Allison Gasparini
@astrogaspariniScience writer, @UCSC_SciCom alumn, need my space 🌒🪐☄️
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IT'S HERE! "Seeing the Universe Without Sight," my feature for Sky & Telescope's March 2024 issue. My deepest thanks to my sources who shared their lived experiences with me and allowed me to tell a part of their story. isabelswafford.godaddysites.com/writing #sonification #accessibility
Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.
When subjected to a cyclic applied force, cracks can form and grow within a metal. Researchers @SandiaLabs have found that, in a vacuum environment, those cracks will eventually retreat, healing themselves. Story by @astrogasparini physics.aps.org/articles/v16/1…
The wiggle is all in the bubbles: Dancing peanuts explained by @PereiraConca of @LMU_Volc @LMU_Muenchen and his colleagues. Story by @astrogasparini physics.aps.org/articles/v16/1…
Gravitational-wave detections of dying stars could be on the horizon for @LIGO @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR according to simulations from a team at @NorthwesternU Story by @astrogasparini physics.aps.org/articles/v16/1…
Saturn’s rings are young, really young (at least on a planetary scale). 🪐🪐🪐 Read the story by @astrogasparini physics.aps.org/articles/v16/83
Gulp! Growing star gobbles up planet. Read the story by @astrogasparini @MITKavli physics.aps.org/articles/v16/78
“Dark photons”—a hypothetical form of ultralight dark matter—could be picked up by radio telescopes. Read the story by @astrogasparini physics.aps.org/articles/v16/s…
Crustaceans can camouflage their eyes by tuning the reflective properties of nanospheres within the eye. Results from @ShavitKeshet @SchertelLukas @dakkaynak @jshaataj @Benpalmerlab Story by @astrogasparini physics.aps.org/articles/v16/48
Asteroid Ryugu contains vitamin B3 and uracil, one of the chemical letters in RNA, according to a new analysis of samples collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 probe. sciencenews.org/article/buildi… #astrobiology #asteroids
Excited to share my latest! Author Yasuhiro Oba told me the detection of the RNA nucleobase uracil in samples returned from Ryugu is “very important to clearly demonstrate that it is really present in extraterrestrial environments”:
A component of RNA, which is found in all living cells, has been found on the asteroid Ryugu. sciencenews.org/article/buildi…
MDTP Student Highlight: Soleil Young @soleilsolay is a PhD candidate in the @uwcurrielab She studies the evolution of the fungal mutualist of fungus-growing ants, Leucoagaricus spp. @UWBact #QueerinSTEM
Microbial life could be thriving on other planets and moons. To find it, a detector needs to be small enough to fit within a launcher's payload. @lori_n_willhite, @OrbitrapRicky, and colleagues have made such a detector. Read the story by @astrogasparini physics.aps.org/articles/v16/19
I host a podcast for @savetheredwoods about BIPOC conservationists doing cool things and building community outdoors 🤠 First episode of Season 3 is out now! (1/n)
A type of clam 🦪thought to be extinct, and known only to researchers by fossils it left behind thousands of years ago, has turned up alive and well off the coast of California in the USA! 🇺🇸 via @IPBES More by @astrogasparini from @sciencenews: sciencenews.org/article/clam-p…
Not sure what flowers to plant to help boost bee populations: a new model could provide some insight. Read the story by @astrogasparini physics.aps.org/articles/v15/1…
Astrophysicists might already have seen a wormhole, they just don't know it yet. Read the full story by @astrogasparini physics.aps.org/articles/v15/s…
The first generation of astronomers to study exoplanets are now racing to discover life on one. Lisa Kaltenegger (@KalteneggerLisa) hopes to identify the first candidate living planets. @josh_sokol reports: quantamagazine.org/the-race-to-di…
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