Theoretical Physicist Erik Verlinde Says We Don’t Need Dark Matter to Explain the Universe
Credit to Author: Kate Lunau| Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 19:14:48 +0000
Watch Verlinde deliver a talk on his “new view” on gravity tonight.
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How Dreams of Spacefaring Zombies Led to the Launch of Sputnik
Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0000
What, you think there’s enough room on Earth for everyone who has ever lived? No way, we need a spaceship stat.
Read moreNobel Prize in Physics Recognizes the Dawn of a Whole New Kind of Astronomy
Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:22:29 +0000
Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish are named for leading the effort to detect gravitational waves.
Read moreThe US Is Paying Big Oil to Keep Fossil Fuels Profitable
Credit to Author: Stephen Leahy| Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000
Subsidies are keeping “zombie energy” alive.
Read moreThis Paleolithic Dick Gave Us Genital Herpes
Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 18:38:07 +0000
Nuts to you, Nutcracker Man.
Read moreCompound Associated With Life Found in Two Very Different Locations in Space
Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:13:03 +0000
Why that’s actually not good news for astrobiologists looking for extraterrestrial life.
Read moreA Giant Concrete Orb in Northern Iceland Moves With the Arctic Circle
Credit to Author: Kate Lunau| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:02:08 +0000
It’s on the remote island of Grímsey in Iceland.
Read moreI Guarded an Arctic Base Against Polar Bears at the Frontline of the Apocalypse
Credit to Author: Duncan Ferguson| Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:00:00 +0000
The DEW Line was built in the fifties to warn of a nuclear threat. I guarded six workers there from polar bears.
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