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Above: An artist’s impression of GW150914, the event that created the first observed gravitational waves.

Physicists long thought gravitational wave memory would be impossible to detect. Not anymore.

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Title: Rainbow hex

Technique: Drawing with Stabilo markers on printed Blender frames (30 Frames)

international friends: here’s the deal. South African scientists have been tracking the COVID genome and keeping an eye out for mutations. Most places in the world aren’t doing so. When we announce a new variant, it’s not necessarily from South Africa, we just publicised the fact that we detected it here. And yet, because we’re a country in the Global South, it doesn’t matter that our scientists are incredible and are doing the world a service by tracking and reporting these things, because our ordinary citizens are being blacklisted because of it and being prevented from entering other countries and placed on red lists for no reason 

The curvature of curves.

x²

x³

sin(x)

exp(x)

Normal distribution (y=exp(-x²/2))

Ellipse

r=5/2+cos(3τθ)

x=(t-1)(t+1), y=t(t-1)(t+1)

Archimedes’ Spiral

Logarithmic spiral

If you want to try your own curve, try on Desmos graphing calculator!

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/lpm3igzbhy

The moon is beautiful