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The Sky Is Falling!

Remember all the abuse Chicken Little took for warning his friends? Well, turns out he was right.

7 years ago

Ann Hodges, astrophysics, Carl Sagan, Chelyabinsk, Chicken Little, cosmic dust, Diego Janches, dinosaurs, Ernst Chladni, Gerrit Blank, Goddard Space Flight Center, hit by meteorite, Journal of Geophysical Research, meteorites, meteors, micrometeorids, nasa, neutrinos, Planetary Science Institute, space dust, star dust, stardust

The Left Hand of Darkness

Did you know that all life on Earth is left-handed?

8 years ago

amino acids, anti-matter, chirality, Cosmos Magazine, early life, Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope, galactic magnetic field, gamma-rays, handedness, idea tornado, left-handed magnetic field, left-handedness, life, logo, magnetic fields, matter, nasa, origin of life, pervasive magnetic field, proteins, Salomon, Salomon logo, Tanmay Vachaspati, The Left Hand of Darkness, theoretical physicist, universal magnetic field, Ursula LeGuin

One Drop

Nature has a beautiful way of casting unfathomable inside the very small.

Think of proteins. DNA. An atom. A brain. A teaspoon of sun.

Unspool any of these and you will be overwhelmed at the sheer amount you must deal with.

8 years ago

12 million miles from earth, comets, drop of water, Guy Murchie, heliosphere, interstellar space, ladder, molecules, Music of the Spheres, nasa, perspective, scale, Voyager 1, Water, water molecule, wondernaut

The New View

8 years ago

dwarf planet, hubble, Hubble Telescope, nasa, new horizons, pluto, plutoids, space exploration, Vox

Moonwalking

8 years ago

cartoon, earth, humor, moons, saturn

Idea Tornado

Have you ever gotten caught up in one?

It’s when – without warning – various bits of information slam suddenly together into a swirling idea about The Big Picture.

8 years ago

aliens life forms, atoms, Big Bang, CERN, cosmos, dan cooper, dark matter, Francis Crick, idea tornado, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Life Itself, Nobel laureate, panspermia, quantum theory

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