Polluted air shortens the lifespan of Europeans by about two years

Happy birthday, #CarolineHerschel, pioneering astronomer & cataloguer of stars! Born #OTD 1750 Herschel discovered 8 comets, fourteen new nebulae & several deep-sky objects & was the first woman astronomer to receive a salary for her work. More here: https://t.co/Xlmwfr8Kf8

Blame it on the soup😉! Soft foods may have brought us the ‘f’ words - new research suggests that the invention of softer cooked foods altered our bite & introduced the“f” and “v” sounds in human #language https://t.co/a4VcUxv5rc @mpi_shh @UZH_ch @DeptCompLing @MPI_NL

#meandmymachine: This is a cryostat. It can cool down to 7 mK, only 0.007 degrees above absolute zero and more that 42 000 x colder than room temperature. The same kind of devices are used for quantumcomputers. But Johannes Zirkelbach utilizes its power for something else: He researchs the fundamental interactions between light and matter by investigating single molecules embedded in a crystal. The extremely cold temperatures help isolating the molecules from their surroundings, which is essential for this kind of research. One of many future applications might be optical circuits that work with single molecules acting as switch or storage elements.

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This is a cryostat. It can cool down to 7 mK, only 0.007 degrees above absolute zero. Johannes Zirkelbach from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen utilizes its power to research the interactions between light and matter by investigating single molecules embedded in a crystal.