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Portuguese-American, Astrophysics Educator, Dog Dad, RPG Lover, FC Porto Fan, and Dessert Aficionado | Always open to learning and growing but will never stop advocating for people's rights 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇪
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the familiar yet hard to define concept of time, as well as fireworks in honor of New Year celebrations. We also covered the space tourism industry.

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This week we're covering time. With the new year causing many of us to reflect on the past and ponder the future, we were inspired to share the current understanding of this all-too-familiar but hard-to-define concept. We're also celebrating the occasion with a look at the science of fireworks before exploring the space tourism industry.
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January 3, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter is headlined by our write-up on 3D Printing. We also explore the Hubble Space Telescope and explain how mixed reality works.

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December 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter is headlined by our write-up on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. We also explore the engineering behind fracking and preview the future of smart cities.

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December 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter is headlined by our write-up on General Relativity, Albert Einstein's theory of gravity. We also explore volcanoes and the history of the Tesla car company.

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December 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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This past week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter is headlined by our write-up on the Environment Protection Agency for its 55th birthday. We also explore deepfakes and discuss the impact of space trash.

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December 3, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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This past week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter is headlined by Bill Nye to celebrate the science communicator's 70th birthday. We're also exploring generative AI and breaking down tropical cyclones.

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November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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This past week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored Microsoft to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Windows 1.0. We also took a look at Pollinators and explored what we know about Mars. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the Biosphere 2, known as the largest Earth Science experiment on Earth. We also took a look at the history and impact of Apple and the science of self-driving cars. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Last week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored Tardigrades, the seemingly indestructible water bears. We also took a look at the impact of Nikola Tesla and the science behind earthquakes. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Dear readers—Welcome to our new email format! Our team has heard your feedback, and we will now cover a wider variety of topics with more links to explore in our weekly Science & Technology newsletter. As always, thanks for being a reader!
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November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the International Space Station to celebrate 25 years of uninterrupted human occupancy in space. We also took a look at electric vehicles and large language models. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Dear readers—Welcome to our new email format! Our team has heard your feedback, and we will now cover a wider variety of topics with more links to explore in our weekly Science & Technology newsletter. As always, thanks for being a reader!
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November 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored Lasers. Learn how these devices work and how they've been used to develop laser printers, create tweezers made of light, and redefine how we measure time via atomic clocks: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, Oct. 21, and we're bringing you the latest Science & Technology newsletter. Every week, we provide fascinating deep dives into the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience, computer science, and more.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the life of Marie Curie. Learn about the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person with multiple Nobels in different sciences here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, Oct. 14, and we're bringing you the latest Science & Technology newsletter. Every week, we provide fascinating deep dives into the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience, computer science, and more.
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October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the Standard Model. Learn about the most comprehensive theory of particle physics and what's keeping it from becoming the theory of everything: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, Oct. 7, and we're bringing you the latest Science & Technology newsletter. Every week, we provide fascinating deep dives into the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience, computer science, and more.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored Plate Tectonics. Learn about the evidence behind moving continents and how the theory explains geological activity here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, Sept. 30, and we're bringing you the latest Science & Technology newsletter. Every week, we provide fascinating deep dives into the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience, computer science, and more.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter provided a breakdown of the discovery, origins, and life of Dinosaurs. Learn about the prehistoric kings of Earth's surface here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0....
Good morning. It's Tuesday, Sept. 23, and we're bringing you the latest Science & Technology newsletter. Every week, we provide fascinating deep dives into the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience, computer science, and more.
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September 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the phenomenon of bioluminescence. Learn how some organisms create their own light here: link.join1440.com/view/67a2456...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, Sept. 16, and today we're covering bioluminescence. Our team was inspired by the light shows made by fireflies (or lightning bugs) this past summer and sought to explore the brilliant phenomenon in detail.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the history and manufacturing of the integrated circuit. Learn how microchips work here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, Sept. 9, and today we're covering microchips. With AI dominating much of the technology news of today, we wanted to take a look at the critical hardware powering it and all other electronics in the modern world.
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September 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the phenomenon of Turbulence, which has been described as the most important unsolved problem in classical physics: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, Sept. 2, and today we're covering turbulence. Most commonly associated with uneasiness while flying, the phenomenon has been described as the most important unsolved problem in classical physics, and its solution is tied to a million-dollar bounty by the Clay Mathematics Institute.
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September 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the story of Wind Power, including its history, how wind turbines work, and what the future holds for this renewable energy source: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
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August 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social #Science and #Technology Newsletter explored the Viking Project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first spacecraft to successfully land and transmit data from Mars: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, Aug. 19, and today we're covering the Viking project. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Viking 1 tomorrow, we were inspired to look back at the first successful US effort to land a spacecraft on Mars.
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August 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Today's @1440daily.bsky.social Science and Technology Newsletter took a trip to Jupiter to explore the science behind its appearance and structure. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, Aug. 12, and today we're covering Jupiter. Continuing the ongoing explorations of the solar system that began with Earth and Mars, we now travel beyond the asteroid belt to investigate the king of planets.
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August 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Today's @1440daily.bsky.social Science and Technology Newsletter provided an overview of Climatology, including its history and how scientists collect and use climate data for modeling. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, Aug. 5, and today we're covering climatology. Because of the scale of this branch of science, this will be the first of several newsletters about climate. We start with an overview of the field's origins and explore how scientists collect and use climate data to understand Earth's past and predict its future.
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August 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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This week's @1440daily.bsky.social Science and Technology Newsletter provided an overview of the origins of Quantum Mechanics. Check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/67a2456...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, July 29, and today we're covering quantum mechanics. In honor of the 100-year anniversary of the mathematical formulation and the United Nations recognizing 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, we wanted to explore the origins of this remarkable field.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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In case you missed today's @1440daily.bsky.social Science and Technology Newsletter, where we explored the life of Rosalind Franklin, check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/68210e0...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, July 22, and today we're covering Rosalind Franklin. In honor of what would have been her 105th birthday this week, we wanted to explore the life of the scientist who made discovering DNA's structure possible but whom history nearly erased.
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July 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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In case you missed last week's @1440daily.bsky.social Science and Technology Newsletter, where we explored "Microplastics," check it out here: link.join1440.com/view/67a2456...
Good morning. It's Tuesday, July 15, and today we're covering microplastics. With the number of headlines about these particles surpassed only by their abundance in the environment, we thought we'd explore their origins and effects on our world.
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July 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM