Jim BStar Trek How Star Trek’s warp drives touch on one of physics' biggest mysteriesnewscientist.com - By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein EVERY year, I attend the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, and every year, I get asked whether warp speed will ever be possible. In the Star Trek …
Jim BScience (India) Venus, Earth’s Evil Twin, Beckons Space Agenciesscientificamerican.com - Shannon Hall, Nature magazine The helicopter fell like a stone. It dropped by more than 1,500 metres over Maryland, twisting slightly as the ground grew rapidly closer. Although …
Jim BSatellites A New Fuel for Satellites Is So Safe It Won’t Blow Up HumansWIRED - Daniel Oberhaus Later this month, a small satellite will hitch a ride on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for the world’s first demonstration of “green” satellite …
Jim BDark Matter Bizarre Theory: “Mirror-Image Universe” Could Explain Dark Matterfuturism.com - Jon Christian There might be another universe, exactly like our own — except that it’s a perfect mirror image. Physicist Leah Broussard is “on the hunt for a …
Jim BAliens We might never see aliens ‘because we’ll accidentally destroy them’, expert warnsFox News - The SunHumans may never discover evidence of alien life because we'll accidentally destroy it. That's the bold theory from a top physicist who believes we could wipe out aliens without even realizing it. Scientists
Jim BChernobyl Chernobyl Has Become a Refuge for Wildlife 33 Years After Nuclear AccidentInverse - By Germán Orizaola Today, in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, bears, bisons, 200 bird species, and more exist. Reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant …
Jim BEnvironment Scientists Discover Rare, 'Undisturbed' Pockets of Seawater From The Last Ice AgeScienceAlert - PETER DOCKRILL Scientists have discovered a 'unique archive' of ocean water that still exists virtually undisturbed from the last Ice Age some 20,000 years …
Jim BAliens A Physicist Has Proposed a Pretty Depressing Explanation For Why We Never See AliensScienceAlert - PETER DOCKRILL The Universe is so unimaginably big, and it's positively teeming with an almost infinite supply of potentially life-giving worlds. So where the heck …
Jim BConsumer News Scientists Claim to Have Discovered Entirely New Form of ComputingTom's Guide - Jesus Diaz Researchers have developed a new form of computing that uses the facets of a specially developed translucent polymer cube and visible light to …
Jim BTechnology Strange waves rippled around Earth. Now we may know why.National Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasAn “exceptional phenomenon” near the tiny islands of Mayotte may help explain a low-frequency rumble that swept around the world last year. On May 10, 2018, the geologic beasts of the tiny island of Mayotte
Jim BExoplanets 12 Strange Planets That Are Both Interesting And Terrifying – TWORONTONT.ORGtworontont.org We all know that space is weird as it is – its mysteriousness is precisely the reason why people were fascinated with the night sky and space …
Jim BPlay buttonConspiracies Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle ‘SOLVED,’ Say Researchers, Conspiracy Theorists, Skepticstheepochtimes.com - Michael Wing The Bermuda Triangle is a place where conspiracy theorists and skeptics alike enter at their own peril. Hundreds of ships and airplanes have vanished …
Jim BScience The volcano that built Bermuda is unlike any other on EarthNational Geographic - Robin George AndrewsRock samples from the island suggest it’s a strange hybrid that represents a whole new way for the planet to make volcanoes. No two volcanoes are the same, but they all form in the same handful of ways.
Jim BScience Basic Quantum Research Will Transform Science and Industryscientificamerican.com - Irene Qualters, Antoinette Taylor The promise of quantum computing seems limitless—faster internet searching, lightning-quick financial data analysis, shorter commutes, better weather …
Jim BGalaxies Something Strange Punched a Hole in the Milky Way. But What Exactly Is It?space.com - Rafi Letzter There's a "dark impactor" blasting holes in our galaxy. We can't see it. It might not be made of normal matter. Our telescopes haven't directly …
Jim B Scientists just got closer to making nuclear fusion workweforum.org - Rosamond Hutt Proponents of nuclear fusion see it is as a clean and virtually limitless energy source that could power the future. But while researchers are …
Jim BSpace Exploration NASA's Voyager and Pioneer Probes Launched Decades Ago and Are Still Out There. Here's Where They'll End Up.space.com - Chelsea Gohd Spacecraft that launched from Earth in the 1970s are still traveling on trajectories that led them out of our solar system and beyond. In a new …
Jim B Is Our Milky Way Galaxy A Zombie, Already Dead And We Don’t Know It?finefinders.org Like a zombie, the Milky Way galaxy may already be dead but it still keeps going. Our galactic neighbor Andromeda almost certainly expired a few …
Jim BFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo 10 Greatest Ideas in the History of Sciencerealclearscience.com About 13.8 billion years ago, the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion, known as cosmic inflation. Immediately after that was the Big Bang. …
Jim B Bizarre form of hot ice seen on EarthNational Geographic - Adam MannThought to lurk deep within Neptune and Uranus, the extreme material is actually half as hot as the surface of the sun. From the seas of Antarctica to the depths of your freezer, most ice on Earth is tame
Jim B The Earth-Twin Planet That Nobody Talks About?wonderzoom.org NASA scientists were conferring today about a nearby planet that is shockingly similar to Earth. It is just 5% smaller in radius and 15% smaller in …
Jim B 8 Fleeting Cosmic Events We’ve Been Lucky Enough To Witnesstworontont.org Just like a photographer getting that lucky shot, astronomers sometimes look in the right spot at the right time at the right wavelength to find …
Jim B Antimatter breakthrough indicates the universe is hiding somethingTNW - Tristan GreeneScientists from Italy and Switzerland recently performed an experiment demonstrating that antimatter, like matter, has the characteristics of both waves and particles. This means antimatter fits within
Jim B How did Earth get its water?stuff.co.nz - Liam Mannix Here on Earth, we tend to take water for granted. We drink it, we swim in it, we brush our teeth with it. The sea is full of the stuff. It literally …
Jim B Scientists Have a New Idea to Make a Fusion Reactor Practicalfuturism.com - Victor Tangermann Scientists are hoping a new upgrade at U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) could finally make fusion power a …
Jim B 9 Strange, Scientific Excuses for Why Humans Haven’t Found Aliens Yetfinefinders.org One night about 60 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi looked up into the sky and asked, “Where is everybody?” Today, scientists know that there are …
Jim B Hubble Spots Stunning Spiral Galaxy 30 Million Light-Years AwayGeek - By Stephanie Valera Feast your eyes on this: The Hubble Space Telescope spotted what NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are calling a “perfect specimen” of a …
Jim B Mystery of moon's formation may have been solvedNBC News - By Charles Q. Choi, Space.comNew look at lunar rocks suggests that the moon formed when a Mars-size rock struck Earth while it was still young and covered in molten rock. The moon may have formed after a giant Mars-size rock hit magma-covered
Jim BGravitational Waves We've detected new gravitational waves, we just don't know where they come from (yet)theconversation.com - Tara Murphy and and and and Eric Thrane and Qi Chu The hunt for gravitational waves is back on with the announcement overnight of the detection of signals from what’s thought to be the merger of two …
