Evan HawthornBlack Holes Ask Ethan: How Dense Is A Black Hole?ForbesIn April of 2017, all of the telescopes/telescope arrays associated with the Event Horizon Telescope pointed at Messier 87. This is what a supermassive black hole looks like, where the event horizon is
Evan HawthornEnergy Black holes might not crush you after all—they could be even weirder than thatSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne Just when you thought one of the most bizarre things in space was something that eats massive amounts of light and energy and would probably shred …
Evan HawthornScience That groundbreaking photo of a black hole has raised some mighty big questionsPopular Science - Neel V. PatelIt’s hard to sneak a peek of a black hole. Not even light—the fastest known thing in the universe—can escape its gargantuan gravitational pull. “You’ve got something that is just designed not to give
Evan HawthornVoyager 2 Voyager Mission Detect Unexpected Pressure At The Edge Of The Solar SystemMashable - Afiya QureshiVoyager 1 is currently cruising about 20 billion kilometres away into the deep, interstellar space. Its partner, Voyager 2 is also tagging close and on the verge of making an exit. Although it has no way
Evan HawthornEnvironment Sunlight Breaks Down Polystyrene Over Decades To Centuries, Not MillenniaForbes - Linh Anh CatUntil today, it was thought that polystyrene would pollute the environment for millennia. This widely-held assumption was based off the observation that microbes generally do not break down polystyrene.
Evan HawthornEnergy The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is WildPopular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanScientists have longed to create the perfect energy source. Ideally, that source would eventually replace greenhouse gas-spewing fossil fuels, power cars, boats, and planes, and send spacecraft to remote
Evan HawthornDark Matter Physicists Search Universe for Evidence That a Fundamental Force of Nature Is Out of Whackspace.com - Paul Sutter Just four numbers underpin the laws of physics. That's why scientists have for decades looked for any discrepancies in these so-called fundamental …
Evan HawthornCulture NASA Mars Curiosity rover finds an 'ancient oasis'CNET - by Corinne Reichert Mars transitioned from a wet environment to a desert, NASA says.
Evan HawthornDark Matter Cesium vapor aids in the search for dark matterphys.org - Universitaet Mainz The hunt for dark matter is one of the most exciting challenges facing fundamental physics in the 21st century. Researchers have long known that it …
Evan HawthornCERN Run top quark runhome.cern - By Ana Lopes Dive into the subatomic world, into the heart of protons or neutrons, and you’ll find elementary particles known as quarks. Measuring the mass of …
Evan HawthornScience The Internet of Humanscosmosmagazine.com - Paul Biegler Unexpected findings from sensors implanted in animals, a practice known as biologging, should cause a seismic shift in how wearable sensors are used …
Evan HawthornSpace Astronomers Have Traced a Single Neutrino to a Collision 3.8 Billion Light-Years AwayScienceAlert - Michelle Starr When a single neutrino was detected by a neutrino detector in Antarctica in September 2017, it was the start of something amazing. It was to become …
Evan HawthornScience New NMR approach for studying droplet-shaped cell contentphys.org - Utrecht University Faculty of Science Researchers in Utrecht have found a new way to observe membraneless compartments at an unprecedented level of resolution. The existence of these …
Evan HawthornPhysics Physicists Search Universe for Evidence That a Fundamental Force of Nature Is Out of WhackLive Science - Paul Sutter Just four numbers underpin the laws of physics. That's why scientists have for decades looked for any discrepancies in these so-called fundamental …
Evan HawthornEnceladus Organic compounds have been found on Saturn's moon EnceladusCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — Organic compounds have been found in the plumes rising from the subsurface ocean on Enceladus, adding to the evidence that one of Saturn's most intriguing moons should be explored further. In astronomers
Evan HawthornInSight Lander NASA Can Hear Mars Making Its Own Mysterious Music. Listen Here.Forbes - Robin AndrewsNASA’s InSight lander, the first robotic geophysicist on Mars, has been listening to the orchestral soundscape of the Red Planet for several hundred days now, attempting to ascertain what kind of geological
Evan HawthornData Science A Gentle Introduction to Bayes Theorem for Machine Learningmachinelearningmastery.com - Jason Brownlee Tweet Share ShareBayes Theorem provides a principled way for calculating a conditional probability.It is a deceptively simple calculation, although …
Evan HawthornUniverse Scientists observe mysterious cosmic web directly for first timeThe Guardian - Hannah Devlin Science correspondentThe cosmic web, a vast, mysterious structure that links up far-flung galaxies, has been observed directly for the first time. The observations reveal that an ancient cluster of galaxies about 12bn light
Evan HawthornBlack Holes Black holes as we understand them might not even existNew York Post - By Mike Wehner Of all the features of our universe, black holes might be the most interesting, as well as the most frightening. These ultra-dense spots in space …
Evan HawthornEnergy Quantum vacuum: Less than zero energyphys.org - Vienna University of Technology Energy is a quantity that must always be positive—at least that's what our intuition tells us. If every single particle is removed from a certain …
Evan HawthornBlack Holes Black Holes As We Know Them May Not ExistLive Science - Mara Johnson-Groh If you were to dive into a black hole (something we would not recommend), you"d likely find a singularity, or an infinitely small and dense point, at …
Evan HawthornScience Beyond Einstein: Physicists solve mystery surrounding photon momentumphys.org - Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect: in its most intuitive form, a single atom is irradiated with light. …
Evan HawthornMathematics Infinite Powers: The Story Of CalculusForbes - GrrlScientistCalculus is one the most profound inventions in human history. It underlies most modern technologies such as radio, television, radar, GPS navigation, cell phones, and MRI imaging. It informs meteorology,
Evan HawthornPhysics Is It a Wave or a Particle? It's Both, Sort Of.space.com - Paul Sutter Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe." …
Evan HawthornDark Matter Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern PhysicsLive Science - Rafi Letzter There's something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it. Physicists don't know what it …
Evan HawthornMagnetism What If Earth's Magnetic Field Disappeared?Live Science - Stephanie Pappas Extending from Earth like invisible spaghetti is the planet's magnetic field. Created by the churn of Earth's core, this field is important for …
Evan HawthornPhysics Neutrino Experiment Reveals (Again) That Something Is Missing from Our Universespace.com - Rafi Letzter A big, electron-counting machine has indirectly turned up a measurement of the slipperiest known particle in physics — and added to the evidence for …
Evan HawthornWater Clever materials make it easier to pull clean water from the airMIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv A new analysis suggests that dew harvesting, an affordable passive technology, could be practical in places where it has never been possible …
Evan HawthornInnovation Google Built the Most Powerful Computer in the World. Here's Why You Should Be Very WorriedInc Magazine - Jason AtenQuantum supremacy is reportedly here, but that's not necessarily a good thing. The Financial Times reported last week that it reviewed a paper by researchers from Google that indicates the company has
