F. Javier del Campo

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

https://t.co/nau532GFAp
🟡 Honey is 80% sugars and 20% water.
🟡 To make one pound of honey, the bees in the colony must visit 2 million flowers, fly over 55,000 miles and will be the lifetime work of approximately 768 bees.
🟡 A single honeybee will only produce approximately 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
🟡 A single honey bee will visit 50-100 flowers on a single trip out of the hive.
🟡 Honey is the ONLY food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water; and it's the only food that contains "pinocembrin", an antioxidant associated with improved brain functioning

[📹 macrofying]

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

"Study the science of art. Study the art of Science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."

-- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Smoke usually doesn't behave like a liquid, because its particles tend to rise, carried by convection currents.

But there are conditions in which smoke can drip like water, especially when it can cool down and condense, becoming denser than air
https://t.co/uxlGvtnWGx

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

Stabilized camera captures the Earth's rotation 😮

Credit: @Brummo
https://t.co/JJFmYxeOZl

[NASA @NASA]

Summer 2023 was the hottest summer in NASA’s record, continuing a trend of long-term warming caused by human activity.

All three summer months broke heat records: https://t.co/fAbXthgoP4

[CaixaResearch @CaixaResearch]

1/ 👑🩸 «¿Pensabais que la sangre azul era cosa de cuentos?… No os vayáis, que mi equipo y yo os contamos el proyecto Sintrocito».

🆕📽️ ¡La investigadora #CaixaResearch Eva Baldrich y su equipo del @VHIR_ nos traen 'News From The Lab'!

👇🧵

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Leonardo da Vinci loved quality over quantity.

He didn’t write paintings in quantities like we write #research papers today.

He always invested time, craft and artistry into each of his masterpieces.

For example, Mona Lisa took at least 4 years to paint and (most probably) another 10 years of refining.

It was ordered in 1503 by a cloth merchant Francesco del Giocondo, who asked for a portrait of his wife, Lisa. But Leonardo was a slow worker and finished the painting quite late. At that time, he started to work for the King Francis I of France, so apparently Leonardo gave the painting to the King as a gift.

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Now, imagine he would have been ‘producing’ 10-20 paintings a year.

Moreover, imagine he would have hired younger painters and, without investing time into their training, asked for drafts? Just to turn painting into a “printing machine”.

Would his work have stayed in history for 500 years?

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‘Quality over quantity’ goes well beyond science.

It’s in art.

It’s in long-lasting engineering.

It’s everywhere.

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Don't publish for the sake of publishing.

Quality over quantity. Even if the academia pushes you into the opposite direction.

It’s what makes us, the humankind, progress and prosper.

And this is what makes history.

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

[Chemistry World @ChemistryWorld]

Selecting the proper reference electrode is crucial to making sure that data is reproducible and trustworthy. The teams found that thousands of studies used the wrong ones.
https://t.co/BsxdPNK7XF

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Amazing ❤

[European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research]

“It’s crucial, but not always easy, to communicate about fundamental science and frontier research.” How does the @cnrs do #scicomm? @musacchios shares his experiences and insights in this podcast interview: https://t.co/Doe7BVFAUI

[VSociales @vsgsoc]

—¿Qué haces, papá?
—Estoy haciendo fuego como me enseñó mi padre.
—Qué chulo, ¿me enseñas?
—No hace falta, en el futuro habrá mecheros y lo importante es que seas feliz.

[BCMaterials @BCMaterials]

Un nuevo grupo de estudiantes de 2º de la ESO de @IESBalmasedaBHI nos ha visitado hoy, con nuestros investigadores Irene Carbajo y Pello Núñez como guías. ¡Un placer compartir nuestra pasión por la ciencia de nuevos materiales para contribuir a una vida mejor! @ztf_fct

[BCMaterials @BCMaterials]

We want to welcome Rajendra Gajjala as new post-doctoral researcher. An expert in interfaces and nanomaterials, Dr. Gajjala will work on biosensors for health applications and developing materials and nanomaterials to improve charge transfer at electrode-electrolyte interfaces.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

The world's largest vacuum chamber

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

One year is exactly 365.2422 days long.

More than two thousand years ago a Greek astronomer called Hipparchus calculated the length of a year to within 0.005 of that figure.

And he didn't even have a telescope...

[ECS @ECSorg]

Great news, electrochemists! The Wall Street Journal announced electrochemists are in hot demand as the world continues to work towards a green-energy future. Read more below!

https://t.co/tXefbi9lTr

#theelectrochemicalsociety #scienceandtechnology #electrochemistry

[Joaquin Gonzalez @josquinsp]

https://t.co/iRziCj4yDB

[BCMaterials @BCMaterials]

The elves at @BCMaterials labs grew our traditional Christmas tree again!! Magical days a-coming!

[F. Javier del Campo @fj_delcampo]

This years’ Science Week was a fantastic opportunity to showcase Electrochemistry through electrochromic devices and biodegradable batteries at @BCMaterials city of the future. Great fun.