SCIENCE
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Is fundamental science a victim of its own success?
Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s not; it’s hard to mess…
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Ask Ethan: Will the Universe ever reach equilibrium?
The expanding Universe, in many ways, is the ultimate out-of-equilibrium system. After enough time passes, will we eventually get there?…
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Why reimagining the particle accelerator is so challenging
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we’ll have to overcome something…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #104 — The magnetized galactic center | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2024
Natalie is the discoverer of a giant magnetized ring some 30 light-years in diameter located in the galactic center, and…
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What was it like when humans first arose on planet Earth? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2024
70,000 years ago, a brown dwarf pair known as Scholz’s Star, right on the precipice of igniting hydrogen fusion in…
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What was it like when oxygen killed almost all life on Earth? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2024
Although our planet is thought to have had about a 2:1 ratio of oceans to continents throughout its history, there…
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Ask Ethan: How do symmetries lead to conservation laws? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2024
Emmy Noether, the person who proved Noether’s theorem, which connects symmetries and invariances of a theory with an associated conserved…
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How to measure a lunar month during the solar eclipse | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2024
This partial solar eclipse, captured over Arlington, VA in 2021, shows the Moon’s disk partially blotting out the Sun. The…
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Ask Ethan: Has a new study disproven dark matter and dark energy? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
The full-field image of MACSJ0717.5+3745 shows many thousands of galaxies in four separate sub-clusters within the large cluster. The blue…
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Flagship NASA space telescope faces a penny-pinching death
NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want…
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