Category: Science & Space
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Spacecraft on Its Way to Explore Asteroids
Sept. 27, 2007 — NASA’s Dawn spacecraft rocketed away Thursday toward an unprecedented double encounter in the asteroid belt. Scientists […]
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Meteor Crash in Peru Caused Mysterious Illness (solved)
Nearby residents who visited the impact crater complained of headaches and nausea, spurring speculation that the explosion was a subterranean […]
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Biggest void in space is 1 billion light years across
Relatively “old” news, but absolutely had to archive this… the mother of all Voids! Radio astronomers have found the biggest […]
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200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way
Is this nothing? Or will this turn out to be something VERY interesting? Michael J. Longo makes the claim on […]
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Fermilab: Excursions into matter, space and time
Fermilab is operated by the Fermi Research Alliance (FRA). It is part of the Department of Energy (DoE) with a […]
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Catching Some Rays
An international team of researchers has detected low-energy solar neutrinos–subatomic particles produced in the core of the sun–and measured in […]
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The Fermi Paradox
As our sciences mature, and as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence continues to fail, the Great Silence becomes louder than […]
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Super Paper
Researchers have made some progress building structures called carbon nanotubes–whose single-layer atomic structure is tightly bound and therefore super rigid–but […]
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The Vanishing Universe
According to a paper that will appear in October (arXiv link), we’re lucky to be able to reach this understanding—literally. […]
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Blackhole Info-loss paradox: Cracked?
Physicist may have finally cracked the black hole information loss paradox that has befuddled physicists for the past 40 years, […]