Zohran Mamdani has won the NYC mayoral race, becoming the city's youngest mayor in a century and first Muslim mayor. What are your thoughts on his victory and the potential contributions he could make to New York City's science community—from research funding to innovation policy?

One moon, 48 colors 🌕✨

Italian astrophotographer Marcella Pace spent 10 years capturing the moon's stunning color variations as it rises and sets through different atmospheric layers. Each hue tells the story of Earth's atmosphere at work. #photography #science #moon #space #trending #earth

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope stitched over 11,000 infrared snapshots to reveal Andromeda’s stars in blue, glowing dust in red, and the hottest dust in green unveiling star-forming rings and spiral arms hidden from visible light.

Scientists at Kyoto University have successfully grown miniature human spinal cords from stem cells. These spinal organoids mimic nerve signal transmission and hold great promise for treating paralysis and spinal injuries.
Source: Kyoto University Center for iPS Cell Research and Application CiRA

Injecting luminol into a 10% bleach solution creates this beautiful blue chemiluminescence - chemistry at its finest 🔬 #Chemiluminescence #Chemicalreaction #Scienceexperiment #science #luminol

“When your brain’s fried and your laptop is too.

Black holes aren’t holes they’re warped regions of space and time.
#BlackHoles #SpaceTime #Gravity #Astrophysics #GeneralRelativity #Einstein #CosmicWarping #SpaceScience #Astronomy #NotAHole #SpaceTimeCurvature #Physics #CosmicMysteries #GravitationalWarp #Universe

Researchers at Keio University, Japan, developed "Arque" a wearable robotic tail that helps people maintain balance. Using 4 artificial muscles & compressed air, it moves like a pendulum in 8 directions, mimicking how animals stay balanced.
#Innovation #Robotics #WearableTech #Japan #Science

From our tiny Milky Way to the vast Laniakea Supercluster, a reminder of just how small we are in the grand architecture of the universe. 🌌✨

IC 348 is a star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.
#Science #Space #Nebula