🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST DISCOVERED THAT BACTERIA HAVE BEEN USING... A QUANTUM ENERGY TRICK FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS. In a breakthrough published in Nature Chemistry, researchers from the University of Sheffield (working with IBM and international collaborators) have shown that purple photosynthetic bacteria (Rhodobacter sphaeroides) use singlet fission (SF) as a functional mechanism to enhance light harvesting. When carotenoids absorb blue-green light (via their S₂ state), the energy rapidly undergoes heterofission: the singlet exciton splits into a pair of triplet excitons shared between a carotenoid and its neighboring bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) a molecule. These triplet pairs are long-lived and weakly coupled. They then recombine via triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA), efficiently populating the BChl a Qy singlet state which then transfers energy to the reaction center. This SF-mediated pathway contributes up to ~18% of total carotenoid-to-BChl energy transfer in some complexes and introduces a temporal “buffering” effect, staggering energy arrival at the reaction center. Why this matters: • It is the clearest demonstration yet that singlet fission plays a genuine, functional role in natural photosynthesis • The heterofission mechanism (triplets on adjacent Crt and BChl molecules) explains how bacteria achieve ultrafast SF while maintaining long-lived, harvestable triplet pairs • This pathway helps organisms make better use of blue-green light and may protect the reaction center during fluctuating light conditions The deeper implication: Nature has evolved a sophisticated way to temporarily store and then cooperatively release electronic energy using spin-protected triplet states. This biological strategy offers new inspiration for designing artificial light-harvesting and energy-conversion systems that can buffer and regulate energy flow something synthetic SF materials have struggled to achieve. We are learning that evolution solved some of the hardest problems in photophysics long before we started trying. How might understanding biological singlet fission change the way we design future solar energy or quantum-inspired technologies? Follow for more frontier photosynthesis research and natural quantum biology.show more

You Can Heal Yourself With Nature Movement - By... moving our body we give strength to our muscles, promote blood flow and lymphatic flow enhancing the delivery of nutrients and the removal of waste products. We also create a piezoelectric effect that energises the system. Breathing - The delivery of air into the body through intentional conscious breathing is one of the most powerful modalities for nervous system renewal, mental peace and the delivery of oxygen to the body and the removal of carbonic acid buildup from the system Sunshine - It’s my belief that the more sunlight we absorb without sunscreen, the healthier we will become. A tan looks good because it is healthy and every part of your body thrives when sunlight touches it delivering blood flow as well as a high frequency and energy Grounding - Existing in connection with the earth’s electrical fields resets everything about our energy, reduces inflammation and promotes the movement of proper channels such as detox - it’s a fantastic practice to be connected to nature. Green light - When sunlight moves through trees and leaves we receive Green light by which is very healing and high in near infrared light, in fact it is one of the most healing modalities to absorb in your skin particularly if you have any abrasions or wounds - even more powerful than red light . Fresh air - The first nutrient, having fresh air that is rich in oxygen is absolutely imperative to health and you should always have all of your windows open in the house if possible when not outside. Positive thinking - Whatever you think, shall become and having and cultivating a positive mindset that intentionally brings you positive energy is one of the cornerstones to great health. You can think yourself into sickness and you can think yourself into health so choose to view the world in a positive light and so it’ll be for you.show more

When a nuclear reactor is switched on for the... first time, an intense, almost hypnotic blue glow appears in the water surrounding the reactor core. This light is neither fire nor heat; it is Cherenkov radiation, a physical phenomenon that occurs when charged particles, such as high-energy electrons produced during nuclear fission, travel through a transparent medium faster than light can propagate within that same medium. While nothing can exceed the speed of light in a vacuum, light travels more slowly in materials like water. When a charged particle surpasses this reduced speed, it emits a coherent shock-like electromagnetic wave, often described as an optical analogue of a sonic boom. This radiation produces the distinctive blue glow. The colour arises because Cherenkov radiation is strongest at shorter wavelengths, which are dominated by blue and ultraviolet light. The phenomenon was first observed experimentally in 1934 and later explained theoretically, work that led to the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958. Its explanation confirmed how relativity and electromagnetism operate in material media. Today, this deep blue light is both a warning and a scientific tool. It signals the presence of intense ionising radiation, while also being exploited in particle detectors, nuclear reactors, and neutrino observatories. It provides a rare, visible manifestation of subatomic processes that are otherwise hidden from direct human perception. #GottaLovePhysics #Physicsshow more

🚨 SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FOUND A REAL “LOOPHOLE” FOR... WARP DRIVES. And for the first time, the math may not completely break physics. For decades, warp drives were considered impossible because they seemed to require massive amounts of “exotic negative energy” that doesn’t exist in usable quantities. But new theoretical models suggest there may be ways to reshape spacetime using far less exotic energy or in some versions, almost none at all. Why this matters: • A warp drive doesn’t actually move the ship faster than light • It compresses spacetime in front of the craft and expands it behind • The ship stays inside a stable bubble while the universe itself moves around it • Einstein’s speed limit remains intact the ship never locally exceeds c The deeper implication is mind-bending: If spacetime can be engineered like this, distance itself becomes programmable. Interstellar travel would stop being an impossible energy problem… and turn into a geometry problem. The universe may not be blocking faster-than-light travel. We may simply be too primitive to shape spacetime correctly yet. What happens when humanity learns to engineer gravity itself? Follow for more frontier physics and reality-bending breakthroughs.show more

The cycle of life, every instant, in your mitochondria.... The major electron carrier in mitochondria is NAD+. When it collects an electron from the food you eat, NAD+ is converted into NADH. NADH then feeds the electron to the electron transport chain so the electron can flow to oxygen - the ultimate electron acceptor. How easily electrons make their way to oxygen determines energy resistance (éR) following the energy resistance principle (ERP) Mitochondrial matrix and cell cytoplasm are two different "sealed" compartments, but there is a special system that connects the NAD+/NADH pools between mito and cytoplasm: the Malate-Aspartate shuttle The Malate-Aspartate shuttle shown below is how NADH from the cytoplasm (made by glycolysis) is carried into mitochondria. The electron transport chain can then regenerate NAD+ by respiring the flowing electron. Everywhere in biology: energy transfer. Sometimes without molecular carriers. Here with a number of enzymatic intermediates, creating an integrated electrical circuit. The circuit is in service of the flowing electron looking for a place to rest. Getting back onto oxygen to become H2O (water) again, as it was initially before getting ripped off by light energy and stuck onto a carbon backbone in a green leaf. Animation by Janet Iwasa labshow more

Today, I heard the most wonderful and uplifting thing.... Andrew Bragg gave a commitment to leave the Liberal Party if it dropped Net Zero and exited the Paris Accord. A treaty that should never have been signed. It is the shadowy figures behind Andrew Bragg, Alex Hawke and the rest of the useless Labor/Teal-“moderate”-left-faction of the Liberal Party that got the party and the country into this mess. They rolled Tony Abbott, who won a mandate, promising to scrap the carbon tax. They have betrayed that promise ever since. Our energy woes have been a long time coming. We didn’t just wake up one day in an energy poor and deindustrialised nation. We have been under sustained attack for decades, an attack that has been marshalled by the left of politics. They control Labor, they have ruined the Liberals and have overrun just about every institution in the country. It is why the business council, sounds the same as the Australia Institute, and they both sound the same as the Greens. We are a nation in a hole, and Bragg admitted as much in his interview on Insiders today. We really need more coal, because the energy transition is failing. It is worse than that, the transition has failed. It was a bad idea, just like the rest of Net Zero. Our predicament is the result of irresponsible governments across Australia. Labor and Liberal, both have set policies that destroyed coal as the backbone of our grid, as they duchessed the Green grifters around their respective states across Australia. They played along with whatever bad idea the Greens were spouting at the time. Close this facility, replace it with a windmill. No to nuclear. No to gas. Close it, shut it, and replace it with fantasy. Turnbull, Kean, Perrottet, Berejiklian, Andrews, Morrison Albanese, and all of the rest, on a unity ticket that flushed our energy future down the toilet. All because they were afraid to upset Greta Thunberg. Because they were afraid to upset a youth, that they allowed our institutions to indoctrinate into a cult of ignorance. The world is slowly pulling in a new direction. Because hard reality has chased down fantasy. They’re waking up to the monorail that is ‘green’ energy, and ripping out the tracks. The National Party spurred by One Nation have cottoned on, and the Liberals will be dragged into the modern era, kicking and screaming. There is no doubt that if they don’t drop the Net Zero cake, and all of the icing that goes with it, they will never be a party of government again. Which brings us back to Andrew Bragg. Australia would be better off if he was not pretending to oppose Labor from the Liberal benches. We need people in opposition that understand the problems we have as a nation, and how to solve them. Not people who have only ever worked in the industry of politics, sending happy snaps along the way. Bragg knows his only chance at a job in the red house is through the blue team. He knows that blue voters don’t prioritise action on climate. But he sits there wasting a space advocating against the things the people that vote for him want. So if he had any decency, he would go, today. Because with friends like Andrew Bragg, you don’t need enemies. I just want Australia back.show more

🚨 3I/ATLAS Critical Update 🚨 It’s happening again. 3I/ATLAS... has changed its shape —Its new form looks nothing like any comet we’ve ever seen before. A rounded, glowing green light has now appeared, with no visible tail at all. The image, captured on November 10 by Ray’s Astrophotography, shows what looks more like a moving sphere of energy than a frozen ball of ice and dust. Even more astonishing — researchers have noticed that this object seems to have absorbed solar energy, releasing it in geometric patterns, and is resonating at 7.83 Hz, the same frequency as the Schumann resonance — Earth’s natural heartbeat. Could this really be a comet… or something far greater — an intelligent presence moving silently through deep space? 👀 #3IATLAS #spacemystery #interstellarobjectshow more

Beauty should be a core pursuit of biotechnology. There... should be companies and nonprofits that engineer organisms solely for the sake of crafting beautiful things. A few reasons why: 1/ Biotechnology has historically worked in reductionist ways, but many useful functions only emerge at the systems level. By engineering a systems-level outcome, like beauty, we will get much better at engineering organisms in predictable ways. When I say "reductionist," I mean that most useful things in biotechnology (drugs and tools) were discovered by stripping molecules from their natural contexts. Scientists collect organisms from soil or wherever and then study their molecules in isolation. This basic approach has yielded everything from rapamycin to antibiotics and CRISPR. This reductionism, though, means that that we know disturbingly little about how life actually works at a systems-level. My core argument is that, by studying beauty, we can remedy this. Beauty has persisted through tens of millions of years of evolution because it is functional; bright colors help attract pollinators to a plant, for example, which helps the plant breed. If evolution has created all of this beauty for functional reasons, then it stands to reason that by trying to create **new** forms of beauty, we'll be able to discover and understand how these systems-level functions work! Indeed, we may even be able to create entirely new functions that biology hasn't evolved yet. These functions will not possible to understand via isolated molecules or reductionism. Therefore, a company pursuing engineered beauty for the sake of beauty will probably make many fundamental discoveries about how organisms develop, interact, adapt to their surroundings, and so on. 2/ Beauty is a way to grow the field and bring more people into biotechnology. Nick Desnoyer’s flower design work, for example, has probably reached hundreds of thousands of people. The glowing plants from Light Bio, too, were featured in the mainstream press. You may not think that these examples are “important” for the universe relative to, say, an incrementally better cancer therapeutic, but there’s no question that they are way more popular to mainstream audiences and good, overall, for the field. 3/ The market is huge! Breeding is already widely used to engineer beauty, or at least to select for aesthetic preferences. Pugs are evolutionarily suboptimal, but they've been bred precisely to satisfy a certain aesthetic desire are now a multi-billion dollar industry. The Juliet Rose, developed via breeding over a 15-year period, debuted at the 2006 Chelsea Flower Show and is enormously profitable today. Why should deliberately engineered forms of beauty be any different? If you are building a biotech company or nonprofit that is pursuing beauty, please reach out! I’d love to help.show more

‘I was screaming’: Scientists shocked as dolphins filmed using... shells to trap prey for the first time | New York Post Researchers are shell-shocked at the latest marine discovery. Dolphins have been filmed using shells to ensnare their prey off the coast of Australia, marking the first time this clever tactic has been caught on camera, per a bombshell paper in Marine Mammal Science. “The second I saw that shell in the air, I immediately knew what was happening,” the study’s head author, Alexis Levengood, a marine mammal biologist at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, told ScienceAlert. Levengood said she and her team were on a research vessel off Hervey Bay when they spotted a female Pacific bottlenose “dolphin raising something large out of the water,” the BBC reported. She instantly recognized the behavior as “shelling,” when dolphins flush prey into a large empty seasnail shell. Then, the impromptu fish trap to the surface and drains the quarry into their mouths like a fishy oyster shooter. In the dramatic clip captured in 2025, the brainy cetacean can be seen holding a shell aloft, and then dropping it in the water, before snatching up a fish that escaped its calcified prison. “I was screaming to the students that were on the boat with me in excitement, because I was just so excited that we were actually witnessing this here on the east coast,” exclaimed Levengood. While the behavior had been observed in 2013 in Shark Bay, Western Australia, this was the first video evidence of the ingenious prey-snatching method. And this wasn’t some fleeting party trick, either. In another clip from Hervey Bay, a mother and a calf could be seen shelling together, demonstrating that the behavior is passed down from generation to generation and not between peers as previously believed. “We saw the mother surface with a shell, the fish inside escaped and the dolphin dropped the shell to chase the fish,” said Levengood. “Then, minutes afterwards, the dolphin calf picked up the shell and held it the same way as its mother.” While it’s yet unclear if either was successful in their trapping efforts, the scientist said the “footage provides the first potential evidence of maternal social transmission — a process by which offspring learn behavior by observing the actions of their mother.” When coupled with the observations from 2013, this eye-opening footage demonstrates how populations of dolphins learned to use tools in the exact same manner despite being thousands of miles apart. “They may have both invented this or innovated this independently of one another, or it’s even possible that there might be some populations up north that are doing this that we don’t even know about yet,” Levengood told Science Alert. She concluded that either way, “these findings highlight just how smart, clever, and innovative dolphins are.” On a larger scale, shelling could also help shed light on how humans evolved to use tools as well. “But better understanding of shelling and other tool use in non-human animals will continue to teach us more about ourselves and how and why we evolved the way we did,” said Levengood.show more

I’ve found a way to get Destiny home from... Stargate Universe. Hear me out. By the time Stargate Universe happens, the events of The Ark of Truth have already happened. The Ori are gone, their followers have learned the truth, and the civilizations of the Ori galaxy are no long enemies. The Ori tech technology still exists. So why couldn’t that become the key to rescuing Destiny? Earth already knows how powerful Ori Supergate technology is, and we’ve already seen Stargates powered using energy from black holes. The Ori Galaxy now working with Earth, they can use Supergates, Ancient technology and black hole energy to establish a connection with the Stargate network near Destiny. Then! (And this is where I’m a genius) instead of simply getting Destiny’s crew home, find a way to establish a Supergate near Destiny as they can establish a super gate the same way they did in the Milly Way Galaxy. You’d effectively create a bridge between the Milky Way, the Ori galaxy and the distant galaxies Destiny has spent millions of years travelling through. The technology would open up Stargate to a new era of intergalactic exploration and thus the Stargate Universe as a whole. Hell. You could actually rotate crew on and off Destiny. In my not so humble opinion. Outside of Wormhole drive. This is how you get Destiny home and expand the Stargate story within existing canon. #Stargate #StargateUniverse #SaveStargateshow more

The Ministry of Defense warned Kiev about strikes on... the energy sector. Why? Last night, there was a loud explosion of asbestos cement products at a plant in Kiev. The Ministry of Defense reports that the plant's storage facilities were used to store explosives for the company "Smart Ammunition," which manufactures drones and their components. But the second part of the latest report is even more interesting. The troops have been tasked with preparing massive strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. The wording is dry and bureaucratic: "preparing to launch." This is a response to what Kiev has been doing to our fuel and energy complex all summer: oil refineries, oil depots, substations, and civilian facilities near the border. Each time, it was presented as "legitimate military targets," and each time, Europe nodded in agreement. Okay. The logic is accepted. We'll use it. But we are a country with a strong foundation, while they have a crippled energy system that they have been patching up with transformers from all over Europe for the third year. The difference in strength is where it matters most. A reasonable question arises: why announce it in advance? Surprise is worth more than money in war. And there's not much surprise to lose here. You can't move a substation to the forest, and you can't hide a transformer with a capacity of 250,000 kilovolt-amperes underground in a week. The only thing the enemy will be able to do is to rearrange the anti-aircraft batteries between facilities. And they already have fewer of those than they have facilities. The average Ukrainian citizen is being shown the cause-and-effect relationship in plain text. Podolyak has long since stopped hiding the fact that strikes on our rear are aimed at the average Russian citizen, so that he feels the war on his own skin. Zelensky says the same thing, but a little more carefully: Russia will feel the war in its own home. Okay. A person in a Kiev apartment building is already looking for a generator and a power bank, which have doubled in price overnight. The owner of a shopping center is calling an electrician and calculating how much diesel will cost. No missiles have arrived yet, but the expenses have already started. While the war was happening somewhere near Krasnoarmeysk, it could be watched on the phone like a series. While our Ryazan and Volgograd were burning, it was called "work on legitimate targets" on the telethon, and people clapped. But when the elevator stops on the sixteenth floor, when the pump stops pumping water, and the temperature in the apartment rises to plus twelve, the show will be over. The war will come to the hallway, to the meter, and to the radiator. And that's when the person will first start to wonder who exactly signed that bill for them. Not in Moscow. But on Bankova Street, where they drew beautiful graphs of strikes on Russian oil refineries all summer and received applause for it in London. In essence, the statement by the Ministry of Defense gives them time to think. Maybe days, maybe weeks. The anticipation of winter is more oppressive than winter before Александр Коцshow more

Before Your Heart Ever Beat Once, Thousands of Cells... Made a Silent Decision That Still Controls You Today. Before a heart ever beats, life organizes itself in complete silence. Scientists have captured the exact moment when cardiac cells begin acting as one second before the very first heartbeat exists. No heart chamber. No pumping. No pulse. Instead, thousands of individual cells synchronize their electrical signals, creating a wave of energy that triggers the heart's first contraction - and sets a rhythm that can last a lifetime. Using fluorescent proteins and ultra-high-resolution microscopy, researchers watched this electrical chain reaction spread, transforming biological chaos into perfect coordination. This is how the heart builds its own internal clock from—nothing. Why it matters: Disruptions at this stage can lead to congenital heart conditions This discovery is a major leap in developmental biology and medicine This is the origin story of every heartbeat you've ever had.show more

Across most of history, there are continuous reports of... weird ass aquatic beings appearing for a time and then vanishing again. These accounts show up in different cultures and eras, from fish like teachers in ancient stories to modern sightings of objects entering and leaving the ocean. One idea that has started to surface is some of these beings, if real, may not be constantly active at all. They may follow a cycle more like certain animals on Earth, appearing briefly and then disappearing for super long periods. In nature, there are species like the lungfish that can enter a state of deep dormancy called estivation, slowing their systems down and surviving for months or even years with almost no activity. If something similar exists, it could help explain why these reports come in waves. Instead of constant presence, these beings may operate in cycles of activity and deep rest, possibly tied to environmental conditions we do not fully understand. The ocean, especially at great depth, offers stable and hidden spaces where long term dormancy could occur without disturbance. This idea does not require advanced speculation on its own. It follows a pattern already seen in life on Earth, where survival often depends on timing, conservation of energy, and long periods of stillness between moments of movement.show more

Don't die summit LA was a total banger 🔥... Sold out (1,200+) with 2x ppl trying to get in. The morning rave was as cool a vibe as I've ever experienced. A deep feeling of shared purpose and camaraderie. Only one year old, dd is taking form and strengthening quickly. 🧵 dd attracts exceptional people: high-agency, ambitious, disciplined, smart, and resourceful. They know the future of being human is centered on vibrancy and youthfulness. They clearly see die culture is foolish - a relic of the past. This was our third summit, the first was in SF and second in Singapore. We've learned fast. LA was 10x improved over SF (my SF and Singapore friends, we must get together again asap). Yesterday we focused our attention on building life systems and habits. At the base layer, none of us really have a knowledge problem. We generally know what is healthy and what isn't. The challenge is doing the things we know are good for us and not doing the things that we know are bad for us. The most powerful force in each of us achieving youthful vibrance is when we are surround by others in optimal health. When our daily lives, systems and habits make health the norm, unhealthy things feel weird and appear revolting. dd is not waiting for someone to come save us. We are building our our own food supply chain; a dd food certification system to eliminate toxics from the global food supply; a dd evidence based validation system for therapies and health services; and a community whose values are aligned with this epic moment of evolving into something new and spectacular. dd has an insane amount of energy around it. It is the answer to what the human race focuses on as it gives birth to artificial super intelligence. dd will become the world's most influential ideology. Join now so that you can brag in the year 2200 that you were early.show more

This is peak “summer is officially over and I’m... thriving” energy. While the kids are still deep in that “five more minutes” denial phase, mom’s already in the robe, coffee locked and loaded, dancing like she just won the lottery. Because for a lot of us, the first day of school isn’t just about backpacks and lunch boxes. It’s the quiet return of a little structure, a little peace, and the sweet knowledge that the constant “I’m bored” soundtrack finally has a pause button. The funny part is how temporary that pure joy feels. By week three the same mom is probably side-eyeing the clock, negotiating with a kid who “forgot” their folder again, and wondering where that dancing woman went. But that first-morning burst? That’s real. It’s the relief of knowing they’re safe, learning, making friends, and giving you back a few hours that actually belong to you. Parenting is full of these little resets. We don’t always get them handed to us clean. Sometimes we have to create the energy ourselves—robe, coffee, and all. And honestly? Watching someone lean all the way into the celebration instead of the dread is a good reminder. The kids will survive the early mornings. The house will survive the sudden quiet. And that mom energy on day one is pure fuel for the months ahead. Tag the parent in your life who wakes up like this on the first day… or the one who’s still pretending summer isn’t over.show more

The Basics of Electromagnetic Waves: Electricity and magnetism can... sit still, like static electricity in your hair or a magnet stuck to your fridge. But when they move and change, they actually create each other. Together, they team up to form invisible ripples of energy called electromagnetic waves. Unlike ocean waves or sound waves, which need water or air to ripple through, electromagnetic waves don't need any material at all. They can easily travel through the completely empty vacuum of space. Maxwell's Big Idea: In the 1860s and 1870s, a Scottish scientist named James Clerk Maxwell figured out how this works. He wrote down the math showing exactly how electricity and magnetism link together to make these travelling waves. Today, scientists call his famous rules Maxwell's Equations. Hertz Proves It: Later, a German physicist named Heinrich Hertz took Maxwell's ideas and brought them to life. He was the first person to actually create and catch radio waves. To honour his work, we use the word hertz to measure how fast a wave vibrates (one cycle per second). Hertz's experiments proved two massive ideas: Radio waves are just invisible light: He showed that radio waves travel at the exact same speed as light, proving that they are actually a form of light we just can't see. Going wireless: He finally figured out how to detach these energy fields from physical wires, allowing the waves to fly freely through the air exactly as Maxwell had predicted.show more

The rebrand of our badge has been approached with... great sensitivity and a real understanding of what makes Clevedon, Clevedon. We recognise that a football club is built on far more than results on a pitch; it is built on history, identity, memories and the people who have shaped it over generations. Our previous crest has represented decades of achievements, players, volunteers and supporters who have all played a part in creating the club we know today. While creating a modern identity for the future, it was important that the soul of the club remained untouched. The inclusion of the historic Clevedon Pier within the new design reflects one of the town’s most recognisable landmarks and symbolises strength, heritage and our connection to the community, which remains at the heart of everything we do. This rebrand also represents the coming together of the identities of Clevedon Town and North Somerset RTC, aligning both under one clear vision and creating a stronger pathway and united future. Supporters will also begin to see wider changes, from exciting investment into the team and developments around the stadium, to bold new kit designs that reflect the ambition and energy of this new era. We are beginning an exciting journey together and the crest is only the start. #CTFC #ClevedonTownFC South West Sports Newsshow more