New star tells oldest story, 12 billion years later
Mashable reports on a newly discovered star that can serve as a time capsule for the some of the earliest days of the universe, made […]
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Where the dark matter hides.
Caltech says that, thanks to an NSF grant, they’ve found where all the dark matter has been hiding. That’s up to 50 percent of matter […]
We might have just detected dark matter.
Science Daily goes deep beneath an Italian mountain range, where the XENON1T experiment got some strange results … that might give us humans our first […]
Why is there something? Anything? Instead of nothing?
NPR asks the biggest question of all – the original question. Look around. Why is there something instead of nothing?: The best answer we have […]
After everything, the Higgs boson still dooms us all. In a few billion years.
Scientific American crunches the numbers that show how the mass of the Higgs boson spells the end of the universe… eventually: “If you use all […]
Flame Challenge returns… with TIME.
Remember Alan Alda’s quest to explain what a flame is so an 11-year-old would understand? He’s polled hundreds of elementary-school kids and is asking another […]
Really dark matter.
The fun thing, New Scientist seems to be saying, about dark matter right now is that it’s really dark. Like, really, really not a glimmer […]
Cosmic songs.
Science Line doesn’t care if you’re not supposed to be able to hear spaceship engines go “whooosh” – they say we’re actually being quietly bombarded […]
Science Art: The Known Universe by AMNH
The American Museum of Natural History revisits “Cosmic Zoom”, starting at the Himalayas and moving outward (and, as far as we can see, backwards in […]
The Totality of the Universe (nutshell version).
I’m quite impressed by “Cosmology in 10 Minutes” by Danielle Fong, her attempt to explain why scientists believe what they do about how this all […]