9 Best Articles in 2021
Rolling Stone
Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
Rolling Stone
20+ min read · From 2017 · Inside Elon Musk's world-changing plans to inhabit outer space, revolutionize high-speed transportation, reinvent cars – and find love along the way.
Popular Mechanics
The Universe Is a Self-Learning Algorithm
Popular Mechanics
3 min read · Apr 15th · Basically, we live in one giant algorithm.
Quartz
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a…
Quartz
3 min read · From 2016
Futurism
NASA fixes Mars lander by telling it to hit itself with a shovel
Futurism
1 min read · 2020-03-18 · The future of aerospace engineering is percussive maintenance.
Cosmos Magazine
Universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists conclude
Cosmos Magazine
3 min read · From 2017 · A super-precise measurement shows proton and antiproton have identical magnetic properties.
NASA
Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover
NASA
Feb 18th · Raw images of Mars taken by the Perseverance rover at Jezero Crater.
haaretz.com
If true, this could be one of the greatest discoveries in human history
haaretz.com
4 min read · From 2019
VICE
Something in Deep Space Is Sending Signals to Earth in Steady 16-Day Cycles
VICE
2 min read · 2020-02-08 · Scientists have discovered the first fast radio burst that beats at a steady rhythm, and the mysterious repeating signal is coming from the outskirts of another galaxy.
Brain Pickings
When Did Time Really Begin? The Little Loophole in the Big Bang
Brain Pickings
2 min read · 2020-05-25 · A pleasurable warping of the figuring faculty to contemplate what was there before the before.
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The Guardian
How the billionaire space race could be one giant leap for pollution
The Guardian
4 min read · Jul 19th · One rocket launch produces up to 300 tons of carbon dioxide into the upper atmosphere where it can remain for years
Scientific American
Black Holes, Quantum Entanglement and the No-Go Theorem
Scientific American
3 min read · Jul 4th · New research shows that there are problems even quantum computers might never be able to solve
Gizmodo
Space Tourism Is a Waste
Gizmodo
8 min read · Jul 19th · Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk want to make "space tourism" a thing. This could jumpstart a pointless industry that's totally unsustainable.
VICE
NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures
VICE
6 min read · Jul 9th · Detecting 'technosignatures' such as hypothetical Dyson spheres in space could lead us to extraterrestrial life, and now NASA is funding the search.
Live Science
Our universe might be a giant three-dimensional donut, really.
Live Science
5 min read · Jul 19th · Imagine a universe where you could point a spaceship in one direction and eventually return to where you started. If our universe were a finite donut, then such movements would be possible and…
nature
Four steps to global management of space traffic
nature
8 min read · Jul 9th · Jamie Morin sets out the elements required to track satellites and avoid crashes.
Live Science
A 'wobble' in the moon's orbit could result in record flooding in the 2030s, new study finds
Live Science
3 min read · Jul 12th · The entire US coastline is in for a one-two punch from the lunar cycle and climate change.
SPACE.com
A 'strange signal' is coming from the Milky Way. What's causing it?
SPACE.com
8 min read · Jul 5th · Space Mysteries: A fast radio burst was detected from within our galaxy for the first time. We may be closer to uncovering its origin.
Phys.org
Observation, simulation, and AI join forces to reveal a clear universe
Phys.org
3 min read · Jul 2nd · Japanese astronomers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique to remove noise in astronomical data due to random variations in galaxy shapes. After extensive training and testing on…
