264 | Sabine Stanley on What’s Inside Planets
The radius of the Earth is over 6,000 kilometers, but the deepest we’ve ever dug below the surface is only […]
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Astronomy/Space
261 | Sanjana Curtis on the Origins of the Elements
In mid-20th-century cosmology, there was a debate over the origin of the chemical elements. Some thought that they could be
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259 | Adam Frank on What Aliens Might Be Like
It wasn’t that long ago that topics like the nature of consciousness, or the foundations of quantum mechanics, or prospects
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256 | Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on Building Cities on the Moon and Mars
There is an undeniable romance in the idea of traveling to, and even living in, outer space. In recent years,
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243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon
The Earth’s atmosphere is good for some things, like providing something to breathe. But it does get in the way
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240 | Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe
It’s somewhat amazing that cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, can make any progress at all. But
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213 | Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space
With communication satellites, weather satellites, GPS, and much more, what happens in space is already important to our lives here
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212 | Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars
The detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling black holes by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations was rightly celebrated as a
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210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If…?
What’s the fastest way to get a human being around a racetrack, if we ignore all the rules of racing?
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204 | John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets
Recent years have seen a revolution in the study of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the Sun (or
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