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Quanta Magazine
Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth?Quanta Magazine
20+ min read · May 19th · The space telescope is one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken. Marcia Rieke and Nikole Lewis, two of the scientists leading JWST investigations, talk to Steven Strogatz about…
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Singularity Hub
Time Travel Could Be Possible, but Only if Multiple Histories Exist TooSingularity Hub
4 min read · Apr 29th · What if instead of eliminating time travel due to paradoxes, we could just eliminate the paradoxes themselves?
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 53
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Discover Magazine
How The New Science of Biocosmology Redefines Our Understanding Of LifeDiscover Magazine
4 min read · Apr 29th · Scientists have long wondered how complex life emerged in a universe of ever-increasing disorder. Now a group of scientists think they now know.
Reader View · Shared by 141, including Jennifer Ouellette
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The New York Times
Has the Milky Way’s Black Hole Come to Light?The New York Times
8 min read · May 12th · The Event Horizon Telescope reaches again for a glimpse of the “unseeable.”
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 63, including Ines Bieler, Edward Tufte, Bjorn Larsen, Alexander Seifert, Amy Webb, Chris Messina, Forbes India, Bernardo van Olst
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Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?Quanta Magazine
20+ min read · May 4th · Einstein’s description of curved space-time doesn’t easily mesh with a universe made up of quantum wavefunctions. Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses the quest for quantum gravity with host…
Shared by 513, including Anita Leirfall
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Discover Magazine
How The New Science of Biocosmology Redefines Our Understanding Of LifeDiscover Magazine
4 min read · Apr 29th · Scientists have long wondered how complex life emerged in a universe of ever-increasing disorder. Now a group of scientists think they now know.
Reader View · Shared by 141, including Jennifer Ouellette
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Aeon+Psyche
To see the Universe more clearly, think in terms of processes, not objectsAeon+Psyche
May 3rd · View the Universe in terms of processes, not objects, and you’ll see improvements in science, public policy and relationships
Shared by 120, including Marylin Delgado, Tactical Tech, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦
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Big Think
Neil deGrasse Tyson explores 3 mind-blowing space factsBig Think
4 min read · Apr 19th · Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson sat down with Big Think to discuss dark matter, the Goldilocks Zone, and physics' effects on everyday events.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 109
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BBC Breaking News
Black hole: First picture of Milky Way monsterBBC Breaking News
6 min read · May 12th · Astronomers reveal the first ever image of the black hole at the core of our galaxy.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 105, including Mark Anderson FCCT 💛✨👨🏽‍🏫🏆🌈
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The Conversation
Blasting out Earth’s location with the hope of reaching aliens is a controversial ideaThe Conversation
20+ min read · Apr 29th · This year, two groups of astronomers plan to send messages containing information about humans and the location of Earth toward parts of space they think may be home to intelligent life.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 101, including Chris Hadfield, Marcos
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Quanta Magazine
Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to LightQuanta Magazine
10 min read · Apr 28th · Robots are about to venture into the sunless depths of lunar craters to investigate ancient water ice trapped there, while remote studies find hints about how water arrives on rocky worlds.
Shared by 98, including George M 🇪🇺
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kottke.org
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sees Solar Eclipse on Marskottke.org
1 min read · Apr 20th · Wow, NASA just released a video shot by the Mars Perseverance rover of a solar eclipse by the moon Phobos. The video description
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Science News
All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteoritesScience News
3 min read · Apr 26th · Scientists have detected adenine and guanine in meteorites for decades and seen hints of uracil. But cytosine and thymine had remained elusive.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 79, including Keith Frankish, Patricia Churchland, Alex Barrera, Ajit Pai, Jennifer Ouellette, Pascal Sulser
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Scientific American
The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way's Heart Has Been RevealedScientific American
5 min read · May 12th · The historic image of Sagittarius A* is the culmination of a decades-long astronomical quest—and a crucial step toward a new understanding of black holes, gravity and spacetime
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 70, including George J Huba PhD, Adrian Roselli 🗯
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Quanta Magazine
Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?Quanta Magazine
20+ min read · May 4th · Einstein’s description of curved space-time doesn’t easily mesh with a universe made up of quantum wavefunctions. Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses the quest for quantum gravity with host…
Shared by 513, including Anita Leirfall
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Rolling Stone
Elon Musk: The Architect of TomorrowRolling 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.
Reader View · Shared by 373, including Dominik Grolimund, Helmi, Mara Averick, Chris Schultz ✌️, John Battelle, Gerd Leonhard, Daniel Bentes, Diego Paladino, Alexandra Wong, Ward Plunet, Glyn Britton, Merkstatt, Adrian Zumbrunnen, platzh1rsch, Education Architects, M.G. Siegler, Taylor Pearson, Ron McIntyre, Dez S. Papp, Thomas Power
Popular Mechanics
The Universe Is a Self-Learning AlgorithmPopular Mechanics
3 min read · 2021-04-15 · Basically, we live in one giant algorithm.
Reader View · Shared by 346, including John Nosta, Brian Ahier, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Howard Getson, Nige Willson, Tarik ESSAADI, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, hardmaru, Gabriele, Terence Mills, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
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New research suggests the universe is teaching itself physics as it evolves.
Quanta Magazine
The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works.Quanta Magazine
20+ min read · 2021-12-04 · The James Webb Space Telescope has the potential to rewrite the history of the cosmos and reshape humanity’s position within it. But first, a lot of things have to work just right.
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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
Reader View · Shared by 306, including Merkstatt, John Koetsier, Matthias Sala, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, WPMU DEV, Nick Lüthi, Chris Messina, Inês Santos Silva, Matthias Lampe, Stuart Chalmers, Florian Hanke 🍎, David Bauer, Nils Hitze, Richard Joerges, Ryan Boren, hiten.eth, Thomas Power, Carlos Granier, adrianleb.eth, Sameer Patel
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Vox
The largest space telescope in history is about to blow our mindsVox
~12 min read · 2021-09-22 · The James Webb Space Telescope will be 100 times as powerful as the Hubble. Here’s what it will see.
Reader View · Shared by 302, including Bob Violino, Christo Meid, John Hagel, Brian Resnick, Carla Gentry, David Papandrew, Christopher Mims 🤌, Brian Ahier, Thomas Power, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), AI, Pascal Sulser, Stefan Plattner, John Nosta
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The Webb was originally supposed to launch in 2010 and cost around $1 billion. Its price tag has since ballooned to $10 billion, and it’s way overdue
Futurism
NASA fixes Mars lander by telling it to hit itself with a shovelFuturism
1 min read · From 2020 · The future of aerospace engineering is percussive maintenance.
Reader View · Shared by 296, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, rebecca roache, Katja Evertz, Amber Naslund, 𝔎𝔢𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔚𝔦𝔩𝔰𝔬𝔫 🆚 🦠
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Cosmos - the Science of Everything
Universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists concludeCosmos - the Science of Everything
3 min read · From 2017 · A super-precise measurement shows proton and antiproton have identical magnetic properties.
Reader View · Shared by 259, including Esther Schindler, Stephen C Sanders, Merkstatt, Brad Brooks, 𝔎𝔢𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔚𝔦𝔩𝔰𝔬𝔫 🆚 🦠, David Bauer, Josep M. Ganyet, Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Power, Adam Pasick, Florian Hanke 🍎, Bernhard Huessy, Martina Grolimund, Christopher Lauer, Yvette Dubel, adrianoesch, Michael R. Nall, Anita Leirfall, Liam Bright, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
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NASA
Images from the Mars Perseverance RoverNASA
2021-02-18 · Raw images of Mars taken by the Perseverance rover at Jezero Crater.
Shared by 251, including Mathew Ingram, Brian Cox, Esther Schindler, Tom Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💉💉💉, Jennifer Ouellette, Damian J Mullins, George J Huba PhD, Phil Plait, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️‍🌈, Gabriele, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), AIKing.Eth - Vincent Boucher, Robert Lepenies, Paolo Attivissimo
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