AvatarKristenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe 7 most bizarre facts about leap daybigthink.com - Ethan SiegelOnce every four years — well, almost every four years — our calendar gifts us with an extra day: February 29th, also known as leap day Most of us who …
AvatarKristenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoExcavation of colossal caverns for Fermilab's DUNE experiment completedphys.org - Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryExcavation workers have finished carving out the future home of the gigantic particle detectors for the international Deep Underground Neutrino …
AvatarKristenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAn impossibly huge ring of galaxies might lead us to new physics. Here's howspace.com - By Keith CooperThe ring of galaxies, appropriately called the "Big Ring," has a circumference of nearly 4 billion light-years. An intergalactic ring-shaped …
AvatarKristenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoVisualized: Subatomic Particles and Fundamental Forces of Naturevisualcapitalist.com - Mark BelanYou may be familiar with the idea that everything in the universe is made up of matter. If you take any object and zoom in to its molecular structure, …
AvatarKristenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhy the universe might be a hologramphys.org - Paul M. SutterA quarter century ago, physicist Juan Maldacena proposed the AdS/CFT correspondence, an intriguing holographic connection between gravity in a …
AvatarKristenAvatarAvatarWe Now Have Precise Math To Describe How Black Holes Reflect Our Universeverified_publisherScienceAlert - Michelle StarrAstronomers developed a set of equations that can precisely describe the reflections of the Universe that appear in the warped light around a black …
AvatarKristenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNew theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanicsphys.org - University College LondonA radical theory that consistently unifies gravity and quantum mechanics while preserving Einstein's classical concept of spacetime has been …
AvatarKristenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe cracks in cosmology: Why our Universe doesn't add upsciencefocus.com - Marcus ChownIn terms of our understanding of the Universe, some things just don’t add up. Which means either our measurements are wrong, or our theories are. The …
AvatarKristenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAsk Ethan: How many constants define our Universe?bigthink.com - Ethan SiegelAlthough it’s taken centuries of science for us to get there, we’ve finally learned, at an elementary level, what it is that makes up our Universe. …
AvatarKristenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSpace movie to deliver the "Overview Effect" in giant domed theatersverified_publishernewatlas.com - By Michael FrancoThe unique perspective just a few astronauts have ever seen of Earth from outer space, and the way in which it impacts them, is known as the Overview …
AvatarKristenAvatarAvatarAre we living in a quantum sandwich?Aeon MediaThere’s a striking link between quantum and astronomic scales. What could it mean? | Aeon Videos A discovery with potentially mind-boggling …
AvatarKristenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAstronaut shares the profound 'big lie' he realized after seeing the Earth from spaceverified_publisherupworthy.com - Tod PerryThis change in perspective could change humanity. Sixty-one years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to make it into space and probably the …