When you think of the Plague, the Black Death of the 14th century, with its medieval cities overrun with rats and creepy plague masks, probably comes to mind. But the Plague isn’t a disease of […]
The common cold is the most common human disease in the world. So, why haven’t we found a cure yet?! Called human rhinoviruses, these respiratory viruses measure between 15 to 30 nanometers in diameter, making […]
The LCLS-II will be the world’s brightest x-ray laser when it delivers “first light” in the early 2020s. With this superconducting accelerator online, scientists will be able to see the hidden world of atoms and […]
What do you do when the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) makes you an offer you can’t refuse?. Well in the case of NASA you update an existing design to create a Hubble on steroids that […]
Good news everyone: it looks like the universe is going to end with a series of catastrophic explosions. The very, very long story short is that the universe ends in heat death, as it approaches […]
Physicists have a long history of sticking our noses where they don’t belong – and one of our favorite places to step beyond our expertise is the question of consciousness and free will. Sometimes our […]
The Nobel prize in physics this year went to black holes. Generally speaking. Specifically, it was shared by the astronomers who revealed to us the Milky Way’s central black hole and by Roger Penrose, who […]
Einstein’s special theory of relativity combines space and time into one dynamic, unified entity – spacetime. But if time is connected to space, could the universe be anything but deterministic? And does that mean that […]
If you rank the most habitable places in our solar system Venus lands pretty low, with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and sulphuric acid rain. And yet it may have just jumped to […]
The transportation of radioactive material is much more common than many people think because it’s not just spent nuclear fuel and warheads that need to the moved but how safe are and shipments of radioactive […]
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