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No doubt. And yet, when NC, FL, and OH appear to be shifting toward ~475 nm...
I've known that scorpions have fluorescent cuticles — if you go out into the desert with a black light and shine it on the ground, the scorpions will often glow green and blue and be easy to spot. I had no idea that many spiders exhibit the same phenomenon, but there they are, glowing away. I may…
Element: Ytterbium (Yb)
Atomic Number: 70
Mass: Seven "stable" isotopes, from 168 to 176 amu. Two of those are nominally radioactive, with half-lives vastly in excess of the age of the universe.
Laser cooling wavelength: 399 nm and 556 nm.
Doppler cooling limit: 690 μK in the UV and 4.4 μK in the…
Somewhere in China right now, there's a cannonball jellyfish from the waters off Panama City just waiting to be eaten. Jellyfish make for great story ledes, don't they? The article continues:
Shrimpers trying to stay afloat during the off season have been scooping them out of the gulf by the…
~475 nm is good. 475 electoral votes would be even sweeter ;-)
475nm? NERD! Sheril, I love your stuff, delightfully nerdy. The whitening of WV and pinking of Indiana seem premature though.
Premature? Yes, by about a week in the case of Indiana.
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