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New Horizons’ Last Portrait of Pluto’s Puzzling SpotsVia NASA (h-t HuffPost Science)There is something mystical in this capture.The spots appear on the side of Pluto that always faces its largest moon, Charon—the face that will be invisible to New Horizons when the spacecraft makes its close flyby the morning of July 14. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, describes this image as “the last, best look that anyone will have of Pluto’s far side for decades to come.”Image caption: New Horizons’ last look at Pluto’s Charon-facing hemisphere reveals intriguing geologic details that are of...

Connor is a busy, busy bee! At some point within the last month, she entered the phase where she repeats every word she hears — from me, her dad, the TV, school. Sometimes, it’s endearing, like when she’s learning new words and phrases. (Yesterday we were bird watching, and she said, very matter-of-factly, “Let’s write down all the observations in a notebook.”) Other times, it’s full-on shocking. What did you just say…? So…in the Trader Joe’s parking lot last Sunday, which unfortunately is one of the places I GO HAM because some drivers are extra nuts on the weekends, someone...

So…what is the Monday Poll? Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of five more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007). I love reading your answers, and it helps me get my week off to a good start. ? 1. What’s your go-to Bath & Body Works scent? At this exact moment in time, I don’t have one right now, but I was ALL ABOUT Juniper Breeze back in the day. 2. Cold...

The radical rainbow in the Warrior 3 Palette by Juvia’s Place is so not in my lane, but sometimes you just gotta go for it…and hope you do enough blending to avoid looking totally bonkers! 😜 These looks were totally inspired by Lizzo’s makeup artist, Alexx Mayo. If you’re ever craving something colorful and need bold eyeshadow inspo, Alexx’s Instagram is a good place to start. I riffed off these two Lizzo looks… View this post on Instagram Love looks better in C O L O R 👨🏾‍🎨 Atlanta music midtown festival @lizzobeeating Hair by @theshelbyswain Makeup @iwantalexx A post...

Multi-purpose silicon chip created for quantum information processingThe Bristol team has been using silicon photonic chips as a way to try to build quantum computing components on a large scale and today’s result, published in the journal Nature Photonics, demonstrates it is possible to fully control two qubits of information within a single integrated chip. This means any task that can be achieved with two qubits, can be programmed and realised with the device.Via Phys.orgImage credit: Xiaogang Qiang/University of Bristol