Physics New warp drive research dashes faster than light travel dreams – but reveals stranger possibilities theconversation.com - Sam Baron In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to …
theamazelab1:10Supernovae This Star Traveling Across The Milky Way May Have Survived a Supernova theamazelab - flipboard.com What do you get when a star crosses the Milky Way at about 560,000 miles per hour? Apparently, a supernova survivor.
Idealism A Physicist and Philosopher Examines Panpsychism mindmatters.ai - News In last week’s podcast,” our guest host, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, interviewed philosopher of science Bruce Gordon on “Idealism and the Nature of …
Galaxies Hubble spectroscopically confirms remotest galaxy today esahubble.org - information@eso.org This illustration shows a timeline of the Universe, stretching from the present day (left) back to the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago (right). The …
Popular MechanicsLearning The Universe Is a Machine That Keeps Learning, Scientists Say verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertBasically, we live in one giant algorithm. In fascinating new research, cosmologists explain the history of the universe as one of self-teaching, autodidactic algorithms. The scientists, including physicists...
Live ScienceInflation Will we ever know exactly how the universe ballooned into existence? Live Science - Paul Sutter The universe might not let us. Physicists have long been unable to crack the mystery of what happened in the moments when a vanishingly small seed …
InverseAliens What if our search for aliens goes horribly wrong? Astronomers weigh in Inverse - Passant Rabie Are we alone in the universe? Probably not, but that’s not the only alien-related question for which astronomers are seeking answers. As we inch …
Physics The 5 Most Important Scientific Equations of All Time discovermagazine.com - Nathaniel Scharping Calculating the most influential scientific equations is no easy task. But these five certainly rank in the top tier. What’s in an equation? Letters …
theamazelab1:14Black Holes Astronomers Are One Step Closer To Figuring Out How Black Holes Feed and Grow theamazelab - flipboard.com They’re some of the biggest objects in the universe and we know so little about them.
Energy Could A Solar Megastructure Unlock Human Immortality? grunge.com - Richard Milner Dyson Spheres are exactly what imagineer, physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson envisioned them to be: sources of nigh-limitless energy.
Black Holes Scientists get more great looks at the 1st black hole ever photographed space.com - Mike Wall The supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 is coming into sharper and sharper focus. Two years ago, astronomers with the Event Horizon …
Physics Why Physicists Are Losing Their Minds Over a Strange New Discovery verified_publisherslate.com - Joshua Keating This week, scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, announced a breakthrough result that could upend particle …
Black Holes Primordial black holes could explain dark matter, galaxy growth and more knowablemagazine.org - By Adam Mann A half-century-old, still-disputed idea about dense cosmic objects from the dawn of time could solve longstanding mysteries about the universe One day …
MashableBlack Holes Hubble captures a massive black hole blazing fiery plasma trails across the cosmos verified_publisherMashable - Adam RosenbergThe focus of this new image share from NASA — a photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2012 — is Hercules A. The distant galaxy, also known as 3C 348, is the bright spot right in the middle of...
Fast CompanyBooks This clever children’s book uses interactive data visualizations to explain the universe verified_publisherFast Company - By Mark WilsonFrom microbes to the power of gravity, the new book “I am a book. I am a portal to the universe.” will help your kids wrap their heads around their own existence. “Touch this dot,” the text reads. So touch...
Live ScienceProtons After 48-year search, physicists discover ultra-rare 'triple glueball' particle Live Science - Rafi Letzter This event was predicted in 1973 but had never been seen in the real world. A never-before-seen particle has revealed itself in the hot guts of two …
Science Does the Universe Have Higher Dimensions? realclearscience.com - Sabine Hossenfelder Space, the way we experience it, has three dimensions. Left-right, forward backward, and up-down. But why three? Why not 7? Or 26? The answer is: No …
theamazelab1:08Galaxies Haunting Hubble Image Shows Slowly Dying Galaxy theamazelab - flipboard.com All that remains of NGC 1947’s spiral arms are ghostly wisps backlit by starlight.
Science Quantum computers are revealing an unexpected new theory of reality newscientist.com - Chiara Marletto “QUANTUM supremacy” is a phrase that has been in the news a lot lately. Several labs worldwide have already claimed to have reached this milestone, …
Science Astronomers detect new frequencies from mysterious fast radio bursts verified_publishernewatlas.com - By Michael Irving The mystery of fast radio bursts (FRBs) from space may be a step closer to being solved. Astronomers studying a repeating signal from a nearby galaxy …
Black Holes The first ever image of a black hole's swirling magnetic field is released massivesci.com - Briley Lewis A few years ago, the world saw the first image of a black hole thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope. Although black holes by definition don’t emit …
Physics Muon Particle’s “Wobble” Appears to Break the Laws of Physics freethink.com - Kristin Houser The muon, a fundamental particle nicknamed the “fat electron,” has physicists questioning the standard model of particle physics.
Cell Biology Why Should We Believe Atheists on the Subject of God? mindmatters.ai - News Noting a recent article by philosopher Steve Meyer at The Federalist, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor comments, The public square is replete with books and …
Undark MagazinePhysics Book Review: A Cosmologist Throws Light on a Universe of Bias verified_publisherUndark Magazine - Joshua Roebke In “The Disordered Cosmos,” Chanda Prescod-Weinstein contemplates the exclusionary culture of physics. Every community guards a creation story, a …
The GuardianScience The universe is expanding – but what is it expanding into? verified_publisherThe GuardianThe long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Scientists and astronomers us...
God What's God Got to Do With Michio Kaku's New Book, The God Equation? thestranger.com - Charles Mudede The God Equation is a new and short book by the theoretical physicist and science popularizer Michio Kaku. It's not his best book, but it does raise …
Learning Microsoft Researchers Claim Entire Universe Is a Machine-Learning Algorithm verified_publisherfuturism.com This might mean unifying physics is impossible. The Autodidactic Universe Up for some light reading? Theoretical physicists working with Microsoft …
Space 'Dark sirens' could solve one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology space.com - Adam Mann In recent years, cosmologists have been faced with a crisis: The universe is expanding, but no one can agree on how fast it's moving away from …
PreventionJellyfish No One Knows What to Make of This Mysterious Space Jellyfish Prevention - Caroline Delbert Astronomers have never really seen anything like it before. The USS Jellyfish sounds like the strongest ship in the fleet, but in reality, it’s a …
Business InsiderSpace NASA is developing a plan to build an Arecibo-like telescope on the moon verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Morgan McFall-JohnsenNASA is paying a team of researchers to develop a plan for a telescope on the far side of the moon. The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT), as the concept is called, would be a lot like the Arecibo telescope,...
