Some 60 million light-years away in the southerly Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
Category: Science On The Edge
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57th anniversary of North America’s biggest earthquake
On Good Friday, March 27, 1964, south-central Alaska heaved under one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, registering a 9.2 on the Richter scale. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/this-date-in-science-biggest-earthquake-in-north-america…
Ex-CDC director believes COVID-19 escaped from a lab, but cites no evidence
Many experts have rejected that theory as unlikely. Source: https://www.livescience.com/robert-redfield-coronavirus-origins-lab-escape.html
How the electronic properties and atomic vibrations of uranium are linked
Researchers have explained how the electronic properties and atomic vibrations of uranium are linked. …
Explaining Parker Solar Probe’s magnetic puzzle
When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sent back the first observations from its voyage to the Sun, scientists found signs of a wild ocean of currents and waves quite unlike the near-Earth space much closer to our planet. This ocean was spiked with what became known as switchbacks: rapid flips in the Sun’s magnetic field that reversed direction like a zig-zagging mountain…
Creating a new type of computing that’s ‘naturally probabilistic’
“You see, nature is unpredictable. How do you expect to predict it with a computer?” said American physicist Richard Feynman before computer scientists at a conference in 1981. …
Searching for elusive supersymmetric particles
The Standard Model of particle physics is the best explanation to date for how the universe works at the subnuclear level and has helped explain, correctly, the elementary particles and forces between them. But the model is incomplete, requiring “extensions” to address its shortfalls. …
How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway—and what they can teach us
As people in the UK were settling down to watch the late evening news on February 28, a fresh news story, quite literally, appeared in the night sky. A large and very bright fireball was seen over southern England and northern France at 21:54 GMT. It was recorded by many doorbell webcams, so it was a very well-observed fireball. More importantly,…
When unfolded, these ancient gold foil figures reveal embracing couples
Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered nearly two dozen gold foil figures from 1,300 years ago that have engravings of couples embracing each other. Source: https://www.livescience.com/ancient-gold-figures-discovered-sweden.html
Do Mars dust storms cause the mysterious zodiacal light?
The zodiacal light is a strange pyramid of light that extends from the eastern or western horizon, before dawn or as true darkness falls. It was known to stem from dust moving in the plane of our solar system. The Juno spacecraft has found that Mars might be the source of the dust. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/zodiacal-light-source-mars-dust-storms-juno…