Konstantinos Anastasiou
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Konstantinos Anastasiou
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#PhD in Physics & Engineering👨🏻‍🔬 investigated optoelectronic properties of 2D materials 🔬 #Astrophysicist ( #MSc ) and #space enthusiast 🌌 Longing for a return to #Academia 🎓
Reposted by Konstantinos Anastasiou
Biologists have built one of the most detailed pictures of pregnancy's true toll on the body.

Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/4iKaWxZ
March 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reposted by Konstantinos Anastasiou
An in vivo imaging technique can track the way molecules move through the nucleus

https://go.nature.com/4iXSGAT
Live-cell super-resolution microscopy reveals how molecules enter and exit the nucleus
The nuclear pore complex is the gateway to the nucleus of cells. Now an in vivo imaging technique can track the way in which molecules move through this complex.
go.nature.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Reposted by Konstantinos Anastasiou
This is good and beautiful. (Except for time flowing downwards from the top, which makes me dizzy.)
At last! Finished page: how a star forms, what fuels it, & how it forges new forms into being! A star is a momentary reversal - a wellspring of possibilities that makes life possible. This took me some time to figure out to say the least - but geeked to be done & move onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2
March 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Reposted by Konstantinos Anastasiou
Excess mitochondrial fusion is averted by stress-activated regulators, preventing the potentially harmful release of mitochondrial DNA
https://go.nature.com/3EGN5QL
Putting the brakes on mitochondrial fusion to prevent escape of mitochondrial DNA
Organelle network is regulated to prevent cellular inflammation.
go.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
100 years from the birth of #quantum #physics and it's the International Year of Quantum #Science and #Technology 🎉

This nice article summarises nicely the early days and has some interesting bibliography cited. I hope readers will enjoy it!

physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
The Tumultuous Birth of Quantum Mechanics
The creation of modern quantum mechanics was a messy business in which many of the participants did not grasp the significance of their own discoveries.
physics.aps.org
February 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Done with #X, so let's see how this works now. So far I can see a somewhat vibrant #scientific community here 🙂!
January 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM