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How we overlook the possibility of aliens and their intelligence being manifested in the quantum…
How we overlook the possibility of aliens and their intelligence being manifested in the quantum realm<p>Lately, there have been some educated guesses …
PhysicsResearchers Think Portals May Link Our Visible World With The "Dark Sector"
Long ago, physicists identified and categorized the components of the visible universe. Up until recently, 16 particles formed everything in the …
PhysicsFiguring Out Dark Energy - An Astrophysicist Explains | Video
Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains what the science community is doing and the tools they are using to understand dark energy in the Universe.<p>How …
Dark EnergyGlow-in-the-Dark Constellation Dress Lights Up Like the Stars at Night
If your love of outer space, like the stars themselves, knows no bounds, then ThinkGeek has the perfect ensemble for you. Their glow-in-the-dark dress features a repeat print of constellations that are beautifully arranged all over the sleeveless garment. So, you’ll look great during the day, but …
PhysicsWikiLeaks Vault 7 Dark Matter: CIA Hacking Tools For Macs, iPhones Revealed
WikiLeaks released the latest cache of documents in its “Vault 7” series Thursday, publishing the details of a number of U.S. Central Intelligence …
PhysicsEuclid: ESA's Search for Dark Matter & Dark Energy
Euclid is a mission planned by the European Space Agency (ESA) that aims to learn more about the parts of the universe we can't see — specifically, …
Dark EnergyCan Dark Energy Kill Galaxies? - Issue 46: Balance
The universe is not just expanding; it’s accelerating. When cosmologists first realized this in 1998, it was alarming. The attractive gravitational …
Dark EnergyIn search for unseen dark matter, physicists turn to shadow realm
Scientists hunting unseen dark matter are looking deeper into the shadows. With searches for a favored dark matter candidate—weakly interacting …
PhysicsAstronomers Don’t Point This Telescope—The Telescope Points Them
The hills of West Texas rise in waves around the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, a powerful instrument encased in a dome that looks like the Epcot ball. …
AstronomyDark Matter Could Be a Superfluid Sometimes
Despite cosmology’s enormous progress in the last 50 years, we still know very little about our universe. General relativity, the theory which …
PhysicsWhat is Dark Matter and More Questions From Our Readers
<b>Who contributed more to the origin of baseball—Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright?</b><p><i>Patrick Ian, Catonsville, Maryland</i><p>Baseball evolved from a host …
PhysicsHere’s the 411 on Pat McGrath’s new Dark Star eye kits that will transform you into a galactic goddess
Well, we knew it was coming and yet there was no way to mentally prepare for the sheer power and glory of the new Pat McGrath outer space-inspired …
Skin CarePat McGrath On the Smoky-Eye Secret She’s Never Shared
Pat McGrath’s best makeup tools are her fingers. On a Tuesday evening, McGrath has the suite of a fancy Manhattan hotel set up the resemble the …
Skin CareScientists Discover Enormous Speeding Galaxies That Contradict Einstein's Gravity
A discovery of fast-moving galaxies, <b>10 million light years wide</b>, may cause physicists to re-examine Einstein’s theory of relativity. A team from …
PhysicsWhat Are Sterile Neutrinos? NEOS Experiment Fails To Find Evidence For Hypothetical Particles
If sterile neutrinos exist, they are excellent at hiding themselves from prying human eyes.<p>Despite our best efforts, we have failed to unearth any …
PhysicsScientists Found Some Invisible UV Light that Solves This Galactic Conundrum
We imagine the universe is home to and infinite number of galaxies of all sizes, but instead scientists only seem to be able to find the big ones. …
AstronomyDoes Dark Matter Exist, Or Is Gravity Wrong? The Answer Lies Billions Of Years In The Past
When we look out at the luminous matter in the Universe — stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the hot gas in and between them — it tells a couple of different stories. One is the story of how normal matter (based on atomic nuclei and electrons) comes together to emit, absorb and otherwise …
CosmologyLack of 'Dark Matter' in Early Galaxies Perplexes Astronomers
<i>This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.</i><p>It …
AstronomyUniverse’s Largest Structure Caught In The Act Of Forming
When galaxy clusters merge together, they form the largest objects the Universe will ever create.<p><i>“On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet</i> …
AstronomyKeep an open mind on dark matter and rivals that do away with it
ASK most cosmologists and they’ll tell you the majority of matter in the universe is invisible. The case for dark matter is considered so …
PhysicsNine Inch Nails Announce Huge Show And Reveal 2017 Lineup, Has Anyone Quit Band?
Trent Reznor, Robin Finck (guitarist), Alessandro Cortini (keyboards/electronics), Ilan Rubin (drummer), and Atticus Ross will comprise Nine Inch …
Nine Inch NailsQ&A: Dark matter next door?
Astronomers recently discovered a stronger-than-expected glow of gamma rays at the center of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to the …
PhysicsDeclining Rotation Curves at High Redshift?
A recent paper in Nature by Genzel et al. reports declining rotation curves for high redshift galaxies. I have been getting a lot of questions about …
CosmologyTHE BEADY EYE SAYS: NO ONE HAS EVER REALLY SEEN AN ATOM.
( A Fifteen minute read with a lot of head scratching)<p>Let me from the off state that I am no Scientist, so don’t expect this post to make much sense, …
PhysicsCosmological ruler could help us get the measure of dark energy
Measuring how the distance between galaxies changes is key to working out how dark energy drives the universe’s accelerating expansion – now a new …
Dark EnergyAbsence of dark matter startles astronomers
<b>We know that galaxies today move</b> according to the wishes of an invisible choreographer—the mysterious dark matter. But perhaps it wasn’t always …
AstronomyHow dark matter lost its shine for me
<b>When did you become aware of dark matter?</b><p>I took a class in the mid-1980s in which astrophysicist Scott Tremaine said it had to exist. The class was …
PhysicsMonster Galaxy Cluster Sheds Light on Cosmic Microwave Background (Image)
One of the largest galaxy clusters ever seen shines bright in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Called RX J1347.5-1145, this cluster lies 5 …
AstronomyNAHBS 2017: Dark Matter Finishing blasts a Caletti with Boba Fett inspired paint, shows off beautiful two faced Alliance
One of the rad parts about NAHBS is that you not only get to see the work of great builders, but also the art that is displayed on top of those …
PhysicsA Brief History of the Grand Unified Theory of Physics - Issue 46: Balance
Particle physicists had two nightmares before the Higgs particle was discovered in 2012. The first was that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle …
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