Sensors and Lasers

05/15/2024

04/20/2024

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I thought this one was clever – a fresh take on an old photo trick! Thanks to NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration for putting this one up. Perfect timing for Engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal and the photographer to get it right on!

04/20/2024

04/11/2024

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NASA Engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal waves goodbye to a Black Brant IX sounding rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during the total

04/07/2024

Ideas are Worthless
Book: https://amzn.to/4aobm97

04/05/2024

Happy birthday, Jane Goodall!

04/05/2024

Science will inevitably help shape our future, but how can society get the best from science? As our awareness of local and global challenges increases, let's consider how best to equip ourselves, and future generations, to make the most of the opportunity science offers to build a better world.

On 15 April, physics laureate Serge Haroche will be joining us to discuss how science and society together will create a better future for all of us.

Sign up for the free event here: https://www.nobelprize.org/events/nobel-prize-dialogue/brazil2024/

03/11/2024

“This is why I value that little phrase ‘I don’t know’ so highly. It’s small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include the spaces within us as well as those outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended. If Isaac Newton had never said to himself ‘I don’t know’, the apples in his little orchard might have dropped to the ground like hailstones and at best he would have stooped to pick them up and gobble them with gusto. Had my compatriot Marie Sklodowska-Curie never said to herself ‘I don’t know’, she probably would have wound up teaching chemistry at some private high school for young ladies from good families, and would have ended her days performing this otherwise perfectly respectable job. But she kept on saying ‘I don’t know’, and these words led her, not just once but twice, to Stockholm, where restless, questing spirits are occasionally rewarded with the Nobel Prize.”

- Wislawa Szymborska on the importance of telling oneself “I don't know.”

In 1996, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”