Where’s Our Warp Drive to the Stars? by KENNETH CHANG
Physicists haven’t given up on the dream of zipping around the universe. Now they’ve come up with a […]
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Unexpected Trajectory Interstellar Asteroid Oumuamua
Why is ‘Oumuamua differing from its expected trajectory? Last year, 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua became the first known asteroid […]
Hope for the Great Apes, and Maybe for Us by ...
Mountain gorillas are faring better. So what’s wrong with a little optimism? Published: November 19, 2018 at 01:00AM […]
Will We Survive Climate Change? by JOHN SCHWARTZ
Possibly. There is ‘no scientific support for inevitable doom,’ one expert notes. Published: November 19, 2018 at 01:00AM […]
Essay: The Experiments Are Fascinating. But Nobody Can Repeat Them. ...
Science is mired in a “replication” crisis. Fixing it will not be easy. Published: November 19, 2018 at […]
NASA Mars 2020 Rover Gets a Landing Site: A Crater ...
The rover will search the Jezero Crater and delta for the chemical building blocks of life and other […]
‘Enough Is Enough’: Science, Too, Has a Problem With Harassment ...
Many women in science thought that meritocracy was the antidote to sexism. Now some have decided on a […]
The Tarantula Nebula
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant […]
This Is Heavy: The Kilogram Is Getting an Update by ...
The kilogram is getting an update. Published: November 13, 2018 at 01:00AM from #NYT Science Read the full […]
The Kilogram is Dead. Long Live the Kilogram! by XIAOZHI ...
After a vote (and a century of research), the standard measure for mass is redefined, and the long […]