars. Congratulations to Principal Investigator, Fiona
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Shri Kulkarni makes gravitational waves at @Caltech Watson Lecture. He is describing all the cosmic balls found by the amazing @ztfsurvey
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75 years ago today, Edwin Hubble rode an elevator to the prime focus cage on the Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory and captured the machine's first-ever picture. Today, the historic observatory is thriving! I had a blast writing this article! @caltech
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Formerly the world’s largest working telescope for more than 40 years, the facility remains cutting-edge thanks to new instrumentation
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The flat orbit of brown dwarf GPX-1b indicates it formed more like a planet than a star, say researchers. This finding advances discussions that have previously theorized how these "oddball" stars form. https://t.co/L5SOeRTgS4
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