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Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars
...a paper with recent Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne on the search for black holes and neutron stars. But for David DeVorkin, the senior curator of history of astronomy at...
Why I’m Hosting The Joy of x Podcast
...taught me a lot. As you’ll hear in one episode, the astrophysicist Janna Levin schooled me about black holes, but what I found even more delightful was her explanation of...
How the Cosmic Dark Ages Snuffed Out All Light
...the prevailing theory is that starlight caused it, a competing idea is that the light from supermassive black holes was responsible. “Once we know in detail when reionization happened, or...
Sugary Camouflage on Coronavirus Offers Vaccine Clues
...may be a successful tool against SARS-CoV-2,” Lauc said. Although glycans protect certain regions of the spike protein, there are enough holes in that protection to make researchers suspect that...
To Win This Numbers Game, Learn to Avoid Math Patterns
...the pigeonhole principle: putting seven pigeons into three holes means at least one hole must have three pigeons in it. Notice the resemblance of this argument to the winning strategy...
A Surprise Discovery Points to the Source of Fast Radio Bursts
...outnumbered the events. The ideas include a variety of wild scenarios involving evaporating black holes, snapping cosmic strings, and even the propulsion systems of alien civilizations. But as the number...
A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane
...in general relativity because inside a crumpled sheet of paper there are many singularities, like black holes, and these singularities can touch and interact with each other. So it’s an...
What Is a Particle?
...for calculating the quantum information content of black holes. “You can talk about the abstract existence of 0s and 1s, and how an operator might act on 0s and 1s,...
The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding
...these detectors have stayed quiet, and physicists are increasingly contemplating a broader spectrum of possibilities. On the heavy end, they say the universe’s invisible matter could clump into black holes...