Active galaxies point to a new physics in the expansion of the universe
Studying the history of space on a large set of distant active galaxies observed with the help of the European Space Agency XMM-Newton space telescope, a group of astronomers...
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Earth’s magnetic field was on the verge of extinction
Earth’s magnetic field had the lowest tensions around 565 million years ago, when its powerful dynamo was on the verge of extinction. Since the formation of the solid...
A free book of science fiction from around the world about climate change, introduced by Kim Stanley Robinson
[Editor’s note: I’m a volunteer advisor to Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination, and Joey Eschrich is a colleague of mine there;...
Profile of Peter Thiel's "junk science" journal from someone asked to write for it
Adam Becker was invited to write for Inference, a “quarterly review of the sciences” backed by billionaire Peter Thiel. Inference covers all sorts of interesting...
The missing link in the theory of the planet formation discovered
For the first time, astronomers have discovered a celestial body with a radius of 1.3 kilometers on the edge of the solar system. The existence of bodies the size of several...
The reason of the differences between the northern and southern auroras
Auroras adorn the sky above the poles of our planet during periods of increased solar activity, when it directs charged particles toward the Earth’s atmosphere. Previously,...
On the lining of the European ISS module hundreds of tiny impact craters from space fragments are found
A recent inspection of one of the modules of the International Space Station (ISS) revealed hundreds of tiny impact craters from space fragments, according to the...
NASA astronauts, of the Apollo 14 mission, brought the oldest Earth stones from the moon
In the lunar sample, delivered by NASA astronauts of the Apollo 14 mission, the oldest breed of Earth was discovered. An international group of scientists with the support of...
A new process of massive black hole formation in the young universe
Having modeled the first 400 million years of the Universe life on a supercomputer, the researchers were surprised to find a previously unknown process that leads to the...