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Rhyme and Reason
Interview of a physicist who thinks in poetry from the cosmic edge Katrina Miller Published 01.06.26, 09:32 AM Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire and author of The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie.nytns/cassandra klos Sourced by the Telegraph Much of the praise for Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s debut book in 2021, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, lauded the way she used...
Top NASA Mission: Keep Astronauts Safe
Mission specialist Jeremy Hansen of CSA (Canadian Space Agency), pilot Victor Glover, commander Reid Wiseman and mission specialist Christina Koch walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building ahead of the launch of the Artemis II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Top NASA Mission: Keep Astronauts Safe
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2026 Space Odyssey
Katrina Miller and Michael Roston on journeys to the moon and Mars, visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse Katrina Miller, Michael Roston Published 26.01.26, 07:53 AM The thing about space is that you have to be patient. The universe does not bend to earthly time scales, and space events are governed by the unalterable realities of physics and engineering. They will happen when they are good and ready. In 2026, there is some hope that your patience will be rewarded.
Defending the dark
The night sky above Eagle Harbor, a village in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula along the shoreline of Lake Superior, Michigan. — Emily Elconin/The New York Times ON a Saturday in September in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP), a dozen people navigated woods to the shore of Lake Superior, where waves licked the land. Above, a wash of stars stretched across the blue-black sky, cut in half by the Milky Way. RM 13.90/month RM 9.73/month Subscribe Billed as RM 9.73 for the 1st month, RM 13.90 thereafter.
Lost Sisters - Telegraph India
Only a handful of stars in the Pleiades can be seen with the naked eye. But a new paper states if you could see them all, they would cover the entire night sky Katrina Miller Published 08.12.25, 10:51 AM Look to the east after sunset on a clear winter night and you’ll spot a bright, tightly packed collection of stars. That’s the Pleiades also known as the Seven Sisters, a star cluster 445 light-years from Earth that has inspired both myth and measurement for centuries.
Of fancy fish and Alan Turing’s maths
Katrina Miller on how two engineers unveiled a mathematical model able to accurately recreate the ornate boxfish’s pattern Katrina Miller Published 17.11.25, 11:23 AM Boxfish have enchanted scientists and marine enthusiasts for decades. They are cute, with pouting mouths and cubic bodies that come in a variety of striking patterns: yellow with black polka dots, grey with blue stripes and more.
Calculated Trails
A young mathematician has leveraged Barcelona’s tourist rush to introduce people to the beauty of numbers Katrina Miller Published 03.11.25, 11:35 AM Every summer, scores of tourists take to the bustling streets of Barcelona, Spain, a city known for its breathtaking architecture. Nicolás Atanes Santos, a young Spanish mathematician, sees this as an opportunity to engage more people in his favourite subject.
A tiny wobble - Telegraph India
How a 12-year effort to measure a subatomic particle has thrown scientists into a tizzy Katrina Miller Published 23.06.25, 01:30 PM It has been 12 years since physicists transported a giant magnetic ring down the Atlantic coast, around Florida, up the Mississippi river and across two interstates to Batavia, Illinois, US. Recently, the team behind that ring unveiled their final result: the most precise value yet recorded for the tiny wobble of a subatomic particle called the muon.
Universe’s darkest mysteries are coming into focus
CERRO PACHÓN, Chile To reach the top of Cerro Pachón, a mountain at the edge of the Atacama Desert in Chile, astronomers take a drive of two hours up a winding, bumpy road. The lush greenery at the mountain’s base slowly gives way to the browns and yellows of the desert. Eventually, telescopes rise in the distance, the sun glinting off their metal domes. The newest eye on the cosmos is the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses the largest digital camera ever built.
Kitchen Science: Pour-over physics, how fluid dynamics can improve your coffee
Arnold Mathijssen, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania in the US, comes up with scientific insights Katrina Miller Published 19.05.25, 10:29 AM More than a billion cups of coffee are consumed daily: French press, espresso, cold brew, whatever it takes. Arnold Mathijssen, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania in the US, is partial to pour-over coffee, which involves manually pouring hot water over ground beans and filtering it into a pot or mug below.
Neutrinos are shrinking. Good for physics
A new study has unveiled the most precise measurement yet of the particle Katrina Miller Published 12.05.25, 11:33 AM The apparatus used to calculate neutrino weight Courtesy: Karlsruhe Research Institute The result, published recently in the journal Science, does not define the exact mass of a neutrino, just its upper limit.
Farewell to Gaia
FROM ancient star streams to the innards of white dwarfs, the Gaia space telescope has seen it all. In late March, mission specialists at the European Space Agency sent Gaia, which is low on fuel, into orbit around the sun, and switched it off after more than a decade of service to the world’s astronomers. They also overwrote some of Gaia’s onboard memory with the names of team members, some of whom wrote personal goodbyes. Already a subscriber? Log in.
‘As an astronomer, I think in long time scales’
Interview of a space expert about his work and all that motivates him Katrina Miller Published 28.04.25, 07:24 AM The Chandra X-ray observatory is a space telescope in its 26th year. Its science data systems group was led by Jonathan McDowell Courtesy Courtesy: Nasa Jonathan McDowell is a go-to expert for all things spaceflight. Thousands of subscribers read his monthly Space Report. But that has always been his side gig.
The Clock Keeper
Katrina Miller chats with the new boss of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, nuclear affairs expert Alexandra Bell Katrina Miller Published 24.02.25, 07:38 AM TICK TOCK: Juan Manuel Santos (left), former president of Colombia University and Robert Socolow, emeritus professor at Princeton University, with the Doomsday Clock.
Ancient footprints found in Kenya suggest human relatives ‘might have walked by one another’
Ancient footprints found in Kenya suggest human relatives ‘might have walked by one another’ A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and possibly interacted. The New York Times November 29, 2024 at 9:07PM In an undated image provided by Louise N.
Look beyond the Nobel: Some scientists fail to get awarded, but they deserve the biggest
Teddy Rosenbluth Katrina Miller Many have argued for an expansion of the Nobel categories, especially because science has grown increasingly interdisciplinary since the prizes were established in 1900 Katrina Miller, Teddy Rosenbluth Published 21.10.24, 05:10 AM Every October, scientists eagerly await the announcement of the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine.
Nobel physics prize awarded for pioneering AI research by 2 scientists
This year’s Nobel Prize in physics goes to American John Hopfield, left on the screen, and Canadian researcher Geoffrey Hinton for fundamental discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. Steffen Trumpf dpa/TNS John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton received the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries that helped computers learn more in the way the human brain does, providing the building blocks for developments in artificial intelligence.
Fall harvest supermoon and lunar eclipse will light up and darken Tuesday's night sky
The night sky on Tuesday will treat us to a partial lunar eclipse during a supermoon. It’s an astronomical wonder that almost anyone in the Western Hemisphere can experience, and it’s the latest reminder that our home planet is part of a bigger cosmic system. When is the lunar eclipse, and where can I see it?
This is my happy place, I love being up here in space, says Sunita Williams from station
Nineteen astronauts across three spacecraft are currently in orbit around Earth — a record in the history of human spaceflight. Two of them, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore of Nasa, were not originally scheduled to be up there at this time. But neither seems perturbed by that. The two astronauts expressed staunch support for Nasa and Boeing, the company whose troubled spacecraft they rode to the International Space Station in June, before it returned to the surface uncrewed last week.
With launch of new rocket Ariane 6, Europe rejoins the space race Original
At long last, Europe's eagerly awaited rocket has earned its wings.At 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday -- one decade after the European Space Agency set in motion a plan for a powerful new vehicle that would carry the continent's ambitions to orbit -- Ariane 6 soared away from the launchpad at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
China brings a capsule full of lunar soil from the far side of the moon down to Earth
China is looking to expand its presence on the moon, landing more robots there, and eventually human astronauts, in the years to come Katrina Miller New York Published 26.06.24, 06:26 AM A large screen in Beijing shows footage of China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe collecting a sample from the far side of the moon on June 4 Reuters China brought a capsule full of lunar soil from the far side of the moon down to Earth on Tuesday, achieving the latest success in an ambitious schedule to explore the...
Solar Storm Intensifies, Filling Skies With Northern Lights in United States - Telegraph India
Officials warned of potential blackouts or interference with navigation and communication systems. Auroras may be seen as far south as Southern California or Texas Katrina Miller, Judson Jones Published 11.05.24, 10:35 AM NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash toward the middle of the image – on Friday, May 10, 2024.
Total solar eclipse will happen April 8
On April 8, North America will experience its second total solar eclipse in seven years. The moon will glide over the surface of our sun, casting a shadow over a swath of Earth below. Along this path, the world will turn dark as night. Skywatchers in Mexico will be the first to see the eclipse on the mainland. From there, the show will slide north, entering the United States through Texas, then proceeding northeast before concluding for most people off the coast of Canada.
What’s this shape-shifting thing?
A cup can become a fork, then a spade, discovery of new plastic for travelling lighter Katrina Miller Published 12.02.24, 04:55 AM The Chicago scientists show off the new materialnytns With restrictions on space and weight, what would you bring if you were going to Mars? An ideal option might be a single material that can shift shapes into any object. In the morning, you could mould that material into utensils for eating.
A supernova “destroyed” some of Earth’s ozone
By Katrina Miller NEW YORK: On October 9, 2022, telescopes in space detected a beam of high-energy photons hurtling through the cosmos towards Earth – evidence that a supernova exploded 1.9 billion light-years away.
A supernova ‘destroyed’ some of Earth’s ozone
By Katrina Miller NEW YORK: On Oct. 9, 2022, space telescopes captured a jet of high energy photons streaming through the cosmos toward Earth, evidence of a supernova exploding 1.9 billion light-years away.
A supernova ‘destroyed’ some of Earth’s ozone
By Katrina Miller NEW YORK: On Oct. 9, 2022, telescopes in space picked up a jet of high energy photons careening through the cosmos toward Earth, evidence of a supernova exploding 1.9 billion light-years away.
Nobel Prize awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for discovery and development of quantum dots
Quantum dots are 'smallest components of nanotechnology', used in LED lights and TV screens and can help guide surgeons as they remove cancer tissue Emma Bubola, Katrina Miller New York Published 05.10.23, 06:25 AM The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, (from left) Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov, in Stockholm Reuters The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I.
How to watch NASA bring asteroid samples home from space - Jordan News | Latest News from Jordan, MENA
On Sunday morning, a brown-and-white capsule will shoot through Earth’s atmosphere to drop off a cache of pristine space rock to a team of eagerly waiting scientists and engineers.اضافة اعلان If successful, the sample return will be the end of a seven-year mission by NASA called OSIRIS-REX — which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resources Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer — that launched in 2016.
Nasa souvenir: Asteroid discovery provides clue to genesis of life, birth of solar system
A brown-and-white capsule that spent the last seven years swooping through the solar system — and sojourning at an asteroid — has finally come home. And it has brought a cosmic souvenir: a cache of space rock that scientists are hungry to get their hands on. On Sunday morning, those scientists waited eagerly as the pod shot through Earth’s atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour.
INTERSTELLAR: Fireball from space, evidence of extraterrestrial life
On January 8, 2014, a fireball from space blazed through Earth’s atmosphere and crashed into the sea, north of Manus Island off the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Its location, velocity and brightness were recorded by US government sensors and quietly tucked away in a database of similar events.
Evolution of a movement: Hip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself, swaths of the world
By KATRINA MILLER WASHINGTON: It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song’s vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the world, taking the moment and reinventing it. Something new, coming out of something familiar. At the hands of the DJs playing the albums, that break moment became something more: a composition in itself, repeated in an endless loop, back and forth between the turntables.
Move over, men: Women were hunters, too - Jordan News | Latest News from Jordan, MENA
It is often viewed as a given: Men hunted, women gathered. After all, the anthropological reasoning went, men were naturally more aggressive, whereas the slower pace of gathering was ideal for women, who were mainly focused on caretaking.اضافة اعلان “It is not something I questioned,” said Sophia Chilczuk, a recent graduate of Seattle Pacific University, where she studied applied human biology.
Evolution Marks: Move over, men: Women were hunters, too
By Katrina Miller NEW YORK: It's often viewed as a given: Men hunted, women gathered. After all, the anthropological reasoning went, men were naturally more aggressive, whereas the slower pace of gathering was ideal for women, who were mainly focused on caretaking. “It’s not something I questioned,” said Sophia Chilczuk, a recent graduate of Seattle Pacific University, where she studied applied human biology.
Research proves it: Women were also huntresses
It’s often viewed as a given: Men hunted, women gathered. After all, the anthropological reasoning went, men were naturally more aggressive, whereas the slower pace of gathering was ideal for women, who were mainly focused on caretaking. “It’s not something I questioned,” said Sophia Chilczuk, a recent graduate of Seattle Pacific University, where she studied applied human biology.
Scientist’s deep dive for alien life leaves his peers dubious
On Jan. 8, 2014, a fireball from space blazed through Earth’s atmosphere and crashed into the sea, north of Manus Island off the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Its location, velocity and brightness were recorded by US government sensors and quietly tucked away in a database of similar events.
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