Sunday, 28 September 2025

Quantum nature of gravity may be detectable with gravitational waves

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 174 views | 0 comments

Perhaps the most important problem in physics is how gravity and quantum mechanics fit together, and strange fluctuations in gravitational waves could help us figure it out

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Source: www.newscientist.com

The history of the Large Magellanic Cloud has been mapped in detail

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 165 views | 0 comments

Astronomers have mapped the history of one of the nearest galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud, in more detail than ever before, showing when its stars formed

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Martian cave entrances may offer a life-friendly radiation shield

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 167 views | 0 comments

The surface of Mars is bombarded with far more dangerous radiation than Earth, but the area just inside caves may shield from UV rays while providing just enough light for life

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Mysterious cosmic rays spotted coming from ordinary stellar explosions

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 190 views | 0 comments

High energy cosmic rays usually come from powerful supernova explosions, but a new discovery suggests they can be released by smaller nova explosions too

Source: www.newscientist.com

Astronomers have just found more than half a million new asteroids

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 161 views | 0 comments

A pair of astronomers have sifted through old data to find more than half a million new asteroids, which may reveal how planets moved in the early solar system

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Why it is so important to protect access to the dark night sky

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 162 views | 0 comments

The night sky has wowed people since the dawn of time, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to get a good view, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Source: www.newscientist.com

Solar panels in space could help power the UK by 2039, claims report

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 168 views | 0 comments

Solar power beamed from satellites could provide the UK with a continuous supply of green energy as soon as 2039, according to a report commissioned by the government

Source: www.newscientist.com

Astronomers may have spotted a new spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 160 views | 0 comments

Researchers have found a colossal filament of gas called Cattail at the edge of the galaxy – it could be a new spiral arm of the Milky Way, but we have no clue how it formed

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Source: www.newscientist.com

NASA’s Perseverance rover took its first Mars sample – but it’s empty

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 147 views | 0 comments

The Perseverance Mars rover made its first sampling attempt on 6 August but the sample tube came up empty, so NASA scientists are figuring out how to make sure the next try works

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Mercury has almost no boulders on its surface and we're not sure why

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 176 views | 0 comments

Researchers examined about 3000 of the best images we have of the planet Mercury, and only 14 of them contained boulders – far fewer big rocks than expected

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Source: www.newscientist.com

How to watch the spectacular Perseids meteor shower

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 181 views | 0 comments

Meteor showers dazzle the night sky, but the Perseids shower is special. It peaks on 12 August this year, and here's how to enjoy it, says Abigail Beall

Source: www.newscientist.com

Ancient lake in Mars’s Gale crater may have actually been a small pond

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 150 views | 0 comments

Gale crater, which NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring for the past eight years, was thought to have once held a huge lake – but it may have been more like a puddle

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Don't Miss: UFO docuseries hunts for origins of our alien obsession

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 154 views | 0 comments

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss

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Source: www.newscientist.com

The moon may never actually have had a strong magnetic field

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 174 views | 0 comments

We used to think that the moon had a strong magnetic field like Earth's, but a new analysis of rocks collected by the Apollo missions suggests that previous signs of magnetism came from asteroid impacts instead

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Source: www.newscientist.com

From Interstellar to Hidden Figures: 12 of the best space movies

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 171 views | 0 comments

Interstellar, Moon, Proxima, Alien, Hidden Figures... From science fiction to biographical drama, does your favourite movie about space make our list?

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Black holes with magnetic field ‘hair’ shed it in loops of hot plasma

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 164 views | 0 comments

When black holes are born with magnetic fields, simulations show they shed those fields quickly, in accordance with the predictions of the no-hair theorem

Source: www.newscientist.com

Comet’s dust trail could rain down on Venus this December

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 164 views | 0 comments

A comet approaching the sun from the outer solar system might sweep a trail of dust particles over the planet Venus when it swings into the inner reaches of our planetary neighbourhood this December

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Source: www.newscientist.com

X-rays can echo and bend around the back of supermassive black holes

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 181 views | 0 comments

Flashes of X-rays have been spotted echoing from behind a supermassive black hole, confirming one of the predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft may still be in orbit around the moon

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 171 views | 0 comments

A discarded part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that helped return astronauts from the first visit to the lunar surface may still be in orbit around the moon, rather than having crash-landed as once thought

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Stars sped up by black holes may outshine supernovae when they collide

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 161 views | 0 comments

Some stars orbiting supermassive black holes are expected to move close to the speed of light, and when they collide they may release more energy than the brightest supernovae

Source: www.newscientist.com

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