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  Why Does Earth Appear Blue From Space?

  Medium - Ethan Siegel

  Why Does Earth Appear Blue From Space? - Starts With A Bang! - Medium Why Does Earth Appear Blue From Space? - Starts With A Bang! - Medium Hint: it …

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  Discovery could herald new particle

  CNN - Todd Leopold

  CNN — First gravitational waves opened a new window on the universe. Now data from the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, in Switzerland could change the standard model of physics. Physicists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences analyzed LHC information from 2011 and …

• “We are opening up a window on the universe so radically different from all previous windows that we are pretty ignorant about what’s going to come through,” Thorne said. “There are just bound to be big surprises.”

  

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  How the First Gravitational Waves Were Found

  The New Yorker - Nicola Twilley

  After decades of speculation and searching, a signal came through. It promises to change our understanding of the universe. Note: On October 3, 2017, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics would be awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, three …

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  Einstein's most incredible prediction may be proven right this week — or a big rumor debunked

  techinsider.io - Tech Insider

  Gravitational waves may have been detected for the first time, but we won't know for sure until February 11, 2016 — when scientists will either …

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  Have Astronomers Found Alien Megastructures After All? (No, Probably Not)

  Medium - Ethan Siegel

  Late last year, one of the stars that NASA’s Kepler mission was observing made headlines for having a very unusual signal…

• “Ventana al Conocimiento” https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/the-evolution-of-the-earth-why-does-life-exist/

  

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