9 Best Articles in 2021
Rolling Stone
Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
Rolling Stone
20+ min read · 369 saves · 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.
Quartz
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a…
Quartz
3 min read · 303 saves · From 2016
Futurism
NASA fixes Mars lander by telling it to hit itself with a shovel
Futurism
1 min read · 296 saves · 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 · 248 saves · From 2017 · A super-precise measurement shows proton and antiproton have identical magnetic properties.
haaretz.com
If true, this could be one of the greatest discoveries in human history
haaretz.com
4 min read · 234 saves · From 2019 · Oded Carmeli
VICE
Something in Deep Space Is Sending Signals to Earth in Steady 16-Day Cycles
VICE
2 min read · 227 saves · 2020-02-07 · 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
1 min read · 206 saves · 2020-05-25 · Maria Popova · A pleasurable warping of the figuring faculty to contemplate what was there before the before.
Inverse
NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth
Inverse
1 min read · 198 saves · 2020-02-07 · Thanks to some (very) remote engineering work by NASA, the intrepid explorer's science mission is back on.
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dearmoon.earth
1 min read · 184 saves · From 2018 · I choose to go to the Moon, with artists - Yusaku Maezawa
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Phys.org
The Earth has been spinning faster lately
Phys.org
1 min read · 108 saves · Jan 7th · Scientists around the world have noted that the Earth has been spinning on its axis faster lately—the fastest ever recorded. Several scientists have spoken to the press about the unusual phenomenon,…
VICE
Scientists May Have Detected a Signal That Could Change Astronomy Forever
VICE
2 min read · 61 saves · Jan 12th · Scientists think they may have spied the universe's "gravitational wave background" after more than a decade of searching.
Futurism
Astrophysicist says it's likely we can travel through wormholes
Futurism
1 min read · 51 saves · Jan 13th · We're not there yet, but scientists are making a shocking amount of progress.
BBC News (World)
Nasa's Curiosity rover: 3,000 days on Mars
BBC News (World)
5 min read · 45 saves · Jan 9th · Three thousand days and counting: Nasa's Curiosity rover continues its extraordinary exploration of Mars.
The Wall Street Journal
The Tiny Satellites That Will Connect Cows, Cars and Shipping Containers to the Internet
The Wall Street Journal
1 min read · 34 saves · Jan 9th · In the shadow of giants like SpaceX, more than a dozen startups are building their own globe-spanning networks of nanosatellites, enabling a new kind of everywhere, all-the-time connectivity for…
VICE
Scientists Think the Multiverse Might Be the Key to Explaining Dark Matter
VICE
3 min read · 34 saves · Jan 7th · A new study theorizes that black holes made of collapsed universes originate dark matter, and our own universe may look like a black hole to outsiders.
WIRED
Exclusive: Alphabet Is Grounding Loon—but Won't Call It a Failure
WIRED
2 min read · 32 saves · Jan 22nd · Steven Levy · Plus: The moon shot’s launch, health care for the maskless, and a new era’s inaugural meme.
Ars Technica
Last year reusable rockets entered the mainstream, and there’s no going back
Ars Technica
4 min read · 26 saves · Jan 6th · Eric Berger
NASA
Finding a Missing Black Hole
NASA
22 saves · Jan 13th · Yvette Smith · Astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh between 3 billion and 100 billion times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found.
The New York Times
Missing: One Black Hole With 10 Billion Solar Masses
The New York Times
7 min read · 21 saves · Jan 19th · Dennis Overbye · One of the biggest galaxies in the universe seems to lack its dark centerpiece.
