240 | Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe
It’s somewhat amazing that cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, can make any progress at all. But […]
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Astronomy/Space
213 | Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space
With communication satellites, weather satellites, GPS, and much more, what happens in space is already important to our lives here
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212 | Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars
The detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling black holes by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations was rightly celebrated as a
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210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If…?
What’s the fastest way to get a human being around a racetrack, if we ignore all the rules of racing?
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204 | John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets
Recent years have seen a revolution in the study of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the Sun (or
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188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like
If extraterrestrial life is out there — not just microbial slime, but big, complex, macroscopic organisms — what will they
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170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies
There is so much we don’t know about our universe. But our curiosity about the unknown shouldn’t blind us to
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131 | Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously
The possible existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations — not just alien microbes, but cultures as advanced (or much more)
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Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe
CMB temperature (colors) and polarization (lines), as measured by the Planck satellite. Welcome to the third annual Mindscape Holiday Message!
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118 | Adam Riess on the Expansion of the Universe and a Crisis in Cosmology
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Astronomers rocked the cosmological world with the 1998 discovery that the universe is
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