JUST IN🚨: Physicist Paul Dirac said: "God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.
Our feeble attempts at mathematics enable us to understand a bit of the universe, and as we proceed to develop higher and higher mathematics we can hope to understand the universe better."
大同浑源永安寺传法正宗殿存明代壁画约187㎡,含135组895尊人物。后壁“十大明王”像均高3.245米,尺度惊人。壁画以勾填法绘就,石绿朱砂设色沉稳,笔力雄健。融三教神祇,承元代画风,构图宏大,技法纯熟,乃明代宗教绘画成熟典范。
Ming Dynasty Murals at Yong'an Temple, Datong, China.
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Artwork from Le Tarot Astrologique (1927).
Happy Jupiter day, everyone!
This fresco is Enthroned Zeus, cradling a golden lightning bolt and holding a silver scepter. Victory crowns him with a laurels wreath on Pompeii, House of the Dioscuri
A new analysis in Science of more than 116,000 bird songs has revealed that the astonishing variety of passerine birdsong is built from just eight basic acoustic motifs, like trills, whistles, and harmonic notes.
The findings also reveal that local environments greatly shape how birds communicate around the world. Learn more: https://t.co/3oaQ0sKQfJ
Using more than 1.4 petabytes of electron microscopy (EM) imaging data, researchers generated a nanoscale-resolution reconstruction of a millimeter-scale fragment of human cerebral cortex, providing an unprecedented view into the structural organization of brain tissue at the supracellular, cellular, and subcellular levels.
The human brain is a vastly complex organ and, to date, little is known about its cellular microstructure, including the synaptic and neural circuits it supports. Disruption of these circuits is known to play a role in myriad brain disorders. Yet studying human brain samples in such great detail comes with a host of challenges, ranging from technological limitations to the availability and preservation of tissue samples from healthy individuals.
In a 2024 Science study, researchers performed a high-resolution EM reconstruction of the ultrastructure of a cubic millimeter of human temporal cortex. According to the authors, the reconstruction contains roughly 57,000 cells, about 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and nearly 150 million synapses, comprising 1400 terabytes of data. The authors generated a three-dimensional reconstruction of nearly every cell and process in the cubic millimeter sample and developed a freely available tool for visualizing and analyzing the vast dataset.
Learn more on #WorldBrainDay: https://t.co/ye8JncNkrJ
🎑The universe just pulled off something almost impossible… over Iceland. 🌌🌑
This is the kind of moment that doesn’t just feel rare… it feels unreal.
Seeing the Aurora Borealis is already a bucket-list experience.
Witnessing a Solar Eclipse is rare on its own.
But both… perfectly aligned in the same sky?
That’s the “double crown” — and it might be a once-in-a-lifetime sight.
What looks like pure magic is actually a perfect storm of timing:
✨ A powerful geomagnetic storm ignited vivid auroras across the polar sky
🌑 At the exact same time, the Moon slipped into the Sun’s path of totality
👁️ From the perfect angle, the Sun’s glowing corona formed one crown… while shimmering green auroras painted another behind it
Two crowns. One sky. One fleeting moment.
This is what happens when cosmic precision meets Earth’s atmosphere — a reminder that the universe doesn’t just work in equations… it performs.
And sometimes, if everything aligns just right… we get to witness it.