EEvan HawthornGeek Is There a Fifth Dimension?Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum Imagine a world where you can only move forwards and backwards along a line. You’d see nothing but single points in front of you, and nothing but …
EEvan HawthornMagnetism First detection of polarized radio waves from gamma ray burst sheds light on collapsing starsnewatlas.com - David Szondy The first polarized light from a gamma ray burst seven billion light years away is helping astronomers to gain a better understanding of collapsing …
EEvan HawthornParticles Tachyonthefreedictionary.com This article is about hypothetical faster-than-light particles. For quantum fields with imaginary mass, see Tachyonic field. For other uses, see …
EEvan HawthornBehavior Scientists Discover an 'Unexpectedly Simple' Formula Behind The Nature of Water DropsScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill Scientists have discovered an unexpectedly simple formula that governs one of the most seemingly unknowable limits in physics: determining how much …
EEvan HawthornMethane New Mars Curiosity Rover Findings Suggest Life On The Red Planet; High Methane Levels Indicate Organic SourceThe Inquisitr - Aaron Homer 'Given this surprising result, we’ve reorganized the weekend to run a follow-up experiment,' said a mission scientist. NASA’s Curiosity Rover found …
EEvan HawthornMoon How did NASA put men on the moon? One harrowing step at a time.pressofatlanticcity.com - Joel Achenbach / The Washington Post "Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and …
EEvan HawthornBlack Holes Harvard Scientists Think The Black Hole Could Be The Center Of LifeMashable - Afiya QureshiEver since black holes were found to be existing in the cosmos, they have only been thought of as death pits, sucking in matter. Scientists have always centered their studies around stars when it comes
EEvan HawthornMoon Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were lost on the Moon. ReallyFast Company - Charles FishmanNeither NASA nor the Apollo 11 astronauts knew exactly where they were when they landed on the Moon. Yet it didn’t impede the mission. This is the 22nd in an exclusive series of 50 articles, one published
EEvan HawthornSolar System Gorgeous 'Atlas of Space' Smashes the Textbook View of the Solar Systemspace.com - Brandon Specktor In most maps of the solar system, you can expect to see the eight canonical planets (plus whatever Pluto is at the moment) trailing the fiery orange …
EEvan HawthornGeek Astronomers Observe ‘Warm’ Glow of Uranus’ Weird RingsGeek - By Genevieve Scarano Uranus could be hard to spot with the naked eye, however, new heat images captured by two giant telescopes in Chile are enabling astronomers to see …
EEvan HawthornNASA NASA hacked because of unauthorized Raspberry Pi connected to its networkZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu NASA described the hackers as an "advanced persistent threat," a term generally used for nation-state hacking groups. A report published this week by …
EEvan HawthornPhotons The Crab Nebula just blasted Earth with the highest-energy photons ever recordedMIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv One measured photon has roughly the energy of a falling ping-pong ball. The Tibetan Plateau is a vast elevated plain almost five kilometers above sea …
EEvan HawthornPhysics Physicists Hack the Uncertainty Principle to See an Ion WiggleWIRED - Sophia Chen In a lab in Boulder, Colorado, physicist Daniel Slichter plays an excruciatingly tiny version of pinball—with an individual atom as the ball. He and …
EEvan HawthornTechnology Life could exist in a 2D universe (according to physics, anyway)MIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv Physicists and philosophers have long claimed that life can form only in a universe like ours, with three dimensions of space and one of time. That …
EEvan HawthornPlay buttonBlack Holes No, Black Holes Don't Suck Everything Into ThemForbes - Ethan SiegelThere are no classes of object in our Universe more extreme than black holes. With so much mass present in such a tiny volume of space, they create a region around them where the curvature of space is
EEvan HawthornPhysics Breaks in the Perfect Symmetry of the Universe Could Be a Window Into Completely New Physicsspace.com - Paul Sutter The bible of particle physics is dying for an upgrade. And physicists may have just the thing: Some particles and forces might look in the mirror and …
EEvan HawthornPeriodic Table Mathematicians Have Proposed a New Structure to The Periodic TableScienceAlert - MICHELLE STARR The periodic table is such a comforting way of cataloguing the Universe, breaking it down into its elements and organising them in nice neat boxes. …
EEvan HawthornSpace This Incredible Orbit Map of Our Solar System Makes Our Brains AcheScienceAlert - EVAN GOUGH, UNIVERSE TODAY If you want to know what a talent for scientific visualizations looks like, check out Eleanor Lutz. She's a PhD student in biology at the University …
EEvan HawthornBlack Holes Our Universe Might Be Trapped Inside An Enormous Black Hole!Mashable - Afiya QureshiFor almost a century, the Big Bang theory has been bandied as the ultimate theory that describes the origin of the universe. The universe, as we know by it, was created in a massive explosion that created
EEvan HawthornNASA NASA Just Released More Than 1,000 New Images Of Mars' SurfacePopular Science - Samantha ColeSince its launch in 2005, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting the red planet and snapping photos merrily as it goes. The MRO sends back photos of Mars every month, but this month's
EEvan HawthornStephen Hawking Cosmologists Clash Over the Beginning of the UniverseWIRED - Natalie Wolchover In 1981, many of the world’s leading cosmologists gathered at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, a vestige of the coupled lineages of science and …
EEvan HawthornParticles Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sensetheconversation.com - Howard Wiseman The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there’s something out there in the world that we …
EEvan HawthornParticles Has the ball lightning mystery been solved?earthsky.org - By Paul Scott Anderson What is ball lightning? Scientists have been trying to figure that out for hundreds of years, and now it seems they may finally be close to solving …
EEvan HawthornCERN ATLAS homes in on magnetic monopoleshome.cern - By Ana Lopes Break a magnet in two, no matter how small, and you’ll get two magnets each with a south and a north pole of opposite magnetic nature. However, some …
EEvan HawthornScience Revealing 'hidden' phases of matter through the power of lightphys.org - Erica K. Brockmeier Most people think of water as existing in only one of three phases: Solid ice, liquid water, or gas vapor. But matter can exist in many different …
EEvan HawthornPlay buttonScience A Tiny Magnet Just Created the World’s Strongest Magnetic Fieldfuturism.com - Victor Tangermann Scientists at the Florida State University-based National High Magnetic Field Laboratory just created what they claim to be the world’s strongest …
EEvan HawthornSatellites Dangling tape could be used to de-orbit old satellitesnewatlas.com - Ben Coxworth In order to at least begin addressing the growing problem of space debris, numerous groups are now looking into methods of de-orbiting satellites once …
EEvan HawthornPlay buttonQuasars A Newly Discovered Type of Galaxy Keeps Producing Stars as It Dies - VICEVICE - Becky Ferreira'Cold quasars' offer an unprecedented look at the transition between active star-forming galaxies and dead galactic bodies. People die, stars die, and yes, even galaxies die. But while scientists have
EEvan HawthornScience When Will Quantum Computers Outperform Regular Computers?Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum Any day now, quantum computers will solve a problem too hard for a classical computer to take on. Or at least, that’s what we’ve been hoping. …
