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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

The Grand Dichotomy

Do you ever have one of those days when you can’t quite bear the dichotomy that is humanity?

8 years ago

charon, children's education, children's rights, dennis overbuy, dichotomy, duality, girls education, malala fund, malala yousafzai, nasa, new horizons, Nobel laureate, nobel peace center, nobel peace prize, oslo, pluto, Taliban, unseen connection

Seeing Sound

I’m thinking about sound today.

And how we hear with more than our ears.

8 years ago

acoustic, acoustical analysis, acoustical engineering, acoustics, Chladni plates, Ernst Chladni, feeling sound, hearing, John Tyndall, museum of the city of new york, nasa, physics, resonance, Robert Hooke, sound, soundscapes, standing wave, touch, UCLA physics

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