the universe
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The Greatest Sci-Fi Show You’re Still Not Watching Is Getting a New Season—and a Spinoff
The world of For All Mankind was forever changed when the Soviet Union arrived on the moon before the United States. That one event changed the course of the show’s alternate history, and now we’ll get to see exactly how it happened. Apple TV+ has just announced that not only is For All Mankind coming…
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A Dark Matter Detector Based on a Wind Chime Seems Just Weird Enough to Work
Dark matter physicists may have one of the most frustrating jobs in science. Their work deals with something that must, by almost all models of the universe, exist. But we’ve never found any direct evidence for dark matter. Where other scientists can capture their subjects in a lab and perform experiments on it, scholars of…
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What’s At The Edge Of The Universe?
It is a routine emotion in 2019 to urgently wish, four or five times in a day, to be launched not simply into space but to the very edge of the universe, as far as it is possible to get from the fever dream of bad weather, busted trains and potentially cancerous thigh lesions that…
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We Could Solve The Mysteries Of Time And Space — If We Had A Particle Accelerator The Size Of The Solar System
Gravity is incredibly weak. Just think: You can lift your foot despite the mass of the entire Earth pulling against it. Why is it so weak? That’s unclear. And it might take a very, very big science experiment to find out.