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Exploding Stars Are Rare—but if One Was Close Enough, It Could Threaten Life on Earth

Stars like the sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1 percent over years and decades, thanks to the fusion of...

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Fresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology Predicts | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionClusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies sit at the intersections of giant, crisscrossing filaments of matter that form the tapestry of the cosmos....

Use RAG for drug discovery with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services

Amazon Bedrock provides a broad range of models from Amazon and third-party providers, including Anthropic, AI21, Meta, Cohere, and Stability AI, and covers a...

In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for Missing Matter | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionWhen it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain. Ordinary...

Janna Levin: Why I’m Co-Hosting the Joy of Why Podcast | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionWhat a joy — pun intended — to co-host season 3 of The Joy of Why alongside (metaphorically if not physically in space or...

Arno Penzias: Nobel laureate who co-discovered ‘echo of Big Bang’ dies aged 90 – Physics World

The cosmologist Arno Penzias, who discovered the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with Robert Wilson, died on 22 January at the age of 90. He...

Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionIn the early 2000s, it seemed that cosmologists had solved the largest and most complex puzzle of all: how the universe works. “There was this...

The 10 quirkiest stories from the world of physics in 2023 – Physics World

From the fastest woman to run across the US to the mechanics of dancing peanuts, physics has had its fair share of quirky stories this year....

Superfluid “feels” like a heat-conducting surface enclosing an empty interior – Physics World

For the first time, a researchers has described how it would “feel” to touch a quantum superfluid. Through new experiments, Samuli Autti and colleagues...

How the World’s Biggest Optical Telescope Could Crack Some of the Greatest Puzzles in Science

Astronomers get to ask some of the most fundamental questions there are, ranging from whether we’re alone in the cosmos to what the nature...

Celebrating the physics of the cosmos and 20 years of JCAP – Physics World

Some of the biggest mysteries of physics – including the nature of dark matter and dark energy, and the origin of...

Art as Scientific Hypothesis — Interview with Michal Nesazal | MakersPlace Editorial

Michal Nesazal is a Brno-born, Prague-based Czech artist whose work illustrates Nesazal’s fascination and grappling with scientific concepts that are otherwise sometimes impossible to...

Record-breaking fast radio burst offers path to weigh the Universe

Oct 19, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a paper published in Science ("A luminous fast radio burst that probes the Universe at redshift 1"), a...

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