SCIENCE
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Ask Ethan: What’s the deal with cosmic inflation and the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
From a region of space as small as can be imagined (all the way down to the Planck scale), cosmological…
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Einstein: the lone genius is pure mythology | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
Einstein, contrary to the popular narrative, wasn’t a lone genius, but rather only achieved the successes that he did because…
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Euclid mission reveals “page 1” of our cosmic story | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This composite map shows stars from ESA’s Gaia mission and dust from ESA’s Planck mission, together, along with the first…
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Ask Ethan: Why is the Big Bang shown as a tube? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
The modern cosmic picture of our universe’s history begins not with a singularity that we identify with the Big Bang,…
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10 thoughtful insights about the great cosmic unknowns | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
The Universe is a vast, diverse, and interesting place, full of matter and energy, in various forms, playing out on…
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Ask Ethan: Do evolution and natural selection occur cosmically? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
The Flame Nebula, shown here in a combination of X-ray data (from Chandra) and infrared light (from Spitzer), showcases a…
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How ideas from physics drive AI: the 2024 Nobel Prize | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This illustration of a human brain was generated by DALL-E, a generative AI program, in late 2023. Although it bears…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #110 — Optical Interferometry | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This image shows the first of ten relocatable 1.4 meter telescopes arranged in a Y, or three-pronged, configuration. Telescopes can…
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What created more light: the Big Bang or stars? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
For the first ~3 billion years of cosmic history, the star-formation rate rose and rose until reaching a peak, but…
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Fastest spacecraft ever built to break its own speed record | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This illustration shows the Parker Solar Probe approaching perihelion: its closest approach to the Sun. It will achieve its closest…
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