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Today you learn about the woman who discovered pulsars and why they matter,

and why learning styles don't exist. You'll also learn about cell-sized

robots in the first edition of our micro scale Monday's mini series. Let's let us

find some curiosity. The discovery of Pulsars was a huge step in advancing our

understanding of the universe. But when the 1974 Nobel Prize in physics was

awarded for the discovery, the person who actually made the discovery wasn't even mentioned.

Thankfully that person finally received recognition in 2018

and the prize may help young scientists the world over.

Plus today's her birthday. So let's learn about Pulsar's to

celebrate the birthday of Jocelyn Bell Bernell. She was a graduate student at

Cambridge University when her team finished building a new radio

telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory.

They started collecting data as soon as it was finished, and her job was to analyze that data.

To the tune of roughly 700 feet of paper records of that data collected each week.

Her job was to spot unusual signals and she found one less than three weeks later, a faint

pulse that disappeared and reappeared every 1.34 seconds on the dot.

After spotting more of these pulsing signals, she and her thesis advisor started calling them pulsars.

Polsars are spinning neutron stars that emit powerful beams of radio waves from their

magnetic poles.

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