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.
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.
NASA
Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover
NASA
Feb 18th · Raw images of Mars taken by the Perseverance rover at Jezero Crater.
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.
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.
Inverse
NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth
Inverse
2 min read · 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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BBC Future
The mystery of how big our Universe really is
BBC Future
9 min read · Mar 29th · The cosmos has been expanding since the Big Bang, but how fast? The answer could reveal whether everything we thought we knew about physics is wrong.
Popular Mechanics
What Are Black Holes? | New Study May Reveal Their True Nature
Popular Mechanics
3 min read · Mar 21st · Their true nature could finally explain the origins of dark matter and fast radio bursts.
Nature
Seismic ripples reveal size of Mars’s core
Nature
3 min read · Mar 18th · Mars becomes the first inner planet after Earth to have its core measured.
SPACE.com
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity touches down on the Red Planet
SPACE.com
4 min read · Apr 4th · The Perseverance rover dropped the helicopter on April 4, 2021.
BBC Future
The farms being run from space
BBC Future
2 min read · Mar 11th · There's a seismic shift underway in agriculture and chances are you will not be aware of it. Farming may be among the last industries to undergo a digital revolution. But the changes are arguably…
Quanta Magazine
Long-Missing Midsize Black Hole Flashes Into View
Quanta Magazine
2 min read · Mar 30th · Black holes seemed to come only in sizes small and XXL. A new search strategy has uncovered a black hole of "intermediate" mass, raising hopes of more to come.
Digital Trends
Hubble Scientists Update Famous Image of the Veil Nebula
Digital Trends
2 min read · Apr 6th · Scientists at the Hubble Space Telescope have released a reworked image of the beautiful Veil Nebula, showing threads of ionized gas winding through space.
WIRED
Physicists Learn to Superfreeze Antimatter (Hint: Pew Pew!)
WIRED
2 min read · Mar 31st · Antimatter, the mysterious mirror-stuff of the universe, is hard to make and harder to study. A laser that literally chills it out could change all that.
The Atlantic
Who Would Kidnap a Space Telescope?
The Atlantic
5 min read · Mar 12th · ‘‘We hope pirates don’t take it,” one astrophysicist said.
Live Science
A remnant of a protoplanet may be hiding inside Earth
Live Science
4 min read · Mar 29th · A protoplanet slammed into the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, knocking loose a chunk of rock that would later become the moon. Now, scientists say that remnants of that protoplanet can still be…
