by Rebecca Boyle – source: medium As Hurricane Florence makes landfall, scientist eyes are looking to the skies It may not be visible on the sodden Eastern Seaboard, but far […]
Are Moon Colonies Possible or the Fantasy of Billionaires?
by Eric Niiler – source: medium The economy of lunar mining and tourism Growing up, my brother and I couldn’t get enough of Space: 1999, a mid-’70s series that hypnotized […]
The Path to Galactic Colonization
by Tony Deller – source: medium The foundation for humanity’s future must be built by our generation Using the newest data from the European Space Agency’s GAIA spacecraft, the ESA […]
Can We Create Wormholes?
by Ella Alderson – source: medium A look into the popular sci-fi method of travel Imagine you want to get from point A to point B. Point A in this […]
Dog year? Not at my house!
Respect for animals
The story of Jocelyn Bell Burnell
via Timeline In the winter of 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell pored over the near-frozen dials of a radio telescope. Between curses, she breathed on the instruments hoping to thaw them […]
Bouncing ball’s trajectory in general relativity and newtonian gravity
by Paul Mainwood on Quora This is a conceptually simple and fun piece of work that has been let down by an appalling write-up on phys.org. Reading the paper itself, […]
Extragalactic origin confirmed
Cosmic rays — fast-moving, high-energy nuclei — pervade the Universe. We know that the lower-energy variety that we detect on Earth is funnelled by the solar wind. However, higher-energy cosmic […]
Martian dust blower
by Bart Verberck, Nature Physics 13, 623 (2017) doi:10.1038/nphys4207 (sci-hub) Your Earthly carpet sweeper won’t do the job in the low-pressure, CO2-dominant atmosphere on Mars. But Catalin Ticoş and colleagues […]
Higgs boson’s “little brother” probably never existed
The hypothetical inflaton is almost certainly not the particle behind the universe’s rapid expansion soon after the Big Bang. This is according to an international collaboration of physicists working at […]
Ticking clocks
by Iulia Georgescu, Nature Physics 13, 529 (2017) doi:10.1038/nphys4169 (sci-hub) Special relativity assumes that laws of physics are the same in all reference frames, a principle known as Lorentz invariance. […]
Transparent perfect mirror
by Rachel Won, Nature Photonics 11, 331 (2017) doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.90 (sci-hub – paper) Transparent ‘perfect’ mirrors — one-way mirrors that transmit or reflect light completely depending on the direction of view […]
Space inspires people
Why do you think space inspires people so much? I guess that it’s our human nature to explore and we see it, at least most of us can see it, […]