Whitney Clavin

Science communicator at Caltech, covering black holes, exoplanets, quantum physics, and more!

[John Clavin @johnfclavin]

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[Caltech @Caltech]

Astronomers are reporting evidence for a possible second kilonova event, but the case is not closed. In fact, this situation is much more complex.

https://t.co/K8t8GkSRM3

[Whitney Clavin @whitnutt]

@diannahaze It got better before so I’m sure it will get better again. Hang in there.

[Whitney Clavin @whitnutt]

6,100 qubits gathered for a laser-light party! Caltech researchers break records with a large array of neutral-atom qubits. https://t.co/dzgBMWiOZM @Caltech

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Chi Nguyen remembers the moment she plugged her laptop into a large monitor in a conference room and onlookers began to cheer. She was presenting a team with the first "aliveness test" image taken by the agency's space telescope SPHEREx.

https://t.co/5RZeANgTNB

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@thephysicsgirl Black hole jets as long as 140 Milky Way's lined up back to back! https://t.co/7FRLPtHEpL

[Caltech @Caltech]

Quantum computers promise to outperform today's traditional computers in many areas of science, but proving they will be superior has been challenging. Researchers have identified a physics problem where these futuristic machines would have the advantage.

https://t.co/Pr4NP2jK5o

[Whitney Clavin @whitnutt]

Go SPHEREx! Jamie Bock's talk about the mission's first images was packed. @Caltech

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standing room only -- pics from @whitnutt

[John Preskill @preskill]

For those who celebrate, November 7 is the birthday of two scientific giants: Marie Curie (1867-1934) and Lise Meitner (1878-1968), justly renowned for their world-changing investigations of radioactivity and nuclear fission.

[Whitney Clavin @whitnutt]

@diannahaze I think the short hair is supercute and gives you a rocker edge. I like it.

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A Caltech mathematician, Matilde Marcolli, teamed up with Noam Chomsky to figure out the algebraic structures underlying his latest theories of language. "Noam's work was so precise that it was easy to translate into math," she said. https://t.co/w9BKDJh3ob

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Astronomers have discovered that a well-studied brown dwarf is in fact two that are orbiting closely around each other.
https://t.co/ZxnQ4Rh8hS

[Whitney Clavin @whitnutt]

Drinking beer and learning about astro visualizations with @AstroRob ! @lincolnbeerco

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In case you missed it, @pholderness's video about jumbo black hole jets blasting through space is really good! @MartijnOei https://t.co/e6zrsKpU4y

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Monstrous black hole jets span 140 Milky Ways and may have shaped the formation of other galaxies! https://t.co/7FRLPtHEpL

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@itsMalma @julialmv @thephysicsgirl @OpenMedF https://t.co/a94qa7rF7m

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Look at how the intense gravity of a neutron star is warping our view of its partner star in this cool, new animation by @AstroRob! (It's for a Caltech news story about newfound pairs of neutron stars and Sun-like stars) https://t.co/4GdXrxuiZk

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@jennanntorres Congrats!! Amazing!!

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A new computer simulation upends ideas about feeding black holes that astronomers have held since the 1970s.
https://t.co/W2xhdf4kWk

[Whitney Clavin @whitnutt]

@NanaVisitor Can’t wait for this!!