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Starts With A Bang podcast #108 — A future particle collider

Today, the Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle physics experiment in history. What would a new, successor collider teach…

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Starts With A Bang podcast #108 — A future particle collider

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Ask Ethan: Can we detect dark matter if it’s truly collisionless?

Dark matter’s hallmark is that it gravitates, but shows no sign of interacting under any other force. Does that mean we’ll never detect it?

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Ask Ethan: Can we detect dark matter if it’s truly collisionless?

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Your guide to 2024’s Perseid meteor shower

Peaking on the night of August 11/12, up to 100 bright meteors per hour will be visible. Here’s how to make the most of it.

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Your guide to 2024’s Perseid meteor shower

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7 changes destroying the Moon would have on planet Earth

Earth, the only rocky planet with a large, massive satellite, is greatly affected by the Moon. Destroying it would cause 7 major changes.

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7 changes destroying the Moon would have on planet Earth

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Modern astrophysics answers Isaac Newton’s oldest question

Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.

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Modern astrophysics answers Isaac Newton’s oldest question

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Astronomers solve longstanding galaxy cluster collision puzzle

How do normal matter and dark matter separate by so much when galaxy clusters collide? Astronomers find the surprising, unexpected answer.

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Astronomers solve longstanding galaxy cluster collision puzzle

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Ask Ethan: Did black holes form directly from the Big Bang?

Even in the very early Universe, there were heavy, supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. How did they get so big so fast?

Aug 2

Ask Ethan: Did black holes form directly from the Big Bang?

Aug 2

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The reality of quantum fluctuations was proven back in 1947

Often viewed as a purely theoretical, calculational tool only, direct observation of the Lamb Shift proved their very real existence.

Aug 1

The reality of quantum fluctuations was proven back in 1947

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10 revolutionary finds from JWST’s first 2 years of science

In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.

Jul 31

10 revolutionary finds from JWST’s first 2 years of science

Jul 31

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New theoretical calculation solves the ‘muon g-2’ puzzle

A longstanding mismatch between theory and experiment motivated an exquisite muon measurement. At last, a theoretical solution has arrived.

Jul 30

New theoretical calculation solves the ‘muon g-2’ puzzle

Jul 30

Ethan Siegel

Ethan Siegel

The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist.

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