SCIENCE

A quantum miracle enabled the formation of neutral atoms | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025

Today, the Universe has evolved into the complex, life-friendly place we know it to be because we were able to…

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10 space pictures whose appearances will deceive you | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025

What appears to be a double-lobed nuclear explosion is actually the result of a rare astronomical outburst known as a…

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Ask Ethan: Could dark energy be more negative than a cosmological constant? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025

For the first several billion years of our Universe’s history, the Universe’s expansion rate was decreasing and distant galaxies slowed…

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Astronomers just found the smallest galaxy ever | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025

This map of stars in the vicinity of the identified object Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1 in two-dimensional space, with the…

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Starts With A Bang podcast #117 — Gravitational waves and the Universe | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025

The image above shows an illustration of the three future LISA, or Laser Interferometer Space Antennae, spacecrafts, in a trailing…

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What to know about vaccines in the do-your-own-research era | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025

In this photo, a patient receives a vaccine known as the Jynneos vaccine, which is used to combat mpox. Although…

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Ask Ethan: Is dark energy just leftover momentum from the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025

By mapping out the three-dimensional positions of galaxies over a large volume of the Universe, scientists within the DESI collaboration…

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The six strongest materials on Earth are harder than diamonds | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025

Atomic and molecular configurations come in a near-infinite number of possible combinations, but the specific combinations found in any material…

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Why does physics break down at the Planck scale? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025

The central idea of String Theory is that all the quanta we know of are described by tiny strings that…

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Ask Ethan: When do stars turn the most mass into energy? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025

This Wolf–Rayet star is known as WR 31a, located about 30,000 light-years away in the constellation of Carina. The outer…

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