Morality The Crisis In Theoretical Particle Physics Is Not A Moral ImperativeForbesA bit more than a week ago, Sabine Hossenfelder posted a response to my earlier post here about physicists starting new experimental searches for dark matter, which was in response to an earlier post hers,
Science How (Relatively) Simple Symmetries Underlie Our Expanding UniverseQuanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover Although Einstein’s theory of space-time seems more complicated than Newtonian physics, it greatly simplified the mathematical description of the …
Hubble Hubble Spots “Impossible” Debris Disk Around a Black Holeuniversetoday.com - Matt Williams Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers recently observed a bright disk around a black hole that defies astronomical models.The post …
String Theory What Is String Theory?space.com - Charlie Wood String theory represents a major dream of theoretical physicists — a description of all forces and matter in one mathematical picture. But after …
Area 51 400,000 people have joined a Facebook event pledging to raid Area 51Fast Company - Michael GrothausA group of alien hunters has launched a Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” in which the organizers are pledging to literally invade Area 51 on Friday, September 20 between
Theory of Relativity Supercomputer shows 'Chameleon Theory' could change how we think about gravityphys.org Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's theory of General Relativity might not be the only way to explain how gravity works …
Gravitational Waves New method may resolve difficulty in measuring universe's expansionphys.org July 8, 2019 by Dave Finley, National Radio Astronomy Observatory Astronomers using National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes have …
Universe The Big Bounce: Why our universe might be eternalbigthink.com - Matt Davis • The Big Bang theory is treated as the de facto way the universe began, but it's had some issues. • One issue was that it could not describe how the …
Maps A Simple Guide on How to Navigate with a Map and CompassThe Manual - Hendrik Broekelschen No matter the situation, whether it’s a day hike in the backcountry or a survive-the-apocalypse hideout in the woods, there are a few basic tools …
Humanity Here Are 7 Mildly Disturbing Facts You Wish Weren't True But Actually AreScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill What is a mildly disturbing fact? It may seem like a perfectly safe thing to ask, but it's a question that's guaranteed to raise some disturbing …
Telescopes Scientists have picked up a radio signal from the other side of the universeMother Nature Network - Christian Cotroneo The galaxy where the signal originated is similar in size to our own, but creates stars at a relatively slow rate. (Photo: pixelparticle/Shutterstock) …
Physics Are we living in a simulated universe? Here's what scientists say.NBC News - By Dan Falk“If we are living in a simulation, then the cosmos that we are observing is just a tiny piece of the totality of physical existence." What if everything around us — the people, the stars overhead, the
Consciousness How can you tell if another person, animal or thing is conscious? Try these 3 teststheconversation.com - Tam Hunt How can you know that any animal, other human beings, or anything that seems conscious, isn’t just faking it? Does it enjoy an internal subjective …
Neutrons Scientists attempting to open portal to a parallel universeindependent.co.uk - Harry Cockburn Could 2019 be the year humans open the first portal to a shadowy dimension which mirrors our own world? Scientists in Oak Ridge National Laboratory in …
Hubble Hubble Captures Stunning Fireworks of Exploding Starspace.com - Passant Rabie The Hubble Space Telescope caught one spectacular show as the outburst of a supermassive star glows in bright, exploding fireworks. The star, called …
Science Physicist finds loose thread of string theory puzzlephys.org - Cay Leytham-Powell A University of Colorado Boulder physicist is one step closer to solving a string theory puzzle 20 years in the making. Paul Romatschke, an associate …
Inflation What Was The Universe Like Before The Big Bang?scitechdaily.com - Peter Reuell, Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics A team of scientists has proposed a powerful new test for inflation, the theory that the universe dramatically expanded in size in a fleeting …
Astrophysics Scientists built a fast, accurate, AI-powered universe simulation, but they don’t know howbgr.com - Mike Wehner Everyone’s had a moment or two in their lives where they pull off an incredible feat but can’t explain how they did it. Perhaps it was a …
Universe How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of ItQuanta Magazine - Amanda Gefter Lee Smolin has a radical idea for how to understand an object with no exterior: Imagine it built bit-by-bit from relationships between events.
Computer Hardware DeepNude app makes creating deepfake nudes of women terrifyingly easyBusiness Insider - Paige LeskinA new web app that lets users create realistic-looking nude images of women offers a terrifying glimpse into how deepfake technology can now be easily used for malicious purposes like revenge porn and
CERN Interesting physics is going on at Fermilab including the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.interestingengineering.com - Marcia Wendorf Get close to what was once the premier atom smasher in the world, the Tevatron at Fermilab outside of Chicago, and you'll see ... bison. That's …
Physicists Say Quantum Gravity ‘Has No Symmetry’ | Physics |sci-news.com An international team of theoretical physicists has found that when gravity is combined with quantum mechanics, no global symmetries are …
Science What Dropping 17,000 Wallets Around The Globe Can Teach Us About HonestyNPR - Merrit KennedySo picture this: You're a receptionist at, say, a hotel. Someone walks in and says they found a lost wallet but they're in a hurry. They hand it to you. What would you do? And would that answer be different
