All posts tagged "Physics"
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29PhysicsThe Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined
The sun radiates far more high-frequency light than expected, raising questions about unknown features of the sun’s magnetic field and the possibility...
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53Physics‘We’ve now seen the unseeable’: Black hole photographed for 1st time
Black holes have been mysterious and elusive — until now. Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have, for the first time, photographed one. “We’ve now seen the...
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66PhysicsTwo unusual galaxies shake up the dark matter debate, again
WHEN IT COMES to the nature of dark matter, astronomers are still largely, well, in the dark. The existence of this mysterious substance was...
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65PhysicsGalaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox
Astronomers claim in a new paper that star motions should make it easy for civilizations to spread across the galaxy, but still...
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87PhysicsStephen Hawking celebrated with new 50 pence coin
The British Royal Mint has commemorated professor Stephen Hawking in a new 50p coin, which references the late physicist’s pioneering work on black...
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57PhysicsWayward Satellites Test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
In August 2014 a rocket launched the fifth and sixth satellites of the Galileo global navigation system, the European Union’s $11-billion answer...
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75PhysicsA kilometre-sized Kuiper belt object discovered by stellar occultation using amateur telescopes
Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) are thought to be remnants of the early Solar System, and their size distribution provides an opportunity to...
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80PhysicsWhat to expect in 2019: science in the new year
Polar projects In January, US and UK researchers will descend on Antarctica to begin their largest joint mission to the continent in...
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70PhysicsTiny Computers Could Transform Our Lives
Remember Innerspace, the comedy sci-fi movie from the ‘80s about a microscopic manned pod injected into a human? Although we’re years away from...
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71PhysicsBeguiling dark-matter signal persists 20 years on
A group of physicists says that it is still detecting the presence of dark matter — the mystery substance thought to make up 85%...