Browsing: Lens_matter

How a star explosion may have shaped life on Earth.

The astrophysicist looks at the history of the world’s most famous telescope.

Why we’ll first find aliens on eyeball planets.

Charles Lindbergh in 1923, four years before his trans-Atlantic flight. A light drizzle greeted Charles Lindbergh as he arrived at Roosevelt Field on May 20, 1927, at a little before three in the morning. Weeks of rain had ensured that the runway at the Long Island airport was in poor condition, soft and strewn with […]

Fundamental theories of nature aren’t allowed to hide information.

Fundamental theories of nature aren’t allowed to hide information.

New theories have mixed perception and knowledge into the hardest of sciences.

Love notes and warning messages are buried in Earth’s frozen archive.

When our Universe was in its infancy, the only element it contained was hydrogen, the simplest one—not nearly enough by itself to create interesting things like planets and people. By the time things cooled sufficiently for the single proton in each hydrogen atom to pair with a negatively charged electron, about 92 percent of […]

An illustration showing how dirt-filled PodMod containers would drift out of the Mississippi DeltaBradley Cantrell, Charlie Pruitt, Brennan Dedon, Rob Herkes Some people gaze at the Mississippi River and see the majesty of nature: a mighty waterway that carved a path through our continent, draining the vast plains between the Rockies and the Appalachians before […]