SCIENCE
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Starts With A Bang podcast #104 — The magnetized galactic center
[ad_1] The center of the galaxy doesn’t just host stars and a black hole, but an enormous set of rich…
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What was it like when humans first arose on planet Earth? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2024
[ad_1] 70,000 years ago, a brown dwarf pair known as Scholz’s Star, right on the precipice of igniting hydrogen fusion…
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What was it like when oxygen killed almost all life on Earth? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2024
[ad_1] Although our planet is thought to have had about a 2:1 ratio of oceans to continents throughout its history,…
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Ask Ethan: How do symmetries lead to conservation laws? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2024
[ad_1] Emmy Noether, the person who proved Noether’s theorem, which connects symmetries and invariances of a theory with an associated…
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How to measure a lunar month during the solar eclipse
[ad_1] Even if you aren’t in the path of totality, you can still use the solar eclipse to measure how…
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Ask Ethan: Has a new study disproven dark matter and dark energy?
[ad_1] There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our standard model of cosmology into question. Here’s what…
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Flagship NASA space telescope faces a penny-pinching death | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] The Bullet Cluster, the aftermath of a galaxy cluster collision that occurred 3.8 billion years ago in a region…
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Ask Ethan: How did matter come to exist in our Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] In the very early Universe, there were tremendous numbers of quarks, leptons, anti-quarks, and anti-leptons of all species. After…
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When will the Earth meet its demise?
[ad_1] No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself,…
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JWST’s mysterious young galaxy: dead, or just sleeping? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] The “dead” galaxy JADES-GS-z7–01-QU, whose light comes to us from just 700 million years after the Big Bang, is…
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