When a beer garden visit results in you & your colleagues cutting off branches 🌿 to see esculin #fluorescence …

Freshly cut chestnut branches leak a milky substance that contains esculin, a colorless compound that fluoresces under UV light.
#physics ⚛️ #chemistry #chemsky #science 🧪 #scicomm

Every day is a good day to make red cabbage rainbows 🌈
(the juice contains the pigment anthocyanine, which is an excellent #pH indicator)
#science 🧪 #sciencesky #chemsky #scicomm #physics ⚛️

Finally back at it 😍 Fixed all the instruments and restored the signature vaporwave aesthetic of our lab …
#physics ⚛️ #sciencesky 🧪 #science #photonics 💡 #scicomm

Only love 💛 for our hollow core fiber (when it still worked … experimental #physics is 10% cool lab work, 90% fixing the laser)
#sciencesky #chemsky #science #scicomm #photonics💡 🧪 ⚛️

Baking but make it science with 3D printed cookie cutters
#sciencesky #science 🧪 #physics ⚛️

Gotta love #chemistry sometimes 😍
#chemiluminescence #sciencesky #womeninstem #science 🧪 #physics ⚛️ #photonics 💡

Our #spectroscopy lab showing its best side 😍

This is one of our hollow-core fiber pump-probe experiments, specifically tailored for blue light excitation. That’s how we look at #carotenoid and #chlorophyll photophysics 🌱

#optics #science 🧪 #sciencesky #physics ⚛️ #photonics 💡 #photosynthesis

Throwback to a cool double rainbow 🌈 over Garching campus. Sometimes #optics loves you back …

#science 🧪 #sciencesky #physics ⚛️ 💡

Another day, another opportunity to accidentally create plasma while aligning our hollow-core fiber …
#science 🧪 #physics ⚛️ #optics #photonics #sciencecommunication