Scott LeightonEvolution Evolution tells us we might be the only intelligent life in the universeThe Conversation UK - Nick Longrich Are we alone in the universe? It comes down to whether intelligence is a probable outcome of natural selection, or an improbable fluke. By …
Scott Leighton Could the Big Bang Be Wrong?discovermagazine.com - Corey S. Powell The Big Bang is the defining narrative of modern cosmology: a bold declaration that our universe had a beginning and has a finite age, just like the …
Scott LeightonUniverse Faster-Than-Light Travel Could Explain Mysterious Signals Beaming Through the CosmosLive Science - Erika Carlson In a distant corner of the universe, something is traveling faster than light. No, the laws of physics aren't being violated: It's still true that …
Scott LeightonSpace NASA Engineer Claims 'Helical Engine' Concept Could Reach 99% The Speed of LightScienceAlert - Michelle Starr When it comes to space, there's a problem with our human drive to go all the places and see all the things. A big problem. It's, well, space. It's …
Scott LeightonScience A Lesson for Ravens: Don’t Eat the TortoisesThe Atlantic - Thom van DoorenCan fake tortoise shells teach predators to stop devouring soft-shelled juveniles? Tim Shields didn’t see any young tortoises himself. For the most part, the only sign of them was their shells, desiccated
Scott LeightonSan Francisco, CA What's Beneath Those Brick Circles In San Francisco Intersections?publicbroadcasting.net - Audrey Dilling Our stories are made to be heard. If you can, please listen. “Oh! Wow! There it is! We have a winner!” she exclaims near the intersection of Geary …
Scott LeightonScience Fiction NASA movie shows how fast the 'Star Trek' Enterprise actually travelsBusiness Insider - Dave MosherIn the sci-fi universe of "Star Trek," spaceships equipped with warp drives can zoom past the normally impenetrable limit of light-speed, or about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second)
Scott LeightonDark Matter This is how a 'fuzzy' universe may have lookedphys.org - Jennifer Chu Dark matter was likely the starting ingredient for brewing up the very first galaxies in the universe. Shortly after the Big Bang, particles of dark …
Scott LeightonScience The Biggest Quantum Breakthrough Yet—LiterallyPopular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanFor the first time ever, physicists tested the phenomenon of quantum superposition using molecules. That's a big deal. Physicists have long struggled with a perplexing conundrum: How do we reconcile what
Scott LeightonMobile Technology Are we alone in the universe? Probably not.Popular Science - Rob VergerGiven all the real estate in the cosmos, astronomers generally agree there's got to be other beings out there. A new tool might help find them. Measured edge to edge, the universe as we know it stretches
Scott LeightonBlack 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 …
Scott Leighton Quantum Theory Rebuilt From Simple Physical PrinciplesQuanta Magazine - Philip Ball Physicists are trying to rewrite the axioms of quantum theory from scratch in an effort to understand what it all means. The problem? They’ve been …
Scott LeightonGuy Fawkes The Surprising Origins of the Phrase 'You Guys'TIME - Allan MetcalfYou guys, what’s going on? How come we routinely say “guys” or “you guys” when talking to a group of two or more? Whenever we speak or write, we are automatically voting just by choosing which words to
Scott LeightonBlack Holes Our Solar System Might Have a Black Hole From the Dawn of the UniverseVICE - Becky FerreiraFor years, scientists have been scanning the outer reaches of the solar system for signs of Planet Nine, a world that could be about 10 times as massive as Earth. While this speculative planet has not
Scott LeightonHistory of Science Fritz Zwicky: "part eccentric, part genius, completely uncontained"sciencefocus.com - John Johnson Jr The first to propose the existence of dark matter, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky made a number of significant contributions to our understanding of …
Scott LeightonEnergy Warp Drive Is Theoretically PossiblePopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanStar Trek's science fiction has been intermingled with real-life science for decades. The franchise has inspired technologies that people use and study every day, and now a mechanical engineering student
Scott Leighton Astrophysicists: gamma-ray jets exceed the speed of lightbigthink.com - Paul Ratner Jet bursting out of a blazar. Black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars are the most common sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space …
Scott LeightonUniverse Higgs Particle May Have Stolen the Antimatter From Our Universerealclearscience.com - Paul Sutter Why our universe is swirling with more matter than its bizarre counterpart antimatter — and why we exist at all — is one of the most perplexing …
Scott LeightonScience Fiction Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously, Especially One Specific ConceptScienceAlert - MATT WILLIAMS It's hard living in a relativistic Universe, where even the nearest stars are so far away and the speed of light is absolute. It is little wonder …
Scott LeightonPhysics Huge CERN Experiment Detects Two Extremely Rare Particle Decay EventsScienceAlert - Mike McRae For several years now, physicists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been running a landmark experiment, recording tens of …
Scott LeightonBlack Holes Is The Universe Filled With Black Holes That Shouldn't Exist?Forbes - Ethan SiegelWhen it comes to the objects that are found all throughout the Universe, most of them align with our theoretical expectations. Occasionally, however, scientists will find an object that seems to defy wisdom.
Scott LeightonGalaxies Something Is Killing Galaxies in Extreme Regions of the Universerealclearscience.com - Toby Brown In the most extreme regions of the universe, galaxies are being killed. Their star formation is being shut down and astronomers want to know why. The …
Scott LeightonBlack Holes Stephen Hawking Was Wrong. Black Holes Are Bald.space.com - Rafi Letzter Back in 2017, a gravitational wave rang across Earth like the clear tone of a bell. It stretched and squished every person, ant and scientific …
Scott LeightonUniverse The Universe Could Be 2 Billion Years Younger Than Previously Estimated, According to New CalculationTIME - Seth Borenstein / AP(WASHINGTON) — The universe is looking younger every day, it seems. New calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate, and even younger than suggested
Scott LeightonLong-form Journalism Splitting the Universeaeon.co - Sean Carroll Hugh Everett blew up quantum mechanics with his Many-Worlds theory in the 1950s. Physics is only just catching upBy Sean CarrollRead at Aeon
Scott Leighton Quantum Physics Is Fine, Human Bias About Reality Is The Real ProblemForbes - Ethan SiegelWhen it comes to understanding the Universe, scientists have traditionally taken two approaches in tandem with one another. On the one hand, we perform experiments and make measurements and observations
Scott Leighton Time and Space: The Strange Reality of Realityuniversetoday.com - Joshua Carroll “Are the dilation calculations correct” the jump coordinator asks you as he approaches your desk. You look over some papers in front of you that …
Scott Leighton Is Interstellar Travel Really Possible?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." …
Scott Leighton And then there was light: looking for the first stars in the Universephys.org Astronomers are closing in on a signal that has been travelling across the Universe for 12 billion years, bringing them nearer to understanding the …
