An exciting astronomy milestone was hit last night, as DESI completed its original 5-year survey mapping 40 million galaxies in the night sky!
DESI continues operation, now aiming for an 8-year survey and ~60 million galaxies. 🔭🧪 #cosmology
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Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the Brazilian government relaxed environmental controls
Happy World Quantum Day! April 14th — for the date in Planck's constant, h ≈ 4.14 × 10⁻¹⁵ eV·s.
Each of these ideas was once controversial, but now they're the foundation of modern physics.
#WorldQuantumDay #QuantumPhysics
Astrophysicist Hiranya Peiris, writing for Nature Astronomy, on why AI isn't the real problem in science.
Spoiler: we are.
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"I don't think anyone has ever heard anything like this. It's too crazy! Who brings a quantum guitar into a chapel?"
A brand new instrument called the “quantum guitar” performed alongside one of the oldest instruments, the organ, at one of the most beautiful chapels in Oxford.
Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and Bob Coecke performed Abdyssagin’s ‘Quantum Universe’ at Merton College.
@coecke.bsky.social
Sharing this again in honor of the #Artemis II lunar flyby today
Physicist and best-selling author Julian Barbour takes you on a journey through the origin and evolution of the cosmos in his three-part masterclass: Complexity in the Cosmos.
This Easter, get 50% off 6-month access. $27.50 (was $55) — use code EASTER50.
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Back in 2012, @astrokatie.com wrote a blog post for us about Neil Armstrong's passing, and about her grandfather, a Navy meteorologist who helped save the Apollo 11 crew using classified satellite data he wasn't allowed to share.
You can read it here: qspace.fqxi.org/news/61123/l...
If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here:
plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi...
or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...
This guy when Artemis II flies by.
We love this piece and it’s still available on the new site (it’s just that our search box has issues!). But thank you for re-sharing. It really deserves a wider audience: qspace.fqxi.org/news/61123/l...
This is NOT an April Fool's 😀
Bernard Carr was advised early in his career to establish himself in a "respectable" field before he could talk about all the things he really cared about. So he spent 50 years quietly investigating telepathy, out-of-body experiences, and haunted houses on the side.
Elise Crull spoke to us at @perimeterinstitute.ca about Hertha Sponer, who was one of the first women in Germany to earn a PhD in physics, and a pioneer of quantum chemistry.
Vlatko Vedral's new book Portals to a New Reality lays out five experiments that could change the future of physics.
This one asks whether gravity itself is quantum, and all it takes is two tiny diamonds.
Portals to a New Reality: bookshop.org/a/85756/9781...
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 21/03/2026
Since the last update we have published a further eight papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 59 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 507. We passed the 500 mark on Monday, and the last week was also notable…
FQxI's Charles Bennett, a physicist at IBM Research, has been awarded the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award alongside Gilles Brassard of the Université de Montréal, for their foundational contributions to quantum information science.
Read further here: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165317/...
Good eye! Yes, it's Manim, the open-source version of the library created by 3Blue1Brown's Grant Sanderson.
Happy Pi Day! We made a short animation tracing how humans have tried to pin down π over the last 4,000 years. It's been quite the ride... and we're still no closer to the last digit 😉
#PiDay #PiDay2026 #Pi #Mathematics #ScienceCommunication
Nature Publishing Group finding more dastardly ways to lock us in, well beyond what I complained about in my letter declining reviewing for them
This work was partially supported by FQxI through our Consciousness in the Physical World programme.
Lead image credit: Catalina Curceanu (2026).
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