astrophysics
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America Isn’t Ready To Handle A Catastrophic Asteroid Impact, New Report Warns
We’ve long said that humans generally worry about the wrong asteroids. Tabloids love to publish headlines about “potentially hazardous asteroids”, a category created by NASA that can be a bit misleading. The truly worrisome rocks are the smaller ones that we aren’t tracking.
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Can Thousands Of Smartphones Help Detect Cosmic Rays?
Your smartphone has a particle detector on it, and scientists want you to help them uncover how the universe really works and maybe even discover the true nature of dark matter. There are just a few bugs to work out.
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Black Holes Can Maybe Turn Into Dark Matter Lasers
Black holes are already some of the strangest objects in the universe, and scientists sometimes dream up some pretty wild theories about their behaviour. Like maybe they can accumulate dark matter particles and turn into black hole lasers, beaming radiation out into space.
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Small Asteroid Strikes Africa Just Hours After It Was Spotted
A meteor lit up the sky over Botswana, Africa, early Saturday evening local time. Scientists discovered the 2m-wide asteroid just hours before it reached Earth.