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Could You Have a Job As a Future Space Cop?0
- Space, Space & the Cosmos
- October 9, 2018
As the world faces an ever-growing need for mineral resources and companies such as SpaceX continue to push the boundaries of spaceflight, there is a growing concern about how to ensure the safety of future missions. Nations’ ability to put defense systems in orbit, orbital congestion and satellite presence are all up for debate. With
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What’s so special about the Higgs Boson?0
- Physics, Math & Chemistry, Space, Space & the Cosmos, Today I learned...
- October 6, 2018
Why is the Higgs Boson so Important? A Basic Explanation for Students and other Life-Long Learners Two months ago, when most of the nation was celebrating Independence Day, the scientific community celebrated an incredible milestone in the field of physics—the discovery of the Higgs boson, also known as the “God particle.” You’ve probably seen the
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Where are all the aliens? A look at the Drake equation and the Fermi Paradox.0
- Space, Space & the Cosmos
- October 4, 2018
UFOs and aliens from other worlds are the stuff of science fiction (though some believe they are part of reality), but what is the likelihood of actually finding intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos? We can make a rough approximating using the Drake Equation. The Drake equation amounts to a summary of the factors affecting
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Has the Large Hadron Collider Disproved the Existence of Ghosts?0
- Environment, Psychics/Ghosts/Paranormal, Space & the Cosmos
- October 3, 2018
Four out of ten Americans believe in the existence of ghosts, despite the fact that the only evidence for the paranormal is weak anecdotes. Physicist Brian Cox, an Advanced Fellow of particle physics at the University of Manchester, believes that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) effectively disproves ghosts and the paranormal altogether. On a recent
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The Evaporating Atmosphere of HD 189733 b 0
- Popular Science, Space, Space & the Cosmos, Space and beyond
- September 30, 2018
There is a planet that is 63 light years away from our home that is bigger than Jupiter and orbits its star at a distance one-thirteenth of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. It’s reasonable to say that exoplanet HD 189733 b is a hot place, with little chance of supporting any life. But in this
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10 Astronomical Targets for Your New Telescope 0
- Space, Space & the Cosmos
- September 27, 2018
Telescopes are an exciting way to view the universe and they are perfect for people of a variety of different ages. Finding a good astronomical target for a new telescope can seem tricky at first since most of the stars and planets in the sky look more or less the same to the naked eye. That’s why
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