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[jackiebranc]

🔴 Mars Perseverance Sol 1454: Right Mastcam-Z Camera / enhanced

March 23, 2025 (Sol 1454) / 10:15:34 local solar time

source image: Mars_Perseverance_ZR0_1454_0796010287_081EBY_N0710000ZCAM09515_1100LMJ

Image Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech / ASU / Jackie Branc

[madcat-world]

Inner Space & Outer Thoughts (5 of 13) - Christian Benavides

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity

What if a machine could suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, run it through a series of chemical reactions, and essentially spit out industrially useful plastic? "I think that is something that we, as a society, would be interested in. After all, in addition to being a greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide is an abundant and inexpensive feedstock," says Theo Agapie, Ph.D., the John Stauffer Professor of Chemistry and the executive officer for chemistry at Caltech. "With our new work, we have taken a significant step in that direction." Reporting in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Agapie and a team of Caltech chemists have developed a system that uses electricity from sustainable sources to carry out the chemical conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into molecules, such as ethylene and carbon monoxide, that are useful for making more complex compounds.

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[stone-cold-groove]

Illustration detail of Mount Palomar Observatory’s 200-inch Hale telescope.

[on--mars]

SOL - 4394

Visualization: Vladimir Jankijevic

Credit: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech - https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov

[cerebrodigital]

Es más lento que el WiFi básico:

[rashardlanasa]

Landing Page For EducationallyDense Blogs

[guutzprojects]

"do you have any finals this term?"

lol

15 page final report on the history of science communication at the Royal Institution Thursday 13th The Invisible Wall is back 🧍 DONE!!

final paper on causality in astrophysics research Thursday 20th DONE!

9 weeks worth of journal entries for my yoga class DONE!

outline of my senior thesis Thursday 20th Eventually™

oral exam on physics of the interstellar medium Monday 17th 10:00am (and a problem set due Friday 14th 11:59pm) DONE!

[jackiebranc]

🟣 JUPITER | PJ70 Jet N5 2025-03-02 15:28 UT

Mission Phase 70 source: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/proc..

Credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Jackie Branc © CC BY

[waybackwanderer]

stereomovie.mpg Apr 1994 Archived Media File 📀

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Using an approach called DNA origami, scientists at Caltech have developed a technique that could lead to cheaper, reusable biomarker sensors for quickly detecting proteins in bodily fluids, eliminating the need to send samples out to lab centers for testing. "Our work provides a proof-of-concept showing a path to a single-step method that could be used to identify and measure nucleic acids and proteins," says Paul Rothemund (BS '94), a visiting associate at Caltech in computing and mathematical sciences, and computation and neural systems. A paper describing the work recently appeared in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The lead authors of the paper are former Caltech postdoctoral scholar Byoung-jin Jeon and current graduate student Matteo M. Guareschi, who completed the work in Rothemund's lab.

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[woiage]

The elite among the elites

[on--mars]

SOL - 4456

Visualization: Vladimir Jankijevic

Credit: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech - https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov

[tugumu]

Mars

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

[kittyoverlord]

LAST DAY TO FILE - 12/17/2024 (today)

DID YOU GO TO A "TOP TIER" UNIVERSITY? DID YOU RECEIVE SOME FINANCIAL AID? FILE TODAY TO RECEIVE COMPENSATION!!!

Closes at 11:59:59 Pacific Time

Got mine in at the last minute as per usual. Sending out anyway in case anyone else wants to scramble to get things together today.

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